I'm going to give you my perspective of what happened.
I log on a char, see if I can't get some fun out of the game.
I see how a Bretonian Battleship opens fire on me as soon as I undock, shooting me while I'm still under our lovely dock protection.
I see a lone Kusari Destroyer nearby and the aforementioned Battleship.
I see how there's others around, namely one or so BAF or something.
I remember: This is Bretonia.
I call for the Yamato to come lend a hand, because I know.
I know.
I know that more hostiles will come, soon.
The Yamato arrives.
The Dunkirk gets obliterated.
I see more Bretonians show up here and there, and we give chase back to Planet Leeds.
I see Bombers, I see a Destroyer, I see another Battleship, I even see an Outcast Tridente.
I play bait and switch with the Destroyer on my side, trying to lure the other Dunkirk out.
The other Dunkirk got lured out enough while we were under heavy fire.
I call in the Yamato again to get rid of the second Dunkirk.
That Dunkirk, too, gets obliterated.
Then we had a Destroyer on the Bretonian side who I don't know what the hell he was doing but apparently he re-engaged or somesuch. I didn't care, I still don't.
I tell the Yamato to RTB.
The Yamato couldn't RTB, Bretonian Bombers kept it pinned.
At some point, it did RTB and at another point, the KNF side, consisiting of the Destroyer Daisuke.Oshiro, the Destroyer [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano and the Battleship [KNF-IG]IKN-Yamato did however get reinforced by a Mercenary, Silver.Reaver, in a Mafic.
The Bretonians got reinforced by Corporate escorts, some random Outcast Tridente, other random Bombers, some other cap, etcetera. The usual.
However like I said, it all started for me with me being shot at by the first Dunkirk right as I undocked from Stokes.
So what I did was, plain and simple, my job.
And for the record, I ain't cried jack.
Quote:[23.02.2011 17:32:25] BRF|HMS-Royal.Sovereign: Thrawn: Kusari forces, ...dock and lay down your guns
[23.02.2011 17:32:37] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: This is the Kumano.
[23.02.2011 17:32:40] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: We decline.
[23.02.2011 17:32:42] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: Your request.
[23.02.2011 17:32:45] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: For surrender.
[23.02.2011 17:32:50] BAF|Ens.Ian.Sinclair: Negative.
[23.02.2011 17:32:52] BRF|HMS-Royal.Sovereign: Thrawn: You wont "surrender" just...dock [23.02.2011 17:32:53] /fi ikn-yamato
[23.02.2011 17:32:55] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: You.
[23.02.2011 17:32:57] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: Die.
[23.02.2011 17:32:59] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: Here. [23.02.2011 17:33:04] [KNF-IG]IKN-Yamato: target?
[23.02.2011 17:33:08] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: Royal soverign
[23.02.2011 17:33:12] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: Cruise up and kill
[23.02.2011 17:33:21] [KNF-IG]IKN-Yamato: on it
[23.02.2011 17:33:22] BRF|HMS-Royal.Sovereign: Thrawn: Patchetic as always... [23.02.2011 17:33:26] [KNF-IG]IKN-Yamato: cruising now
[23.02.2011 17:33:32] [KNF-IG]IKN-Yamato: im getting cd'd
[23.02.2011 17:33:34] BRF|HMS-Royal.Sovereign: Thrawn: Yamato I challenge you to a duel
[23.02.2011 17:33:40] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: No.
[23.02.2011 17:33:42] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: You die here.
[23.02.2011 17:33:45] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: End of story.
[23.02.2011 17:33:49] BAF|Ens.Ian.Sinclair: Ha, no honour.
[23.02.2011 17:33:55] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: You come to our land.
[23.02.2011 17:33:55] BRF|HMS-Royal.Sovereign: Thrawn: Do you accept Yamato?? [23.02.2011 17:33:56] Death: |Convoy|.HMS-Fletcher was put out of action by Daisuke.Oshiro (Gun).
[23.02.2011 17:34:02] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: And threaten our people with death.
[23.02.2011 17:34:05] [KNF-IG]IKN-Kumano: You will fall. [23.02.2011 17:34:07] CONSOLE: Possible cheating detected: [J]
[23.02.2011 17:34:08] [KNF-IG]IKN-Yamato: All guns open fire.
I simply, in a flowery, pissed-off-Guardsman's way, told you, in-RP, you were about to get mercilessly obliterated for bringing your behind to Stokes, which, by the way, is completely in-RP for an Imperial Guardsman to tell you, if you, as you did, lay hand on any other Kusarian, not to mention in what in-RP, my Guardsman perceives as Kusari territory. And if you even go as far to telling me to dock and gtfo, after shooting my behind right as I was undocking, then all you're doing is giving me another reason to play the game of rip and tear. And of course, if you, after shooting me, telling me to gtfo, and all that ask for a duel, you're not going to get it, because at that point there exists not one in-RP reason for my character to grant you said courtesy after you have tried to bring, in-RP, the hammer down on my behind.
[color=#FFCCFF]But okay, look, I'm trying to be nice on this place and all, and I do realize you had good intentions.
So I'm just going to tell you to, next time, if you still aim for "fairplay" or whatever, not to bring a Dunkirk to Stokes when the enemy forces there are, as you've said yourself, just one Destroyer, and I'm going to tell you to not open fire on whoever undocks from Stokes right as they undock because that definitely doesn't look like fairplay to me. What you could have, potentially, done was bring a Destroyer of your own and then tell whatever other Bretonians were at Stokes to stand down while requesting a duel from the one Kusari Destroyer. That might have worked.
What you did however didn't work, instead it painted a picture completely opposite to the intentions you've stated here, and it ended with slaughter, more slaughter, Bretonian bomberspam approaching, one Kusari Destroyer exploding as we were retreating, me doing the "XD" face as some random Corporate escort Bomber blew up the GC Orchid with a Nova friendly-fire style, the one that had come to support the Bretonian side later btw, and that post of yours along with my reply.
And for those interested:
I think it was actually pretty fun for the most part, with some bits of retardation mixed in here and there.
EDIT:Colored chatlog, pink is group, red is server messages, blue is blue messages, rest is local.
And as I backread, it appears the HMS-Fletcher was around Stokes very early judging by it exploding to Daisuke right around the time as the Yamato was getting in firing range.