Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) (iRP) (AO)

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{SUBJECT: PATROL REPORT}

Ensign Tim Garland reporting on today's events, experience during patrols.

I. Day started in Leeds, patrolled the lanes, checked Edinburgh, found a drifting abandoned Templar at coords 3C. Got some weapons and ammo from it which I dropped of at Battleship Derby. After that I joined up with 2 Convoy bombers, |Convoy|.Escort_Wyra and |Convoy|.Escort_Benson who were on their way to Stokes. I formed up with them and we downed quite a lot of enemy units, including strikecrafts and gunboats. We got outnumbered by enemy forces and we were required to fall back.

I,a. A freelancer showed up coming from the Taus. We tried communicating with him but he was speaking a language not know by me, or by Wyra and Benson. The pilot, called "almaz" kept insisting inviting me to an other group and requesting trades and kept flying close to our ships, later on he came to bother us at Stokes while we were in combat. I did warn him about 10 times in any language I could possibly know, but then he opened fire on me, and thus I was obliged to attack him. I left him floating near Stokes, though I believe some kusaris already found him, since it's crawling with them around there...

II. While on Leeds orbit, I spotted a trader called "Dr.Zark" transporting Light Arms and was missing proper licensing. He did not react to my comms, so I had to chase him all the way to Newcastle, past battleship Ark Royal. When he saw I was not fooling around he disengaged his propulsion. He agreed to purchase a license for Military Materials, and I sorted out his subscription with the police officials. Benson had to dock to attend some personal matters.

III. Later I grouped up with Deitar, a Bretonian pilot I have flewn with before, and his mate whose name I don't recall.. We decided to take a sneak peek at Stokes and saw 2 enemy contacts on sensors. Turned out they were 2 units of the Kusari Naval Forces. A fighter (forgot his callsign), and a gunboat: Sharingan. We engaged in a fight, during which Wyra and Captain Finlay O'Dukes joined up with Challengers. At the start I was engaging the fighter, but I saw that the gunboat was pounding Deitar and his mate and decided to aid them and draw the gunboat's fire on me. I managed to split the 2 Kusari units, so that I and Captain O'Dukes were busy with the gunboat, the others were busy with the fighters and managed to destroy it. Sadly the ship of Deitar's mate got incinerated by the razor of a nearby battleship, but he tracted his pod and took him to safety. We fought hard against the remaining gunboat, but we were disturbed by nearby battleship patrols, and also the gunboat pilot was very skilled. He eventually docked on Stokes and we pulled back to Leeds.

IV. Immediately as we exited the trade lane we spotted 2 Corsair units: DonHulioPedro and Peduard. The moment we tried contacting them, they attacked us, so we engaged them immediately. They were retreating towards the Edinburgh lane, one of them managed to dock, but I shot the lane in the last moment, disabling the escape of Peduard. When DonHulioPedro saw he got left behind, he foolishly returned to help Peduard, thus I engaged DonHulio in a fight and after getting his shields down I destroyed his craft with a well placed nuke. The Peduard ran away and afterwards the situation calmed down. I considered it was time for me to rest and I also had to take my Templar to the repair station... Ol' boy seen better days, but he did good...

I'd like to point out that it was |Convoy|.Escort_Wyra who destroyed the kusari fighter with a bomber!

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That is all,
Ensign Tim Garland out.

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