After Action Report, Fort Carthage, Omicron Mu

[Reno]

CV-Erikson

Sender: Petar Silkosky
Report: After Action
Location: Fort Carthage, Omicron Mu

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We're in the thick of it now.
Kusari forces are using everything they have to destroy our defences around Fort Carthage.
Unfortunately The Erikson is basically a missile battlecruiser because, in the chaos, the engineering team, assigned to equip our weapons, had to make do with what they had.

Our mission is simple, hang back around Carthage, and fire a full salvo on any Kusari capital ship that dares to come close to Carthage.
Hours pass, and our ordinance is depleting rapidly, but when the IKN-Mikasa is caught out of position we fire, and 4 harpoons struck its engine.
The crippled Kusari vessel is then quickly annihilated by the rest of our forces.
The Erikson crew is cheering and now believes that we can successfully defend Carthage.

While the battle is progressing in our favor, and we round up the last of the attacking forces, the enemy finally retreats.
Confidence onboard the Erikson crew, including mine is high and we prepare, in case the enemy counterattacks.
Then it becomes quiet, and we think it's over, but not for long.
We are receiving several distress calls from apparently another Order fleet still engaging the enemy at 15 klicks from Carthage.
Command is advising the fleet to stay and defend our position, but with our ever-growing confidence, I decided that we are going to help them.

With a total of 4 of our ships, we arrive at the given coordinates, but to our surprise, our supposed fleet is not a fleet at all, but rather 2 Order ships under attack by an enemy fleet, much larger than we expected.
Before we can even move in, those 2 ships are destroyed, and the enemy fleet is now turning toward us.
Severely outnumbered, we try to flee to the Carthage, but they catch up with us.
Our ships are overwhelmed and our confidence and pride are quickly diminished and replaced by hopelessness and fear.
My crew is doing the best they can, but as their captain, i know there is no escape from this onslaught.
The KNS-Rishiri and 2 unknown ships are closing in for the kill, and destroy the Erikson engines.
There's no time for the escape pods, and I am finding myself reminiscing about my current decisions and wondering if they blame me for my actions.

Then, more silence, unexpectedly, the enemy is moving away from us.
Our ship is completely crippled, so I conclude that they will leave us to rot and slowly let us drift into the void.
I am transmitting our final logs now.

Our future is looking grim and ______________________ >Transmission Terminated<

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