Enter, a dark room with fluorescent HUDs displayed, showing three-dimensional radar systems table with blips of every ship entering and leaving the Leeds System. None of the blips were an exact location of every ship in the system, but an approximate estimate of where they were. Some of the crew listened in on intercepted transmissions while sporadically viewing their screens to read the computer-created subtitles of these voices they listened to. What is being described are the internals of a re-outfitted Clydesdale freighter, now a surveillance and electronic interception and warfare ship.

On the radar table, the captain examined a squadron of BAF bombers de-cloak and dive down to their target now reaching Leeds, a Gallic supply convoy. The GRN vessels scattered trying to separate from the convoy to prevent suffering from the splash of a Nova torpedo’s fireball, but the Bretonian torpedoes missed their bullseyes and overflew their targets. The bomber squadron command yelled to re-cloak their ships and get away, but nearby enemy gunboats, flanking a GRN battleship engaged their cloak disruptors. The schedule had changed, there could not possibly be an escape or survival now. The captain of the surveillance vessel turned the radar screen off, and re-directed it to the nearest jump hole to escape the system. The operation had failed.

As they cruised through the smog clouds of Leeds, white blips showed up on the radar again. The crew put their headphones back on and glued their eyes to screen to read what subtitles could be deciphered. The captain’s knees fell to the floor, and he took his headphones off, armed with a dead look on his eyes.

He was there, when the KNF busted through the Tau-31/Leeds Gate and rushed several transports full of EMP devices to disable the Bretonian fleet in 817 A.S. The ship he was stationed on at the time had its life support systems linked to the power, and without it, the oxygen stopped being recycled for several minutes. Without proper oxygen to his brain for many minutes, he had nearly become paraplegic, but a rescue ship was able to dock and remove the crew from the disabled ship as the Kusari fleet attempted to mop up the mess they created.

He re-lived the memory, as he listened in on the transmissions of the white blips on the radar. All it took, was for them to mention the word “NEMP” and he found it impossible to stand. The Kusari invasion of Leeds in 817 A.S. was what led to the idea of this crude creation of warfare. As the 820s began, it saw Freeport 11, the California-New York Gate and several major battles see the use of this weapon.

The XO, unable to get through to the captain, took command of the ship. He was already urgently sending a transmission to the Defence Intelligence Staff to get the message through that a non-GRN, unknown group had begun the construction of a superweapon when the ship’s cruise engines were disrupted. In front of them, a Valor class battleship de-cloaked, ramming the Clydesdale and forcing its crew to bounce around from within the ship with their bones breaking.

The guns took care of the rest.