Command Log - Captain Thomas Arthur Kissinger - Battlecruiser John Rorke - Date: E̵̡̨͖̥̔͛̊ ̵̛̛͙̯͈́R̷̺̋̈́͛ ̸̩̟̳̅͘R̷̯͐͘͝ ̷̳͚̅̄Ȏ̶͓̬̠͐̽͠ ̵͓̒̈́̓̾R̶̨̹̼̼̎͛̈
John Rorke?... Is that a good name? I don't know. It'll have to do.
We've brought communications back to at least partial function. Most systems are still well below functioning. Weapons and Shields are online, but our best chance against a Navy Battlecruiser would be to take them with us. This fight is done. Everyones scrambling to leave, i think. Some chatter we've recieved suggests a few are standing their ground by the Triton, going to die in a blaze of glory i suppose.
I can't do that. I have a duty as the Captain of this ship to protect the lives of my crew.
The John Rorke might be one of the last ships to get... built, i suppose... She wasn't really built, hacked together from pieces to get a wreck to full enough function to go is more accurate. We don't know what her original name was. The markings had been scorched off.
John Rorke. Its a solid name.
We've taken shelter amonst the asteroids for now. Whatever ships make up the ragged elements of Battlegroup Triton can fight their battle... Continued battle here is a farce, a prayer and a hope for a moment of glory. I'm not done fighting. We're, not done fighting. But the fight isnt here. Not anymore.
God... Alright, Theres only a few ways out. We'll have to try and make a break to either Magellan or Iverness. Maybe we can get to the Tau's and vanish into unclaimed space for awhile. Maybe Canberra...? I don't know.
I've just been told our communications array might be functioning enough to send a message out... The signal might be too weak, the array is pretty damaged as it is, the field might scramble it beyond recogintion. It's something to do while Nav plots a course out of this forsaken system at least.
Command Log - Captain Thomas Arthur Kissinger - Battlecruiser John Rorke - Date: E̵̡̨͖̥̔͛̊ ̵̛̛͙̯͈́R̷̺̋̈́͛ ̸̩̟̳̅͘R̷̯͐͘͝ ̷̳͚̅̄Ȏ̶͓̬̠͐̽͠ ̵͓̒̈́̓̾R̶̨̹̼̼̎͛̈
Receiving no immediate response, i am left to assume either theJohn Rorke's communications are too unstable to be detected, or the remnants of the fleeing Insurgency fleet is too occupied to care.
Regardless, that may be for the best. If the situation gets much worse in the immediate future, the only people left out there to detect us will be the Navy...
I intend to commence careful manoeuvres towards the Magellan and Iverness egress routes, to determine how best to break out. This may bring the John Rorke into contact with Bretonnia or Auxesian forces. I can only hop that should that become the case, i can talk our way past them.
With luck, we can establish some form of contact with unaffiliated powers and establish some kind of safe haven for the near future. If the ship can break into the Tau region, perhaps the people back home will leave well enough alone...
More trouble than we're worth...
There have been incidents involving almost every power on our potential breakout route. Of this present, i believe the Crayter Republic poses the greatest threat, at least in so far as the potential for immediate combat goes.
The Crew are in well enough spirits, for now. Supplies are good enough to last us for a short while, enough we can worry about it if we survive getting out of Vespucci, and while the John Rorke is far from comfortable, its a measure of safety and certainty. But still... we're not sur what kind of reception we could expect from Liberty if we surrender, and many of us don't believe in surrendering after all this, not to them.
I need to think. We'll set course for our first reconnoiter within the next few hours, perhaps then i'll have a better idea of how to continue.
Been some days, at least, since my last log.
83 Crewmembers are dead. We are engaged by a Liberty warship, and had to flee. They got the jump on us. Damned civilian sensor array.... While we inflicted damage, we sustained more ourselves. I have attached the casualty list to this report for later review. I owe their families the truth and closure, if at all possible.
After brief repairs to seal the hull, we made our break. Headed for Inverness, we managed to clear the jump hole without incident, and made our way to Freeport 14.
Turned out there was a welcoming party. I exaggerate, they weren't for us. Several independents and a Technocracy Starfighter were clustered around the Freeport. I've been dreading the inevitable run in with the people of Auxo for days. But, things went well...
All present seemed understanding of our situation, and we negotiated docking privileges with the Freeport, exchanging salvage from the construction of the John Rorke, as well as a fund of credits, for some repairs, as well as a restock on supplies. It'll get us a little further.
Past that. An individual going by the monitor of "CS" struck up a conversation, and brought me and the staff up to speed on a situation... Liberty has decided Pennsylvania is less 'Protectorate' and more 'Territory', and the Zoners took that about as well as i would have predicted. With a few drinks and some very hesitant conversation, i've managed to secure a comm to the Zoners in Penn... Maybe that'll be something worth fighting for. They have every right to turn us away. Infact, given how this all started, i expect them too. Truthfully the John Rorke isn't in any real shape for a war anyway. She's built out of three different hulls for gods sake, and only two of them were Judicators.
Words of support aren't much... But its something, and i hate sitting here doing nothing.
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