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Transmission source: Lieutenant James Arland, 2nd Fleet

Location: Planet Leeds HQ

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Another combat op today. I was woken up to begin my shift early by the damned Gauls attacking having somehow bypassed Leeds' defenses and making trouble in system New London.

Rather infuriating, I must admit.

So, I scrambled to my templar and launched, rendezvousing with my commander - Vice Admiral Davis - and the rest of our attending pilots to give the RSF what for.

The sorry bastards never made it further than just beyond the gate. In my haste to assist, I neglected to activate my guncam recorder, but one Gaul fighter went down in a blaze of fire and the rest of them made a fighting retreat to Leeds, somehow managing to override the lockdown on the Jump Gate that Vice Admiral Davis had set up.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire, I'd say. Planet leeds is a like a bloody fortress at this point.

We gave pursuit, making contact and exchanging fire with the remaining RSF pilots at several points until they decided they'd taken enough of a beating and scampered off to Edinburgh.

At this point, Admiral Davis called off the alert and commanded us to stand down, returning to planet Leeds itself while Ensign Barnes and I resumed regular duties.

I ordered a continued sweep of the Leeds system trade lanes just to make sure we really were all in the clear, then we headed to Newcastle for a regular overview. I realize Newcastle might not see much action, but I reasoned we should look after our commercial interests there.

Our patrol was, however, cut short when Admiral Davis got back on the comms and reported a full fighter wing of Corsairs in Cambridge, at which we made for the system as fast as we could, forgoing the trade lane route through New London in favour of the Jump Hole in Leeds.

Upon our arrival, Admiral Davis divided us into two patrol wings to search for our targets, with Wing 1 commanded by Lieutenant Barnes, and Wing 2 with Davis in the lead and myself as CD support.

We didn't have to search long. Wing 1 reported encountering the Corsairs just off of Cardiff Mining Facility whilst Wing 2 had just arrived at Planet Cambridge. As the Corsairs seemed intent on reaching New London, we pursued and accosted them just beyond the New London Jump hole... Grid coordinates G-5, if my memory serves me. Both sides took their stand in two stationary groups as we - mostly Admiral Davis - spoke with the Corsairs.

As expected, this didn't work out - the four corsairs staged a retreat back to Cambridge, and we gave chase.

At the other side of the jump hole, the Corsairs decided to stop running and take their stand against us.

The fighting was ferocious - seeing fighters nimbly maneuver around asteroids, tightly packed and shooting at one another is quite a sight. I suppose it is a credit to the pilots on both sides of the conflict that nobody died from crashing headlong into one of the many, many floating space rocks.

The outcome of the fight wasn't entirely certain, but it was tilted in our favour.

One of the Corsairs were taken out in the struggle, strangely enough by friendly fire.

The fighting dragged on for quite some time, and some of us were running low on nanobots. In particular, poor Ensign Barnes, whose evasive maneuvers training hadn't entirely settled in yet.

Admiral Piett himself had shown up to take command of the engagement, not a minute after. He ordered Ensign Barnes to disengage, and took his place in the engagement.

Damnably, however, the Corsairs - one in particular - seemed hell-bent on taking the beleaguered Ensign down. We tried to come to his aid, tried to dispense some nanobots so that he might make it out of there - but we were not fast enough. Ensign Barnes was shot down toward the end of the engagement.

Ion storms made nav and targeting systems intolerable, and in the end we were simply forced to break off the attack and let the remaining Corsairs egress from Cambridge, back into the Omegas.

We headed back to Planet New London after a recovery crew had been dispatched to look for the Ensign's escape pod. With some luck, he will have made it.

Other than a small hunt for a GRN gunboat that had been spotted lurking around Leeds, the rest of my shift was uneventful and ended promptly at the bar on Planet Leeds HQ.

Arland out.

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Alright this is what i remember of the brawl in Leeds earlier this day.
While eating my sanwiches and enjoyin' a bloody good sigar, wich are hard to get these days, the scramble alert came.
Reports were sketchy of a hostile molly fleet in Leeds pirating the Stokes lane. Quik we responded.

When i arrived i saw the following ships on my radar.

First engagement:
Molly's
[M]-Dread.Pirate.Rush ( Barghest class.)
[M]-Saint.Peter. (Scylla Class)
[M]-MD-Dunlavin-Green|C (Scylla class.)

BAF/BHG.
BAF Com.Ian driscoll. (Challenger.)
BAF Ens.Ando.Jack (challenger)
BHG|The Clown. (hunter bomber)

When i arrived my clown and Ando were already engaged and they hitted Ando hard. Before i even could say much multiple torpedos came my way so in egaged the nearest Scylla and ordered the rest to focus on him.
Hammered with antifighter fire we could not hold out long but we engaged anyway.

We got reinfocements in the form of Lt Harvering.(Challenger) and BAF|Pawn (Challenger)
The five of us could have handled it as the mollys did not rechieve some extra help aswell. A bloody Gunboat [M]-Founders-Day (Gunboat) with anti snub weaponary showed up and started pounding us. Never had my dodging skills challenged so much. Not soon after pawn was taken out by a nova torpedo of ensign Jack, shame but that happens when you give ensigns such firepower.

Finnally we got some heavy reinforcements of the BRF|HMS-Thundrer (Battleship) and HMS|Midas(Battleship) Who happend to patrol in the area. Both captains took out the scyllas with tremendous firepower and let the gunboat to us. The barghie fled the scene sofar i remember.
But in the end Midas skipper decided to step in and fired a full broad salvo of torpedos on the gunboat. Those torps made a final end to the battle but also made the hunter Clown eject. The midas took him aboard and we could hear the rage of the midas captain and hunter to eachother over the radio. Can't argue in that as that was some serious overpower.

In the end we won, but i must admit it was a messy fight. Why the heck do those blosted half wit miners come into Leeds wich such a force and expect us to sit idle? I never understand them.[/indent]

Thats all i have to report for now. Maybe some of the other pilots have some more details to add.

Commander Driscoll her majesty's 413th bomberwing Helldivers.

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Patrol report:

After I removed a Gallic destroyer patrol in Leeds with SNAC and Nova Torpedo spam, I saw some strange activity in Dublin on my scanners. The screen showed a Battleship of the renegade 13th Northern fleet. After the patrol through New London, I went to Dublin to see what it is, if my scanners are right. And my own eyes proved them right. The '€œ13th|HMS-Vanguard'€ was at the Molly side of the Dublin system, telling me to not come to close. I remarked the good relations to the Mollys, after one of their very heavy fighters showed up. He told me to leave, but my concern was that bretonian Battleship placed next to the Station of the Mollys and the reaction of the Molly-Station. All guns were quiet and the Molly fighter was about to hunt me off the area.
But the fact that a bretonian Battleship in the hands of Mollys was more important then my own safety at that time and I took the time to run a scan on that Battleship. It is equipped with capital armor V, heavy guns and even an advanced Cloak-module (MkII). The ID was still the one of the Bretonian Armed Forces. As I saw enough, I left as fast as I could, to get myself in a safe place.

Here you can see the raw-Intel:

Signed: Ensign Ando Jack

Leeds situation report:

It was a nice and calm day in Bretonia. Except a few small situation, it was calm. Then the people from the Dublin system warned us about heavy naval units from Gallia in the Dublin system. I was at planet New London at that time and I warned the rest of the Armed forces and send to the HMS-fleet for support if we get an emergency. The Gallic fleet moved to system Leeds and a privateer of the Queen Carina's Privateers '€œQCP|Taran.McCallum'€ warned us about the units at Planet Leeds and sent us first informations on the Gallic units:
We had 3 Valor's: Loyalist|RNS-"Spagna"; Loyalist|RNS-''Kronus''; RNS-Tonnant
A cruiser: RNS-Lyon and a gunboat: RNS-Troyes

On our side were HMS fleet: BAF|HMS-Isaac.Brock; BRF|HMS-Remus; HMS-Scarborough and BAF|HMS-Redoubt
The privateer in his bomber QCP|Taran.McCallum , not long before the end in a bomber BAF|Lt.Mike.Havering. Arrived and me in a bomber (BAF|Ens.Ando.Jack)

At the beginning of the battle we were about to strike down the big targets, the 3 Valors, after the first Valor we took out their cruiser and then the 2 other Valors, one bad thing happened to us, short before we killed the first Valor they got BAF|HMS-Redoubt with heavy fire on the backside of his ship, but we had enough people around rescuing his escape pod. The last target was the Gallic gunboat we took out at Planet Leeds, then most of us docked, but BAF|Lt.Mike.Havering. and BRF|HMS-Remus found one gunboat and one cruiser on the retreat near LD-14. But both were destroyed successfully by the armed forces.

With the total sum of 3 Valors, one Cruiser and 3 gunboats, we had a successful battle in Leeds and made our way back to the top in the System Leeds for today.

Raw moments of the battle in Leeds:

Signed: Ensign Ando Jack

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Lieutenant Wayne Johnson reporting in...

This evening I was noticed by the Bretonia Police Authority that 2 Gallic Royal Navy intelligence service ships were doing quick sweeps trough Tau 31 and Leeds. In the name of Queen, I went there to investigate closer as in the same time, officer Rowser was engaged by 1 of them. Soon I went in to help him, but the other gallic, Frank Chaviller went into the battle. Because of this, the police offceir fled from the battle and called in for help. He managed to call a mandalorian, Wainwright and from the Bretonia Inteligence Service, lieutenant Shelton. I wanted to show them that we know to play fair, so only me and the mandalorian Sabre fought the Lynx and the Sevral. We've done great, and in some minutes, both of them were down by some mine hits of Wainwright.

That's all for now.


Wayne Johnson out.

Good morning officers of the fleet,
yesterday in the evening we were scrambled to Leeds for a major incursion in Leeds. The forces present in Leeds had called for backup. I armed my bomber at Winchester station and met Commander Renoktu Ree outside. Arriving at Planet Leeds, we were just in time to regroup with the main force that Commander Ian Driscoll had gathered.

Backed up by HMS-Glorious.Broadside, a battleship, and several BPA) forces and a BIS agent we moved out to Stokes. Soon we found the enemy, a freelancer gunboat, working together with several lynxes and a Gallic cruiser. According to our reports from the field a large part of the enemy attackers had left after they picked us up on long range scanners.

We quickly breaked and started to attack the gunboat as the cruiser was withdrawing. This gunboat, a Kusari explorer took quite some time to destroy. During that time a Bowex convoy showed up together with the gunboat HMS-Abhaint.Tahta and requested permission to engage the freelancer gunboat with their Shires. However, as soon as the Bowex appeared, the Gallic cruiser came back as well and had brought backup under the form of another Gallic cruiser.

We lost one of the Shires and our gunboat. Enraged by this loss me and HMS-Sherwood, who joined the fight later on, broke off and attacked the Gallic cruiser responsible. It's shield soon fell under my Nova torpedoes and the Sherwood had quickly chewed down it's armour leaving me to deliver the final blow with my antimatter canon.

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A few second later, the freelancer gunboat fell under our pressure and the HMS-Glorious.Broadside scored a kill against other Gallic Cruiser. The Gallic fighters support ran, but Ensign Jack Barnes managed to pick one off as he ran.

Evidence of Barnes' Kill

I'm sorry I couldn't collect more data, I'll be sure to turn my guncamera on more often next time. Hopefully it will become a habit. Should there be any more data to add I'll be happy to receive it and add it to my report!

This should be all ladies and gentlemen.

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Lieutenant Jeff Bloom

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Lieutenant Wayne Johnson reporting in...



I'll start off with a Samura transport "Arshika" that 2 days ago undocked from Planet Leeds. It was a kuasri train full of ship hull panels. Commander Ree told me to have a look at it and then give him a report so I did so. I've asked the Samura's purpose here, and he told me that they started trading with Bretonia, being no longer the lovers of the gallics. This was more than strange for me. I could fine the vessel for 4 millions and make it return to Kusari, but it was full of ship hull panels bought from Stokes, thus meaning that he was supporting our economy. Because of this I decided to escort the transport out of bretonian space. He started to tell me bout honour and other things, that he can't be a spy as Samura. Still, that couldn't make me believe it, so I tested to see if it's really going to Omegas by jumping first into the gate to Cambridge. Fortunately, it followed and I successfully got it out of Bretonia. Ohh, I almost forget to mention that an Interspace Commerce transport "Bad_Guy" was with the Samura too.
In conclusion, I am wondering myself if Samura would really start bringing goods in and out of our House, or that one was just an unsuccessful spy.



This would be a report of the friendly and enemy forces in an encounter near Planet Leeds, yeserday around 5:30 GMT:

Allied Forces:

BAF|Lt.Wayne.Johnson
BAF|Lt.James.Arland. (out of action)
BAF|Lt.Henry.Moore. (retreated his bomber)
BPA|Cst.Mc.Alister[SRD]
BPA|Peak.Roswer (out of action?)
HMS-Abhain.Thaita (bretonia gunboat, out of action)
LNS-Pacifica
Clara.Fabento|Com (maquis bomber)

Enemy Froces:

Loyalist|RNS-"Spagna" (destroyed)
RNS-Boureau (destroyed)
TSGB (corsair gunboat, out of action by the reavers)
Firebrick.:Reaver (ran away, heavily damaged)
Silver,.Reaver (ran away, heavily damaged)
Mulberry.,Reaver (ran away)
Amethyst:Reaver (ran away too)



Now, yesterday, Firebrick, Silver, Amthyst and Mulberry, the infamous Reaver mercenaries tried to earn some money by killing Lt.Moore, Lt.Arland and Officer Roswer. There was also a a "Loyalist" gallic battleship "Spagna" that wanted to siege Planet Leeds. Fortunately, a liberty dreadnought "LNS-Pacifica" came in for emergency and did it's best to remove the Valor. It actually did so, with the help of Moore and Arland's bombers. After this, the reaver fighters were doing alot of damage to our bombers, even if I was doing my best to drag them away from the main target. Lt Moore managed to escape, but Arland continued to be intercepted, and unfortunately, his bomber was down. In the meanwhile, a HMS independent and a corsair gunboat were taken down by a Hemidall class hessian gunboat flied by Mulberry. Then, 1 more RNS cruiser came in, "RNS-Boureau" but it stand no chance to the liberty dreadnought plasma cannons. Then, LNS-Pacifica returned to Liberty, while the remaining forces, the reavers actually, were left to be terminated. We've successfully fend them off, and I call it a success, as they didn't managed to get any more money.

That's all for now.


Wayne Johnson out.

Good evening to you

This report is coming in late I apologise for the delay but my guncam had a malfunction and I had to get a few pics of Ensign Robinson.

Anyhow... As I left Birmingham Station I got requests of the BPA to meet at the New London-Leeds Jumpgate in New London.

It seemed that there where some Sair and Reavers in Leeds taking themselfe apart.

When I arrived at the gate though my Templar desicded to take a break and nearly fell apart.
Thus I missed the start of the engagement when the Reavers came through the gate.

Present at that time where:

BPA)Peak.Rowser Persumably in a LF
BPA)Cst|Mc.Allister Presumably in a LF
BPA)Thomas.Page Presumably in a LF
BPA)Ins|A.Constable Presumably in a LF
BAF|Ens D.Robinson in a Templar
And myselfe in a Temlar
and a Bounty Hunter called Horrace Gleaves of which I do not have the ship class, presumably Fighter as well.

There where 2 Reavers coming out of the gate:

Firebrick Reaver in a Gunboat
Amethyst Reaver in a Figher of unknown class

The Gunboat was a problem since we didn't have any heavy guns while the Reavers guns where frightening accurate.

But we managed to take both out, thouogh none of our ships where unscattered.

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After that we got a distresscall that there where Gallic Cruisers and a Valor in Leeds.
The BPA officers and Ens. Robinson headed to Leeds while I had to dock on shouthamton ang get my Templar fixed, I got into my challenger and made best speed to Leeds.

Our People had already engaged the Frogs:

BAF|Ens. Ando Jack in a Bomber
BAF|Lt. Henry Moore in a Fighter persumably
BAF|Ens. D.Robinson in a Fighter
BPA)Cst|Mc.Allister in a Light fighter persumably
BPA)Thomas.Page in a Light Fighter persumably
BPA)Ins|A.Constable in a Light Fighter persumably

The Gallic force was two Cruisers and a Gunboat flown by an Freelancer that was most probably hired from the GRN.

We managed to take out one Cruiser the other one managed to get through the Edinburgh Gate and thus escaped.

we lost Lt. Moore and Officer Page in that fight.

The Valor was nowhere to be seen and must have most probably escaped already.

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Just as we took care of those Gallic cruisers the HMS-Hurricane showed up.
It was right in time because that Gunboat Captain knew how to fly his ship, the HMS Hurricane took a support position and didn't engage the enemy.

We managed to take the Abismo out eventually.

I would say we gave the Gallics another bloody nose.

That would be all for now.

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Transmission source: Lieutenant James Arland

Location: Planet Leeds HQ

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I am transmitting this as an addendum to ensign Robinson's report, since my shift continued after the aforementioned engagement.

Shortly after Robinson shoved a mine down the Greyhound's throat and signed off, I encountered a Molly gunboat, going by James.Phinney in Dublin.

I attempted to hold him up, and at least stall him in conversation, but surprisingly, instead of engaging he fled to New London, where I called for backup.

I was promptly answered by Lieutenant Layla Clay and Ensign Ando Jack, who flew a Templar and a Challenger respectively, if memory serves.

We all gave chase to the gunboat, chasing it back through the Dublin Jumphole in New London, and broke pursuit when it jumped to Chester.

We resumed routine patrol duty, checking New London, Leeds and Newcastle followed by spotting the gunboat again at Cambridge. (Note: Lieutenant Clay was forced to sign off due to heavy ion storm interference) We were also joined by a police officer, one BPA|Cst|Thomas.Page for that particular hunt, which led us back to Leeds and eventually New London yet again where we lost sight of the gunboat, and found another target - a Molly Werewolf SHF going by The.Great.White.

From that point on our relatively modest force snowballed and picked up at least one reservist gunboat going by Guardian-Deffender (sic), another few BPA officers who I don't remember clearly at the moment, and ensigns Robinson and Walton. A whole slew of Bounty Hunters also showed up, hoping to make some money.

The Werewolf led us on a long, long trip around New London, which culminated in it finally stopping to hold its ground at Trafalgar Base.

To my great surprise, the gunboat we'd been chasing previously came rushing towards Trafalgar too, and was almost shot apart before it managed to dock.

Shortly thereafter, the Werewolf docked as well, its pilot seemingly surprised and agitated about the fact that we like to defend our capital.

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After combat I ordered ensign Walton to take a brief peek in Cambridge as Robinson decided to recon Dublin all on his own, apparently. After discovering that both systems were effectively empty, we all rendezvoused back at New London and made a final sweep of Leeds.

Since Leeds was also quiet, I ended my shift there.

Arland out.

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