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Source: Battleship Derby
ID: Ens. Alex Clarke
Just after skirmish at Leeds mentioned in Lieutenant Commander Charles Davis report, I and ensign Isaacs were assigned as an escorts to Captain Evyn, and Lieutenant-Commander Feya's transport "Twisted Sisters", we began with entering the Tau 31 system via Edinburgh, and headed to Tau 29 Gate, passing by Harris and MacDuff which still holds the ground. At Tau 29 we visited Java Station, from which our transport grabbed full load of Niobium, and headed back the same way which brought us there. On the way we've taken every pre-caution to prevent hi-jacking/destruction of transport and thankfully, nobody stood in our way.
When we passed by Harris the second time, i've docked and made a quick check of their supplies, they could use some water, but it's not critical yet. I've picked up most of the prisoners they've taken and rejoined the convoy, we've also passed by Captain Clay's patrol in Tau 31 mentioned in report above. When we reached Leeds, I caught a Military vehicles hauler without authorization, who hauled them to Leeds and after explaination, agreed not to buy any war materials unless authorized, also Ensign Isaacs had to withdraw due to equipment failure, we replaced him with Ensign Alexander, who we met just above Leeds. After this quick regrouping we followed to New London, where we unloaded the Niobium, and took side arms, and headed to BPA Newgate, unloaded Side Arms and Prisoners, made our way to Birgingham station, where we loaded terraforming gases, and proceeded to leeds via jump hole.
When we were entering Derby visual range, we noticed that Lieutenant Commander Sinclair is arguing with Gallic ship, ordering it to scrap the ship and go back where he came from. I and Ensign Alexander took formation on Lt. Sinclair, the gallic transport tried to run away, but I and Ensign Alexander were equipped with cruise disruptors. Gallic transport went dark, and did not replied to our threats, even to Lt. Sinclair's warning shot, which resulted in execution order. After that we re-joined with our transport and jumped to Edinburgh system to Perth Station, where we unloaded the gases, and returned to Leeds, on our way back we've received a distress signal from Lt. Sinclair, but thankfully it was only a false alert.
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== Discovered Signal ==
== Opening Message ==
[font=AR Julian][color=#33CCFF]Pilot ID: [color=#6666CC]Jonathan Sinclair
Location: Battleship Derby, Leeds
Subject: Month Report
G'day Ladies and Gentlemen, members of the Admirality
This is going to be my report which summons the whole last month happening to me. There will be some fights missing and I won't go into much details, but it'll still take some time.
In the end of my time as Lieutenant and at the beginning as LtCdr me and Davis became really good friends and we are now real wingmen. He's always coming to cover my back. We stood through many battles together, of which we won the most.
There were battles in Leeds and in Dublin for the most part during the last month. The Mollys have become quite active and big. They even started damaging our supply routes to planet Leeds, which is very vulnerable if it isn't the Merchant Navy bringing the resources. They are our backbone in these difficult times. Their shires are unstoppable for normal pirates and the escorts do a really good job. I'm sure they could take part in our trainings and they would even be less in danger then they are now.
The Mollys have been puched back again and again, though they keep comming. We beat them in every way, hell we we fought a battle against 5 of them with 5 of ours, and we had 2 Ensigns among us and always kept same numbers due to the whishes of Captain Clay, and didn't lose a single ship while they lost all of theirs. Again there Davis showed that he's always there for me, dragging me out of problems, as i do with him *smiles*.
Anyways, back to the major report. The Mollys fly Odins and Sabres now, which makes it more difficult to fight them, but they're still no match for our higher ranked officers. Though the Ensigns need to adapt very fast to the new situations.
There were some other battles with the Mollys, but i won't go into details since they are in the battlereports here. It's sufficent to say that we won.
The Reavers made some problems during the last month too. They were like mosquitos. Always around and difficult to get rid off. They were here and there, interfeering in battles we had with the Mollys and Sushi and always, i'll repeat myself, -always- taking on the Ensigns flying with us. After the third time it was too much for me and i took former Ensign Ree, (now Lieutenant) to Salisbury and had some intense trainings with him. He killed some Reavers since then. It was really funny to watch their reactions to an Ensign killing them *laughs*.
About the trainings. As I said I intensively trained Ree, but I also tested some other Ensigns. Among them Ensign Isaacs and Ensign James Barnes. Isaacs had the basics of the Templar's fighting maneuvers at the end of the last training with him, as did Barnes. I didn't test Ensign Clark, but I fought alongside him and he held himself pretty well. I can say he'll become a great fighter one day.
That was it concerning the trainings from my side. I don't think I forgot anything.
The next part now is about the Naval Forces, but I'll call them Sushi if you don't mind.
As you are well aware they took over LD-14 in the middle of the last month. They kept pushing forward and we lost some battles to them.
But now it's over!
4 days ago we stopped their march and pushed them back since. They keep trying but also keep failing. It has gotten really intense the last 2 days, and we had to call in some forces during their time off duty due to the Shushi's numbers, but we still won these battles. The last two battles should be in the report of Captain Clay and Lt-Cdr Davis. The other ones are already snow from the day before before yesterady *laughs*.
The preparations to retake LD-14 are also on it's highest level. Yesterday the Merchant Navy brought in ten shires full of supplies. It was really nice to watch from the Derby how they went out and came back. One -big- Convoy. I couldn't trust my eyes, it was that impressive.
We will retake it!
For Bretonia and the Queen!
[font=Kunstler Script]Yours, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Sinclair
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[ID: Ensign Lucas Alexander]
[Source: Planet Leeds]
[Priority: High]
[Subject: Skirmish in Leeds]
Good Evening.
I am here to report my first action as ensign. Shortly after launching from Planet Leeds, I met up with fellow ensign Alex Clarke and the Shetland train Twisted Sisters with Captain Evyn and Lt.Cdr Freya commanding. Quickly making our way to Planet New London, offloading the Niobium the Twisted Sisters was hauling and then on to BPA Newgate in Manchester. However, on our way to Newgate we came across a suspicious fellow named Henry Torch. Who shadowed us all the way to Newgate. Quickly offloading the Light Arms and proceeding back to Leeds via the Jump hole to save time. In Leeds we once again encountered Henry Torch, who was chased by Ensign Clarke alongside myself. Mr Torch made a hasty retreat to Stokes. Nevertheless we continued onto Edinburgh and to Perth where the Twisted Sisters offloaded its cargo hold of terraforming gasses.
However, we received a report from Lt Cdr Sinclair that a Gallic Royal Navy Gunboat with an Interspace Commerce transponder whose callsign was Wop was in Leeds orbit. Both myself and Ensign Clarke made with all haste back to Leeds. After a brief back and forth with the Gunboat, which was clearly refusing Lt Cdr Sinclairs orders to stop even and ignoring his warning shot. We received orders to destroy the gunboat which we done in short order.
Lt Cdr Sinclair kindly pointed out the my Templar was not outfitted properly and I asked Captain Evyn for permission to go to Salisbury and fit it out correctly. Permission granted I quickly left for Salisbury and outfitted my Templar with more powerful shields and weapons and returned to Leeds. Where the Kusari Navy was making a push towards Planet Leeds.
I received orders to engage and quickly set my sights on a Gaian who was helping the KNF. However, it seemed the Commander of a KNF Battleship, the Yukikaze I believe, didn't take too kindly to that and focused his fire on me, to which I eventually succumbed to. A fellow pilot tractored in my escape pod and delivered me to Leeds Military Hospital to where I am recuperating now.
I will learn from this and do my utmost in the future for Queen and Country.
Bretonia Prevails!
Ensign Lucas Alexander.
*Unfortunately due to the destruction of my Templar, most of my guncam images were destroyed. Engineers on Leeds are working now to salvage what they can. If any are retrieved. I will upload them to BAF secured Neural Net.
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Source: Battleship Derby
ID: Ens. Alex Clarke
Lieutenant Ree and I met at Leeds' orbit, formed and made our way to dublin for standard clean-up mission, just before jumphole, Ree's engine has started malfunctioning, and i had to tow him through trade lane back to derby for repairs, then i moved back into dublin alone. I found a civillian vessel within essex NFZ, and it was not the first time i met him violating this rule, but my guncam has malfunctioned and I had no hard proof. I ordered him to pay standard 2 mln fine and move out of NFZ, he did moved out of it, but clearly refused to pay anything.
Leaving me no choice, I attacked, after a short while, ship of which profile I haven't seen before (our experts can determine it's class by guncam cameras attached to this report), whose pilot told me to stop firing, I simply replied that this ship has violated our law and refuses to co-operate, to which reply the ship attacked, it had a punch, but lacked maneuverability, something between gunboat and a bomber, from my experience. I had to abort attack on the miner and acted in self-defense, I had it under control, but Ensign Wiliam Folge showed up and helped me to take care of the attacker, unfortunately suspect's vessel have dissapeared.
As I was explaining the situation to Folge, my scanners detected a faint signature from behind the essex, I checked it and discovered a transport vesse "Godzilla", which made a run to the gate, we pursued, but the transport managed to use the docking rings before we could contact New London Ring Control, and the transport itself simply dissapeared. We then proceeded to Salisburym, where we met Ensigns Cooper and Walton, and made a small training exercise, after which we all signed out.
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Source: Battleship Derby
ID: Ens. Alex Clarke
Just as I signed up for duty, I received a message on emergency channel, our Intelligence agent (called in rest of this report as "Agent" for security reasons) called for reinforcements at Leeds, I quickly launched and made my way to the Planet Leeds, along with destroyer HMS-Invictus, and repelled the enemy without actually engaging, few salvos from Invictus were enough to scare them off, the Agent then requested my assistance with a pirate who straggled in Leeds for too long, known as Amethyst'.Reaver. I agreed and we made our way to dublin jump hole, his LKP. We found him there as he was jumping to dublin. Agent jumped first and I followed ASAP, prepared for a long pursuit, but Reaver didn't appear to pay attention to us, as he was attacking a junker ship, for reasons unknown next to jump hole. We engaged the reaver, but his bomber managed to destroy the Junker's ship, although Agent managed to secure his pod.
As the enemy used a bomber, he didn't stood a chance against the BAF fighter, and tried to escape back to leeds, Agent out-thinked him and jumped first, managing to disrupt his cruise engines allowing me to catch up and re-engage. After a quick skirmish we managed to destroy his vessel (again, the Agent secured his pod), and returned to Leeds, where we yet again regrouped with HMS-Invictus, and Ensign Williams. Agent told us that he has to remain at Leeds for secret reasons, but also stated that he needs us as his eyes and ears, asking for co-operation, we gladly agreed to help him, and 3 of us made our way back to dublin jump hole, where we found molly ambushed by bounty hunters and a police officer. They had it under control so we proceeded through the hole. Agent instructed Ensign Williams and HMS Invictus to stay within asteroid field, to monitor the area surrounding Hood, while I was sent to silently report activity around Arranmore. Just as i entered molly territory, we were called back to leeds, I was barely able to detect three signatures around the Arranmore, unfortunately due to recall order I could not ID them properly. As to the activity surrounding Hood, the mentioned pack of BPA and bounty hunters had a lot of fun fighting off the Coalition, managing to destroy one of their fighters. I can't really say what was Agent point of sending us there, but I guess that's exacly the point of the Intelligence Service. During the operation we've lost no damage, only Agent ship was scratched by Reaver's bomber, but nothing a bretonian vessel couldn't handle.
After the operation at dublin both Agent and Incivtus had to dock for report and resupply, I and Ensign Williams patrolled the bretonia space for a while without finding any troubles, until we went low on fuel and had to dock on Derby.
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[font=Century Gothic][color=#EFEFEF]As this is my 4th report, I believe I have met the requirements for the rank of Lieutenant of Bretonia Armed Forces.
Ensign Alex clare hereby requests promotion from rank of Ensign to rank of Lieutenant, with following service records:
43 hours at Templar
3 hours at Challenger
4 official reports
Attitude of at least 4
I did not passed the combat training as of yet, due to high pirate/kusari activity that did not allowed any of those to take place, although Captain John Clay have commended my piloting abilities on several occasions. If his commendation is not enough, I will gladly take an official test at any time chosen by the Admiralty Board.
I believe I am ready to take on the honours of next rank along all its duties.
Whatever decission the Admiralty Board will take, I believe it will be for the best of both BAF, and entire Bretonia.
For Queen and for the Country!
Yours Ensign Alex Clarke
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Ensign Alex Clarke, you are showing a quck progress. For the short time spend in the armed forces you have achieved:
- 46 hours of Flight Time
- 4 patrol reports
- A good level of attitude (3)
You are even training on your bomber and your skills with it are above the basics. That is why you are granted the rank of [color=#FF6600]Lieutenant without hesitation.
I hope you will continue with your excellent actions in your military career.
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