Marine Royale Gauloise Mission Report
l'introduction
This document is visible to all enlisted officers of the Marine Royale Gauloise, hereby I, Pierre Vincent Dupetit-Thouars, Vicomte de Plateau des Coucous, state, that I have conducted service in the ranks of the MRG on the 23rd of Mai 741 A.G.S. Honneur et Patrie, Valeur et Discipline. Pour le Roi.
Déclaration de soldat: Pierre Vincent Dupetit-Thouars, Vicomte de Plateau des Coucous
Rang: Contre-Amiral
Topic: Encounter with an alien "battleship" near Beauvais Production Facility
Description de la/des situation/-s
Situation un:
Patrols in Ile-de-France started receiving strange signals earlier today, but they could not find the source, so a state of readiness was called. I happened to be aboard the Landerneau in Dauphine, and I moved the ship to Ile-de-France, expecting an attack by the Council. Patrolling the lanes, we found no Council ships, but when we reached Beauvais, I spotted a strange and very large object looming about 10K above the station. It was light blue and it emitted pink and light blue light. I had seen one of those before, when I was in Les Bohemes -- it had, somehow, teleported my ship, the Tonnant, from New London to some uncharted system -- but it was much smaller. And, for some reason, my report about the whole event was removed, I do not know by who. However, I still have a few camera shots left in the Tonnant's database, which I will try to access vi the neural net from here. I will post those shots below if I manage.
The object resembled a large battleship. I attempted to establish communication with them, but my first attempts were unsuccessful. My bridge filled with static electricity and everyone's hair rose, for no apparent reason. I started hearing "voices", and at first I thought it was just wine, but later, after I had discussed with my bridge staff, I found out that they heard the same voices as well. At that time Noelle Marveilles arrived, in a Lynx. I ordered him to scan the ship, to which he complied, but reluctantly. I expect him to make a report about the scan results.
The speakers on the bridge then started humming. Not long after, they were already producing a voice that sounded very electronic, and had little in common with human voice. Nevertheless, it was comprehensible. I will post below what we managed to record. In short, the "entity" never introduced themselves, but they mentioned they approved our war with Bretonia and Liberty, and that they would not mind if we destroyed Sirius. I told them that Gallia was the most powerful nation in existence, to which they answered that they were more powerful and that it was them who were to use us, and not vice-versa, as it should be. Then they headed away. I was offended by their "words", but I did not allow my emotions to influence my behaviour in such a crucial situation. I ordered them to be escorted to Champagne via the jumpholes, as I did not want to panic the civilians by letting them use the lanes. There they would capture a few Council pilots/captains (they already had two Kusari Naval Forces pilots in their cargo, as scanned by Marveilles, so they could certainly capture them). After that they were to return and transfer those to us, as a sign of loyalty. They refused, saying they were not here to fight the Council, but Bretonia and Liberty. Thus, I offered them the ultimatum: they were to be escorted to California, where they would do the same with some Liberty pilots/captains. They refused again, and started closing down on the Landerneau. I warned them to stay away, but they continued. We fired a salvo of four pulses at them as a warning shot, to which they replied with a salvo of three "somethings", which nearly dropped our whole shield. The Landerneau then entered combat. We fired a Hurricane and lowered their shield with pulses. The Hurricane, however, seemed to have veered off -- it was either that they had some countermeasure weapon, or that our warhead was flawed. After that we fired a Warwolf, which hit, and proceeded with our three Cerberuses. At first they were winning, but apparently our Cerberuses were more efficient than whatever they had, or their ship had a poor energy supply, because at the end we managed to prevail. Our hull was starting to buckle seriously when their was near the breach point, too, but they had already used whatever they had instead of shield batteries, and we used our own now, charging our full shield. That seemed to have discouraged them, for they turned away and opened fire at Merveilles with a significant number of fast and fast firing weapons. They failed to shoot him down and their quitting gave us time to recharge our energy for a third Warwolf, which breached their hull. Their ship exploded in a pink blast, which contained a white flash that blinded us all for a short moment. They did not appear to have left anything tangible behind them, not even scrap -- perhaps the object was made of pure energy? I am sure that it had exploded, I saw it with my own eyes, we all did.
Merveilles and Laura Malet, a reservist fighter that had arrived in the meantime, docked with Beauvais, but we headed to Melun Research Institution for obvious reasons. There, I found that none of our superficial cameras had recorded anything, although they were in a perfect working condition. Luckily, my navigator, who is also an astronomer and likes taking photographs of stellar objects, had a camera with him, and took the liberty of taking a photograph from the bridge just before the object had exploded. I will include that one below as well.
Victimes
Pertes alliées:
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Pertes hostiles:
K'Hara|Innana (Dreadnought-Sized Unknown Vessel)
Landerneau Camera Shot #1 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #1 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #2 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #3 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #4 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #5 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #6 --
Tonnant Camera Shot #7 --
Audio Logs:
[23.05.2018 17:43:28] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhis is Contre-Amiral Vicomte Pierre Vincent Dupetit-Thouars de Plateau des Coucous!
[23.05.2018 17:43:39] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Unknown entity, I ordre you: indentify yourself at once!
[23.05.2018 17:44:56] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre (to his first officer): Bordeaux! Cheque whas zhis is! I am too busy trying to talk wizh zhis ship.
[23.05.2018 17:45:30] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre (thinking): Mon Dieu... I should really cut down on vin. I am 'earing voices...
[23.05.2018 17:47:19] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Unknown entity, I will repeat only once: speak, or you will be treated as a safetie 'azzard and opened fire on!
[23.05.2018 17:48:34] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre (to his first officer): Bordeaux, is zhat ssing fixed? Everyone's 'air is rising, we look ridicuolous.
[23.05.2018 17:48:45] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: I don't want zhe potensial enemie to ssink we're afraid.
[23.05.2018 17:49:30] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Bordeaux: Mon amiral... I ssink... is is coming from zhat ship!
[23.05.2018 17:49:32] K'Hara|Inanna: ***..{The entity starts to emit a strange signal from the Theta-Wave levels}..***
[23.05.2018 17:49:53] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre (having heard Bordeaux): Unknown ship, stop at once, or you'll be shot!
[23.05.2018 17:50:04] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Bien.
[23.05.2018 17:50:05] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Oh hell!
[23.05.2018 17:50:11] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: What is this thing?
[23.05.2018 17:50:25] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: It is so shiny!
[23.05.2018 17:50:29] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Marveilles, my bridge staff is useless. We 'aven't found a match in our directories on zhe nature of zhis... ssing.
[23.05.2018 17:50:31] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Almost beautiful
[23.05.2018 17:50:53] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: We don't seem able to establish communicassion wizh it.
[23.05.2018 17:51:28] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: I ssink is would be zhe safest to desroy iss, and zhen pique up what we can from zhe remains.
[23.05.2018 17:51:36] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Is zhe disrupteur readie?
[23.05.2018 17:51:45] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: I need to stay away from it. Staying near it seems harmful for my board computer!
[23.05.2018 17:52:14] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Drop zhe power from your lighting. Turn all unnecesarie systemes off.
[23.05.2018 17:52:20] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Did zhis lousy zhing just talk?
[23.05.2018 17:52:27] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: I need you wizhin 3K of it. Scan zhem. Make your CD readie.
[23.05.2018 17:52:43] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Did it just claim zhis space as 'it's'?!
[23.05.2018 17:52:52] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Bien sur it didn't talk! You've 'ad too mush wine, Marveilles!
[23.05.2018 17:53:03] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: We've recorded no activity on our radio.
[23.05.2018 17:53:16] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Ofcourse! I always 'ave wine Monsieur!
[23.05.2018 17:53:53] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: We should drop wine at it.
[23.05.2018 17:53:59] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: It may like it.
[23.05.2018 17:54:32] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Scan zhem, s'il vous plait. I want to know what I'm dealing wizh.
[23.05.2018 17:54:40] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Yes?
[23.05.2018 17:55:27] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre (having heard what you manipulated the speakers on the bridge to say): Eh!? Oo did you call weak minded!?
[23.05.2018 17:55:28] K'Hara|Inanna: ***..{The energy bursts starts to rapidly sending different kind of signals , which can be translated as binary code}..***
[23.05.2018 17:55:29] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: We are not in scanner range Monsieur Amiral!
[23.05.2018 17:56:02] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhen get in scanneur range! What, are you afraid!? A Royal soldat of zhe Roi!?
[23.05.2018 17:56:12] K'Hara|Inanna: ***..{The Binary code then could be translated into text speech using ASCII, via your speakers}..***
[23.05.2018 17:56:29] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Ofcourse not, amiral! Right away!
[23.05.2018 17:56:42] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Pour le Roooiiii!!
[23.05.2018 17:56:45] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhat is zhe attitude!
[23.05.2018 17:56:54] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Do not open fire. Yet.
[23.05.2018 17:57:18] K'Hara|Inanna: "Ours are not your enemies here, but we can be your worse nightmares, if you so desire"
[23.05.2018 17:57:23] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Monsieur amiral! Zhere seems to be a naval forces officer of the Kusari Navy in it!
[23.05.2018 17:57:46] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Oh, bien. Tres bien. We 'ave established communicassion.
[23.05.2018 17:57:49] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Else, no human life signs!
[23.05.2018 17:58:01] K'Hara|Inanna: "Weak-minded Libertonian-named, Bretonian-named purification we seek"
[23.05.2018 17:58:03] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: I will address zhe issue after more important ones, Marveilles. But I'm more interested in armament.
[23.05.2018 17:58:36] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Impossible, monsieur amiral! Zhere seems to be no weaponary!
[23.05.2018 17:58:40] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Gallia needs no allies. We are strongeur zhan all of Sirius togezher, and you.
[23.05.2018 17:58:46] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: At least nozhing 'uman!
[23.05.2018 17:58:48] K'Hara|Inanna: "Ours have paved ours ways here to follow yours kind to yours home"
[23.05.2018 17:58:50] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Do not sreaten us.
[23.05.2018 17:59:05] K'Hara|Inanna: "To seek yours home, and to know ours enemies"
[23.05.2018 17:59:16] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: No weaponry!? Bien. Zhen zhis is a diplomatic mission, and not an invasion.
[23.05.2018 17:59:21] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: I approve of zhis.
[23.05.2018 17:59:36] K'Hara|Inanna: "As pleased ours are, we are not seeking alliance"
[23.05.2018 17:59:59] K'Hara|Inanna: "Yours shall never see the enlightment, or purpose/meaning of it all"
[23.05.2018 17:59:59] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Mesieurs, ooever you are, I'm afraid I do not 'ave zhe authoritee for diplomacie.
[23.05.2018 18:00:10] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Mes, stay 'ere. I will call zhose oo 'ave.
[23.05.2018 18:01:02] K'Hara|Inanna: "Sirius shall be cleansed, you are merely ours Tools in the shed"
[23.05.2018 18:01:19] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Monsieur amiral! You are amiral! 'ow 'as it come you 'aven't zhose auzhoritee?
[23.05.2018 18:01:28] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Ah, I see where you are wrong. Non, mesieurs.
[23.05.2018 18:01:39] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: We are not your tools. You are, as we speak, becoming our tools.
[23.05.2018 18:01:40] K'Hara|Inanna: "Keep up the cleansing of the Weak-Minded of the Bretonian Named and Libertonian Named"
[23.05.2018 18:02:05] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Zhis a machine?
[23.05.2018 18:02:45] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: You are scanning zhem, Marveilles, not us. Record zhe data and remember to make a report about it.
[23.05.2018 18:02:48] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: A detailed one.
[23.05.2018 18:02:56] K'Hara|Inanna: ***..{Another large energy burst emanates from the entity, readings give out high amounts of theta waves}..***
[23.05.2018 18:03:28] K'Hara|Inanna: "Ours see through yours plan, ours have learned from yours"
[23.05.2018 18:04:01] K'Hara|Inanna: "Weak-minded humans do not see further their self, ours are not one, ours are many, the concept yours shall never see"
[23.05.2018 18:04:35] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Nossing is mightier zhan Gaule, mesieurs.
[23.05.2018 18:04:47] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Zhis zhing is moving. Do I stop it?
[23.05.2018 18:04:55] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: If you claim zhat you are, zhere cannot be diplomacie between us. Only war. Zhen we will prove you wrong.
[23.05.2018 18:05:01] K'Hara|Inanna: "Ours work has been concluded here"
[23.05.2018 18:05:04] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Stop zhem if zhey cruise.
[23.05.2018 18:05:18] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Oui! It shalt be done!
[23.05.2018 18:05:37] K'Hara|Inanna: "If that's war yours seek, cleansing shall be upon yours"
[23.05.2018 18:05:38] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: It's so bright!
[23.05.2018 18:06:13] K'Hara|Inanna: "Ours do not use the puny diplomacy, ours have evolved higher"
[23.05.2018 18:06:33] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Unknown entity, you will 'ead to zhe Picardie jump 'ole. Zhat is in C3.
[23.05.2018 18:06:58] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: From zhere, you will 'ead to Champagne. Return wizh a few Counceillard 'eads in your cargo.
[23.05.2018 18:07:06] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhen we can initiate true diplomacie.
[23.05.2018 18:07:35] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Do you accept zhis -ultimatum-?
[23.05.2018 18:08:00] K'Hara|Inanna: "Ours only desire is to seek yours on Liberty&Bretonia-named seas, cleansing to the weak-minded you must continue"
[23.05.2018 18:08:20] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: And you will not aid us, directlie?
[23.05.2018 18:08:25] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Zhat does not mean zhey want to be our ally.
[23.05.2018 18:08:33] K'Hara|Inanna: "Purification of Sirian-named, a large scale enlightment is what we seek"
[23.05.2018 18:09:08] K'Hara|Inanna: " Disagreement...We shall not assist yours cleansing, we see yours as tools in ours large game"
[23.05.2018 18:09:18] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhen, if you like, you can 'ead to Californie.
[23.05.2018 18:09:37] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: You will bring us several Libertonian soldiers or pilotes, from zhere, dead or alive.
[23.05.2018 18:09:58] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhis is an ultimatum. Failure to accept it means zhat you are not useful to us.
[23.05.2018 18:10:38] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Donc?
[23.05.2018 18:10:46] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: *The turrets are charging.*
[23.05.2018 18:11:01] K'Hara|Inanna: "Useful you are already to us, define yours purpose/meaning of ours needing light-less flesh guidance ? "
[23.05.2018 18:11:05] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: I zhink zhis zhing stopped functioning.
[23.05.2018 18:11:29] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: I will not define anysing. You will listen to me.
[23.05.2018 18:11:34] Laura.Malet: Mon dieu..
[23.05.2018 18:11:35] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Do you accept, or do you not accept?
[23.05.2018 18:11:52] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Unknown entity, stop at once.
[23.05.2018 18:12:04] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Stop, or we fire!
[23.05.2018 18:12:05] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: I doubt le Roi cares about our usefulnis for your cause. All zhat matters is your usefulness for our cause here.
[23.05.2018 18:12:10] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Warning shot!
[23.05.2018 18:12:19] Laura.Malet: Dieu!
[23.05.2018 18:12:32] Laura.Malet: Weapons primed.
*Battle noise*
[23.05.2018 18:14:14] Death: K'Hara|Inanna has died
[23.05.2018 18:14:17] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Zhat mush of your arrogance.
[23.05.2018 18:14:19] Laura.Malet: Mon dieu...
[23.05.2018 18:14:23] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Weak allies are not useful.
[23.05.2018 18:14:55] MRG|Noelle,Merveilles: Indeed, monsieur amiral.
[23.05.2018 18:15:03] MRG|RNS-Landerneau: Pierre: Merci pour vottre assistance.
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