Bretonian Armed Forces Defense Intelligence Staff (DIS) (iRP) (AO)

Good day, DIS.

Hours ago, our long range sensors detected unknown capital ship movement within the New London system, resulting in the scrambling of the 3rd Attack Wing of the York Fleet, which I took command upon arrival on site. While I ordered a system wide net search, I was tasked to search the vicinity of the Cambridge Jump-hole. There I had a confirmation and a first information on who we were dealing with.

Order. Primary Fleet. Order|CV-Deceres. I ordered it to decloak and present itself, order that was ignored. Thus I called upon any available friendly ship in system for information and one replied. The Apahanta, commanded by Ezrael Vertiga. It seemed Mr. Vertiga was following them for some time, most likely trying to gather intelligence on the Order movements within the House. He managed to pin point their location to the Newcastle jumpgate area. I called upon Lt. Wednesday to act as my second while the rest of the 3rd Wing regrouped at Southampton, refueling and refitting their ships.

Nearby the Newcastle jumpgate, I managed to intercept a Geb class capital vessel, Order|CV-Golanski, and a freelancer Sichel , Megeara. Obviously, the handler of the Geb was not the same one I picked up earlier, and Mr. Vertiga did replied that it was an Osiris. So the problem still stood. A foreigner capital class vessel at loose in our House. The only way to force it to actually show up was to cause issues to the 'Golanski'.

I ordered the 'Golanski' to head to Newcastle, to be under remand by the Ark Royal battlegroup until Overwatch could be contacted. I even reached the point of ordering it to proceed on impulse speed as to give the 3rd Wing time to catch up as well expend whatever cloak batteries the 'Deceres' could have. Not long, the 'Golanski' ignored my commands as it tried to escape to Tau-31. There, the 3rd Wing finally arrived with capital support, in the form of the Auxiliary HMS 'Stillwater' which I ordered to engage the 'Golanski', hoping it would force the 'Deceres' to uncloak to provide support. Seeing that it was not, I was forced to up the ante and ordered Mr. Vertiga to uncloak and lay down the hurt, increasing the pressure over the Geb, which finally triggered the Osiris to uncloak.

Splitting the 3rd wing between fire on the Geb and the Osiris, I ordered Mr. Vertiga to stand down while we started to chip away both capitals. Unfortunately Ensign Hastings was shot down during his engagement with the Geb, with the S&R teams reporting his safe retrieval after the battle. Meanwhile, the Megeara freelancer showed up and assisted the Order forces. Not long after, the Geb was finally put down and we could finally focus fire on the Osiris. Near the end, Mr. Vertiga uncloaked three clicks in front of it, against my orders, trying to cut off its escape path and engaged the Osiris. In the confusion I managed to deliver a supernova shot to the reactor housing, causing the Osiris to go critical.

Admiral Evyn, while not present, issued orders to return to Newcastle, which I promptly transmitted to the 3rd Wing. Lt. Wednesday managed to pick up a Nomad Fuel Cell from the 'Deceres' debris, which I ordered to be delivered to the SIS agent present, Mr. Skirka. Not soon after we received reports of a lone Order First Fleet pilot following our forces back into Newcastle. It was ordered to leave, which it did not complied and disrupted the cruise engines of Lt. Newton, trying to go for the heavier Challenger bomber, thus the easier mark.

I issued the order to attack the Order snub to the remaining present 3rd Wing assets, which they did so. But still I was forced to enter the fray as I saw that while the Order pilot was under pressure he would eventually shoot down Lt. Newton heavier and slower vessel. Not long after, I shot it through the engines, making sure the threat was over and done. With that, I ordered whatever 3rd Wing assets present on sight to refit, reload and return to base, while calling the S&R teams present in Newcastle to find Ensign Hastings pod. All in all, a successful defense of the sovereignty of our House space.

I think the Admiralty Board should address this blatant action of the Order within Bretonian borders as soon as possible, as well order to conduct a full deep sweep of the Newcastle system, since that Osiris only had a normal cloaking device, according to my scans of it, and yet managed to stay cloaked for a very long time. Which means it had logistical support in system.

Audio box recording follows to aid in your assessment.
Mr. Vertiga also said he would deliver a report to the SIS. I suggest you ask for it as well.

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Without anything else to add,

Kaze Nelson Reidman Dagon
Captain
Bretonian Armed Forces