Séverine...

Do you know you are giving me headache? How am I going to sleep now? Come on the Sombre Destin with a bottle of wine. We shall have a drink. Oh non, don't you think I am inviting you to a party, I'll rather have a hard conversation with you.

On the other hand, I will send a little message to these...Crayterians.


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Marine Nationale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Mes amis,

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. We could see the old Kingdom of Gallia emblem on the back of the chair as it was not facing the screen. Suddenly, the chair turned in a fast move towards the luminous screen showing up a determined Vaillant holding a glass of wine in his right hand.

We all remember the dark times of the end of the war against Bretonia. We acknoledged these would be the worst time ever for Gallia. Today it appears that we were wrong.

For centuries, our House had prepared herself for a full scale invasion of the traitorous Sirians peasants. Gallia had prepared herself for a war that was supposed to be far from her borders. The previous conflict which was our first one against the Sirian Houses was indeed far from Gallia, if we exclude the civil war with the Conseillards peasants.

But today, the war has reached our home. For the very first time of its existence, Gallia is invaded. Invaded by House that pretends to act for the sake of all the Sirian souls that paid the price of the Gallic Re-Conquest, for the sake to prevent our House to repeat what she has done. I'll get this straight, they want Gallia neutralized, eliminated, deprived of its own integrity and of its capacity to ensure its own existence.

They don't realize they are so mistaken, however. They have been beaten once, they shall be again. I thought they had tasted enough the CORE GALLIC VALUES some years ago and that they would have understand.

Don't be foolish, mes amis. The enemy we are fighting against is powerful, organized and determined to reach his meaningless and outrageous ambitions. They will try everything to succeed. But do not be impressed either. They may have reached our territory, we still have the favorable wind. This time we do not fight for a revenge, but for Gallia. For your House and me. This time, you will be one with the CORE GALLIC VALUES. Shall they lead us to the final victory.

We are planning, organizing, preparing this new conflict. Gallia is not on the verge of disappearing yet, but we've never been that close of it. More details will be given in the next few hours. Until then, hold the line!


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Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.

Marine Nationale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Mes amis,

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. We could see the old Kingdom of Gallia emblem on the back of the chair as it was not facing the screen. Suddenly, the chair turned in a fast move towards the luminous screen showing up a determined Vaillant holding a glass of wine in his right hand.

As promised, I come back to you with some news. Last night, the Parisian Assembly has met the representatives of the Marine Nationale in order to discuss the situation, the recent victories in the skirmishes against the Kusarians vanguard and the further measures that have to be taken.

One of these measures concern me directly, as it has been decided to make me Amiral of the Marine Nationale. Oh oui, I am sure you would like some celebrations but we are running out of time already. Celebrations will come once the war is WON.

The Parisian Assembly is trying to negotiate with the Kusari Empire to solve this unexpected situation. Yet, it is unlikely they will succeed. Until the situation evolves, your orders are to engage the invaders at will. Our posture should be defensive for now, but I have the intention to make an aggressive defense of our contested systems. More details on this later.


To Commandant de Gobineau.

We only have some days or hours. We haven't been prepared for this. While Pamiers and Epinal can hold the line till our reinforcements arrive, they need to be fully ready for the upcoming battles, and they aren't at the moment.

I need la Division du Train more than ever to win this critical battle. Your transports must supply Epinal and Pamiers as top priority with the following: Armaments, Munitions, Lasers, Wine, Water, Consumer goods, Promethene.

I will order Cassard to move back to Languedoc, since its fate lies to this system. Pamiers cannot stand alone against the most powerful Kusarian battleships. If you can, deliver to Cassard some supplies for its departure from Zurich.

I trust in your experience Commandant.


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Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.

Marine Nationale Gauloise, Amiral Pierre Vaillant.

Mes amis,

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. We could see the old Kingdom of Gallia emblem on the back of the chair as it was not facing the screen. Suddenly, the chair turned in a fast move towards the luminous screen showing up a determined Vaillant holding a glass of wine in his right hand.

To every problem its solution. The current situation forces us to take measures that would have been considered as madness times ago.

Negotiations between the Enclave and the Marine Nationale have happened and these leaded to a ceasefire between our two forces. This ceasefire is restricted to Languedoc and shall start from 743 A. G. S. July 1st 0:00 hours of the Gallic main time. Enclave forces shall be engaged in any other Gallic systems, however.

As well, the embargo of the Hebrides is as well over for the time being. The Enclave will likely deploy some transports, so do not harm them.

While some of you may perhaps dislike this, I can assure you we know what we are doing. For now, we need to think Gallia.


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Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.

Marine Nationale Gauloise, Amiral Pierre Vaillant.

Bonjour,

Today I've participated in fights repelling 2 enemy attacks coming one after another, The first one, enemy fighter wings, soon followed by the second attack of the enemy capital ships. Our forces have engaged in elastic defense to buy time for Pamiers to maneuver. So far it has been a success and it looks like Sirians have underestimated professionalism of the National Navy.

The enemy is taking heavy losses and we are making sure that every inch of their push in our space is deadly and costly. I can't wait for the counter-attack to see their pathetic fleets crushed so we can proceed and conquer their Sirian House.

For now, we will keep buying as much time as we can. List of the enemy losses in 2 failed attacks is down below. Delon over and out.

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Marine Nationale Gauloise, Julie Delon.

Video-feed opens up with Miroslav de Gobineau in all his splendor comparable to a very humble and gentle bear is seen sitting in a small and cramped dimly lit office. There's many holographic screens around him showing all the different information - status reports, blueprints of stations and graphs. There's also several empty paper cups from coffee machine and two full ashtrays on a table. Also there was a small picture frame on other side of a table. Several officers, one of whom was Miroslav himself and Pierre LaFlamme himself. Definetely, those were not Gallic Royal officers. Miroslav seems to be exhausted but he tries to look as 'alive' as possible.

Bonjour, mes collègues.

LOGOP DIPHOSGENE and LOGOP CHLORE of Opération Voie Sacrée objectives were fulfilled using both corporate and military assets. Both CAMBODIA and VIETNAM operational thresholds can be moved according to plan.

Logistical support is stable despite low manpower and limited equipment. Division du Train overall effectiveness is tolerable and according to my calculations, efficiency is around 65%. If we can get heavy-duty large-capacity transports, AOO become more compact and FOBs will be set up - we will reach maximum efficiency.

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Division du Train de La Marine Nationale Gauloise, Enseigne de Vaisseau Miroslav de Gobineau.

Commandant,

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. We could see the old Kingdom of Gallia emblem on the back of the chair as it was not facing the screen. Suddenly, the chair turned in a fast move towards the luminous screen showing up a determined Vaillant holding a glass of wine in his right hand.

Congratulations for the success of the Division du Train, which alongside Ile de France Shipping managed to supply in time Pamiers and Epinal. Their survival is certainly due to our efforts.

However, we are running out of time now. Our scouts have reported that Akatsuki and Nagazaki have entered into Dauphine. With Pamiers being damaged and unable to hold them, Kusari will likely head to Gap without any difficulty.

I am not going to let them capturing the station that easily. In fact, they'll never do. After all, we need to welcome them properly into Dauphine, otherwise, where are our Gallic manners? I need the Division du Train to start immediately the Operation Fill the Gap.

Your instructions are the following: evacuation of the personal of Gap Station, around 800 people. Our special command Liner Aurora will be deployed for this task. When this first step is complete, and if we do have enough remaining time, the DT Transports must bring to the station the ENGINS NUCLÉAIRES that Ile de France Shipping kindly delivered to us. Make sure the countdown can be activated at distance.

This action won't be decisive, but it'll allow us to buy time.

Bonne chance, Commandant.


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Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.

Marine Nationale Gauloise, Amiral Pierre Vaillant.

Bonjour messieurs, mesdames!

After an large victory in the Dauphine system from the Kusarian invaders, I was assigned to patrol duty in the Burgundy system before getting radio reports about LSF vessels being in Gallic space, I went immediately near the location of the Bourg-en-Bresse Space Port where I found the Council Battlecruiser Capricorne with fighter escort commanded by the Capitaine Miroslav deGobineau with the squadmate, pilot Violette Beauregard. When I arrived, the agents tried to reason with us that they were here in Gallia to get intelligence on Kusarian fleets, we dismissed them as mere lies by them - after all, them being in the Gallia was very much illegal as well regardless of their situation and their directives.

Liberationan agents tried to bribe us as well with the intelligence they "gathered" - I took it as well as a suggestion that our Gallic Intelligence was incompetent, and thus I stroke them back with words hard. After that, Capitaine deGobineau ordered them to surrender as a last warning which they denied doing so through their actions, following that - pilot Violette Beauregard was given permission to engage the hostile crafts while I was left behind for some reason without authorization to shoot the other ship, which escaped with a cloaking device on it's ship, while other one burned in the atmosphere of the Tonnerre gas giant, as our scanner and radar reported, of course, it may as well had survived but, however we are mostly sure it's down.

Afterwards, we tried to track down where the last agent which escaped - after searching the whole system we found nothing, however we had reports of the strange contacts in Ile De France, Orleanis and Picardy but those were dismissed as unlawful activity which our Police force handled over the course of few minutes.

I will attach everything that I gathered, from guncams, to logs.

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Marine Nationale Gauloise, Enseigne de Vaisseau Thomas Majewski.