August 08th, 817 AS..

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Under Orders of Captain James Hobart, of the Essex 6th Fleet. We formed up with Captain Hobart as he set off to....bah, You don't need the full report.

Sirs, Ma'ams, fellow Lieutenant Commanders, and everyone else in the Armed Forces. It brings me stress to say this, but when our fighters went down quickly, it was just myself and Captain James Hobart.

I laid down terms of surrender to be taken prisoner for the Captain's safe return. Sadly, the terms changed on me. Captain James Hobart, has been captured by the enemy. It was my fault, and I bare the action of getting him out.

I am asking for a small strike force, at least five fighters, and a transport full of Armed Forces Marines. I will personally head the mission myself, unless Command has a different alternative. I made a bloody promise to get him out, so I will.

Signed,

Lieutenant Commander Austin Goodmen

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Upon receiving reports of a number of pirate vessels in Leeds, I quickly got in my Templar and launched, heading to Leeds. Once I was in orbit of Leeds I received a hail from the Captain of the Wellesley, one of our Bretonian Gunboats, The Captain asked if Leeds orbit was clear, which at the time it was, his Gunboat later undocked and I took formation, only to receive orders to take the Stokes lane to see of any hostile contacts. Upon reaching fifteen clicks from Stokes itself, a Gaian appeared on scopes. The Gaian had a Civilian transport halted, I got there just in-time. I hailed the Wellesley, who latered arrived and waited seventeen clicks from the situation.

The Gaian, whose a native Kusarian, was in a Gunboat. Knowing the odds I prepared myself for an attack. The trader then turned, as I requested, and headed back towards Leeds. After multiple attempts at hailing the Gaian Gunboat and requesting it to leave Leeds, the vessel opened fire on mine. The Wellesley came to assist.

Once the Gaian Gunboat was destroyed, The Wellesley and myself returned to Leeds where a Zoner transport was in transit to Tau-37, and Freeport 10. I requested the vessel to follow me through Edinburgh, there I received reports of high Gaian activity. Upon entering Edinburgh, the first vessel on my scanners was indeed a Gaian vessel, a Roc bomber.

I quickly docked and grabbed supplies before undocking, the Zoner had either turned back or docked on the police station. Either way, he was safe. I headed down towards Perth station to run into not one, but two Gaian bombers. One of them being a 'Natures Last Hope' by the codename "Shadowcat" I requested both ships to leave the station and traders they were harassing alone. Suddenly one of the Gaian's opened fire. It was the Roc bomber from before. The lad made a terrible mistake, so I toyed with him for a decent amount of time before finishing his vessel off and forcing him to eject.

I then turned my attention to "Shadowcat" and requested her multiple times to leave, I managed to chase her away from the station without any firing done. After a few more minutes, she finally left towards Islay and....was...crying.....

Anyway's, Edinburgh's threats were finally neutralized and I returned to the Suffolk, I signed my shift over to standby.

Attached Files:

Stokes Engagement
Perth Engagement

Signed,

Lieutenant Commander Austin R. Goodmen
Suffolk 5th Fleet, Stationed in New London