Bonjour,

Our last forces in New London have retreated in Leeds under the command of the Dax. The planet is actually suffering a major genocide. Our patrols revealed several independents transports trying to safe the casualities.

The system of Leeds will probably fall in the hands of the Allied. Henceforth the evacuation of the Gallic forces of Leeds has started. For the moment, the ships have to retreat to North, towards Tau-31. The Dax and his battlegroup has taken place near the New London jump hole and is ready to crush them if they dare to show up. As well as the Montmorency defending the Southern Flank of Leeds. The gate leading to New London is sealed and minor forces have been sent to keep an eye on it.

Yesterday, already, the Allied have made an attempt to take position within the system. However our forces managed to crush them with minimal losses. During the retreat of New London, our bomber squadrons destroyed enemy warships in number. The losses on the Allied side is estimed at 5 against 1 during the last 4 days.


Sincèrement

Marine Royale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Bonjour,

The creation of the new Gallic Government is taking time. Awaiting this, The Chambellan Fontaine and I have started to gather the remaining of our forces for our next departure...The Enclave authority is still believing in our loyalty to the Roi. Thus it is unlikely they will find out our real plans.

We suffered losses during the final battle against the Allied in both New London and Leeds systems. The exact number of losses still remain uncertain though I managed to make a partial list of missing officers during the war. The listed officers have an uncertain fate. Some are presumably dead, MIA, or within the Allied hands.


Having those officers back would be a great benefice for the Marine in the near future and perhaps we could probe Bretonia in order to know if they have captured these officers.


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Marine Royale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Bonjour,


Me, commadant Pierre Valliant, as well as officer Zacharie Micheaux and chamberlan Everett Fontaine successfully finished an infiltration mission in the Aquitaine system. Our job was to gather intel regarding planet Bordeaux, as well as make sure the enclave forces weren't coming for us soon (after the fight that took place in Languedoc between us and the enclave forces during our way back home), and gather information about the general state of things in the aquitaine system. The whole area around planet Bordeaux isn't busy at all, it was rather empty seeing as this is the enclave's base of operations. After checking on Bordeaux, we flew towards the Issoudun drydock, where we saw a single valor battleship fighting a small fleet of the bretonia armed forces of all things, that included mostly battleships and battlecruisers (and a single bomber unit). After a while, a single lynx fighter bearing the enclave tag showed up to help the valor battleship. Chamberlan Fontaine ordered us to attack the enclave fighter, and a couple of us did (namely commadant Pierre Valliant and chamberlan Everett Fontaine himself); the rest of us stayed behind as the situation was already under control. Soon after that the fighter was no more, but the valor battleship put up a fierce resistance before going down.

When the fight was over, the bretonians were surprised to see us attacking our own people, so we had to explain the situation to them. This was mostly a long talk between chamberlan Fontaine and the commander of the "Fascinating" battlecruiser. They seemed eager to find out the people who were responsible for the destruction of planet leeds's bases. There's also a possibility that we co-operated with them in some manner, though I'm not entirely sure about that. Nevertheless, we made clear that we're not the same people that (gladly) participated in the siege of planet leeds, and that we've parted ways with the people that did. The commander of the battlecruiser mentioned that they'll get a research going, regarding to finding the people responsible for the attack on Leeds. I suggest keeping an eye on the bretonia police authority, as well as bretonia's intelligence agencies in general, as they might try prying out information they shouldn't know.

After the long talk mostly between Fontaine and the commander of the "Fascinating" battlecruiser, we headed back to the Dauphine system. In general, the aquitaine system is pretty....empty. I suppose the enclave has set their eyes on bretonia, and are focusing their efforts there, but that doesn't mean we should let our guard down. The Languedoc system isn't far from their bases both in aquitaine, and in brittany. That is all for now.



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Marine Royale Gauloise, Maître Jacques Lu Cont.

Bonjour,
Today, I made a small reconnaissance flight in Omicron's Tau systems, after using Jump Hole, I scanned the system and came across a small Outcast base. I took a picture and returned directly to the base to avoid being seen by the enemy.


I'm currently on Luneville Guard Station waiting for your order

Bonjour,

In order to celebrate the end of the year, le Chambellan Fontaine, le Capitaine Florentin and myself prepared secretely an offensive within Omicron-Tau. The objectives were to eliminate any hostile forces encountered and exploring the area as well.

Our tactical forces were composed of the battleships La Concorde and Sombre Destin. The Chambellan took the command of La Rochelle. The pilots Micheaux, Ducard and Jean-Paul De Gaulle were forming the escorting squadron. Sadly, both Ducard and Jean-Paul De Gaulle had to leave urgently and couldn't participate to the fights.

We reached the Omicron Tau without incident and took position near Genoa. We waited several minutes till a whole Outcasts fleet appeared. Actually four heavy battleships, one gunboat and one fighter were moving on us. Quickly the fight started.

Despite being outnumbered, all our ships acted with a great skill. In a desperate attempt to destroy us, the Outcasts tried to surround us. We took the initiative and charged them. La Concorde suffered major damage but gave a fatal blow to the enemy. Le Sombre Destin and La Rochelle finished their remaining forces. Both ships suffered minor damage. The gunboat exploded while the last fighter ran away.

Before to close this, I would like to highlight the exploits of Zacharie Micheaux, who acted with a great professionalism during this battle. Impressive.

La Marine ends this year with une grande victoire!

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Marine Nationale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Bonjour et Bonne Année!

Once again we raided Omicron Tau. Though we haven't found any potential Maltesse threat. Perhaps we already killed them all already?

We managed to get close of their Outpost of Genoa. We have found a new installation built by the Outcasts. Our forces will siege it and maybe those cowards are going to come back again.

We will deploy a fleet in order to siege it. Good hunting out there.


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Marine Nationale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.