Due to the dramatic events developing rapidly, additional security measures have been taken within Kadesh Orbital City and all of our incoming and outgoing traffic.
All transport ships must be convoyed or armed enough to provide protection, at this point we are going to assist the Order in evacuation of Cairo, as well as Capetown on a residual basis.
While it would be better to evacuate Core crew to Nauru and Order to Akabat, in an emergency Kadesh is well positioned to take in temporary settlers - we have enough resources and provisions to weather the storm. Kadesh defensive perimeter have been strengethen with Lyra wing to ensure stable situation around Palmyra planet.
A perilous time indeed. My research vessel has just arrived at Kadesh and is standing by, awaiting the call. We've prepared accommodations en route for any personnel we take on and secured lab space to store the databanks for evacuation. May we remain calm and steadfast in this hour—we will see this ordeal through.
Following on from the crisis in Zeta, I am pleased to announce our fleet auxiliary has exceed not only ours, but also other co-habiting groups expectations, by evacuating significant amount of crew along with a good portion of databanks out of the besieged system.
This goes without mention, that our auxiliaries went beyond the means to deliver all Order crew received straight to Dabadoru (Ex.[1] [2] [3]) as requested by their high command as first preference, directly enforcing their position and foothold in the Delta system. Our vessels ferried at least five thousand personnel to the station. This will no doubt significantly boost our allies' presence in the system, and in turn, generate additional patrols and security in the sector and for our Freeport, guarding it for future raids or assaults.
Likewise for the Core, we had evacuated most of their crew to Durban, from their official request for assistance in the eleventh hour. We hope thiswill generate positive relations with the faction, and goodwill for the future cooperation such as our conflict with the Corsairs, currently our common adversary in the Omicrons,
Nonetheless, the situation was dire, with a few of our vessels caught and struck especially in the initial stages of the evacuation. These damages will take time to recover, but our presence were invaluable to all and no doubt our support from other groups will be returned when we find ourselves at time of need.
Despite a rapidly changing political environment, we were able to defend the safety of Livadia Shipyard. A lot of it was chance, but we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time. The Core came after Mars to seek for revenge and it was obvious that the Corsairs were going to take advantage of the confusion and wreak havoc on Zoners and the other groups. We cannot under any circumstance let to repeat Freeport 9 scenario, especially when we are speaking about Livadia.
Although our main fleet was now orbiting the planet Palmyra, defending our home, we were still able to bring out a Lyra defensive wing, more specifically a Hyperion to protect the livadians. We gathered all the capable ships and organized a rendezvous at the shipyard with the Core, where our forces were grouped into one powerful strike fist.
We moved out and a fierce battle ensued. Although we came after the Corsairs, and made it clear to the AI vessels that we would only attack them in self-defense, the Mars unleashed its might on the Hyperion. After that, we had no problems with Artificial Intelligence ships other than the Technocracy falling out of the sky, but those Nomad sympathizers are known threat for us.
Finally, a Vis appeared on radar and our squadron focused on him and rest of Corsairs forces. We managed to break through their ranks and almost disable the Vis, but at the cost of losing our cruiser and damage aboard the Hyperion. To the Corsairs' luck, Hyperion powergrid had overheated because of the gravity anomaly the flagship was dragged in and we were forced to silent our battlestations for a moment. Though that moment was enough for the Vis to run back to Omicron Gamma to heal its wounds.