Two weeks after the ill-fated incursion into Omega 5, Lieutenant Wayne Anderson, pilot of a Bretonian Armed Forces Crusader, was released into the custody of the Bretonian Armed Forces from a Rheinland Cruiser near a rendezvous point near the neutral site of Freeport 1 in the Omega 3 system.
Lt. Anderson was the sole survivor of the Crusader patrol that valiantly, but foolishly followed Corsair raiders back into the Omega 5 system.
The official missive from the Rheinland Ambassador to Bretonia stated merely that a Crusader pilot had been taken into Rheinland custody during an illegal and provocative Bretonian incursion into the Omega 11 system. Bretonian protestations that no such incursion had ever taken place fell on deaf ears since Rheinland had in its possession a pilot and fighter that had in fact been found in Omega 11.
Lt. Anderson was turned over to the Rheinland Military after receipt of an urgent dispatch from the Daumann operated Solarius Station, reporting that a heavily damaged Crusader had shouldered aside a Daumann transport and forcefully landed in the station's docking bay. Security officers had to physically extract the pilot from his fighter due to his extreme exhaustion and traumatic injuries sustained in an apparent firefight.
During the following two weeks, medical and military personnel alternately treated and interrogated Lt. Anderson in an attempt to both heal him and extract information from him about Bretonia's intentions in sending military craft into Omega 11. Lt. Anderson repeatedly maintained that he had no idea that he was in Omega 11 until informed so after his return to consciousness in the Solarius Station medical bay. Beyond that, he would say nothing to the Rheinlanders.
Once in Bretonian custody, Lt. Anderson steadfastly maintained to his superiors that in spite of two weeks of interrogation, he had divulged nothing to his Rheinland captors except his name, rank, serial number. He reported that after his patrol jumped out of Omega 5 they were engaged by strange fighter craft in an unknown system, and after losing the rest of his patrol to hostile and unrelenting fire, he desperately locked on to another jump hole that had just appeared on his scope. Following his emergence from the jump he skirted the outer side of an asteroid field, and dispatched desperate mayday calls to a distant space station. Receiving only wave offs in return, and running desperately low on oxygen and fuel, he had no option other than to force his way into the docking bay where he collapsed unconscious in his cockpit after landing.
The Bretonian Armed Forces immediately re-evaluated its chase policy with regard to Corsairs in the Grasmere Ice Cloud bordering Planet Cambridge, and shelved a one inch report on the incident deep into the official military archives at its headquarters.
However, in the corporate intelligence divisions throughout Sirius, the analysis of these events had only just begun.