Distress signal activated...

[pbrione]

Fleet Admiral Nelson looked up from the report just delivered by an officer from the QCHQ communications centre.

"Sir, our listening post in Tau 23 picked up the transmission around 0930 hours this morning. The comm signature has been authenticated."

Nelson frowned,

"God knows what he was doing in Orkney at the time, but very well. Dispatch a wing of strike craft from the MacDuff 2nd Battlefleet in Tau 23. Run a search formation across the system until they locate him. No doubt the Kusari will have picked up the transmission as well and if that officer gets himself captured one more time then my god I'll have his stripes! Relay the orders via Harris immediately and instruct Commodore Hughes to report back to me as soon as they have news."

"Aye aye Admiral!" the young officer saluted and marched briskly from the office. The seach force would be dispatched within the hour...

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>