Mission 9 : Phase 2 : Gather intelligence on 2 or more Coaltion ships, specifically: Weapons, equipment, ship classes and statistics. At least one of these ships should be a gunboat class vessel or larger.
Earlier today, while scouting on the other side of the Leeds jump hole, I caught wind of some merchants raising a general uproar about the varied communist forces of the SCRA. Apparently, one of their larger warships was running amok in Dublin. A Molly confirmed this tale. I immediately set course for the system, being of the mind that while traders are likely to fall on you at the most or least opportune moments anyway, SCRA warships were a rarity that required scanning. Naturally, I prioritised the mission objective.
Upon jumping in, I flew a circuit of the system in vain, finding nothing save mercenaries and miners who were not overly interested in me. Looping back towards Arranmore for refuel, I happened across the Omega 49 jump hole, where I found the warship in a stand-off with a BPA Hussar, a Bretonian Gunboat and a Bretonian Battleship. All four were content to ignore me, so I settled down to get some scans. After a short period the Hussar left, and a second SCRA warship jumped in.
A very short firefight later, all present Bretonian forces were decimated, with no loss to the reds. After a few short minutes of dialogue, they jumped back into the Omega systems and vanished. I was content with the scans, and correlating the data with the USI system and Neural Net search processes, discovered I'd happened across a 'Typhoon' class destroyer, and an 'Osiris' class battleship. In depth scans appended. That's all from Dialectus. (In addition to Milton's work, that's Phase 2 done, right?)
