To: [color=#FFFFFF]The Ikon of Ikons Comm. ID:Commissar Leon Mendel Priority:HIGH Subject:HFUEL LEVELS
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My Ikon, honoured members of the TRIAD, Leaders of the Coalition,
I have received some troubling news from Sevastapol depot, and I assure you that the orange outfitted harbinger's of doom have all been made to suffer a rather ill fate at the hands of one very annoyed Provost Marshal...
I digress.
Our fuel supplies are approaching critical.
Our consumption far exceeds our capacity to refine and process hFuel from Tiblisi, and considering the substantial defense patrols in and around Omega-52... we may have to consider drastic cuts in our combat operations... or secure a secondary source of fuel to tide us over until repairs are made to Sevastapol Depot.
For now, I am afraid that I must suspend cruiser operations, and transfer the fuel reserves to the Battleship Karl Marx, to counter any possible incursion by the CPW-Havana, confirmed to have defected to the Rebellion.
Our conservative estimates, place us at about eight weeks until we are back to satisfactory production levels, and even with the cuts, we will run out of fuel for our capital class vessels inside of a week... with fighter operations suspended at another two weeks after that. That means for five weeks, we will be completely unable to function outside of Omega-52.
If we suspend all gunboat operations, and the Karl Marx's tanks are transferred to the fighter corps, we should be able to last six weeks, falling short of the eight weeks needed by two weeks.
It is vital that we secure 8000 units of Hfuel, to extend our operations by those last two weeks, otherwise we will be sitting ducks to the Corsair nations, the Bretonians... hell, even the Zoners.