The Offensive in Leeds: News Update

[Colony News Service]

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Breaking news tonight as elements of the Liberty Navy and Bretonian Armed Forces moved in on Planet Leeds in what is the first Allied offensive in months! The push was opportunistic in nature as the Bretonian Armed Forces saw an opening after an unexpected Gallic attempt to establish a beachhead on the New London side of the Leeds jump hole. The Liberty Navy led the operation, with Bretonian units supporting, to soften the Royal Navy forces defending the command fleet in Leeds orbit. The operation is reported to have been successful, but costly for Allied forces as it reportedly took three whole assaults to break the initial defenders. Unofficial reports claim a stalemate may be unfolding, but our sources in the Armed Forces tell us that Allied command has the upper hand! While the Naval Press Office remains tight lipped as to what will come of the operation now, one can only assume Allied forces are regrouping to drive their message home all the way to Gallia!

Stay tuned for more updates!

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[Connor]

Some Guncam footage taken from the bridge of the "BAF|HMS-Iowa".

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Captain Pearson

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In the thick of battle As seen from the Lynx snub "Gusteau"

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[Tarator]

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Here's a view from one of the squads based on LNS-Nimitz
Must say it was hell of a fight.


Cpt. Jones out


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T/H/E F/L/A/K/S

Caroline Maximilius of the Flak Squad speaking.I got a cam shot from my ship the Flaks|Idiotic.Flak.I can say i was glad to help out the Liberty and Bretonia forces in this operation,i even got to test the ejecting system!

Here is the Guncam

Caroline out!

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[Thunderer]

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Priorité: Bas
Pour: Le CNS
De: Pierre Vincent du Petit Thouars, GRN, Secondaire
Position: R.N.S. Tonnant, Leeds Système
Sujet: Les Images du Battaille

Chères Madames, honurables Mesieurs,

Our forces in le systeme d'Agincourt will hold, push the invaders back, and push into their space. Here is an example of our military might and what it mercilessly annihilated. The footage is taken from the RNS-Tonnant, a Valor class battleship.

1) Nottre gloire

Honour, Valeur, Patrie. Cordialement, Pierre Vincent du Petit Thouars

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Priority: Low
To: The CNS
From: Admiral George Richard Hall, OBE, BAF
Location: Southampton Shipyard, New London System
Subject: Battle Footage

Honourable Ladies and Gentlemen,

The Allies have won a glorious victory in the Leeds system. The fleets rallied back to New London when the goal of the mission was reached, as we have some plans for the future.
We will leak some battle footage so the public is not be deprived of seeing our triumph. It was taken from the BAF|HMS-Dauntless, a Dunkirk class battleship.

1) The Gallic Royal Navy flagship, GRN|RNFS-Chant.du.Cygne, is destroyed.
2) Allied forces reached the Oubli and besieged her.

May the sacrifice of our fallen not be in vain.

Yours sincerely,............................................................................................................................

Admiral George R. Hall, OBE

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[James Blake]

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The LNS-Yosemite managed to grab a quick photo of the Final Assaults Rondevu Point above the New London Jump Hole

Regards,
James Blake



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INCOMING TRANSMISSION, NN NO. #3068711
Sender: Linda Baker
Location: Ve[1.12E4m/s], Leeds
Subject: RE: CNS News Broadcast

Evening; researcher and drone photography enthusiast Linda Baker of the Ve[1.12E4m/s] here, transmitting from Leeds on an open channel.

One of the ship's survey drones were taken off duty and dispatched to the vicinity of Planet Leeds at 1900 hours SMT+0, shortly after rumors, traffic warnings and ship sightings started circulating over the open comms signifying that the fronts would be coming together shortly in Leeds. Wasn't planning on missing an opportunity like that.

Due to the rather limited bandwidth of the Leeds intersystem Neural Net comms array after quite some time with war and a resulting lack of maintenance, I was unfortunately only able to download relatively low-resolution still image footage from the drone before I lost all contact with it at about 2004 hours SMT+0. Analysis of the breakdown of the last data packet from the drone suggests that this was (unsurprisingly) caused by a high-energy discharge in the near vicinity of (or through) the vessel's hull.

A selection of the images received from the drone may be found attached below for your review.

~ Linda Baker, captain of the XDS-2-series planetary survey ship Ve[1.12E4m/s]

Attachment(s):
192424: Gallic Valor-class capital ship opening fire on a Bretonian gunboat.
194934: Gallic fleet moving to engage the Allied forces from the Oubli.
195341: Ditto.
195622: Shows the combined forces on the Gallic side holding in Leeds orbit.
195804: Two Gallic Valors giving chase to a Liberty Assault Battlecruiser.
200157: Gallic and Allied forces meet in combat.
200158: See above; taken a second later.
200319: See above.
200406: See above.
??????: ERR: END OF STREAM. Fragment of last received transmission frame, unable to reconstruct timestamp from corrupted file header. Presumed to be last image taken before rapid uncontrolled disassembly and/or vaporization of drone.

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Excellent submissions to all!

We have dispatched your checks to your chosen Interspace Commerce Banking Accounts. You should be receiving them very soon.

Code:

BAF|HMS-Iowa 8000000
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