It was 36th day on Charente, since La'Row and her crew took control over the ship and minority of the old crew, the rest was sent in Taureau to Bordeaux as they didn't want to participate in post mutiny happenings of Normandy class ship, or they were still loyal to the traitor called Landreau. It was at this time when La'Row has decided to test out abilities of this old lady which used to be under command of her grandfather. Despite the fact of having just skeleton crew, she has decided to try out defences around Languedoc's minefield.
18:23 - Languedoc
Sooner than expected Battlecruiser class vessel of the Confederal Defense forces appeared on the scanner. The time for the first battle has come. Lauren was standing on the bridge, with communicator in front of her. With crossed arms behind her back she was communicating, more mocking than talking, with commander of the Battlecruiser who was foolish enough to fall into her trap. Lauren knew if the battlecruiser remained out of her range it would gain the advantage over Charente. While distracting commander of the battlecruiser, she had issued the order to sneak closer to the battlecruiser. With success. Soon the confederal battlecruiser was in Charente's point defence weapons range and so Lauren issued the order to fire with all turrets. The battle was over in mere seconds, confederal Battlecruiser was disabled while Charente's shield remained active during the brawl so no damage was done to the hull. Satisifed with the outcome, Lauren has decided to get officers from her old Battlecruiser and recruit a bit more of "loyal" crew from fresh resources. One of them was Aoi as they had captured crew of the Embrun.
It was 48th day on Charente. Lauren La'Row has decided to replenish her missing crew with a special gift from Voilé cell in Tau-44 where should be the crew of -lost- Battleship Embrun. Its fate was unfortunate at best, yet they proved to be loyal until the end, as they after all demonstrated in Drake system where in desperate run they attempted to ram one of the Wild bases. It was a perfect plan if La'Row wanted to have absolute control over her ship, as she wouldn't have to deal with mutiny or unrest after the true plan was revealed.
Charente was passing by Perpignan wreck, it was a reminder of the huge battle between Royalists and Republicans. She liked it, after all she participated in this battle over the Roussillon system from which Royalists emerged victorious. Lauren closed her eyes and memories of that day appeared in the darkness, it was exactly how she remembered it. Montmorency battering her way through Council forces to Perpignan which stood no chance in the range of Montmorency's point weapons. When she opened her eyes, they were right in front of the minefield entrance. All she did was a brief nod and course was set to hostile space, Tau-44.
23:59 - Tau-44
Charente has arrived. It was covered by Sumatra cloud and it seemed their arrival was undetected by local Crayterian, IMG or Natio's patrols. The course was set to Charlie-Seven where one of the Aoi bases located, Shonan. There should be the crew for her pride, a big step in the evolution, yet one of many to be made. Lauren ordered her crew to take it around planet Mindanao as it possed the danger in form of radiation emitted from Uranium deposits on the surface. It was the detail she had to enforce in her order because strong radiation was the last thing she wanted to go through. Two hours later they arrived to Charlie-Seven and Charente moved closer to now revealed Shonan base. An order of two freighters departing to Shonan was issued with the purpose of bringing new reinforcements. Lauren was careful, she expected some members of her unaffected crew to attempt to do something dumb when they were replenishing new forces. For this sole reason her "Elite" guard consisting of Voilé agents, was holding critical points on the ship. Two skirmishes were reported between the old crew and her Guard. Armory and the hall close to the bridge.
It was 59th day on Charente. Lauren was satisfied with raising number of infected crew on Charente. These numbers grow higher with each passing day and only few pure humans are left roaming aboard Charente. This day Lauren wanted to test new device mounted on Charente, Jump Drive Mark IV capable of relocation of numerous ships in close proximity. After needed preparations and supplies for a few days replenished, Lauren issued the order to charge their jump drive. Few minutes later the course was set to Edge Worlds, but without precise coordinates it could be called a Blind jump. Everyone was ready and standing by as the wormhole around the ship was being created.
14:24- Omicron Minor
Charente has arrived. They were close to their home, they could sense all the songs. The Achievement of Alien attack was nearby, Toledo, former home of humans specialized in Alien technology and race itself. It was awesome sight of this burning rock in the middle of our river. The course was set to jump gate leading to -our- home, during the travel Lauren has decided to keep us out of sight by cloaking device as we didn't want to reveal out true nature and even the sight of unusual ship in these parts would raise unwanted attention and questions. We were so close, yet we remained in the Minor river. Instead Lauren issued the order to engage cloaking device and head to system called Lost.
23:19- Omicron Lost
We are here. After a while of waiting we've finally met with our kind, it was a pleasure to meet ours after so many cycles of secret work and infiltration of the Gallic Royal Navy, later Marine Royale Gauloise and now the Gallic Royal Enclave. We were greeted with songs of warmth and joy, we did what was in our power to gain strenght and influence and we were successful. Invitation to Altair research complex was presented. We will accept this invitation as soon as we sort our stuff in Hebrides. But, we are coming home very soon.
[27.05.2020 09:57:49] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Humans in Gallic rivers aren't aware of our intentions of supporting the light.
[27.05.2020 09:58:13] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Yet we feel the need of supporting the light in home rivers.
[27.05.2020 09:58:48] Vagrant.Melia: "Perhaps. The time of chaos in those distant voids has passed."
[27.05.2020 10:00:09] K'Hara|Shara: "Destiny of Yours lies beyond."
[27.05.2020 10:00:34] K'Hara|Shara: *Shara shows La'Row a brief image of Altair Complex*
[27.05.2020 10:00:54] K'Hara|Shara: "Yours Husk shall be purified. Only then it will serve The Light."
Royal Navy Ship Charente was on its routine patrol around Brittany when the call for help was received by the Enclave forces in Languedoc. Lauren mobilised her people and relocated Charente to Languedoc system where several ships of Gallic Enclave and Confederate forces were facing intruders from Kusari Naval Forces. Soon the battle broke out and raged for a while before all of the Naval forces vessels were wiped out of the system.
Shortly after the battle Charente and La Division Vipere ships returned back to Brittany system where basic repairs to hull were done.
23:57 - Iota Omicron
Few hours later after the battle in Languedoc and when thecommon check up was finished, Charente relocated itself to Omicron Iota with help of her Jump drive device. She was supposed to reach Altair this time and so she did.
For more than one month we've been aiding ours against the intrusion of humans in our home. Zoners, The Order, The Core, AI and even our former human ally, The Corsairs. For some unknown reason they entered our home system, but they were quickly destroyed. Same goes for all Zoner and The Order ships.
Many eyebrows were raised at the sight of Valor flowing through Omicrons, but that was our goal. To cause chaos and to defend our home.
However recent events, the war in Gallia where for some reason KNF pushed through Languedoc and Lorraine, brought me back to Gallia itself. It's time to play the important role once again.
Today we managed to establish hopefully positive relationship with The Core as their Guildmaster allowed us to stay in their space, under false presumption we are in need of repairs after a failed jump drive test, it's stated in the comm below, and we helped them with The Order agents in Delta. Even though they kept mumbling just rumors about my infestation, however Nathan Archos seems to be on my side. Hopefully.
Also we managed to destroy another Nephilim with a big mouth. He basically dared us to destroy him by asking us to leave the system or what were we going to do to him, in sarcastic way. Comm and Images are attached below.
In our home system we managed to gather enough force to invade one of the houses, after a small consideration of option present, we decided to use Charente's jump drive and carrier abilities to reach New London.
New London
New London was empty when we arrived, however a bit later we found Enclave ships roaming around Southampton... That's something I expected but hoped it wouldn't happen at this moment. This was a true test of my skills because the cover was at stakes, however after a word exchange between me and Monsieur Lusignan, his Remembrance and escort joined us so we could face incomming defenders. However as always nothing was planned. We managed to inflict heavy damage to some of defending capitals, however I will have to stay cautious regarding Enclave and Hebrides. Anything might happen now.
The Enclave recieved a message from one of our followers, Pennybrooke. Answers were mostly passive aggressive so I took the situation into my hands and lend a hand to her, so she could do her task in Hebrides. We are looking after our trusted individuals well, I at least hope.
Delta
Few days ago I was roaming around Lichtenfelde when I found OSI Whale passing by. Interception was successful and after a brief chat when the captain bragged that we cannot destroy him and remove his existence, I simply deleted him because he didn't even bother to mount a simple armor upgrade. Greedy guys.
Few hours ago, again in Delta we went in to help the Light in their battle against humanity. Upon our arrival we decloaked right in front of the Osiris which stopped shooting for a second, but then resumed fire so we helped him to find his way out of his miserable life.
Shortly after we managed to catch one of the Zoner Colony ships which silently tried to flee to Nauru. Also destroyed. Then I took my bomber and left Charente near Licht, so I could assist Adad with two human attackers. I must say I expected a bit more challenge, both were destroyed by antimatter guns in two minutes.
The Order, I swear I will murder every single one of them. I knew my true identity would be revealed, but this was faster than expected. My biggest disappointment is Colonel de Lusignan which fell for their stories way too fast, our Kingdom will fall with such weak leaders as de Lusignan. I've never done anything against the Kingdom, I've served well, I've risked my life numerous times, in Leeds, Edinburgh and New London offensive, just to be expelled and almost murdered by my own in matter of minutes.
Luckily ours were near so we managed to fight The Order and Enclave combined forces, not for long however. They managed to take us down, but not entirely destroy. We used this chance and jumped to Iota before initiated scans of our ship, I am also waiting for status and damage report.
Iota
Communication channel was established between us and Altair, we are slowly floating to one of its drydocks. All I need is a green light from Aoi.
Damage report indicates several weapon systems were lost or damaged in the battle and mostly during emergency jump. Cloaking device was damaged beyond repair and shield generator is running on 28% of its capacity, enough for us to reach Altair. 3 decks were completely destroyed, engines are also barely running. My biggest concern however is the core. So far it hasn't been doing anything unusual, not much but we are still waiting for complete report.
It's miracle we managed to reach Iota, almost in one piece.
The Core still don't know who we really are, I had to use this opportunity as soon as possible and ask them for help just because Loyola wasn't asnwering fast enough. I didn't want to lose this ship, not now. The Core did its best, they brought Gallic Ship Hull Panels, salvaged by Junkers from New London's graveyard, they provided us with needed equipment and manpower for swift repairs. 4 days later we've got our hull fixed, all decks are clean again and work on interior can begin.
Iota
We are heading to Altair now... I am surprised we managed to reach Iota without rising any suspicion. In normal circumstances We'd exterminate any praying eyes upon us, however we lost more than half of our weapons in Orkney... Not to mention connection between several hardpoints and reactor were damaged or completely destroyed.
I hoped it wouldn't come to this day... But I will have to go and try the tactic of Iseijin which they used during repairs of Musashi. This move however will reveal who we are... The cover, years of hard work will be wasted. I knew it would come to this day... Not so soon however.
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