I am finally back from my mission. Took more, a lot more actually, than originally planned.
Soon after the Cerberus Medical Team left, Alice, captain of the Sleepyhead, offered to accompany me on my mission. The original plan was to scout the Taus, yet we were interrupted by an intruder in Languedoc, an outcast. The intruder didn't respond to any of my calls, so I decided to take lethal measures. He was soon dealt with.
To start with, Alice led me through Tau-23, Tau-29, Tau-31 and New Castle.
On our way back we were halted by yet another outcast, who showed very aggressive behaviour. As such, I decided it was time for us to find out more about these outcasts and, with general du Lac's permission, we headed to Omicron Alpha.
However, outcasts were numerous in Tau-23, so we had to take a way around them: Tau-39, Tau-37 and then Omicron Alpha.
I managed to take a good pic of Planet Malta and the nearby Shipyard, but the outcasts were aware of our presence, so we had to make a run for it. Unfortunately, the outcasts were blocking the exit, so we had to take a LONG way around. I'll try to keep the description as short as possible.
We headed through the following systems, in our attempt to return home: Omicron Beta, Sigma-19, Sigma-17, Omicron Theta, Omega-41, Omega-47, Omega-49, Dublin, Leeds, and then, at last, Orkney.
Encounters: Outcasts: they have shown very clear signs of aggressivity, yet open conflict with them could possibly ruin our cause: they are very well armed, trained and very numerous. I suggest diplomatic ties are established at once, as to avoid such thing. Corsairs: quite the opposite of the outcasts, but just as well armed, trained and numerous. They showed no signs of hostility, and due to the fact that they are very far from our usual operations areas, they will pose no problems. Red Hessians: a political group who opposes the Rheinland regime. But they don't like foreigners either, they would probably shoot us on sight. Then again, contact with them is very unlikely. Zoners: met a few, saw many of their bases: nice people with huge resources. In Omega-49, I met one of their leaders, who invited us on Shasta, where all their diplomatic ties are managed. Maybe we should look up to this. Unknown: Well, we saw something very strange when in New Castle. Some alien ruins, protected by a solid energy shield. The shield seemed to be unpenetrable, that until Alice went straight through it. After that, in Tau-37, scanners picked up some strange readings, yet I couldn't see anything. Alice seemed to know much about this, yet she didn't trust me enough to share this information with me. I feel like we must investigate about this. Alice: well, curious "person", to say the least. Actually, she is not a person, she is an AI controlled drone, with the extraordinary ability to have feelings. That makes for an odd combination. She has extensive information about the whole Sirius sector, and seems willing to share some with us. Again, and opportunity we cannot let slip past. Aigis: just like Alice, a drone who can have feelings. She works for the so-called Virulian Enclave, a group with many similarities with the zoners, who is based on Planet Gran Canaria, in Omega-49. They are interested in the future of Gallia, and in the threat that the royalists could pose to "outside groups". She also said she would require my help with something, but given the very delicate situation, we left that matter for another time.
That'd be all for now, I trust you to put this information to good use.
Alexandre out.
Source:Macon Base, Burgundy System From:Sergeant Monique Zacharie To: Council Command Subject: Patrol Report 4456956VP Encryption: High
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Bonsoir,
I just returned from a fight. I'm alright but my bomber is badly damaged. -But- our forces managed to take out a Valor before the royal fighters could do anything. Besides, we had the Legionaires to help us a bit there. We decided to try and help them out with the fighters after we finished the Valor but this proved to be a bad move pour moi. With some luck I was able to get out of the fight in one piece and not in an escape pod.
No matter the results of the fighter's fight, I'd say this is an amazing victory for us.
[color=#CC9933]Source:Nimes Station From:Vincent Moreau To:Council Command Subject:Patrol Report Encryption:High Bonsoir,
Due to raised activity of GRN patrols in Languedoc sistem, I was assigned to Recon group under command of Refaello Sanzio.
My first order was to scout space near Nimes station, and I was very surprised when I found spy in close proximity to the station.
He used radiation from the sun as cover from station scanners. Unfortunately it didn't help him well against smaller scanners. [color=#33CC00]Visual Record-01
Royal dog was destroyed and all data what was collected by him returned to Nimes. [color=#33CC00]Visual Record- 02 [color=#CC6600]>>> End Transmission <<<
Source: La Liberation Obstinate Class Cruiser
From: Capitaine Refaello Sanzio
To: Council Commanders and Recon wing members
Subject: Gallic Royal Navy Tried to assult me
Encryption: VERY High
Bonjour commanders!
In our attempt to protect the gallic people from the dangerous drug producers, that are more known as "Outcasts" in sirus, In joint ops with the Colonial Remant we made a small attack on "omicron alpha", During that attack I managed to salvage alot of information about the outcast nation, they seem to be heavily equipped, they even poses a small fleet of battleships.
At anyrate we walked in, killed, scared gathered intel and went out, no casulties on our side but one colonial that had mailfunction in his gear making one of his nuclear mines explode on spot. However we managed to take his escape pod and bring him to safety.
I took only one outcast down, the first casulty in the battle, the second was made by the outcasts, too bad it was friendly fire. Well less for us to deal with.###
Source: La Liberation Obstinate Class Cruiser
From: Capitaine Refaello Sanzio
To: Council Commanders and Recon wing members
Subject: Gallic Royal Navy Tried to assult me
Encryption: La Frog
Bonjour.
I have been at tau 23, when all of a sudden a Royalist cruiser came along with royalist GB and tried to assult me, seems everyone agree that they are the biggest threat and we all shot on the same foes. The GB was destroyed very quickly so I could not take gun cams to show it's destruction, the cruiser on the other hand... ###
Source: La Fierte
From: Commodant Refaello Sanzio
Subject: Tau's report
Encryption: La Frog
Bonjour mes ames!
I received emergency support request from a trader getting robbed by a druggie sabre in tau 23. I jumped on my agama and quickly eliminated the threat, using merely 4 nanobots: ####.
Later on, a large outcast group gathered consisting 2 gunboats, 2 snubcrafts, 5 outcast dreadnoughts and an outcast cruiser. They split up to 2 groups, one group composed from the dreadnoughts and the rest from the other crafts. The group composed from the light crafts supposed to lure us to the other side. After destroying the 2 gunboats and heavily damaging the cruiser, the cruiser jump to tau 37, where we followed only using snubcrafts. The cruiser was destroyed and our forces went back. It was then when I moved to take over command of La Fierte and brought it to the battlefield, along side Bounty hunter capital ships and IMG ones.
The fight was rough, but after destroying one dreadnought, which La Fierte destroyed alongside an EDGE| cruiser by ramming it. The other dreadnoughts were already heavily crippled and Ion storm suddenly stroked. After recovering from it, most of the hostiles fled, although we manage to catch up to one more dreadnought and destroy it. Overall our losses were fairly low - one spatial and a fighter. The pilots were picked by the friendly forces.
I finally have time to do some office work and to write overdued reports.
I was on my way to Planet Quillan to drink some Wine to end the day, as I found a Royal Navy Cruiser trying to breach our blockade in Languadoc. I immediately set an intercept course, but he managed to reach Orkney. In Orkney I managed to get into scanner range and scanned the Cruiser. As I was alone in my Bomber I realised that I might need more firepower and tried to contact Council Headquarter for assistance. Unfortunatly all Council ships were occupied with other missions, so I either had to stop the pursue or try to destroy it on my own.
I finally decided to continue the pursuit. I followed the cruiser on my own through whole Orkney and Tau 23, where the rocky terrain helped me to get into CD range and finally managed to CD it. As he refused to surrender I opened the fire on the target. Obviously he opened the fire on me too. The fight got me into the depth of Tau 37, far outside the space we already discovered. I fought him about 30 minutes, were I used a short fire pause of him to take two picture.
My ship already took some damage, but the whole fight continued 30 more minutes, were I finally managed to break through his armor and land a critical hit on his engines reactor. But before that, he managed to also land some hefty hits on my ship, as it was heavily damaged afterwards, basically my Bomber was hold together by nanobots.
I managed to take some nice pictures of an exploding Royal Navy Cruiser.
It's been a long time since the last promotion. Now it's time to promote these that have proven skill and courage during the battle.
Starting with the lower structure: Charles DeBute, Milo Reims, Leon Martin and Pierre LaFlamme have been promoted to the rank Caporal. Congratulation to all of you and continue with your great work in the field!
Moving up, Julien Nanette has been promoted to Sergent due to outstanding abilities in the field. Congratulation and wear your new medal with honor!
Further up, Anton Simard has been promoted to Capitaine. His skills and valuable experience will be a good addition to our ranks. Congratulation!
Last but not least the final promotion: Refaello Sanzio, you have been promoted to the rank Colonel and are thereby part of the High Command. This rank brings a lot of responsibility, but I am confident you are capable for the task.
Source:Planet Marne, Champagne From:Aspirantt:Jean Demoyt To:All Council personnel Subject:Report Encryption:Medim
Bonsoir.
I finally have time to do some office work and to write My reports.
I started a trade run from planet Marne & headed with MVs to planet Quillan to boost it's planetry deence Many tanks & battle towers parts were delivred to Quillan no encounters.After delivring them I met a girl in bar which was a former royal navy bomber pilot was dressed in civi clothes & told me that she had left Gallic royal navy & was very intrested in fighting for our cause & after that i headed to reims with copper & from there to planet marne with many tanks of oil .
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