⧫ Battleship Atum
⧫ Galileo
⧫ From: Captain Marcus Ward
⧫ To: The Order Central Communications
Joint Operation
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
I'll start by saying that I just lost my leg, again. At least this time it was already a prosphetic replacement, but it was still annoying to see the rescue team detach it to get me out of the escape pod.. Anyway. As some of you may know, there was a joint scouting operation of Inverness with LIA and Crayter forces today in which myself and Lieutenant Lopez were involved in. After assembling our group of fighters and one gunboat, we began scouting Inverness as per our briefing. The Osiris "Naunet" jumped in system to our location and joined in. We took some scans of an Auxesian station called Valravn Citadel and some defensive weapon platforms when we were contacted by a Crayter capital ship called Delphinus. The Delphinus was being pursued and was disabled by at least seven Auxesian ships, primarily capital ships. Knowing that there was a fleet of capital ships that were in the system instilled a sense of urgency in us so we proceeded with our mission.
After skirting the nebula, we began to encounter Auxesian forces backed up by the Liberty Insurgency. This was my first encounter with the Insurgents and I'm guessing it won't be the last. Our group was split up when the Auxesians and Insurgency attacked, I remained with the Naunet and tried to stop the Auxesian bomber from attacking it, while an Auxesian Arbiter and Insurgent Battleship attacked the Naunet. Unfortunately, my fighter was destroyed by the Arbiter "Achlys" and my escape pod was damaged from what I believed to be an explosive weapon striking the nearby Naunet.
I'm typing this from a medical bed on the Atum and my head is still ringing, so this is by no means an official report, but from my perspective, there were some issues of communication between ourselves, the LIA lead and the Crayterians, but that is to be expected in joint operations with unfamiliar forces. It is also troubling to know that the Auxesians are allied with the Liberty Insurgency.
The doctor has just jabbed me with a sedative, so I guess I'll hit send before I pass out.