The HC send me and few others pilots to Taus systems, to prevent the slavering and cardamine trading leading to Omicron Alpha. We arrived in Tau 23 when we meeted a slaver full of cardamine. We told him to drop his cargo for destruction. Of course, he refused, and we easily destroyed his ship, burning the cardamine on space.
Then, we headed to Tau 37 to ressuply in fuel at the Freeport when we saw some Outcasts. I understood later the slaver send a distress signal to Omicron Alpha before exploding. This is why Outcasts were here. They were in great numbers, much more than us. I told them to ignore us but they attaqued immediately. After a brief fight, I decided to fly to the freeport and dock. unfortunately, one of us get destroyed by the hostiles.
The survivor of our squad docked on the Freeport and I send a distress signal to Minor, which the TOP squad were based. They an swered to our call and they headed to Tau 37 to help us getting out of this Hell. me and my mens stayed inside the freeport till the backup come. Outcasts were outside, insulting us and taunt us about a fight...
Finally, after long minuts of waiting, the TOP fleet came to Tau 37. At this moment, the Outcasts fleet, seeing our b ackups, begin a retreat, I am not sure but we sucessfully get out of Tau 37 with all Order ships. We headed to Java station where the Colonials assured us of their protection against Outcasts.
We regrouped ouf forces, thanks the Colonials for their hospitality and we get back to Kyushu. We were en route to the Hokkaido Hole when one TOP ship, who was in late with the fleet, get attacked and destroyed by the Outcasts fleet, which was obviously pursuing us.
We decided to get back home, since we were in Hokkaido. We made it safely to Minor after this point.
The mission isn't really a succes, we just destroyed one slaver and his cardamine cargo ( around 3700 pounds ) but we got 2 ships destroyed and we had to bring many backup and ressources to help us going outside of the Taus safely.
I don't think going to the Taus with this objective will be done again. The Outcasts are too hostiles to the Order, more since we blow up smugglers that ressuply them in slave and spread Cardamine around Sirius. This operation is now suspended till we got solutions.