Attention: video feed unavaliable due to internal communication device malfunction. To: Council High Command. From: Modest. Subject: Unpleasant encounter. Priority: High. Encryption: Medium. Greegings, I am contacting you regarding the unpleasant accident happened recently, in space above planet Los Angeles in California, which is, should i remind you, is still considered Liberty Sovereign space.
The accident i am yearning to inform you about is regarding your Redemption-class battleship, a vessel armed to the teeth and, above everything, equipped with the cloaking device, suddenly appeared in Los Angeles high orbit, leaving cloaked state with it's intentions unknown; it's captain, through, considered himself not guilty in the provided charges and pretended that his reconnaisance mission performed in Liberty sovereign space and neighboring systems is nothing that should be in our concern. Well, i have some different opinion on the situation. For now, the battleship was moved to the neighboring Cortez system to stand by there until everything is clarified.
But next time, before you send any vessels to perform reconnaisance actions in Liberty sovereign space - consider informing our High Command about them for corresponding orders to be passed to vessels operating in system, otherwisely any vessel trespassing system cloaked will be considered hostile and destroyed upon detection. Do not complain afterwards that we never warned you.
Attaching the logs of short converstaion between me and captain of Aurora to proove our vision of this situation is correct.
[31.01.2018 21:07:19] Modest: Council vessel, explain your prescense there.
[31.01.2018 21:07:46] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: This is Battleship Aurora, we are on a reconnaisance mission in this system.
[31.01.2018 21:08:07] Modest: And who have sanctioned your mission? Have you notified our High Command?
[31.01.2018 21:08:20] Modest: Why you sent a whole damn battleship for such mission?
[31.01.2018 21:09:01] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: The Aurora isn't just a battleship. It's one of a few which has capabilities to go through dangerous territory undetect
[31.01.2018 21:09:27] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: We came to gain intel about the Royal Navy and their advance into this system.
[31.01.2018 21:09:41] Modest: And you should be perfectly aware that our High Command haven't allowed you to operate in Liberty Sovereign space yet.
[31.01.2018 21:10:06] Modest: Therefore, i should ask you to leave this system and neighboring star systems immediately.
[31.01.2018 21:10:06] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: Upon arrival here, we spotted four Valor-class Dreadnoughts outside the destroyed Freeport in Magellan.
[31.01.2018 21:10:34] Modest: That's not a big surprise.
[31.01.2018 21:10:49] Modest: Your speach can make their ears bleed.
[31.01.2018 21:10:57] Modest: Speech, rather.
[31.01.2018 21:11:24] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: So, modest of you.
[31.01.2018 21:11:43] Modest: Council vessel, you are tasked with immediate repostition from this system.
[31.01.2018 21:11:52] Modest: Until your prescense here is permitted.
[31.01.2018 21:12:55] Modest: Captain, your silence concernes me.
[31.01.2018 21:13:59] Modest: Captain, this is the last time i am reaching out for your response, if you fail to respond you will be considered hostile and-
[31.01.2018 21:14:16] Modest: driven out of Liberty Sovereign space with force.
[31.01.2018 21:14:19] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: Concerns you?
[31.01.2018 21:14:24] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: Why so?
[31.01.2018 21:14:33] Modest: Not to mention the political consequences that expect your faction afterwards.
[31.01.2018 21:15:08] Modest: You smell like a thick-headed military commander that thinks he can poke his big toy anywhere he pleases.
[31.01.2018 21:15:13] Modest: You are wrong.
[31.01.2018 21:15:44] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: Incorrect. I was just ordering my men to deactivate all weapon systems.
[31.01.2018 21:16:22] Modest: Good. Now - proceed through this lane.
[31.01.2018 21:16:34] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: No surprise there, if you have thick-skulled captains like this one over here.
[31.01.2018 21:16:36] Modest: It will lead you to the Cortez gates.
[31.01.2018 21:16:53] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: I'm aware of where it leads, Captain.
[31.01.2018 21:17:02] Modest: I will make sure you are.
[31.01.2018 21:20:56] Modest: Keep in mind, Aurora, that your mistake will be reported to your High Command.
[31.01.2018 21:21:04] Modest: I will personally make sure of this.
[31.01.2018 21:21:04] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: Mistake?
[31.01.2018 21:21:30] Modest: You sneaked using your cloak device into Liberty Sovereign space. This is a mistake.
[31.01.2018 21:21:42] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: It would have been a mistake if we shot you and decreased the amount of Overlord-class Dreadnoughts you have.
[31.01.2018 21:21:53] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: We came with peace, and departed as you wished.
[31.01.2018 21:22:18] Modest: The sole fact of your sneaky intrusion is a mistake. And your High Command will know about this.
[31.01.2018 21:22:38] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: We weren't trying to be sneaky.
[31.01.2018 21:22:42] Modest: You never warned anyone you are going to operate in California.
[31.01.2018 21:22:50] Battleship.Aurora: Leroux: If we were, you wouldn't have seen us.
[31.01.2018 21:22:54] Modest: You used your cloaking device to hide your prescense.
[31.01.2018 21:23:28] Modest: Nothing personal, Captain. You're just getting what you've asked for.
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The Council is well aware of what constitutes as Liberty Sovereign Space, what rules et regulations are outlined in the Laws of the Republic of Liberty regarding foreign warships, as well as what possible diplomatic fallout operations such as the one you described would cause. Mainly because of these reasons the Council High Command has never ordered, nor authorized any captain to station a Redemption-class battleship within California. It is greatly appreciated that you've asked us about it before throwing rushed accusations in our general direction.
Regarding the ship in question, based on mere logs we cannot easily evaluate the situation, it can easily be a ship mimicing a Redemption-class, a repressurized et reused salvage not actually being commanded by a Council officer, for now all we know for sure is that the captain was not as cooperative as would have been desired.
Although it could as well easily be a rogue element of the Council's Flotte Dispersée, it wouldn't be the first time we hear about such during the last month. Libertonian et Bretonian authorities already reported a certain Captain Di Rane acting strangely et being hostile to a Liberty Navy officer, commanding another seemingly Redemption-class warship, the CLN D'Entrecasteaux. I urge you to be cautious with both Di Rane et with this Battleship Aurora, et help us in our investigation by sharing more information, visual evidence, anything useful to evaluate et bring us closer to solving the problems they cause.
Sincèrement,
Général Pierre LaFlamme Du Conseil
Général en Chef Du Conseil