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« on: April 10, 2012, 04:33:52 PM »
log entry date: 16 / 2 / 199
location: starzone selena, on the outskirts of an asteroid belt, aboard the HHF flagship ferrum parma
name and rank of logwriter: Nick Crusaire, Admiral
Today home fleet arrived in the selena starzone to investigate the sightings of non-hegemony ships in a mineral rich asteroid belt. the ships that reported the sightings only concluded that they were low-midline tech and probably not of that of tri-tachyon, as they assured us they could tell by the blue engine trail their ships produced. we are sent to investigate and either eliminate the base of operations of the vessels poking around our space (should they be pirates), fire off a few rounds and give them a stern warning to keep clear of hegemony controlled resources(should they be independants) or blow them up (should they turn out to be anything else or openly hostile).
but still, that leaves many questions:
If they were Pirates, they surely must know that the refining station is locked down by several of our patrols, and they also need proper hegemony codes to land, and that the next one is in independant space, which would require them to dodge several patrols of both the tri-tachyon and hegemony, and convince independant patrols they are there just to refine some ore. my guess is that they would get killed when they were asked where they got it from, unless of course the captain was a good liar and the independant captain was a fool for trusting a pirate.
If they were Independents, then they should just know better, or atleast have given us a headsup that they would be doing such recon so that we could politely turn it down and tell them it is ours.
If they were ludii...[mechanical noises] grrr...ENTER!!
: log entry terminated :
Termination cause: manually ended by log writer via voice request
I always thought it was weird that it said "request" instead of "command", as if it was going to demand that i tell it more like an jealous, overbearing girlfriend, in which i would find the nearest equivalent of a ditch in space and leave it there, though i would have to then come up with a very plausible, secondary reason to do so, else stanson would never talk to me again.
i stood up and looked over my shoulder to see my second, josef churnev, standing awkwardly half inside my ready room, with a look of "please forgive me" and "this is serious" on his face and turn fully towards him.
" admiral, we are now entering the zone where the sightings have occurred, scanners indicate no one or thing is here. "
" what a blessing and a curse. reorganize the fleet into pincer formation and tell longbow to move into the centre quadrant and to stay behind the belt. then board one of our faster frigates and take several with you, move ahead of the fleet and be a messenger on my behalf and do what must be done. if hostilities break out return immediately and message longbow to open fire. "
churnev, now standing confidently and fully inside the room, salutes " yes sir. but what do we do if it is indeed a hegemony vessel? "
grasping my chin and lowering my head, i felt myself ponder this more deeply than i really should have. why didn't the upper echelon include orders for such a situation? normally they are very thorough, but they didn't include such orders. did they want me to use my own discretion? kill them for possible mutiny? possibly selling secrets? interrogate them?
finally, i glanced back up to see a very wary looking churnev, and after a few more moments, i settled with my course of action " if they are indeed hegemony, then inform them they are to get into standard flight formation with the rest of home fleet and be escorted back to central. if they are to refuse, or otherwise try to waylay you, then inform longbow to open fire. you are dismissed."
with that, churnev simply nodded and left to carry out his duties. after pondering the situation a little more, i dismissed all thoughts and readied myself for what is to come as i walked onto the bridge.
(A/N (Authors Note), so this is the prologue to an AAR that i am going to work on after its completion, and id like to know if my writing style is good enough to continue working on one, also what do you guys think of the title? its named that because the patrol group is going to start out as 4 wolf class frigates. the character descriptions are sparse because i have them planned for a more logical presentation as i just think its weird for a admiral to just suddenly describe himself / others for no reason whatsoever, and if you have any questions thus far then go ahead and ask. oh and the date is dd/mm/yyy. home fleet is the fleet to each starzone(which is comprised of 5 star systems) capital planet that only does what they ask of it. my second is just josef churnev, not josef stanson churnev, stanson is a completely different character who will be revealed later. central is slang for the admiralty building located on the planets surface / orbital station, and forgive the lack of upper cases, i really cant be arsed to be that anal, if i remember to do it, then great, if i dont, oh well. longbow is not a person, but a strike group, what that strike group is will also be revealed soon.).