Been playing my current Honorverse-influenced campaign. JP's have been fairly restricted unfortunately, leading to the current Starmap shown below. I've finally encountered aliens in the 119 Piscium starsystem. At first contact with the 3000+ ton Bee, the SCSS Explorer retreated into 124 Virginis to await for arrival of the SWS Wolsey, as the crew's experience in the recent REDLAND 06 exercise put their gunnery skills above other fleet units. Explorer followed the Wolsey to the third world of the system, where a number of small sub-1000 (3x 700 ton Beetles and 1x sub-600 ton Ant) ton ships were found on sensors. Initially the ships fled the arrival of League vessels, but returned within eight hours, with the Beetles puncturing through the Explorer's hull and damaging some of its internal engineering systems and killing three of the crew with their own lasers.
Reprisal was swift, and Wolsey bracketed two Beetles with its laser batteries, destroying them instantly. A salvo of Kukri's put paid to the final Beetle, while the destroyers lasers fired on the Ant, destroying it instantly. So far there are no signs of the Bee, so Wolsey is currently escorting Explorer back to the JP before it carries out its own scouting mission of the system. A second destroyer will be detached from Terra Command to sit on the JP to prevent leakers.
