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PanOceania Military Orders “leaked” report to pananet local news network:

JSA renegade forces crushed by PanOceania Military Orders.

A small insurgency force of JSA renegades was discovered to be operating within The Japanese Bottom. The small group of insurgents was met by the forces of the holiest sword of Christ and quickly uprooted from their positions and driven back. No casualties were suffered by the Military Order forces responsible for driving back the insurgency and JSA forces were in full retreat within moments of the first contact. The Sword of Christ continues to search for other insurgents within The Japanese Bottom and will not rest until all such groups have been found and destroyed.

Audio report: JSA renegade insurgent incident
Security Classification: Security clearance Gama, Not for distribution, destroy once read.
Location: Main Strip: Japanese Bottom
Forces Involved: JSA and Military Orders
Outcome: Overwhelming Defeat
Begin Voice Transmission:

I fear our disinformation efforts over the past month may be for nought. We continue to suffer heavy losses in the Main Strip sector and it is starting to show.
On Friday evening a combat group under my command, following intelligence gained via a deep cover agent within the JSA command, attempted to ambush a small combat group of JSA agents. They were attempting to secure arms and equipment that had been dead dropped within an industrial area.

Working off this intelligence my forces deployed in an ambush formation in deep cover and hidden from the enemy. With little more to go on than a location and a time we were not sure what we would be facing from the JSA insurgents. We had our suspicions however reality was far different from what we anticipated.

We were met by overwhelming force, JSA remotes, bikes and Tactical Armor Gear rushed forward to retrieve the dead drop items that were there for them. By
the time we were able to organise ourselves and react to the threat they had already secured one of three caches of equipment.

The first of our force to react was an order sergeant with a heavy rocket launcher, with two well-placed shots he was able to take out an enemy rocket launcher and a total reaction remote. We were elated and felt we would easily overwhelm JSA with our superior firepower and tactics, little did we know this would be the first, and last time we would have something to celebrate in this most unfortunate match up.

Our Knights hospitaller link team were quickly bogged down and the enemy Tag worked as a denial of area weapon, with open firing lines denying us the use of the main boulevard through the sector we were forced to take the must less enviable route or traversing rooftops and walkways to try to reach our target.

All these pathways lead to was a hail of gunfire and death.

Knight Hospitler Timothy volunteered for a suicide mission up the enemy’s left flank to secure the objective taken by the JSA, along the way he was successful in taking out a bike and a couple of troops, finally wrestling control from the JSA Warcor before being gunned down by the JSA forces.

At this point, with our link team in tatters, our order sergeants in disarray or bleeding out we performed a tactical retreat. No objectives were fulfilled and heavy casualties were suffered. We had failed.

In an effort to keep public perception optimistic do not discuss the contents of this report with anyone below Gama level security clearance and destroy this recording after listening.