Last Stand (3 of 3)

Briefing

We've finally finished with the interrogation of the prisoner you captured in a previous mission, and our suspicions were confirmed. It took some ... convincing, to extract the information we needed from the poor, misguided soul. Which is quite ordinary, considering him being an undercover operative of the Amarr Empire. And a high ranking one at that. Now you might ask, how could we possibly know that he is high ranking? After all, the Empire is very thorough when it comes to purging all records of the people who join their intelligence agency, to keep it from falling into the 'wrong' hands. Agents such as these tend to 'vanish', as if they had never existed. Quite difficult to track down, I tell you. But when a large group of Amarrian cruisers appears at our doorstep, demanding the release of a certain individual ... well it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together. This small fleet of imperial ships was spotted entering the same deadspace pocket which we sent you into on your two previous missions. They are here to investigate the disappearance of their agent, and are most likely ready for a fight. And I expect you to make sure they leave our space, feet first. We also have reason to believe that they have control over a small outpost inside the asteroid belt. On your last two trips there we gave you bookmarks to two acceleration gates into the vast deadspace area our enemy has been hiding in. Well there is a 3rd gate which we just recently discovered, and we suspect the imperial raid force is located in there, planning their next move. Our sources tell us that their leader brought with him documents detailing their orders from the Empress. We would very much like to get our hands on these documents. Destroy their ships if you can, but your primary objective is to retrieve the reports from their leader. They might be located with him on his ship, or inside their base. Find them and bring them to me, this will be your final assignment for a while.