250km northeast of Stevid (Southern Greal)
Almost 48hrs since the last run in with the Stevid navy and the HMS DD Crowell was slow moving north, the pumps where working but she was still taking on water in her bow. The HMS Crowell was a part of RTF 53 escorting a group of oil and cargo ships to the crown. Now the ships where safely headed home with the rest of the RTF 53 but the HMS Crowell was headed to a mobile repair base, basically a group of ships far from the fray to repair ships on the high seas after battle and rearm.
A 150nm from Stevid was a Naval Action Fleet all 289 ships with a super dreadnought as the flagship and almost 700 aircraft patrolling headed north, not far was another NAF headed southeast there was civilian ships everywhere moving like they had been for years now just being guarded from an imperialist empire that could shut down the flow of goods to other nations.
On the flagship of NAF 9, Admiral Celio Greco was in the command center on a VTC with the longsword commander and fleet headquarters back in Imbrinium. The main topic was intelligence and what happened with the HMS Crowell.
The intelligence reports seemed to be both good and bad; more nations seemed to be getting involved in the area. But the RIN and RIAF where deploying more aircraft for patrols and more fleets to cover more area and make a show of force more noticeable.