The Unioners - Message Dump and Mission Reports.

Date: May 31 , 825 A.S

To: 'Oberkommando'
From: Ekhard Alarik
Subject: 'Hessians'
Encryption: Unbreakable

Guten Abend.
Seems like I've returned people but I wished this report could be ever better. After some time patrolling in the Frankfurt system, I happen to receive secured communications from [REDACTED] person and headed towards the 'Hamburg' systems. After rendezvousing with the peoples. We went to the designated 'Frankfurt' system for some hunting.

Out of nowhere , Red Hessian Ships appeared near the gate. Being they were one step ahead , everyone of us is alive but our ships got blown to dust. Given we didn't attacked nor threaten them, given we were just admiring the view and not engaging them, how does all of these comes to conclusion?

-Best Regards
-Ekhard Alarik.
-For Rheinland

Attachments

Guncam

Black Box Logs

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To: The Arbeitstriumvirate
From:Gefreiter Ernst Graf
Subject: Dresden Battle

Hier ist Ernst Graf, reporting about the Dresden patrol occurred few hours ago. After the departure from Pacifica in Bering, I've followed the trasponder from Oberstarbeiter Mary Annelise Dross and Hermann Mayer, from the entrance of the Dresden system. After quickly reached them (Bering -Hamburg - NB - Dresden) , without notable encouters, we've patrolled the main route, starting from Sector E2 next to the Gate to the Schwefelnebel in G3 following the orders of Frau Dross. Actually, from the beginning we've felt hostile presence in the system, picking up fragments of internal comms from vessels belonging to Rheinland Military and also Rote Hessen. We have therefore increased the scanning radius, taking careful, and moving momentarily when needed in the cloud, analyzing in the meantime the fragments received. Comparing the signals from my ship and that of Hermann, we operated by triangulation and we headed towards the probable source. Frau Dross first spotted several attendances over 10k towards F3.
At that point the contact was inevitable. We had to inducing our presence, but the worrying factor was the growing number of contacts we encountered moving in. We thought they were one hessian and a couple of RM, but the forces at stake were significantly higher. At least 7 Hessians and 7 Military ships, including a possible member of the BDM. We were certainly outnumbered, but we could also count on the double rivalry on the field; we were not the only enemies.
And so we acted. It was now clear that the route we thought free was not, and that at least it was up to our fleet to try to clean it up.

The battle started. Under the guidance of the commander, we opted to confuse us in the fray, being in the minority, and to first attack some hessians threats. The amount of crossfire was frightening, and be in the middle was like a huge risk.
The battle continued hard. Alternating, a couple of federal and Hessians pilots were shot down. I dusted off everything they taught me at the Flight Academy, to stay unharmed in enemy fire and do damage. Despite the difficulties, I entrusted to the crossfire and my arsenal, managing to give the blow of grace to an ace of the Hessian side, dropping a cannonball at the right time, after removing the shields. Same fate few minutes later touched a RM pilot. Unfortunately, after a long pursuit, we've lost hermann, luckly recovered without several damages. After about 45 minutes of battle, I've been severally damaged by a RM pilot, and then I had to activate di escape system. All went well because I've been returned back here in Pacifica.

The final impression seems to suggest that the route isn't safe anymore for us and consequently that the Triumvirate should take in consideration to search for a better way.

Kills confermation footage
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The recovered blackbox contained almost all of the comms and command directives

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Ernst Graf
Gefreiter
Pacifica Base, Bering