Attacks against IMG in O7: Kruger initiates, Mercs attack, RM ignores

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From: Danny Sutherland
To: Admiral Ludwig Meyer, Rheinland Military
CC: Channel recipients
Subject: Rogue hydra

The gunboat was listed as "missing" until a few weeks ago when we got a headsup from the Liberty Navy that the vessel had been spotted running amok in Magellan and had run afoul of a patrol of theirs. It's not unusual for Guild vessels to go off the grid for a while, especially on deep space recon. Sending no signals draws no attention after all. We didn't think to need to inform the Rheinwehr of people giving Liberty a headache outside of your operational area.
We only caught up with it recently, when it surfaced in Omega 7 as a mercenary, attacking our own. It's recent actions made it -blatantly- clear that it is not acting in step with Guild regulations, which forbid attacks on civilian vessels except in selfdefense, or those involved in any slaving trade.

As for why we didn't inform you, we tried. We tried to contact Rheinwehr forces in Omega 7 and Stuttgart during our search, but were unable to find any. We informed Sharnhorst when it arrived, for all the good that did.

As far as I'm concerned, the Sharnhorst commander and your flieger are yours to deal with. I'll assume the Rheinland legal system will handle that Kruger employee. A shipment of engine components to Aland wouldn't hurt either, to make repairs to the vessels that were damaged by Fahrenheit's actions on behalf of mr Darwin. Come to think of it, he claimed to be Bretonian, that man. Makes you wonder if he truly has Rheinland's best interests at heart.

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