I come reporting of the Vladistan's maiden voyage today, which was quite a success in its own regard.
During the long patrol I worked together with our comrades from the RotFront as we were trying to bait and lure, and then destroy, some of the Military's capital ships.
Unfortunately that wasn't the greatest success, as none of the Military armor fell for the traps we've set during the course. However, our comrades did manage to score kills on the stray BDM ship and two Military vessels they encountered in Omega-7 much earlier. There was also one of our comrades from the Coalition Revolutionary Army present, but I myself did not get to talk with him much.
To move on, I later made contact with an individual going by the name "Rorry", the leader of Rorry's Renegades. I am I admit unaware of past conflicts between our movement and said group, and during the circumstances present I chose to ally with them on two occasions.
And despite the overwhelming opposition, in addition with stationary perimeter defenses, they fought valiantly and brave.
To be honest I feel a little honored to have fought alongside them despite whatever differences might exist, seeing as they threw themselves against the Military without looking back and without any hesitation, as I've witnessed first-hand from the moment I arrived at the scene. To conclude this report, I partook in getting rid of three, maybe four Cruisers, and two Military Gunboats. At the end of it the RotFront artillery arrived to waste the last remaining Military Cruiser along with nearly ramming the last Military Gunboat into oblivion, quite a destructive success.
I would like to add on a separate note however that as much as I'm honored to command one of our Gunboats, I find its performance a little below desired expectations. While it's quite heavily armored compared to the light weapons array, I find that outside of agility it's not going to be much of a match against Military vessels of equal class. I have yet to get a chance at fighting Corsair vessels in this ship however, and I hope the performance will be more to my liking.
Secondly, while in no way do I question the Oberkommando's taste, I do find the name of the ship, Vladistan that is, somewhat... silly. I do realize it is to honor a rather special comrade of ours, but... Vladistan, Kameraden? Really?
On a final note, I managed to also acquire 4.444.444 Credits in the name of the Revolution earlier from two passing-by transports in Stuttgart. Quite the friendly couple, even if not much talkative. One of them said something about "liking nice pirates", but I don't particularly remember myself being that nice.
[color=#FF5500]Josef Steiner, für ein freies Rheinland, für die Volksrevolution