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[font=Lucida Console]Sehr geehrtes Oberkommando,

Today I bring you both good but also disturbing news.

I received a distress call from Leutnant Austerlitz, who apparently was under heavy fire from a small strike group belonging to the infamous Renegades that have plagued Rheinland times beyond counting. I moved in to assist as fast as possible. Reaching the destination of the distress call, the lane from Bonn to the Stuttgart Jump Gate, I picked up the Leutnant and several other contacts on scanners. I moved in immediately to render support but we were severely outgunned by the enemy force, which consisted of two bombers and a gunboat at that time.

Luckily Major Landers and Hauptmann Sulzer received the signal as well, a member of the Bundespolizei that happened to patrol the area also moved in. The ensuing fight was ferocious, another contact showed up presumably belonging to the Renegades. However, I was not able to get any usable scans on that ship. We gained the upper hand and successfully hammered their gunboat into oblivion. One of their bombers met the same faith while the others fled.

Well, we emerged victorious but unfortunately the story does not end here but let me provide some guncam footage first before I proceed with my report:



The disturbing news are about the behaviour of a member of the Westliche Rheinlandflotte.

Said member, bearing the codename "Tau.Wing-3" showed up halfway into the battle and offered assistance. We pretty much had the situation under control already, so Major Landers ordered him to stand down. However, it seems like the Kamerad took that only as a friendly suggestion rather than a direct order. Despite being repeatedly ordered by the Major to stand down he charged his weapons and jumped in anyway.

As a response the Major told us to treat him as a hostile, so we opened fire and got some warning shots in his shields. Well, after those shots the Major ordered us to cease fire again and stopped the Kamerad, demanding an explanation of his prior disobedience, which he was quite hesitant to give.

With his patience already put to the test more than enough Major Landers offered him a simple choice: Either coming to Vierlande with us or "resolving" that matter directly in space.
He refused to come with us, questioning the Major's authority whenever he could. So we took harsher measures. His vessel was disabled and the escape pod tractored and then brought to Vierlande by the Major and myself.




Well, further explanation of the situation should not be necessary, the bits of the communication that I managed to record attached here speak for themselves:

CommLog

Gut, that is all for now, von Sittlingen signing out.



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