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Sender: Obergefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command
Subject: Patrol report
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I started my patrol today and met Admiral Hiltraud commanding the Westphalia over New Berlin's orbit. At the time we had multiple possible hostile signatures detected in New Berlin space. I started a recon mission to assess the situation. At the time we had a Lane Hacker gunship ([Hacker]Sans.Seraph) tampering the tradelanes very close to New Berlin and a Hessian in a Falcata bomber (Ritter.Merril). As I completed my recon mission, I reported back to the Admiral for orders.
Admiral Hiltraud ordered me to engaged the hostile ships and had a Bounty Hunter (Cheshire) assist me in the Harzfeld. The Lane Hacker ship quickly subdued to both the fire from the Bounty Hunter battleship and my bomber's. A battle then started between me and Merril. The Bounty Hunter ship could not follow us deep into the asteroid field and he took advantage of that using the rocks as covers from that ship's fire.
Right in the early stages of the battle, one of my cannons was ripped off my ship severely lessening it's effectiveness against the hostile ship's shields. The battle continued for some time and at a certain point it stalled in a standoff. The Snubnose proved slightly less maneuverable than the Falcata and my opponent was taking advantage from it. As the battle progressed Korvettenkapitan Rall moved in to assist and eventually ordered me to stand down and return to the planet as he engaged the enemy. Vizeadmiral Freelamen and Obergefreiter Meyer also moved in as I returned to the planet. Eventually the hostile ship was driven off Rheinland.
I proceeded to Battleship Koblenz to get a replacement for my bomber and returned to New Berlin to assist Admiral Hiltraud. She was ordering out a LPI ship registered Nimblewright. The pilot was very disrespectful of RM's authority and managed to get upset the Admiral's who then ordered us to shoot the ship on sight if it ever returned to Rheinland space.
As New Berlin got quiet again and our reinforcements returned and landed at the planet, both me and Gefreiter Fuhrmann stayed for patrol duty. I noticed a couple of unknown ships in Hamburg and had Fuhrmann investigate it with me. As soon as I reached Hamburg I ordered all ships to report in and state intentions. As we moved deeper in system, we spotted the vessel (P$YcHoG3N). When ordered to stop for inspection the pilot tried to avoid us through the tradelanes. We managed to box him in by splitting, and Fuhrmann reported it was a pirate ship (a Kiith Freighter). He engaged the ship while I moved in to assist. The ship tried to escape, but everytime it tried to reach a tradelane Fuhrmann was faster and disabled it. We took it's shields down and a direct Supernova hit had it.
Our monitoring stations reported having intercepted communications from the destroyed ship and another one in the area. I had seen the ship before by Planet Hamburg and it was a civilian vessel. We moved back to the planet and found the ship, a Eagle VHF (Warlord_MB). I then demanded an explanation from the pilot inquiring about his relationship with the now destroyed pirate and he failed to respond. I then ordered him again to explain, but he engaged his cruise engines trying to escape us.
As we started chasing the ship we receive priority orders from Vizeadmiral Freelamen to return to New Berlin. As I moved to NB, I broadcast the warrant for the disobedient civilian ship. There were some bounty hunters and mercenaries in system that took the job.
The gefreiter and me reached Brandenburg to find the vizeadmiral engaging two Corsair gunboats ([PIC]), we moved in to assist and our group destroyed both ships.
We all returned to the planet to refuel and rearm. As I landed, our ground personnel alerted me of a Bundschuh ship spotted just outside New Berlin. As both mine and Fuhrmann's bombers were being taken care of, I instructed Fuhrmann to take a Wrath and meet me in Orbit. We moved out and found Pelopidas (Sabre VHF) not more than 10k outside the planet. We both moved in to engaged. As the battle progressed a couple of civilian transports moved in to assist us, but as much as I admire and appreciate the gesture they proved to be a hindrance to our work as we had to avoid both hitting and flying to their ships, not to mention the criminal found a way to use them as shields from us. Even though I thanked the assist and asked both transports to stand down they kept within the battle area, making things more difficult for us. As Fuhrmann started having problems with his target computer from harsh energy spikes from the sun, I ordered him to stand down and return to the planet. Gefreiter Schwartz moved in as a replacement. In time we managed to drive the criminal away. He fled to Sigma-13.
The LPI ship, Nimblewright had the nerve of returning to New Berlin in a clear statement of utter disregard to RM directives as he was earlier ordered out of Rheinland by Admiral Hiltraud. I then opened fire against his ship. He tried to flee, but I cut him short disabling the lanes. He then tried to avoid me engaging cruise engines. I followed suit and stuck to his trail. He tried to shake me to no avail. He first moved away from NB, but soon after he turned around and moved to The Ring. As he reached the station, for a brief moment he stopped trying to evade me, his mistake, I cut my engines and fired all weapons before he could notice his mistake. His ship turned into debris.
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