SCRA Communications Centre

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To: SCRA
Comm. ID: Captain Jan Richthofen of the Ho Chi Minh

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Greetings, comrades.

I'm still attempting to adjust after my defection from Rheinland. I'm currently undergoing several deep-immersion language courses in Mandarin, Russian and Vietnamese so that I can better communicate with my crewmen on the bridge of the Fearless-class 'Ho Chi Minh'. Apparently their previous Captain, Captain Tsit-Chan, has retired at the age of seventy-nine and I am to be his replacement.

Anyway, the crew seem very capable, in spite of the language barriers. This evening, after a brief foray into my old homeland, the Ho Chi Minh paired up with the Ramasese II under Commander Al'Rahan. We were joined by Commander Varnava and Lieutenant Commander Voronov in their bombers.

We received a lot of strange comm-chatter from 'ICO' tagged vessels. Some were flying Liberty-made ships, another flew a Huntress-class cruiser, named 'Bahamut'. We managed to pin them down on the surface of Planet Gammu, when I ordered the deployment of multiple units of marines, under Lieutenant Commander Liebewitz. Thanks to the population of Gammu being mechanical in nature, the Lieutenant Commander's men were able to kill four enemy combatants and capture a further eleven. They remain in custody.

After Liebewitz's assault, in which he captured a large amount of H-Fuel, our 'ICO' foes attempted to flee. We pursued as far as Alaska, where the 'Bahamut' became mired in the dense asteroid field. We were able to pound it with our high-caliber weaponry and the Ho Chi Minh's gunners managed to claim the kill.

We returned back to Strongpoint Gamma, marking the 'ICO' down as yet another foe of the Revolution.

-Richthofen out

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