PRIORITY: [color=#FFFFFF]Confidential ENCRYPTION:Basic IDENTIFICATION: Flieger Gabriel Engel SOURCE: Planet Stuttgart SUBJECT: Re:Patrol report 1
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,
this is my very first report in this channels, since I joined the ranks of the glorious Rheinland Militär two days ago.
In the following, I will describe the events of the first patroll as closely and detailled as possible.
After obtaining all the necessary equipment to finish outfitting my new Wraith, I've been participating some simulated sparring fights with supervisors. Learning the very basics of modern era space combat is essential to survive in the vast space. Lacking that training, one would not last longer in a battle then Rheinland Kräuterbutter on a hotplate. Thankfully, some of the best pilotes in the army, volunteered to train me for a while. The exact content of my lessons shall not be included in this very report and remains confidential.
My first task on regular duty was to take a solo Patrol through our beloved Vaterland.
Without hesitation, I jumped to our coresystem to begin my Inspektion with the Berlin system. For a while I encountered no other ships except those from registered Rheinland companies.
Then the long range scanners of mein Wrath showed an incoming vessel. Unfortunately it was just entering the lane, so I had to follow him to Frankfurt before I managed to get a better view on that ship.
Seeing that his Cargo was full of creeps, I ordered him to a full stop.
Suspect dropping Conterband Cargo
Shortly after the destruction of the conterband cargo, we got some visitors from the Border worlds.
Three fighterscrafts of the Red Hessian Army jumped out of the lane. I ordered the trader to dock, to avoid beeing attacked by the hostiles. One Hessian Pilot with a Barghest registered under the name of [color=#FFFFFF][RHA]K-141 quickly launched his torpedoes, trying to kill the trader before he was able to react.
However his miscalculated the blast radius of his Nova Torpedos and ended up blowing his own ship to bits and pieces. The other Hessian traitors were enfuried by their loss and fired their weapons on my ship.
With the combined efforts of the towergunners of the nearby stations, I managed to strip one of their more heavier vessels of their shields and damaged the exterior hull with my Hornvipers, forcing him to retreat.
Nevertheless my ship has suffered substancial damage so far, that I took the decision to dock. The dockmaster let me know that I had to wait at least 24 hours until I could continue with my Patroll, due to the extensive damage to the quantum multiplexors and the tertiary cooling system. Sadly, I realized that his engineers were not very smart ones, so I decided to help them with the repairs. Together we managed to get the restore the ships functionality in just 4 hours!
The conclusion of my Patroll was rather unspectacular until I recieved a distress call from one of my supervisors:
(... END OF PART 1 - will be concluded in the next report...)
Signed
Flieger Gabriel Engel
[color=#33FF33]For our Vaterland!