Been a long time since I could report a flawless victory of the Rheinwehr and the complete and utter destruction of enemy forces, but today's happenings were bigger and more glorious than any smaller defeat we had to suffer in the short past.
Training with Leutnant Bjorn Chezberger
The day begun with a training. Herr Chezberger led it. First of all, we assembled to fix the transmitter of Flieger Axel Koch and after having it in place, we headed for Braunschweig to begin the training. The only smaller encounter we had were two corsair fighters, designated as Raptor[EVO.g2h] and Banshee_[Zork.g2h], Herr Chezberger finished them in under a minute, they stood no chance.
The training was supervised by Herr Westerman and Herr Major General Engels, Herr Westerman eventually had to leave due to some system malfunctions. Herr Chezberger, who was leading the training as I mentioned before, scattered Oxygen tanks around the area in hopes of inventing a new method of united target practice (without colliding into each other when pursuing a target), but it failed due to the lack of our understanding. We were eventually ordered to destroy the tanks and begin a standard combat simulation.
Two teams were set up during the practice and we were ordered to simulate a real life combat situation. My team was consistant of Major General Auztin Engels, Hauptgefreiter G?nter Weissman and myself. The opposing force was led by Herr Leutnant Bjorn Chezberger, with Feldwebel Maximillian Voss and Flieger Axel Koch as his wingmen. As the simulation began, we targetted Flieger Koch, as it was ordered by Herr Engels. We eventually took him out, I scored the killing few shots. Leutnant Chezberger was our next target, but since the Op4 was targetting Major General Engels since the start, he was lost before the Leutnant was disabled by a missile. As Herr Engels went down, the "enemy" tried to focus fire on me and I was almost killed when Herr Voss ran out of nanobots and he was killed by a wayward missile aswell. The simulation was very successful, I particularly enjoyed flying with pilots who had such an amazing level of skill and not to mention, we also got ourselves prepared for the next assignment. The assault and occupation of the Texas system from the hands of the Libertonians.
Rheinwehr victory in assault against the Texan Libertonians
As the training was over, Major General Engels ordered us to mobilize. We were planning to go against Texas. Of course, our morale immediately went up to the sky, everyone was eager to fight the Libertonian schweinen. I got back to the Strausberg to switch to hop into my bomber and went off to the meeting point at Hamburg. We quickly assembled the wings. Herr Engels led the operation, Herr Chezberger gave orders during the battles. Other pilots were Feldwebel Voss, Hauptgefreiter Drum and Flieger Koch flying Wraiths, I was the only one besides Herr Engels and Herr Chezberger who chose the bomber. A reserve gunboat, called the RNC Biber Blazer also escorted us to the assignment. The only remarkable encounter we had during the journey to Texas was a pirate train belonging to a Lane Hacker side-faction of some sort. It was designated as VR-VTS-Eclipse, and its cargo hold contained 4279 enslaved men and women. The Leutnant ordered the slaver to release his cargo and since he realised he was in no position to negotiate, he jettisoned his cargo hold into the space in a large capsule. The Rotes Kreuz eventually collected the poor souls and took them to Hamburg to begin a new life. We met the trader at Freeport 2, where he taunted us abusing the neutrality of the ceasefire zone, but he didn't cause any further problems.
No resistence awaited us when our way into Texas was made. The area was clear and we were free to proceed to Planet Houston with only the automated trade lanes shooting at us. About 10 clicks away from the planet, we met our first contact, a Guardian-class Very Heavy Fighter, designated as Cougar 1763, belonging to the 27F Squad, according to his affiliation. Either because he was only a recon ship or because he was scared to death, he retreated literally as soon as he saw us. We were not to pursue. We passed Houston without resistance and Herr Major General Engels ordered us to take positions near the Trade Lanes and await incoming targets. An LSF Agent, called Escrisma tried making way through our forward lines, but the ship turned back as soon as he realised the might we represented.
We didn't have to wait too long for a real battle, fortunately. The LNS Michigan, a Liberty Assault Carrier got caught up in our Trade Lane interruption sequence, he was obviously summoned by the Libertonian ships we scared off earlier. The united might fell upon the careless carrier as we were ordered to attack the ship. The monstrosity's defence systems collapsed like a card castle as we melted its hull with our Supernova antimatter cannons. The beast's life was only made a few minutes longer as a Mercenary Bottlenose-class gunboat designated as John.T, the recon fighter designated Cougar 1763, the LSF Agent, Escrisma and a Liberty Assault Battlecruiser, the LNS Enterprise arrived. The fighters were to focus on the recon-Guardian, which got rather quickly dispatched, while the bombers tried taking down John.T, which was evading relatively well. As soon as it was neutralized, the Enterprise was our next target. We almost took the LABC down, but since we, bombers, were ordered to focus our fire on a newly arriving gunboat, the Wolfsbane, the Battlecruiser Enterprise managed to slip out to Virginia. The captain of the Wolfsbane was obviously new to his duties, as his ship was quickly taken out. Afterwards, only the Michigan remained, I personally managed to shoot the final SNAC projectile into the Carrier's reactore core. That's how the first battle went, the only ship the Libertonians could take out discounted the RNC Biber Blazer was a bystanding fighter belonging to the Junker Congress, which was most probably accidentally shot down by the Michigan.
The next battle begun a minute later, with the arrival of an LSF agent, called Johny Leroy. He was alone and we were ordered to take him out. The ship managed to evade quite well and make his way through to Planet Texas without suffering too many major wounds. LSF Agent Blackcomb and the Liberty Navy fighter flown by Virgil Redline soon entered the combat zone to assist Leroy against our forces, a rather heavy and fast-paced battle followed, as Cpt. Rommel joined the fight on our side and Inspector Trace Whitney from the LPI, the Liberty Navy Fighter Shade Walker, Vigilante Jayce Silvers, a Navy reserve ship called Aerelm and DSC-Void joined the Libertonians. The first enemy down was Agent Blackcomb, shot by Leutnant Chezberger, in orbit around Planet Houston. The LSF pilot obviously survived, as he was messaging from an escape pod after his ship was taken down. Reserve pilot Captain Rommel was the following and our only casualty during the engagement. His ship was disabled and destroyed by LSF Agent Leroy with a well-placed missile shot. For Herr Rommel, the Libertonians had to pay multiple times the price. The battle slowly got drifted away from the planet, as Herr Major General Engels was being shot at by the Libertonians from the very beginning of the first battle and he ran out of nanobots, even though he managed to survive the whole battle without actually leaving it. At that point, Inspector Whitney was taken out by a well placed SNAC shot of Herr Chezberger and almost immediately afterwards, Vigilante Silvers was also taken out. He wasn't exactly a skilled warrior, I don't think he lasted more than a minute. Navy ship Aerelm, DSC-Void, a ship that literally lasted for ten seconds and the Shade Walker were the enemy's next casualties, Agent Leroy and Virgil Redline managed to escape to Virginia. They also tried calling in a LABC, designated as Rocky Yellowstone, but realising they had no chance, the captain ordered an immediate retreat to Virginia.
We managed to completely defeat the Liberty Navy defending Texas without loosing one simple Military member and inflicting massive losses to the enemy side. We regrouped quickly and went off to resupply at a Junker installation. Everyone who was spectating, Bounty Hunters, Zoners, Junkers, Mercenaries and Miners congratulated us, they were obviously glad that we helped them get rid of the opressive Libertonian authorities. Texas was freed and we returned to Rheinland. I docked to Westfalen to resupply, get some strudels, rest and write the report. Glorious day this was.
Quote:Here's a complete list of participants in the action:
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