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Sender: Hauptgefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Investigation Report

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My mission today was one of intelligence gathering. I launched from New Berlin and was instructed to maintain radio silence and patrol the system while our long range sensor stations personnel and underground agents worked on filling me in with complementing information from outside our borders.

As I orbited New Berlin during my early data gatherings, I've been hailed by a Bounty Hunter Zoner Destroyer that appeared to be patrolling the system. The captain of that vessel informed me of a Corsair pilot at large in system. I then proceeded to routine patrolling of the tradelanes while still collecting data from our long range sensor stations and deep space satellites.

As I inspected some traders that entered the system I received additional information on hostile ship sightings outside of Rheinland, specially inside of Sigma-13 and Kusari space. From what I've heard from them, our investigation was leading to a possible newly formed group of Corsair pilots, heavily equipped (up to Osiris class battleships), operating specially inside of Kusari space.

I've been roughly informed that from our liaison with the Kusari government and Naval Forces we've acquired pointers that indicated not only this group had been formed and was operating in these sectors, but most troubling of all, that it was being financed through some apparent legitimate trading operations that included Rheinland companies.

As far as I've been informed, those companies were already being investigated and most people directly involved with them were under surveillance. Curiously enough, as I continued my long range surveillance, one of the trading vessels registered to the given company entered New Berlin. It wasn't carrying anything illegal so I let it dock without hailing it. As the pilot undocked carrying diamonds I questioned him:

The ship made little case of our conversation and moved to Sigma-13. Finally, through both the efforts of our sensor stations personnel and the feedback from our underground agents and informants we were able to cross reference the profiles of the suspect ships, our findings were most troubling:

The ships detected inside the Omicron Gamma system show the same transponder signature as of those spotted inside of Kusari. The probability that the ships in Gamma were engaged in hostile activities against the Corsairs are minimal. After their identification, they stayed in the midst of a peculiarly large force of known Corsair ships for quite some time. Most likely they were fraternizing with them.

It is outrageous to consider the possibility that the hard labor of our compatriots is being exploit in such a fashion. It is evident also that if this indeed turns out to be the surfacing of such a scheme, the Corsairs couldn't have done it without the help of either infiltrated agents or collaborators. To think that after the bloody war we've been through any Rheinlander would even dream of allying with the Corsairs for a mere monetary gain ignoring the well being of our nation disgusts me and makes me sick. If such a scheme indeed surfaces and the responsible turns out to be a person of Rheinlander origin, I'd like to volunteer for the firing squad in his execution.

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