SOURCE: Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin System. ENCRYPTION: Medium, port RM-AE-12-VPR-SN2
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SUBMITTER:Gefreiter Adrian Wiesen RECIPIENT:Rheinwehr Secured Comm-Link SUBJECT:Patrol Report [9]
Meine Damen und Herren,
After two years of office work after that certain incident that left me rather uncertain of flying a spaceship again, I have finally decided to rejoin our forces in space, and I want to thank the members of high command for giving me the chance to once again have the opportunity of protecting our house in the actual battlefield, rather than from behind a desk. I, obviously, had to go through the trainings again, which helped with getting a hang of a combat ship again. Needless to say my absence for 2 years earned me a demotion to gefreiter, but I'll be going to work my way back up to my old rank again, which hopefully won't take long.
Unnecessary chatter aside, on my first patrol which started from Planet New Berlin, I picked up two Hessian bombers not far from the planet soon after undocking, both flying Thor class bombers. Both the hostiles tried to flee but as I managed to disrupt one of them the other one also came back, and despite the uneven odds and lack of practice for two years, I managed to take both of them out with no trouble. Guncams and scan logs related to these two hostiles can be found in the attachments.
After resupplying at New Berlin, I joined Major Harkonnen, and soon after Leutnant Sittlingen for a regular patrol through western Rheinland borders. Despite the unusual quiet in Stuttgart and Omega-7, we heard reports of Hessians activity in the Dresden system and set course to that system. Once in Dresden, we picked up 3 Hessian Odins, two with [RHA] transponders and one with their regular transmitter codes. Sadly, not long after we engaged the hostiles, the whole system was hit by an Ion Storm and all our systems were disabled for a few minutes. Once we came back, our ships had drifted to different corners of the system and either the same had happened to the Hessians or they had used the opportunity to flee.
Either way, rallying up at Pirna after the storms had cleared out, we headed back to Strausberg and ended the patrol.
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