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Sender: Hauptgefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Action Report
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I write this report still in the infirmary at our hospital wing at home. According to the nurse, I've been asleep for some time now. Indeed I see the sun already past mid point in the sky and the last thing I remember is being scrambled from New Berlin at night time alongside Obergefreiter Quentin.
There were a number of Phantom ships causing chaos amongst citizen and visitor vessels alike. Already, a number of civilian ships were downed and no information on casualties or injured was available. With the hostiles roaming freely outside the planet, nothing could be done to try and rescue scape pods and the people probably entraped inside the twisted metal and broken hulls of the now lifeless ships drifting in orbit.
Our instructions were to intercept and engage the hostiles while rescue teams tried to reach the downed vessels and rescue whoever was left from the first attack wave.
Me and Quentin both left New Berlin and found no ships in the immediate orbit of the planet. The Obergefreiter moved to Brandenburg while I went to Essen trying to pinpoint their location. Quentin reported back intercepting the ships in Brandenburg, I quickly returned to aid him and found the battle already started. There were two figthers and a bomber, Onyx, Virus and Lazarus. I ordered Quentin to aim first at the bomber, being it a less maneuverable vessel, I was hoping to take it out or at least cripple it enough to even the odds, at least in the number of crafts for us and lessen the threat to the civilian transports.
We managed to severely pound the bomber and it moved away. There were then two couples of fighters against each other. I issued then that we take out the Nomad vessel. After some time, I realized Quentin was being hunted down by the Sabre and changed targets to aid him. As I moved my attention from the Nomad vessel it took the advantage and landed several fierce blows against my shield and hull. I tried my best to avoid the fire while still aiding Quentin in bashing the Sabre. We were indeed presenting a good fight to it and in various opportunities we managed to score reasonable blows directly against its hull.
Another Phantom, Glock, approached the battle area, but it seemed to have little interest in actually joining the fray, orbitting the furball and probably enjoying we being hunted down by his kind.
Unfortunatelly, Quentin was also taking a beating and his Wrath finally gave up the fight reduced to debris. Quentin, though, successfuly escaped from the explosion, activating his ejection seat in time. Being the fight very near Brandenburg, the station personnel managed to tractor him in.
I kept my pursuit of Onyx while trying to avoid Virus' fire. Glock still didn't really engage, at least as far as I could perceive. Probably he knew the outcome already, but I wasn't yet defeated nor ready to give up the fight. The battle went on for a long time after Quentin's ship destruction and I managed to seriously injure Onyx's bird, but eventually my Wrath too succumbed to the hostiles. I managed to eject to safety apparently, but I'm still not cleared for flight by our physicians. I hope I'll be able to resume my duties in a short while.
As for the rescue mission, I don't know the details, but from what I've heard through comms before my fighter was shot down, our people managed to get to the ship wrecks. I just hope we bought them enough time to do some good to those people.
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