*** INCOMING MESSAGE ***
Sender: Hauptgefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Action Report
*** MESSAGE BEGINS ***
Under the command of Admiral Hiltraud in the Westphalia I engaged a Red Hessian Cruiser named Varyag spotted some 10k outside of New Berlin between the planet and Dortmund. In a swift action, I took the tradelanes while the Westphalia gave pursuit to the vessel. Getting beside the hostile vessel, I managed to disrupt it's cruise engines and started engagement. After the Westphalia reached the battle area I did my best to help get the cruiser's shields down while the gunners of the battleship literally torn the cruiser's hull to pieces little by little. The battle was a brief one, with the successful destruction of the hostile vessel.
Pilot Janec, in a Large transport, ignored and disobeyed the Admiral's orders to stand down his vessel. As it was leaving the area regardless of the Admiral's orders to stop, I was issued command to destroy the ship. The command was carried out with no delay.
A Unioner flying a IMG gunship entered New Berlin and me, Fregattenkapitan Schprokets and the Westphalia started a search of the system. The Fregattenkapitan tracked down the vessel and spotted it near the jumpgate to Hamburg. I moved to intercept in escort formation with the Westphalia. As we reached the fight between Fregattenkapitan Schprokets and the gunship, it managed to engage it's cruise engines despite our continuous launchng of cruise disruptors. The ship then proceeded to the asteroid field leading to the Hamburg jumphole. The Westphalia ended pursuit not to proceed through the asteroids. Me and the Fregattenkapitan continued pursuit, but were hindered by some minor ships trying to get us. As we managed to resume pursuit, the gunship had already jumped to the Hamburg system.
Fregattenkapitan Schprokets' ship had a malfunction and ended up not being able to continue pursuit. As I reached Hamburg, I gave chase through the asteroid field. At it's border, the gunship turned back confident of facing my bomber alone. Even though I managed to take down the ship's shields, the battle wasn't really favorable to my side. The ship mounted fast tracking and repeating solaris turrets, which continuously managed to hurt my ship. I downed it's shields and switched to my Supernova cannon, but just prior to the projectile contacting the ship's naked hull, the pilot managed to re-establish his shields. With my bomber already severely beated, the Admiral saw fit recalling me to the planet and so I did. The gunship tried to give chase, but I managed to lose it and returned the bomber to base.
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