<SENDER ID>Flieger Erich Meyer <LOCATION>Mainz Storage Facility, Frankfurt System <SUBJECT>Patrol Report <PRIORITY>Low
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Guten Tag,
Today Ich undertook my first patrol. Ich started the patrol in Stuttgart and traveled the trade lanes to ensure that shipping can safely travel. Ich then moved to the Ostnebel und Westnebel as the Hessians like to hide out in there. Ich did not encounter any hostiles.
Ich then moved on to the Koeln. Ich checked in at Olpe Border Station und they did not report any suspicious activity. Ich scoured the rest of the system und found nothing. So far, sehr gut.
Ich then went to Hamburg und began to start my patrol. Not even five minutes into it, a high priority alert went out warning of Hessian Battleships in Nue Berlin. Ich quickly maneuvered myself to Nue Berlin und radioed ahead to get my bomber ready. Ich changed ships und began to hunt down the Red Menace. Due to some jumbled communications caused by comm malfunctions, Ich und some RFP were searching in the wrong place. Once we got the correct location, we proceed to take down the ship after he made it quite clear he had no intentions of surrendering. Ich landed on Nue Berlin und declined the invitations to the celebration as ich got back into my trusty Wraith.
Ich resumed mein patrol of the Hamburg system, alles klar. Nothing of note happened.
Frankfurt was also klar as could be. Trade lanes klar. Taunusfeld, Weisser Ring, und Westerwald klar.
Ich then went to München. Ich patrolled the trade lanes und went into the Chiemsee Asteroid Field. As ich left the field to loop back to Nuremberg, ich encountered a Hessian fighter. Ich gave him the chance to surrender, but he declined. After we shared some words of a philosophic nature, we began the dance of death. Ich landed gut hits on him, but he did the same to mich. Ich launched mines in an attempt to force him to slow down, but he was too fast. He out-turned mich at every chance. Ich though the battle was lost until he hit one of mien mines. Ich pounced on this chance und pressed the attack forward. Eventually, he got the better of mich und ich knew that all was lost. Ich ejected from mien Wraith und ich watched as it blew into pieces. Ich made it away from the battle before he could attack mein escape pod, a narrow escape. Ich bin but a novice piloten so ich have much to learn about combat.
((//also, it sure didn't help that right in the middle of the dogfight I got a phone call about a job interview. He took like a third of my hull as I was typing to let him know D: he was super chill about it though. This was my first time meeting a [RHA] tagged Hessian and he left a good impression))
