Sender ID - Hauptmann Michael Schmidt Location – Battleship Moselle, Braunschweig
Subject – Pilot Report Guten Abend,
Today was quite bothersome. The day started off easily, with Fähnrich von Reims and me starting a patrol in the New Berlin, Stuttgart, Koeln and recently visited Saar system. We saw nothing interesting, except the usual shady bunch of unioners and angry farmers trying to get to Heisenberg. We should send more bounty hunters into that direction.
While in Saar, the Fähnrich and me assaulted one of their stations and attacked the biodomes. While we didn't do much damage to the station itself, 6 fighters and 2 freighters have fallen. They apparently use a modified Eagle as their new very heavy fighter.
After we returned to New Berlin, Fähnrich von Reims caught - thanks to his attention - a freelancer that attempted to smuggle Side Arms without a license. After repeated hailing, he did not respond and proceeded to dock. He attempted to use the lanes that von Reims disrupted and continued to cruise, when I caught the smuggler after 20-30k distance. After a lot of excuses from the trader that required about ten minutes of talking, the trader hopefully saw his fault and complied to pay the fine aswell as dropping the cargo.
Right before that happened, organic alien entities appeared right infront of us and we were forced to take distance. I don't know what exactly happened, it was strange. I think they wanted us to kill the trader, to be more strict and less patient, maybe.
After we let the trader go, they seemed disappointed and vanished. Right before they vanished, my instruments read strange energy signatures that built up around them. After that, a strange glow veiled them, and they were gone. I have some guncam shots of it attached.
Fähnrich von Reims and me decided to return to New Berlin, where he told me that he saw two red hessian cruisers near Bonn. I quickly got into my bomber and headed there, only to see that the Fähnrich was already firing against the two cruisers, with heavy fire support from Battleship Strausberg. Our secondary fleet cruiser RNC-Herschel supported us too and we assisted in taking them out. Halfway through the engagement, the two aliens appeared again, same energy signatures as before, and opened fire on one of the cruisers, which systems quickly broke apart. No survivors seemed to remain. The nomads appeared to talk about corrections that had to be made and then shot the hessians.
Maybe they're on our side now? Unlikely, but who knows?
Hochachtungsvoll, Hauptmann Michael Schmidt
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