Kaiserliche Polizei Rheinland Message Dump

[Laura C.]

PRIORITY: Medium
ENCRYPTION: High, RFP coding
IDENTIFICATION: Kadett Laura Carsten
SOURCE: planet New Berlin
TIME STAMP: 13th November, 14:44 local time
SUBJECT: Some smugglers

*Laura appears on the screen in her office in the polizei office building on planet New Berlin with view on the metropolis behind her*

Guten tag, Kadett Laura Carsten here. Because I was forced last days to stay grounded due to problems with hardware and software on my ships, I´m going to lower a little that pile of old reports I should make, which is again almost hitting the ceiling. This report will be again full of smugglers which I caught or at least documented. I don´t know how, but I´m really attracting them...or they are attracting me. You will see what I mean...

So, number one, which I´m not sure if is typical smuggler. The freelancer pirate train named Trusty_Tide which I caught in Hamburg with 4090 cargo units of black market munitions. But he told me that he stole this weaponry from Liberty battleship during his escape from Liberty and now wants to give them to Rheinland government as a part of deal and offer cooperation because he is wanted criminal in Liberty. It was hard to decide how to handle this situation, because he was smuggling the munitions inside Rheinland, not outside as usually smugglers do. So I finally decided to let him pay a fine of 4 million credits and later he can ask for return of this money if any deal will be made. He agreed and paid. Then I escorted him to planet New Berlin and informed surface polizei units about him. Uploading scans and record of interrogation...

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Now to another case which proves what I said at the beginning of this report. Reason is that it happened even during the first one. Freelancer Civilian Freighter named Kaito_Katsuragi flew past me just in moment when I was interrogating the pirate train with black market munitions. I was able to make only quick scans before he quickly took another lane and because I was there alone, I had to choose which target intercept so I decided to stay with "bigger fish" so to say. Wait, I still didn´t mention contraband of Kaito_Katsuragi - he had 440 cargo units of artifacts in his cargo hold. Maybe he thinks he was lucky and slipped, but I think he should be definitely added to criminal database. Loading scans...

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Now, the third smuggler which I saw just a minute ago after the first one docked on planet New Berlin. I was in front of planet, still communicating with surface polizei units, when junker salvage frigate named Stormrider appeared there and rushed to land. I made a quick scans which revealed onboard 30 cargo units of cardamine and 10 units of artifacts. Unfortunately I was not able to prevent him from docking so quickly, even two RM fliegers couldn´t do anything. And pilot was not stupid enough to undock again. But I think evidence is sufficient for adding him to criminal database. Loading it now...

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Now to the last smuggler, Irius, from the same evening, which I caught even twice! First time I saw him via TLAGSNET running through lanes with black market munitions towards Omegas through New Berlin and Stuttgart. Despite I was in Hamburg at the moment, I tried to catch him and was lucky. He tried to run but because my Mjolnir was faster than his IFFless Rhino Freighter, he gave up after few minutes. He also tried that known trick and destroyed his 560 cargo units of contraband, asking then "what happened officer?", but his smile faded away when I told him I have scans of his cargo hold. Then he paid 1,5 million credits of fine for carrying contraband and not obeying my orders to stop. He also admitted he was heading to Leeds with his cargo. Anyway, here is evidence...

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But it was not our last encounter that night. Around hour and half later, I saw him in TLAGSNET, and again with same contraband! I tried to pursuit him again, but this time he was lucky and able to jump to Omega-3 before I could stop him. But I have the scans, so this is another name to criminal database.

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So, this makes total number of intercepted smugglers or embargo breakers now to nine and collected fines to 13 million credits. But there is more, I just didn´t have time to prepare evidence and reports. I will try soon. I still hope this is gut for...kadett.

Oh, and all the fines, another 6,5 million credits, were of course transferred to designated account. Confirmation here...

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And that´s really all for now. Kadett Laura -"smugglers nightmare" - Carsten signing off.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.