Kaiserliche Polizei Rheinland Message Dump

[Laura C.]

PRIORITY: Medium
ENCRYPTION: High, RFP-11W coding
IDENTIFICATION: Wachmann Laura Carsten
SOURCE: planet New Berlin
TIME STAMP: 7th January, 12:13 local time
SUBJECT: Smugglers again

*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, Wachmann Laura Carsten reporting in. It seems criminals ran out of money after Christmas and New Year´s party, because I caught recently four of them in two days. Let´s start the exhibiton.

I spotted the first one, IFFless Mammoth Liberty transport named Meda with Freelancer papers with artifacts onboard, via TLAGSNET moving in Stuttgart. Me and secondary fleet military pilot Wolfgang Weber moved quickly from Hamburg where we held patrol at that moment and then had some luck because despite he slipped to New Berlin in same time when we jumped to Stuttgart, we were able do catch him up at Bonn. He docked but after my warning, returned to space, handed over 149 units of contraband and paid fine. We also confiscated two Natterturm guns he had too. But what was quite ridiculous was that I asked then where is he heading with rest of the cargo consisting of 6 cargo units of scrap metal and 1966 units of diamonds, and his answer was Liberty. Unfortunately I couldn´t keep eye on this ship because at this moment I spotted via TLAGSNET another smuggler in Hamburg. So I just told this pilot to avoid any attempt to go to Liberty through Hamburg and then started with officer Weber back to Hamburg. Uploading scans and record...

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Second case started as I already mentioned but this smuggler turned to be far away from the first one in his nature. From TLAGSNET I knew he is approaching New Berlin jumpgate so we simply waited for him at New Berlin side. Shortly after he appeared there - Bison transport named L-travel with Ageira IFF and ID, loaded with 4200 cargo units of black market munitions. It seems that some Ageira contractors decided to change goods. Anyway, captain of the ship talked with us at the beginning, but then with almost no warning opened fire of battletransport´s guns on Weber´s ship and destroyed it within few seconds. Fortunately his automatic escape pod ejecting system worked as it should. Then, because I kept my distance and was quick enough to not be surprised off guard, the fight started. It took me quite some time because I had to dodge and keep my distance from well armed hostile ship, but at the end smuggler´s ship turned into few fireballs flying all around. I tractored all escape pods for trial and then destroyed contraband because of lack of enough cargo hold in my ship. Suspects which survived were handed over to surface polizei personnel on planet New Berlin as well as artifacts from previous case. Evidence hier...

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Next day, I returned to patrol Hamburg system and it didn´t take long time before another smuggler appeared, heading around planet Hamburg towards Liberty. This time it was IFFless Gull named NoAlternative - I wonder if this was intented to soften police when caught or what - loaded with 970 cargo units of black market munitions. And there was even another offence, because scans showed that pilot possess two identifications, one as Freelancer, probably forged, and another, probably true one, was already written in pirate database. Pilot was probably new because he claimed cargo must be legal when he bought it on The Ring, and even admitted he is heading to Liberty. Then he said he will just "turn around and return cargo to The Ring". But when he realized his cargo is going to be confiscated or he will be quickly destroyed because apart from me there was also present bounty hunter interested in this probable pirate, he tried to engage old-fashioned cloaking device so I had to destroy the ship and then the contraband. Uploading all evidence...

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Not long time after this event, huge unexpected ion storm went through the system. We were with bounty hunter Diazz at New Berlin gate so we landed on Lübeck Border Station and waited. But just after storm ended and we undocked, we spotted another smuggler! He was cruising into open space, but thanks to powerful engines of my Mjolnir which I love, we got him after short pursue. Ship was Camara named [SRB]Meda - I wonder if quite similar name with first smuggler is just coicindence - with Junkers IFF and ID loaded with 630 cargo units of artifacts. Captain was quite tongue-tied but when I started countdown for dropping cargo or be destroyed, he finally dropped it and then paid the fine. Complete evidence hier...

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That´s for new pieces in my collection of caught smugglers. I already sent collected fines in total amount of four million credits to designated account. Uploading confirmation and signing off...

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.