*** INCOMING MESSAGE ***
Sender: Fregattenkapitaen Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command
Subject: Action report
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A couple of Harvester ships was found right outside of New Berlin today. It seems those machines are upgrading themselves each day. This time they were in a Zoner Destroyer and in a Talarca Cruiser. Our group was composed of myself, Korvettenkapitaen Krupinski and Gefreiter Schwarzkopf. I ordered the ships to release the people they were carrying (a good number of Civilians, Freelancers, Bounty Hunters and Zoners. The ships ignored my orders and proceeded to the Essen Station.
I called the order to attack the ships. They tried to flee but were cut short at the jumpgate where they stated they would comply to orders. I ordered the cease fire. The only pilots they freed at that point were the Bounty Hunters, keeping all others. I ordered again that the ships be engaged. Meanwhile I've received many distress calls of civilian pilots reporting of Bundschuh piracy in system. Occupied as we were, Herr Krupinski helped me tranquilizing the civilians and returned to the planet to assess the situation. The Bundschuh were causing trouble occupying system wide channels with their nonsense while we made an effort to purge the threat.
Meanwhile the Harvester ships made a hasty exit to the Hamburg system and were followed by mine and Schwarzkopf's bombers.
We finally reached the ships again by the jumpgate to Bering. We opened fire again. A fierce battle occurred and my ship almost succumbed to the Harvesters' capital vessels, but the joint effort of myself and the Gefreiter gained the day and we came out victorious. Unfortunately my Snubnose was damaged beyond repair and I had to be issued another one.
This is the second time the Bundschuh interrupt a military operation to protect our territory against alien threat with their political propaganda. Their claims of allies of the people are empty ones, otherwise they wouldn't interrupt us while we were protecting the same people they claim to operate for the interests of.
On a side note, an arms dealer named Wellington (from his accent I'm inclined to say a Bretonian), asked us permission to operate within Rheinland territory. Korvettenkapitaen Krupinski instructed the man to meet me by the jumpgate between Hamburg and Bering so I could inspect his ship.
I scanned his cargo hold and saw a number of Nomadic (Power Cells) material and also some Corsair weaponry. I understood that the Nomadic material is a threat to our nation's security and his possession of Corsair weapons at least suspicious, so I denied him entrance to our systems. The arms dealer complied to orders and left to Bering again.