ATTN:Rhineland Military

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ID: Tab Stryker
LOCATION: Westfallen Brig, Self-admitted.
TO: Rhineland Military
SUBJECT : - Indications that I'm being trialed for the wrong reasons -

This is a clarification on my stature. You have the authority and right to dimiss my information as 'subject to change', however being punished in this matter I feel I at least should have the right to get to the bottom of the matter since its being treated as a 'mistake' by a shipyard employee, when in fact I don't think anyone is to blame here aside from miscommunication itself.

I've finally deciphered some of the code useing SPJ30-66 encryption. Excuse me if hacking your system is a viable offense, but I seek justification in a swift manner. Your information avaible on the Alpha coms is buried under layers of obscurity. Probably for security reasons themselves, but you have left willing soliders such as myself in the dark. Obviously I want to be aware of my crimes so I'm not on trial for things I didn't commit, but I will accept punishment for anything I have done thats proved a legitmate cause. I've retrived this from a Rules thread embedded deep in public cyberspace:

Rule #4: Ship Class Restrictions in Rheinland
- All Battleship class vessels other then official [RM] tagged ships are BANNED from Rheinland, unless with permission from an Admiral, other then that there are no exceptions.
- All Cruiser class vessels are to keep a 10k distance from any Rheinland based Planet.
- Gunboats, Bombers, and Figthers have permission to stay within Rheinland based planet orbits, but are to move if asked.

As you can see Rule #4 clearly introduces the assumption based on Battleship usage. The introduction of Gunboats into the argument was not correct and you are right there. My vessel choice was not a Cruiser nor would it probably ever be. I'm a bomber pilot plain and simple. Gunboats, Bombers, and Fighters have permission to stay in orbit... I'm assuming this means properly tagged vessels so I'm not going to try to twist that one in my favor.

Rule #5: Independent Military are Restricted!
- No pilot other then [RM] official are to enforce our laws.
- All Rheinland Ship and IDed pilots are to give a full background on how they acquired their ships. (And we don't buy bogus stories)
- [RM] have command over any independent pilot, Military or not. We don't care for what class vessel you're flying.

First of the term "Restricted", means to have restrictions placed upon it, not the impossiblity of being unattainable which is futher proved in later rules. It goes into detail about said restrictions, but I was not operating outside of these boundaries that were so ill placed.

At no point was I operating as a military personel in attempt to enforce laws other than my mission objectives. At every chance possible aside from the lack of initiating contact beforehand, I gave a full background, which belive me is quite legitimate as census and security records should show. At no point did I deny Rhineland Military's orders, nor would I ever. I think the very last line speaks for itself and while I could yet again twist that one in my favor... I won't be a fool. Perhaps your secretary's choice of words failed you there.

Also this information was derived from another thread.

Rheinland "Snubnose" Bomber
Guns/Turrets: 4xClass10/2xClass5
Armor: 21,800
NB/SB: 105/105
Suggested Loadout: 4x Firekiss MKII, 2x Firekiss Turret, 2x Nova

This is exactly what the Schlangenbiss looks like aside from the Hornviper turrets I've placed on the craft to test thier viablity against fighter class enemies. I myself am now registered with a military ID, the ship is branded with Military IFF under which Rule #5 I fall under your command with these rules in motion. In all of these rules however, the only indication that this vessel was "restricted" was Rule #5 in the military charter, and as I said its very loosly worded. No points in the details discuss punishments and details of said 'crimes' for having such vessel.

So the situation again is riddled with misconceptions for both you and myself. The matter of credit value we are talking here is less than 15 million credits. You need to ask yourself what kind of ally you could by for that. A bounty hunters fickle service, or someone willing to go the distance I already have, but I refuse to be placed in leauge with some type of terrorist.

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