Kaiserliche Polizei Rheinland Message Dump

[Laura C.]

PRIORITY: High
ENCRYPTION: High, RFP-O5K coding
IDENTIFICATION: Polizeidirektorin Laura Carsten
SOURCE: Nibelung Polizei Plaza, planet New Berlin
SUBJECT: Patrol report

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

Guten Tag, polizeidirektorin Carsten hier with report from patrols which I took in last two days.

On the first one, I took off from Brandenburg and apart of interesting talk with member of Hogosha Association I encountered two law violators - one artifact smuggler which claimed that he does his illegal activity because it is game for him, and one zoner which showed complete disregard towards Rheinland laws and my orders.

Lets start with the easier one - ship Fal'hun, Osprey with Freelancer papers, loaded with 247 cargo units of artifacts which flew to New Berlin from Stuttgart. He tried to escape but I caught him at the end of the lane at Stuttgart jumpgate so he gave up, jettisoned cargo and after some convincing also paid fine of 250 000 credits. Like I said, he said he consider this as a game and even congratulated me to catch him. Quite unusual moment. Anyway, evidence is hier...

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Anyway, to the more trouble problematic person - captain of the ship Kopnik. I spotted it approaching from Omega-7 through Stuttgart and there was cloaking device onboard according to TLAGSNET. I went towards it and waited at Stuttgart gate in New Berlin. After the ship jumped through, it turned out it is Serenity class transport with zoner papers, loaded with gold ore. After quick check I confirmed that this ship does not have permission for use of cloak inside Rheinland. And that is when the problems started. Captain was uncooperative, first claimed his device is legal, then even tried to claim that my own cloaking device is illegal, and also claimed he is zoner in ship without guns so he can use this device. After he realized this will lead to nowhere, he violated my orders to stop, tried to slip past me and also activated his cloaking device. Then jumped back to Stuttgart and back to get time before the device will fully work. After some chasing, he ran out of batteries right near planet New Berlin so I removed his docking rights and finally was able to force him to cooperate. After some time of discussion during which he even accused me of attacking him, despite I used only cruise disruptor, and my repeated explanation what he did wrong, he finally agreed to leave Rheinland space so I escorted him out to Omega-7. I wanted to give him chance, so I didn´t issue any fine, just warned him and pointed him to properly register his device before returning to Rheinland.

But obviously it was a mistake and he should have deserved much strict treatment. Not long after that, he returned and used his device to slip past me and dock on New Berlin. I waited him out in front of the planet and after he undocked, confronted him with his law violations again. Long story short, he refused to cooperate and tried to escape, so I was forced to shoot the ship down.

After that I went back on patrol, had mentioned conversation with Hogosha member and also caught the Fal'hun. But not even two hours later, Kopnik appeared in TLAGSNET again! And he again used his cloaking device to slip past me and dock on New Berlin. I again waited it out there and after it undocked, the pilot even made some provocative remarks. At this point reinforcements arrived - wachmann Nijmegen and also kommissar Steiner aboard Die Gerechtigkeit. Zoner was again uncooperative and after I assured him he will have to pay fine, he even stated he want us to destroy his ship. And because then he tried to escape again, we were forced to open fire and take out the ship.

But that´s still not all. Yesterday just after I took off for another patrol, I caught him again! This time he was much more cooperative but that was obviously only because he had cargo hold full of gold ore. He tried to claim he does not have credits to pay the fine, so I asked trader which was passing by to sell part of his ore to cover the fine. Then I escorted him to Omega-3 again.

Can anybody be surprised it was not all? Hardly. I went to test the newly acquired asset, the Lichbringer, and he appeared again, docked on New Berlin. Some time after he undocked and obviously considered whole situation as very funny. Me and kommissar Steiner aboard Die Gerechtigkeit did not have any other choice than to shoot him down again.

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Something tells me we did not meet this law violations loving zoner for last time. Anyway, fines were forwarded to arsenal.

That´s all for now, polizeidirektor Carsten out.

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On a ragebreak. Or ragequit. Time will tell.