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Rickard Steiner

10-19-2017, 07:08 PM, (This post was last modified: 10-19-2017, 07:28 PM by Rickard Steiner.)

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Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Builder's Tea
To: BAF DIS
From: Captain Geoffrey Cox, HMS-Ramsbottom, Reserve Fleet

To whom it may concern,

I am writing this incident report in anticipation of testimony from James Badenoch, the Merchant Navy (and therefore ranking) officer also present at the time.

At approximately 1400 hours Bretonian Standard time on the 17th October during a routine training patrol near Southampton Shipyard, my communications officer informed me that we have received a message from Mr Badenoch briefly detailing a situation developing above Planet New London; a Rheinland Bismarck-class battleship, the RNC-Krauss had entered Bretonian sovereign space, despite having been refused entry at the border by the captain of the MN-Ullapool. As the only vessel able to respond in an adequate time I ordered navigation to set a course to Planet New London at best possible speed.

The report was accurate. I will be brief as the ship-to-ship communications log and the camera footage attached to this report will provide a cast iron account of what happened next. In summary, the commanding officer of the Krauss informed us that he had been invited into Bretonia by the BMF to receive certain systems pertaining to jump drive travel, something which a coincidentally present BMF ship, the BMF|Vulnerable strenuously denied. Nevertheless I ordered my sensors officer to perform a scan of the Krauss and confirmed the presence of said technology onboard the vessel.

The captain of the Krauss, short of firing upon us, was most uncooperative and several times refused to do as ordered and tried several means of diverting attention away from himself; apparently they are taught that a Rheinland battleship is invisible if it happens to be moored to a fixed object. The Krauss also attempted to cloak (see 14:23 in the logs); that plan of escape was quickly foiled by the quick actions of my (cadet) tactical officer who was able to fire off a number of cruise disruptor projectiles to halt the process.

We were eventually able to resolve the situation peacefully and escorted the Krauss out of Bretonian space via Omega-3. I wish to mention at this point the helpfulness of the freelancer Pria Y'berg whom assisted us with the removal and was justly compensated for their efforts.

I would like to finish this report with a few personal comments as I have strong feelings on the matter. In my view, bluntly speaking, the captain of the Krauss acted with such reckless abandon as to beggar belief. The man clearly lacks the sound mind and professionalism that is required to command such a powerful ship. There are many, myself included, who remember the last time that cloaking Rheinland capital ships violated our borders, and I am sure that this will have brought back painful memories to many in the populace who thought that these things were behind us. I would like to recommend that, for the safety of not only our citizens but also those of Rheinland that contact be made in an effort to remove this dangerous individual from service. The potential involvement of BMF is also troubling.

On a more optimistic note, I am pleased with the performance of the majority of my cadets during what would be for most of them their first action. I shall be writing personal letters of commendation to the Naval College on their behalf.

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