Source: New Berlin System, Planet New Berlin
Encryption: port RM-HC-R3C-RU1T-ET
Submitter: George Mathews
Recipant: Rheinwehr Oberkommando
Subject: Patrol report
Hello
I apologize for my late report, I meant to gather more data for submission but unfortunately the archive data was incomplete. A few days ago on patrol in my bomber, I encountered three ships. Two zoners and a krugar miner. The zoners I met first and left in a hurry with a quick hello. But following behind was a mining ship. Quite the convoy. After talking to the zoners, I noticed that the mining ship was damaged and began to list. I opened comms with the ship and was told there was attempt to destroy the ship and was missing a load of diamonds. The captain claimed the zoners had attacked her. Unfortunately, I have very brief encounters with zoners and took the captain for their word. They had left the system, so I pursued up to omega 7 where we met. After some interrogation via comms, I determined something was wrong with the captains story. I returned to rheinland space to find the mining ship missing. I went to stuttgart where I now find the mining ship fleeing. I pursue and make contact. No replys for almost a half hour. After a time, comms are established and ship captain mocks me. I run a scan and note nothing of note, no contraband or anything amiss, just like the first encounter, other than a load of boron ore. Ship leaves stuttgart and heads to the omegas, and finally into bretonian space. I pursued up to omega 7 but no more. I asked for answers and got nothing but static. Other than that a normal patrol with traffic flowing nicely through rheinland. The mining ship in my eyes committed no wrongs but I could be wrong. I would have made short work of the ship but I held myself back.
