I thought my first report on the "Secret Steiner Network" was going to be relatively modest and in some ways reminiscent of my first patrol flights under the Revolutionary Army. So much for that. A distress signal was sent out from Nottingham, pretty close to Aland Shipyard, and there was in fact a BOWEX freighter in distress with some Rheinland Imperialist's afternoon feast, or something. By the time I, and the Armed Forces got there though, trouble had passed for the moment. The trader was especially eager to push on, and maybe even wanted to retaliate against his aggressor, so they, and I, moved into Omega-7 while the BAF remained to protect Nottingham. We didn't get jumped, so the shipper proceeded to complete his delivery while I picked up hostiles deep in the gas pockets by the lane. It turns out the aggressor gunship was using a scrambled IFF code, I wasn't able to safely get a perfect visual, but my intuition tells me this was likely an advanced Nomad combatant of some form. It seems the nomad vessel ended up in a fight with a Hessian torpedo bomber and their fight ended up running too deep into the clouds for me to maintain target lock. When I swung around to Nottingham, I registered an explosion from a vantage point near Freeport One, so one of them must have dispatched the other. This is definitely something your data men are going to want to peek into, Steiner.
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