The beginning of our operation of peacekeeping in Rheinland territory has resulted in an unfortunate incident with the local pirates there. While we were in Cologne to make sure traffic flows into and out of Gallia without impact, the resident Red Hessians had appeared on the trade lanes and insisted that we leave. Naturally, we weren't going to be intimidated by a bunch of pirates, so we stood our ground. It didn't seem like a peaceful resolution was possible. Conversation details are in the attached black box data.
With a short back-and-forth with them, they decided to engage. As the fight went on, both our side and their side have received reinforcements. It is worth noting that two Imperial bombers appeared on the scene towards the end of the fight and have engaged the cruiser, assisting us, before backing off.
Casualties: [14.05.2020 22:08:44] Death: [RHA]Northeim-1 was put out of action by MNG|Adeline.Manoury (Gun).
[14.05.2020 22:07:29] Death: [RHA]RHC-Forseti was put out of action by Le.Chad (Gun).
[14.05.2020 22:04:18] Death: [RHA]Tino-Kaiser. was put out of action by MNG|Estoc.2 (Gun).
[14.05.2020 22:02:03] Death: [RHA]Vogtland-1 was put out of action by MNG|Louis.Molyneaux (Gun).
[14.05.2020 21:58:40] Death: [RHA]Northeim-2 was put out of action by MNG|Adeline.Manoury (Gun).
[14.05.2020 21:51:20] Death: [RHA]Stefan.Lenz: was put out of action by MNG|Fleur (Gun).
[14.05.2020 21:49:44] Death: [RHA]Karl.Buhringer suffered a self-administered loadout error (Mine).
[14.05.2020 21:45:46] Death: [RHA]Njall.Ostberg was put out of action by MNG|Louis.Molyneaux (Gun).
The pirates were successfully routed with no casualties. It seems that they weren't interested in honouring the Assembly's arrangement.
Sincèrement
Officer Zacharie Micheaux
Marine Nationale Gauloise
[14.05.2020 21:20:34] Pr3d410r: Expect: You have a strange ship for a hessian
[14.05.2020 21:20:41] [RHA]Tino-Kaiser.: No.
[14.05.2020 21:20:54] Pr3d410r: Guessing: A new?
[14.05.2020 21:21:06] [RHA]Tino-Kaiser.: Sort of.
[14.05.2020 21:21:47] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Ugh.
[14.05.2020 21:22:01] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: I agreed for the civilian transports to move through here.
[14.05.2020 21:22:16] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: NOT for military interdiction.
[14.05.2020 21:22:22] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: What interdiction?
[14.05.2020 21:22:54] MNG|Louis.Molyneaux: We don't submit to the false authority of simple outlaws.
[14.05.2020 21:23:22] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: I'm sure you can appreciate it's hard to believe common pirates.
[14.05.2020 21:23:33] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: The military will be here. To make sure traffic flows.
[14.05.2020 21:23:44] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: You can leave that to us.
[14.05.2020 21:23:53] [RHA]Elssler,: Must you be this foolish?
[14.05.2020 21:23:59] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: I'll have to redirect you to the first sentence I've said.
[14.05.2020 21:24:10] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: I'll have to redirect you to my statement.
[14.05.2020 21:24:24] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Back off.
[14.05.2020 21:24:31] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Non. The military stays.
[14.05.2020 21:25:15] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Don't test us.
[14.05.2020 21:25:22] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Move out and back to Zurich.
[14.05.2020 21:25:25] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: You're awfully loud for a petty criminal.
[14.05.2020 21:25:30] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Perhaps you should be busy dealing with your petty fights in Rheinland, rather than obstructing us.
[14.05.2020 21:26:00] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: This is a peacekeeping mission and we will remain stationed here to ensure the flow of goods towards and out of Gallia.
[14.05.2020 21:26:17] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: A peacekeeping mission done without any notice to myself or anyone in the Army.
[14.05.2020 21:26:26] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: Are you the local authority?
[14.05.2020 21:26:30] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Casually flying about in our territory on our end of the spectrum.
[14.05.2020 21:26:34] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Ja.
[14.05.2020 21:26:45] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: We weren't informed. You look like the usual rabble to me.
[14.05.2020 21:26:58] [RHA]Elssler,: If you haven't noticed this is our system. Second system which we took.
[14.05.2020 21:28:02] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: As I've said. Don't you have somewhere else to be?
[14.05.2020 21:28:05] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Leave the traffic to us.
[14.05.2020 21:28:53] [RHA]Elssler,: Don't you have your own house to be in?
[14.05.2020 21:29:00] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: Oui. You see these gates?
[14.05.2020 21:29:04] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: We're protecting assets of our house.
[14.05.2020 21:29:06] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: They're ours, are they not?
[14.05.2020 21:29:10] [RHA]Elssler,: We do. Hopefully they won't stand long
[14.05.2020 21:32:07] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: You know what?
[14.05.2020 21:32:14] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: Non.
[14.05.2020 21:32:27] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: This is quite obvious.
[14.05.2020 21:32:45] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: The request is pretty obvious, oui.
[14.05.2020 21:32:53] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Stay away from traffic.
[14.05.2020 21:34:15] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Are you done sitting here, trying to look threatening?
[14.05.2020 21:34:22] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Ja.
[14.05.2020 21:34:24] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: I am.
[14.05.2020 21:34:28] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Good.
[14.05.2020 21:35:01] MNG|Louis.Molyneaux: Very well then.
[14.05.2020 21:35:08] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Let's show them why we'd make for better escorts.
[14.05.2020 21:35:36] [RHA]Elssler,: Roger that, weapons powered and locked on target
[14.05.2020 21:35:39] [RHA]Stefan.Lenz:: Copy that Generalmajor.
[14.05.2020 21:35:42] [RHA]Elssler,: Moving in to engage
[14.05.2020 21:35:43] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: No one shows authority on our turf but us.
[14.05.2020 21:35:47] [RHA]Njall.Ostberg: Defending Generalmajor.
[14.05.2020 21:35:50] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: Take the pirates down.
[14.05.2020 21:35:50] [RHA]Stefan.Lenz:: Targets locked in.
[14.05.2020 21:35:51] [RHA]Anna.Heinrich: Attack.
[14.05.2020 21:35:51] [RHA]Karl.Buhringer: Roger, my weapons are armed.
[14.05.2020 21:35:55] [RHA]Stefan.Lenz:: Going weapons free.
[14.05.2020 21:35:56] [RHA]Njall.Ostberg: Assisting.
[14.05.2020 21:35:57] MNG|Fleur: En garde!
[14.05.2020 21:35:58] MNG|Adeline.Manoury: I'm ready for combat.
[14.05.2020 21:35:59] [RHA]Karl.Buhringer: Going in.
[14.05.2020 21:36:01] MNG|Zacharie.Micheaux.: En garde!
[14.05.2020 21:36:05] MNG|Louis.Molyneaux: Put them down.
[14.05.2020 21:36:06] MNG|Fleur: Kill them all.
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