Vilhelm Von Hof - Personal Logs

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►Identification: Vilhelm Von Hof

►Assets: "Voss" -72-ARKM-G27 "Phantom" Heavy Fighter

►Affiliation: Marinenachrichtendienst (MND)

►Status: [CLASSIFIED]

I am finally cleared for duties. So much has changed now aboard the Helgoland...even the ranks shifted. Some of the old folks couldn't be cleared for duties. Some were too crippled by the isolation. I can't really blame them, honestly. This made new room - if it wasn't enough already - for fresh crewmembers. I would rejoice to this. I really would, but the Helgoland is now populated by those who bonded together through long-lasting suffering, and then there are the fresh ones, unable to understand how things roll aboard. I'm getting complains left and right about "X did that. Y doesn't understand. Why is Z doing that? He shouldn't.". Hopefully they get along in time.

I'm a Commander now, too. That never-ending interrogation session finally spat out something good. Well, almost. I've got this...Fiona Edberg as my XO. I can't say I trust her yet. Hell. I don't think I ever will. But who knows? Definitely not me. We spent the whole night selecting about one hundred and fifty federalist agents. Maybe even more. Every time I wanted to take a cup of coffee, or take a smoke break she'd just throw them off the table and say they're bad for my recovery. What recovery? I haven't even been scanned for infection, or had a medical checkup. Did they stab me with a syringe at night to collect blood? Eh...I'd expect that on Schatten, to be honest.

This very same day we also spent a few hours sorting things on the Helgoland, then launched in space. I couldn't even approach the Thuringia Jump Hole as I intended to. The Buro already located a group of Imperial Forces. One Tirptiz. One Oder. One Bismarck. I haven't seen the Cruiser's Mortars fire in ages. But man did it feel good to watch them hit raw hull. It's a bit depressing to shoot your very own ships, though. The Bismarck. Pride of Rheinland. Fallen in Imperialist hands, and now lost in space as two Donau Cruisers and one Tirptiz mowed it down. The other Donau was "Braunschweig". Can't say I remember the name, so it must be a newly comissioned one.

The Cruiser nearly got shot down too. The Imperialists have far more guns than a rusted Donau could ever have. This weird contact saved my skin there. All it said was "Interesting", then minutes later as the Imperialist Carrier was blasting the Helgoland's engines, this..."Shiroi" scrambled its targetting. I ordered full speed. And that's that.

I don't feel pride for shooting down those Rheinland ships. I don't feel regret either. I either shoot them and get to have a chance at being fully reinstated within the MND, or get shot for treason.

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[09.12.2020 16:42:43] Death: [RM]H-KKS-Njord was put out of action by RNC-Helgoland (Gun).
[09.12.2020 16:33:18] Death: KKS-Tannhauser was put out of action by RNC-Helgoland (Gun).

RNC-Helgoland and the KKS-Njord

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