► Source:Planet Hamburg ► Encryption:port RM-HC-R5C-RU4T-MD ► Submitter:Fliegerin Traudel Habermeyer ► Recipient:Großadmiral Karl-Heinz von Thielau; Rheinwehr Leitstelle, New Berlin ► Subject:LSF Incident, 12.09.829
Großadmiral von Thielau,
this is a priority report regarding the previous LSF incident.
As usual, a copy has been sent to New Berlin.
I have encountered the same LSF vessel from previous reports, this time in the heart of Rheinland. New Berlin itself, sector D2.
Immediately upon noticing me, it charged its cruise engines and headed for the Ruhrfeld. Once again it refused to comply with my initial orders, instead heading for a jump hole inside the asteroid field. Giving chase i quickly jumped, mere moments after my target did so.
In Hamburg we left the Südheide, the LSF vessel following a course to the Kielfeld and yet another jump hole. Even though it refused to give details or any sort of meaningful insights, it did not, at any point, stopped on its way out of Rheinland space. Furthermore it took no detours and headed for the nearest exit points.
Therefore i saw no need to make use of authorized force against this particular craft just yet.
Ensuring the LSF vessel would not simply return at yet another entry point, i remained as cordial as i deemed necessary and struck a seemingly harmless conversation for a considerable while. I made sure to leave my feed open for prolonged periods of time - hopefully the MND can make good use of the recorded interaction as well as background noise.
Speech patterns, potential codewords, hidden messages or supressed transmissions going in and out during moments of our exchange. Whatever may prove useful to them, i hope i could deliver it.
Pilot itself seemed to open up slighty to me, which may not mean much considering his affiliation to the LSF.
Lastly i was granted another scan while in Hudson, Nomad tech from the previous encounter had been replaced with regular armaments.
Close to the Texas jump gate we parted ways.
I have included the full data as customary, ready to be reviewed at your leisure, Herr Großadmiral.
[12.09.2022 20:38:36] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Halt!
[12.09.2022 20:38:57] Classified.: "No."
[12.09.2022 20:39:29] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: LSF vessel - you are in direct violation of Rheinland law. I have to insist on escorting you out of House Space immediately.
[12.09.2022 20:39:58] Classified.: "Violation? Interesting. How so?"
[12.09.2022 20:40:13] Classified.: "Care to elaborate?"
[12.09.2022 20:41:05] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Article four, section 4. Foreign military, law and intelligence craft are banned from Rheinland space.
[12.09.2022 20:41:43] Classified.: "Well, they shall remain that way."
[12.09.2022 20:42:39] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Then explain your presence.
[12.09.2022 20:42:59] Classified.: "That's classified information."
[12.09.2022 20:43:03] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: You don't happen to have an invitation on you i presume.
[12.09.2022 20:43:28] Classified.: "Not that i know of, no."
[12.09.2022 20:43:59] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: In this case - my orders stand. I am to escort you out of Rheinland space.
[12.09.2022 20:44:24] Classified.: "Oh but i know my way out, miss."
[12.09.2022 20:44:44] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: How wonderful. I am certain you also know your way in.
[12.09.2022 20:45:02] Classified.: "Every one of them."
[12.09.2022 20:45:16] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Allow me to present Rheinland's finest manners and keep you company on said way out...
[12.09.2022 20:45:47] Classified.: "I don't need a companion, though.
[12.09.2022 20:45:49] Classified.: "
[12.09.2022 20:46:11] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I am afraid i have to insist.
[12.09.2022 20:46:41] Classified.: "Be my guest... then. *chuckles*"
[12.09.2022 20:46:56] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Who knows, we might warm up to each other in time. What's your favourite color?
[12.09.2022 20:47:00] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Wait - don't tell me.
[12.09.2022 20:47:05] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Classified.
[12.09.2022 20:47:16] Classified.: "You learn fast."
[12.09.2022 20:47:26] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I'm just a good listener
[12.09.2022 20:47:43] Classified.: "That is noticeable."
[12.09.2022 20:48:22] Classified.: "Well?"
[12.09.2022 20:48:24] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: So - here we are yet again. We should really stop meeting like this. It is unbecoming.
[12.09.2022 20:49:16] Classified.: "I don't have an issue with it, personally. I actually find it quite fun."
[12.09.2022 20:49:28] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: You got your orders - as i am very certain. And so do i. There is an exit out of Rheinland space. I ... most kindly ... ask you
[12.09.2022 20:49:39] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: to take said exit. Now. As fun as these encounters are. But ...
[12.09.2022 20:50:00] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: We may talk in Hudson.
[12.09.2022 20:50:15] Classified.: "Interesting."
Code:
[12.09.2022 20:51:11] Classified.: "I'm listening."
[12.09.2022 20:51:15] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: ... well, this is somewhat better.
[12.09.2022 20:51:37] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I am sure you are listening the entire time. Your presence in Rheinland space has caused a stir.
[12.09.2022 20:51:50] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: One that may lead to unwanted consequences.
[12.09.2022 20:52:23] Classified.: "You'd be foolish to believe i'm unaware of that."
[12.09.2022 20:52:53] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Whoever issued their orders to you - either willingly risks escalation, or is blatantly ignoring Rheinland Law.
[12.09.2022 20:53:22] Classified.: "Who am i to question said orders?"
[12.09.2022 20:53:41] Classified.: "I was instructed to do, not ask."
[12.09.2022 20:54:05] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Loyalty is commendable, blind loyalty is dangerous.
[12.09.2022 20:54:43] Classified.: "Oh? Inspirational too."
[12.09.2022 20:54:55] Classified.: "You Military folks are full of surprises."
[12.09.2022 20:55:15] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: What can i say? I have my moments.
[12.09.2022 20:56:05] Classified.: "It would be a shame if... one day we would be exchanging fireworks."
[12.09.2022 20:56:11] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I do not intend to incite insubordination, nor do i assume i'd even be able to. Still.
[12.09.2022 20:56:42] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: This ... potential dangerous display of the joys of different kinds of fireworks ... is something that may very well follow. Ye
[12.09.2022 20:56:44] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: s.
[12.09.2022 20:56:48] Classified.: "Understandable. You have your code as i do."
[12.09.2022 20:56:58] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Precisely, ja.
[12.09.2022 20:57:38] Classified.: "Oh but i'm talking on a bigger scale, not just between you and i."
[12.09.2022 20:58:14] Classified.: "However i'm in no position to make any assumptions."
[12.09.2022 20:58:18] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: So am i. So am i.
[12.09.2022 20:59:16] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I take it we both will have the troublesome and questionable joy of repeated meetings. A twisted game of hide and seek.
[12.09.2022 20:59:54] Classified.: "Who knows?"
[12.09.2022 21:00:31] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I have a feeling someone does. We'll find out soon enough. Now that both you and i are outside of House space...
[12.09.2022 21:00:36] Classified.: "Unless i get sent to a different sector, i may as well just happen if i'm not too... careful." *chuckles more*
[12.09.2022 21:00:59] Classified.: "It, even."
[12.09.2022 21:01:27] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: ... do you have the courtesy to allow me yet another scan?
[12.09.2022 21:02:08] Classified.: "Be my guest."
[12.09.2022 21:02:19] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Too kind.
[12.09.2022 21:02:40] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Oh - look at that. You are no longer carrying restricted tech?
[12.09.2022 21:03:00] Classified.: "Me? When have i ever?"
Code:
[12.09.2022 21:03:28] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I suppose that depends on ones definition of restricted. Let me rephrase...
[12.09.2022 21:03:44] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Restricted in Rheinland at least. If Liberty is ... more liberal in that sense i wouldn't know.
[12.09.2022 21:04:09] Classified.: "No, i'm not sure i know what you're talking about."
[12.09.2022 21:04:30] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Oh well, must've been my imagination then. Clearly. As you already guessed i am full of surprises.
[12.09.2022 21:04:40] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: The drawbacks of vivid imagination.
[12.09.2022 21:04:56] Classified.: "Right. Or just a glitch. They happen."
[12.09.2022 21:05:27] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Well maintained craft are less likely, yet... i do agree. They can happen. In rare cases.
[12.09.2022 21:05:57] Classified.: "Usually when there are signal disturbances, yes."
[12.09.2022 21:07:07] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Now ... i'd almost say we both are either stalling for time, or this is one of those rare moments of rather unique encounters.
[12.09.2022 21:07:36] Classified.: "Maybe it's all part of a well designed plan."
[12.09.2022 21:07:47] Classified.: "Speculation after speculation..."
[12.09.2022 21:08:10] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Waiting in Hudson. Keeping both our hands tied?
[12.09.2022 21:08:17] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Perhaps, perhaps.
[12.09.2022 21:08:59] Classified.: "Heh, quick learner indeed. I must say this subject is an interesting one."
[12.09.2022 21:09:10] Classified.: "That said, i will depart now."
[12.09.2022 21:09:19] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Speculations? I would be surprised if an LSF pilot would find those boring.
[12.09.2022 21:09:22] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Ah - what a shame.
[12.09.2022 21:09:42] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I ... take the ... liberty... to enjoy a flight here in Hudson.
[12.09.2022 21:10:15] Classified.: "I have a few more waypoints to go. However you're free to enjoy the sights."
[12.09.2022 21:10:55] Classified.: "Just as long as you stay out of Liberty space. I will not be as nice as you in that regard."
[12.09.2022 21:11:09] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Besides being a good listener, i also greatly enjoy visuals.
[12.09.2022 21:11:23] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Ah... i do not receive the same kindness i offered you? How troubling.
[12.09.2022 21:11:34] Classified.: *mumbles something*
[12.09.2022 21:11:46] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: *Traudel snickers*
[12.09.2022 21:12:11] Classified.: "Our hospitality is different than the one of Rheinland's."
[12.09.2022 21:12:26] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Maybe you were just very lucky who encountered you first.
[12.09.2022 21:13:02] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Take care out there.... till next we meet.
[12.09.2022 21:13:04] Classified.: "Maybe it was you the lucky one, for not taking an aggressive approach to me."
[12.09.2022 21:13:19] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Maybe.
[12.09.2022 21:13:35] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Rarely pays to ask questions later and shoot first.
[12.09.2022 21:13:56] Classified.: "Despite my silence and well, coldness so to speak, i notice a good will."
[12.09.2022 21:14:27] Classified.: "So you may consider yourself lucky despite the fact you disrupted my task, twice."
[12.09.2022 21:14:51] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Third time's a charm.
[12.09.2022 21:15:40] Classified.: "Third time will not happen, mark my words clear." *smirks*
[12.09.2022 21:15:47] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: And well - i am just a ray of sunshine. Who could have anything against me?
[12.09.2022 21:16:01] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Don't make a girl a promise you can't keep.
[12.09.2022 21:16:21] Classified.: "I can. And i will. You'll see.
[12.09.2022 21:16:23] Classified.: "
[12.09.2022 21:16:34] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I will listen _and_ see.
[12.09.2022 21:16:58] Classified.: "Hmph."
[12.09.2022 21:17:12] Classified.: "See you around. Soon rather."
Für den Kaiser! Für das Volk! Für Rheinland!
Hochachtungsvoll,
Traudel Habermeyer
Fliegerin der Kaiserlichen Rheinwehr