► Source:Planet New Berlin ► Encryption:port RM-HC-R5C-RU4T-MD ► Submitter:Oberleutnant Jurgen Schmidt ► Recipient:Oberkommando ► Subject:How I got to this point
Guten Abend. After a... confused meeting in the New Berlin search and rescue, I figured I should explain myself. Perhaps my side of the story might shed some light on whatever has happened. I will attempt to retell the story as best I can remember.
It happened when I began my patrol on the New Berlin system. When I came to the planet, there were two LWB agents just outside the trade lane network. However, that was not all. A patrol of Rheinland agents..? came by. Three of them. At first they seemed normal. It was four Rheinlanders against two LWB. It would be a simple housecleaning mission.
Or so I thought.
The first indication something was wrong was the weapons. They were carrying adapated Nomad cannons, I was as well. Expect for one. One was carrying... I don't even know what it was. Some sort of... He said it was a "prototype" and that they were an Rheinland task force. "Floorboard" they called their squadron. Then another Rheinlander showed up. At this point, the LWB weren't making moves, and neither were the "Rheinland agents." The LWB said something about Synth Foods being infected by Nomads. I wrote them off as crazy. Meanwhile, more and more ships kept arriving. Their task force had swelled to... five..? Members. There were about four of us. Some of the others accused the agents of being Das Wilde. They were paranoid. I guess I should have been too.
At this point everything had gone chaotic. Everyone was yelling accusations at eachother. I tried to keep things steady, but it was too late. Then all of a sudden, one of the "task force" ships just... opened fire on us. It all happened so quick. Everyone was firing at the other. We managed to take out two of them, but then the LWB opened fire on us. They were acting just as strange. We kept fighting, and I was hit and my pod ejected. I don't know what happened to the others.
My ship was wrecked in the fighting, and the only thing that saved me was the proximity to the planet New Berlin. I am now ready to return back on the lines of service. I hope this information can help find the answer to this whole confusing situation.
The visuals were destroyed in the fighting. There are no blackbox recordings remaining.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Jurgen Schmidt
Oberleutnant der Kaiserlichen Rheinwehr
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