[RM] Geheimdienst - Classified Reports

[iiLeRoss]

► Source: KKS-Kaiser, Sigma-15
► Encryption: Klassifizierungsschlüssel RM-RG-RU4T-KR
► Submitter: Oberleutnant Karl Holzner
► Recipient: Admiral Alfred Henze
► Subject: Order Liaison Operation

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Admiral,

I report our covert meetings with the Order have been concluded successfully. The following is a summary of our collective actions:

Upon our first meeting we made contact with Order operatives at Freeport 8 before departing to a meeting point within Sigma-13. Claims on the Nomad threat were discussed, various military incidents, as well as potential avenues forward and ultimately they displayed a willingness to hold a second meeting. Likely due to the initial contact being made at Freeport-8, BDM operatives had managed to tail us covertly, outside of sensor range, and successfully pursued us to the meeting site. One of the craft curiously matched the IFF of a craft allegedly used by the Bureau's Director. They were successfully persuaded to wave off with promises of information sharing on the meeting. Our flight group returned to Sigma-15 without further incident and mimicked a patrol squadron. The operation ended with a return to the KKS-Schwerin. My own posting, the Kaiser was damaged following operations in Thuringia and this necessitated an extended route and use of the Schwerin. They do not appear to have questioned our operation.


A week after the prior operation we embarked on a second operation. Arriving at Freeport 8 to rally the rest of the flight group, we noted some unusual faces. The Bureau Director was present at the Freeport. Though my scans are lost, I noted they had several unusual weapons. Fire from their vessel seemed to show what may have been some form of plasma weapon. A lengthy search on military networks only managed to obtain a scant reference to something called "VENOM". Additionally, there was a Freelancer and some Technocracy personnel in and around the area. After they departed, the Director informed me on private channels that the Bureau would like to be informed of Technocracy personnel entering Rheinland and that they didn't want them in our space. Considering the events of the Thuringia operation and what I now consider their confirmed presence, this is highly suspect. We rendezvoused with what was ostensibly a civilian carrier of the Bustard class in Sigma-15. They informed us they would take us to meet with Order forces in a system in the Omicrons. This necessitated a lengthy journey where we went largely dark. A later complication meant that any positional data I managed to obtain in this process was lost.


After arriving at our apparent destination, we were greeted with a remote system in a large green nebula. Within was a large ship graveyard and a planet that looked as if it had been cracked open. Scan data showed entire wings of fighters wrecked in the field, from both the Core and the Order. Additionally we scanned the hulks of several capital ships from the two organizations, including battleship scale vessels comparable to an Overlord class, and from their own publications appears to be a Core battlecruiser. Several gunboats and our prior contacts, one Admiral Solandros included met with us. They claimed that in the midst of a Core assault on the planet, which used to be their main base, a Nomad fleet assaulted the system, swept aside both forces and destroyed the planet. No remains from this alleged force could be detected however, but they then had us follow them to an alien ruin. This ruin they claimed was an ancient alien jump gate, albeit one that had overloaded. It was here we first encountered the Nomads. Shimmering blue craft, seemingly without cockpits the size of fighters and firing weapons my sensors couldn't even begin to discern. Additionally my sensors picked up on an unusual gaseous material emanating from the wrecked gate. The Order claims there are many scattered across Sirius, but concentrated in the Omicrons. These gates can be far more powerful than the standard Ageira and EFL ones and thus could see alien invasion forces flood without notice out of them. They did note that it was likely only Corsair and Outcast holdings at immediate major risk, although some could be hidden near or within house space. Korporal Beist did not consider this hard evidence of a major threat and wished for further information or commitment from the Order.


They begrudgingly oblidged and we broke off towards a hole that ended up taking us to Omicron Delta. Along the way, we picked up a Freelancer bearing the callsign Lazurith on our scanners before proceeding into a system known as Omicron-Zeta. The Freelancer followed us and informed us the "RNC-Einbeck" was operating in the area. Having encountered this vessel before, this information was highly concerning. In fact, the vessel operating out here at all was an extreme concern. The Order operatives took us to an outpost they had in the system, overlooking an icey world. Order and Core forces have allegedly been waging a small war over the system for quite some time, we in fact encountered a skirmish mid-flight. After heavy debate they agreed to show us something severely more substantive. Two battleships, notably Arbiter class vessels, originally from the Liberty Insurgency, were called up to escort us into a system they called Omicron-Iota. It was a very impressive display of force, though I advise investigations into the origins of the vessels. Around this time a Kusari ship, claiming to be a KOI operative began tailing us. We decided to warn the ship off with threats of force. It maintained distance but still was in the area near us. Our force pressed on regardless. When we arrived at the gate, we saw it was very much intact, and shockingly we managed to interface with it. Despite my severe reservations about this after seeing the destruction of the Kolleda, and the possibility of hostile forces being alerted to us, we nonetheless proceeded.


Emerging into the system, my sensor suite spontaneously shut down and rebooted. I did not have time to address the issue as a massive weapon platform, which based on appearance seemed alien, immediately began firing on us. We retreated out of range of the enemy fire and the Order ships informed us that retreat would be preferable. This coincided with the arrival of what appeared to be an alien capital ship, the alleged KOI operative and what seemed to be a Gallic vessel. Engines to full, our group began heading back for the gate. My craft would however be hit after a malfunction caused the jump sequence to fail. I was forced to eject before a second hit collapsed my vessel. Fähnrich Baumann managed to recover my pod before we beat a hasty retreat back to Omicron Delta and the Freeport that operates within it. My ship data logs were however lost when my craft was destroyed. Nonetheless, we managed to make it back to Rheinland space intact after a large period undercover to minimize risk of pursuit.


I conclude the following:

1. There is a legitimate threat posed from these forces.
2. The Order possesses a large amount of military hardware and if we choose to support them, though I question the logistics, no more than materiel supply is needed.
3. Our own forces lack the intelligence, tactics and experience necessary to fight these forces adequately.
4. Provided the events we have been told of are truthful, the Core's activities should be called into question.
5. The Bureau's interest in these events should be gauged. The unrelated matter with the Technocracy should also be investigated.

With this in mind I have a request I must make in person to the Admiralty at a later date.

End of report.

Für den Kaiser! Für das Volk! Für Rheinland!

Abmeldung,
Karl Holzner
Oberleutnant der Kaiserliche Rheinwehr

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