The Burning Bridge

[EisenSeele]

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COMMAND LOG - BDM|LV-Bifrost - Kapitän Lang Montag:

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Flotillenadmiral Siegfried embarked from Barrier Gate station. Per the unsealed orders, we were to make for Liner Barbados to meet with a contact with a tip to the location of the remains of a particular ship located somewhere in quadrant F4 of Kansas. Safely navigating the Kansas hole resulted in some difficulty, given the amount of ship debris adrift - but locating the ship in question was a straightforward matter. It was a long process to locate and sample all remains on board without disturbing the wreck or leaving any indication of our search - the Flotillenadmiral insisted on overseeing the process himself. After some time, one of the sampled remains matched with the registry of Rheinland-Liberty war missing persons - their remains were carefully retrieved and stored in the viewing room, where the Flotillenadmiral insisted on being left alone.

We set return course to Frankfurt by way of the Pennsylvania-Texas-Hudson-Hamburg route, some stellar drift had occurred since the end of the war - our maps have since been updated.
In Hudson, we detected several ships at extreme range, and engaged our cloaks per standard protocol. When we noticed that they bore Technocracy IFFs and flew in what appeared to be a search pattern, we decloaked and inquired about their behavior.

Conversation revealed that they were part of a 'Task Force Prometheus,' a group of survivors from the Hellfire Legion which had joined the Technocracy after the Legion was destroyed by what we are assuming is a combined Libertonian and Bretonian taskforce - based on the remains we encountered. There were three TFA ships in total, all small fightercraft - two fighters and one bomber - which insisted that the systems of Kansas and Vespucci were of some import to them due to the remains of their former comrades. While we admitted to no intrusion, Herr Siegfried emerged from the viewing room in the middle of the conversation - and on debriefing, he ordered us to relay his sincerest apologies and the promise of a minor favor.

Thus mollified, the TFA vessels broke off and returned to base, and we returned to Frankfurt. On the way, we transferred the remains to a courier bound for New Berlin to be interred properly. We were also instructed to relay a private message to the private residence of a civilian family in the borough of Mitte.

Upon reaching the Schatten Drydocks, I ordered a full recallibration of our engine emissions - which are now pending.

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