Red Hessian Reporting Facility

[SimonBlack]

-Incoming transmission-

Com ID: Red Hessians Major Matt Black
Location: Freital base, Omega 11 system
Callsign: Red Hessians Grey 1. "Sitting Bufallo".
Transmitted to: Vogtland base, Dresden system.

-Open transmission-

Guten tag. Submitting patrol report. More like an assaulten, really.

Took my Odin out easily heading to Omega 7 system. Traffic keeps moving and we want a piece for ourselves, ja? Ja.

I wasn't very hasty. Picked a specific contact. Bretonian Mining and Manufacturing. Jumped right out of disrupted trade lane. The convoy had reasonably good defences, I would have had a hard time taking it down, but the Captain decided not to take a risk and paid me 2 million credits. Jawohl.

Shimada with its crew showed up right then. Well timed. We managed to disrupt and force another trader around Briesen to share what little profits he had.

I was happy enough with that, but Shimada offered to proceed to Omega 3. He surely likes that spot in Wikes Ice Field. We, of course went there soon after.

A Bounty Hunter Gunboat Orca was soon to approach us. He had a Hessian in his cargo hold, but complied and dropped the man. Battle evolved regardless. I guess he thought it wasnt worth talking to us. Well I wanted to sort this out by force myself as well.

Shimada has some skill. He barely took a scratch from the opposing Gunboat. I was very relieved to see that.

A trader then jumped in. A special one too. You see, he had some VIP's on board. Didn't seem very cooperative. The passengers must have been very important since he chose to risk for them and tried to slowly get himself through the next lane. To no avail, though. I ordered and Oberleutnant Shimada took a shot. It was over quickly. There is little honour to take down an unprotected trader, but as long as its useful I am willing to do it.


I tractored as many people as I could, but we simply didn't have enough spacen in our ships. Shimada offered to leave them, but we are no animals to do such a horrible thingen, of course. I called up Bretonian Armed Forces on Cambridge and informed them of escape pods around Wikes Field. Surely they misunderstood my kindness and good intentions. Who else would report of the poor things and ask for a rescue ship to arrive. No Corsair I can tell you that much. How sad that this noble deed was so horrinly taken.

Bretonian Armed Forces were soon to sweep the area with two squadrons, not less. Our tracks were long gone, of course. Perhaps they will eventually run into the two Corsairs whom we met on our way back to Freital next to Omega 5 jump hole. Decided not to put up a fight with these two. They had no intention to fight us either and we simply parted ways. Both parties would have taken heavy casualties. Sometimes its better to walk away.

My distress call wasn't so innocent afterall. With Bretonians all around in the area..who knows...

-End of transmission-

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Character background summaries:
Red Hessians Major Matthias Schwarz
Golden Chrysanthemums Chusa Fumiko Shimazu