This Friday's patrol began with the regulars. After performing a few pre-launch checks and undocking from the Moselle, I met Admiral Malte and Feldwebel Kreuzchen near the Strausberg to perform basic patrol duties.
We did a short patrol around New Berlin, then flew through Halle in order to make our way to Munich. Nothing interesting happened during our patrol, until we reached Frankfurt, where we ran across an SCRA terrorist disrupting the trade lane. He identified himself as Viktor Heinz and admitted his attempts to work against the Rheinland government.
Quickly, several rookie Hessian and Unioner fighter wings arrived on the spot to assist their 'comrade'. The Admiral ordered me and Kreuzchen to intercept the incoming hostiles while she tried to place the terrorist under arrest. I counted altogether six wings of rookies incoming, we had to keep them under constant fire in order to provide a safe ground for arrest, eventually the arrival of two Police rookie wings managed to take the pressure off us. I am not aware how the negotiations went, but I do know that the Admiral made the communist choose between firing squad or execution on spot. After a bit of hesitation, he chose the latter, me and Kreuzchen were told to take his ship out.
The fight was a tough one. The iron beast flown by Heinz managed to both repel damage and evade well. The enemy vessel crippled Kreuzchen's ship, while I was working on keeping his shields down. The Feldwebel somehow managed to use that opportunity and delivered a perfectly aimed SNAC projectile right into the enemy's hull, blowing the communist up to thousands of molten pieces. It was an impressive turn indeed.
Following that encounter, we returned to New Berlin to conduct repairs. I arranged a bay for me and Kreuzchen on Oder Shipyard, the engineers complied without questions. Kreuzchen's ship required longer term repairs, but I could resume my patrol in a few minutes. I didn't have to go far, as soon as I undocked, I spotted four Hessians flying different ships approaching New Berlin.
It was the usual holdup, a smaller attack group led by Vladimir Lenin, with Leo Trotzky, Bolverk and Eric Koehler on his wing. The rag-tag miliants started taunting me as usual, I didn't pay particular attention to their words, but the propaganda machine's presence directly above Berlin was indeed a threat to deal with, considering the civilian populace. Soon enough, Flieger Gustav Heinz and Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Weissman arrived to assist me, we were ready to deal with the threat. The usual arrest attempts took place, but instead of laying down their arms, the Hessians started shooting at the Police rookies flying around the area.
I ordered the Kriegsmarine to open fire at the hostiles. Eric Koehler was our first target, who seemed to be a loosely affiliated Hessian of some sort, flying a Werewolf-class fighter. His large-size ship was easy to hit, not to ignore the fact that he repeatedly tried to hit us with mines, which turned against him as soon as I responded with firing my cruise disruptors into his rear. He didn't last any longer than the others did. Lenin was the next, his crippled ship was destroyed by a mine jettisoned by Weissman. Bolverk left the area, leaving Trotzky, his buddy to be torn apart by the three of us.
We returned to New Berlin after the incident, the reserve ships took charge of cleaning up the area and a Bounty Hunter went after Bolverk to track him down. After a short troop inspection near New Berlin, we returned to our hangars on the planet.
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