My shift begun as a normal day's shift would. A supposedly dangerous patrol of the Texas system, for any Rheinland Military scouts. When I launched my vessel, there was already a tussle just outside of weapons range of the Mississippi. Furious at the lack of any kind of alarm aboard the orbital gun platform, I ran a check on my systems before intercepting the Rheinlanders, already locked in battle with other forces of Liberty.
To my great disappointment, my information feedback systems, target data and the like, weren't functioning at all and I had to dock my ship for emergency and very quick repairs. The lazy technician assigned to my ship found himself with a spanner lodged in his thick skull, whilst I quickly kicked the deck into action.
Fortunately, the problem was more minor than it seemed, and within a minute, I was back in the air. A teething problem with my communications system persisted, but it was no time to sit back and watch the Rheinlanders actually manage to score some kills.
Pulling back the Battlecruiser belonging to Captain Shinzon, I gave the Rheinland strike force of what seemed to be two bergelmirs and one or two other much less durable ships a chance to leave. And of course, in true religeously induced fervor, they refused and continued the battle. With our forces outnumbered and outgunned due to the departure of the battlecruiser, I fired up my weapons.
After a long and frankly disappointing battle, the following ensued:
That sums up my thoughts on the matter. Probably a ploy to drill more of their garbage propaganda into fueling the 'gottkanzler's' war machine, with all the winning even when losing. Oh well, the more that fall into the grinder, the better off they'll be.
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