Today was the date of a great victory, we were successful at beating off a middle-sized Libertonian battlefleet, which somehow made its way to Frankfurt. The sky was again littered by the leftovers of our enemies who learned to value and fear the Rheinland people fighting to protect the glorious Vaterland.
Everything was seemingly quiet all day before the events took place. I was escorting ore miners from Stuttgart to Munich, we didn't run across any disturbance. Hauptfeldwebel Weissman and Feldwebel Kreuzchen were performing combat simulations in Braunschweig in the meantime. Then all of a sudden, we all recieved an emergency transmission coming from Planet Holstein, indicating a Liberty Siege cruiser and its several escort fighters emerging from the Westerwald nebula.
Of course, I immediately ended the training session and ordered the pilots to form into a recon group. Since my comms to the Rheinwehr barracks was down, Feldwebel Kreuzchen called for backup while I went ahead to scout the area. Holstein in the meantime lost the ships from sensors. The assembly point should have been at the planet, but I spotted the Liberty battlegroup as I was heading there. I broke the lane sequence as I spotted the hostiles moving torwards the New Berlin jumpgate and attempted to stop them from getting close a civilian installation where they could cause damage.
The battlegroup was led by Siege cruiser indeed, designated as LNS Alluring Endeavour and employed five fighters as its escort, two of them being from the Liberty Navy Main Fleet, rest reserve. As soon as I spotted them, I didn't hesitate to inform them that they were all going to die, even when I was alone. The captain of the Alluring Endeavour of course, didn't seem to take me seriously enough, seeing that I was alone at that point, with Weissman and Kreuzchen closing into range. I was generous enough to inform them that not taking my words seriously and not running for it while they still had the chance was a rather foolish thing to do, which was justified as the rest of my wing arrived.
I was still trying to learn how the battlegroup got through the frontlines all undetected-like, but the Navy captain sent his fighters out to attempt my termination without replying to my question. All that, of course was rather useless as Weissman, Kreuzchen and soon Hauptfeldwebel Weddigen arrived to even the odds a little, upon giving the orders to fire, we started picking their vessels down like flies. The cruiser of course, went in to attack aswell, seeing that I was not that alone afterall. Our first targets were the Executioners, then we went on the destroy the Guardians. Noone was a particular match for the Rheinwehr training, only a Guardian piloted by Joseph Collins, last of the hostile fighter wing lasted for more than two minutes. Feldwebel Kreuzchen's ship was also destroyed by one of his own mines, which I repeatedly ordered the pilots not to use when there was less enemies than us on the battlefield, but to no avail.
As Collins' ship was history, the Alluring Endeavour's captain ordered his cruiser to flee. We also replaced the lost Feldwebel Kreuzchen with Gefreiter Shetland and I ordered the pilots to chase down and destroy the enemy cruiser. He sent his men to slaughter and then fled like a dog, describes a Libertonian commander adequately. The Endeavour was shot full of holes as it fled torwards the Westerwald nebula, we later learned he did so in order to use a gravitational anomaly to escape into Hamburg. His ship was so heavily damaged that the cruiser couldn't bear the effects of the jump, and it was crashed to pieces upon attempt.
The enemy forces were crushed like insects under the might of the Rheinwehr. Excellent performance of all Military pilots that showed up on the field. Frankfurt is secure, the Libertonians that could have survived learned a life-long lesson.
Long live the Kanzler!
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