I would take the liberty of continuing the report made by Hauptgefreiter Riess, joining in at the part when her ship was shot down. Her escape pod was soon recovered by a search and rescue vessel, one that was later dispatched to collect one of our fully intact vessels aswell.
As soon as I found myself alone, I came to admit that the Hessian pirate (as he referred to himself) was not that much of an easy target, due to his constant usage of mines, attempting to disrupt my ship's hull integrity. Admiral Malte in the meantime, scrambled Green 2, the other patrol wing led by Feldwebel Drum to render aid to my combat operations. Obergefreiter Schulz in his bomber stood by as Herr Drum and I finished the Hessian, called Frank Rainer as his salvaged forged identification papers state. Herr Drum shot a mini-razor, which hit the Hessian vessel's nav computer, leading the ship to loose flight navigation systems entirely, so the terrorist pilot ejected, leaving the drifting wreck for us to destroy. His escape pod was not recovered.
Later on, after a brief patrol we did in Munich and Sigma-13, we eventually had to deal with a Freelancer pilot, flying a Guardian-class Liberty fighter, designated as Dupito. Flieger Frantz Hocker, the freshest of our recruits spotted and attempted to stop the pilot, who refused to comply and instead docked with the Ring. I arrived on scene with Obergefreiter Schulz to assess the situation until Admiral Malte on board the Carinthia joined us. I got the Libertonian to undock from the station and stirred civilian pilots away from the scene as long as the Admiral was communicating with the intruder and phrasing orders.
Eventually, we were given orders to retrieve all Rheinwehr equipment the Freelancer had on board, which was one of our finest Hornviper main fighter weapons. An engineer squad uninstalled the gun under the supervision of RFP Commandos, which I personally returned to the Mecklenburg storages. After that, we were to escort the ship out of Rheinland space, which we did. The journey from the Ring to the Bering gate was quite a lengthy one, which was made worse by the Libertonian asking stupid and rather personal questions during the route. Flieger Hocker, who also introduced himself as quite a trigger-happy individual wanted to shoot the Freelancer on spot, but I was given orders from Admiral Malte to preserve the life of the Libertonian as long as she cooperated.
As soon as that issue was dealt with, I returned to base.
Major Voelkel signing off.
Powering down transmitter...
Cutting comm link...
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