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-------------Location Confirmed: Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin------------------------------
-------------Sender ID: 3-4-4 ------- Flieger Leon Fischer-----------------------------------------
-------------Priority of Message: Normal-------------------
-------------Topic: Patrol---------------------
-------------Displaying Message: Execute---------------------------------
Guten Tag. This is yesterday's patrol report.
I launched from Battleship Strausberg and got a hail from Admiral Engels on the [RM-RNC]Emden. We were to meet him in space at Dortmund. He got some information and quickly rerouted us to the Dresden Gate. When we approached the Dresden Gate. A convoy of Daumann Transports and Bounty Hunters emerged from the gate. Of the Daumann contacts. A 568-ARKG-B6 "Behemoth" Rheinland Heavy Transport, a "Colossus" Rheinland Train and an escort fighter. The bounty hunters had a various amount of fighters and bombers. If my judgment is correct there was about ten bounty hunters in total. We observed them for a bit and when we sensed no threat we moved on to the Stuttgart System. From there we had reports of two Hessian targets. We found them and pursued them for a little while until we lost them in a cloud. A Kruger, presumably the one who reported the sighting, followed them further into the cloud against the advise of the Admiral. We moved on to the Omega-7 System. We checked all of the lanes. Clear there. We then checked the mining fields most of which was clear. At the last field we checked we found an IMG Mining Ship. We hailed its captain and waited for a response. All of a sudden the ship disappears and we are hit by a strong radiation. Strong enough to take our shields down and do substantial damage to the hulls of our ships. We moved out of that pocket as fast as we could.
Admiral Engels called the Bretonian Armed Forces for access to Omega-3. Access was granted and we ran the patrol pattern there. Flieger Kurtt got permission to land on Freeport One for repairs and for a certain weapon he was looking for. After the patrol pattern was done we proceeded back to the Omega-7 Gate. The Hessians we were after earlier came through the gate. We managed to CD the one. The other managed to escape. We held the first Hessian for questioning until he made a Break for it. He got to the Gate and proceeded to Jump. Admiral Engels ordered us to Jump and pursue the vessel. I made it through the gate first and proceeded to follow the Hessian. I got called back by the Admiral after a good three minute chase into the clouds. We proceeded to move back to the New Berlin System. In the middle of the way back in a trade lane in Stuttgart I suddenly lost control of my Wraith. I lost all engine power and lost maneuverability. I was drifting quite a while then I remembered something I had learned many years ago. I dropped several of the Nuclear Mines I had aboard hoping they would give off enough radiation energy to help jump start the systems. Unbelievably it worked. I then hopped back into the lane to Planet Stuttgart. Upon arrival the Admiral ordered me to the Battleship Karlsruhe for repairs. We proceeded the rest of the way back to New Berlin. I requested a brief leave for a quick meal on the Battleship Strausberg. I was granted it. When I launched out into space again Admiral Malte ordered me to Planet New Berlin.
From there we entered formation and headed to the Frankfurt system. From there we headed to the Munich system. We were searching for a ship called the "Barbarossa" . The ship in question headed into the Alps cloud and we were unable to locate it. We then headed back to Frankfurt then to New Berlin. After which we met up with Hauptgefreiter Hans Putzkammer in his bomber. From there we proceeded to the Stuttgart followed by the Omega-7 system. Everything seemed normal. No contacts. We then proceeded back to New Berlin and to Planet New Berlin. The Admiral took leave and Hans had some paperwork to do. Franz had to report to the Ravensburg for toothbrush duty.
From that point Feldwebel Edmund Schiffer took over control of the Patrol Wing. He received some reports of activity in the Munich System. We went to explore. There we found the ship we were looking for before. The Barbarossa. We chased it down. Ordered it to halt. It did not. We CDed it and trained our weapons on it. Scanners indicated that it was licensed as a pirate vessel. It was hauling a large quantity of Silver Ore. The captain told us he was hauling it for Kruger. We were skeptical. But behold a Kruger Captain by the name of Braun contacted Herr Schiffer and told us the same thing the captain of the Barbarossa told us. We had no choice but to let him go.
We proceeded back to the lanes and then back to the Frankfurt System. There we found a Hessian flying towards us. As soon as he saw us he reversed his direction and beelined to the nearest trade lane ring. He docked with it and tried to gain on us. We too entered the trade lane and found he had left it after a little bit. We too left the lane and once again told him to stop. He didn't comply so we Cded him. He knew he was outnumbered so he asked for a one on one fight with me. Happy to oblige for most fights were not under fair one on one conditions. We proceeded to fight. We were both dropping mines. However his bomber was not as maneuverable as my Wraith. He got caught in the collision of both of our mines. His shield evaporated and his hull buckled. He promised me we would meet again.
From there we headed back to New Berlin. I headed to the Planet to get some well earned rest.
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