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Location: Battleship Moselle
ID: Flieger Josef Brackmann

Today when I suited up and punched out of Bonn Station, I immediately received a transmission from Gefreiter Tanja Voelkel. Apparently an RM battlegroup comprised of Gefreiter Emily Hermundt, Flieger Klaudia Linn, and led by Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Weissman, was engaged with a group of the Joker's thugs, the Joker and a pair of wayward freelancers.

I was given coordinates and flew immediately to assist, but upon arrival was told to stand by as backup. Hauptfeldwebel Weissman ordered his fighters to target Joker's Thug-Spanky, who was shortly thereafter destroyed by a flurrying barrage of Gefreiter Hermund'ts guns.

The next target was the Joker's gunboat, which went down under a hail of fire from various sources.

At this point, Flieger Helga Stainder also arrived on the scene and was ordered to stand by.

Flieger Klaudia Linn took out the next ship, a bomber by the name of Firewarrior-II, as ordered by the Hauptgefreiter. Linn's streak continued on to Jack.Ripper, a freelancer who chose the wrong side. The last surviving Joker's Thug was Dorky, and the Hauptfeldwebel destroyed him on a pass with a mine.

Gefreiter Tanja Voelkel destroyed the next ship, by the name of Smeagle, leaving one last ship, a freelancer with a meanstreak named Luka

Honorably, the Hauptfeldwebel offered to face him in single combat, but after realizing he was badly outmatched, Luka spent all of his energies attempting to flee. Seeing this angered the Hauptfeldwebel, and I was given orders to take out Luka. I complied, and destroyed him with my Firekiss MkII setup.

We returned to the Battleship Strausberg to rearm and refit, and several pilots returned to base. We were left with Fliegers Helga Stainder, Klaudia Linn, Hauptgefreiter Xander Vogel and Hauptfeldwebel Weissman. In addition a patrolling navy man, Hanz Wurst, also joined us. Weissman determined that we would run patrols, and placed Vogel in charge of the fliegers.

Vogel took Hanz toward Hamburg and Weissman ordered Linn to take command of a second wing and take her and myself to Stuttgart and the Omegas. Long-range scanners indicated that a known pirate, Captain.Kidd was in Omega-7, so upon arrival Linn ordered me to patrol the Daumann mineral fields while she took Kruger.

The Daumann fields were clear, but Linn ran into Captain.Kidd near the Kruger fields with the help of a Patrol.Bravo that requested our assistance. Unfortunately, he escaped. We chose to rendevous at Freistadt station to continue our patrol, and while I was waiting there my scanners picked up a Hessian by the name of [RB]-Alex.Jaeger.

I ordered him to surrender himself peacefully to be escorted to the nearest detention facility. After discussing the issue back and forth with him for a while, he refuted our claims to authority several times. By this time Linn had caught up and, after we contacted our superior officer, gave the order to engage.

The Hessian targeted me first, and turned out to be an excellent shot with him mini razor. Choosing not to engage by jousting, I switched to evasive maneuvers, trying to get Linn in line for a shot. Unfortunately, the Hessian rode my tail pretty close, and his shields barely even got scratched. He pulled a hard switch and turned on Linn, taking our her shield with guns and laying a mine in her path, destroying her ship.

Realizing that he was a good enough shot that running wasn't going to do me any good, I turned my ship around to engage the Hessian. Laying a long path of mines behind me, one hit his shields, and as I turned around my guns finished them off, taking part of his hull as well. On his next turn he passed too close to one of my mines, and he was toast.

With my patrol of Omega-7 finished, I contacted Hauptgefreiter Vogel, who ordered me to return to Bonn Station in New Berlin to take care of a possible spy. While I was on my way back, I was informed that the spy was gone. I continued on to Bonn anyway, and upon arrival requested permission to dock with the Strausberg to refit and rearm. Vogel gave me permission to return to base, and I did so, setting a course for Braunschweig, where I wrote up my report. Upon arrival I also sent a request to the RMHC for a promotion.

Flieger Josef Brackmann, out.

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