Decoding Message
Location Found : Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin.
Sender ID: 3-4-4-Hauptgefreiter Leon Fischer.
Topic: Search for Drum, First Search.
Guten Tag. Today is a rather. Unusual day. I was to meet Herr Drum for patrol duty and when he didn't show up I knew there was something wrong or he got drunk in the bar again last night. I went to the bar he frequents the most. They said they hadn't seen him at all last night. I knew at that moment that Drum, once again, pulled one of his vanishing acts. I met up with Gefreiter Vollkegel and we headed out to the last known area he was sighted in.
A Daumann Patrol reported seeing him in the Omega 11 System moving among the asteroid fields. We probed the fields and found a multitude of gravitational anomalies. We were granted permission to choose one anomaly to check.
We entered the gravity well and got shot to some distant area. We emerged from the well into an Asteroid field. In the distance was a planet. It was decided that we would go check it out and look for signs of life or a wreck of Drum's ship at least. Upon arriving at the planet we tried to pick up one of data pods left on planet's surfaces after they are explored. We found that the planet had no pods with the planet's data. The planet had never been explored. Not far away was what seemed to be a ship. Thinking this might be the ship of Drum we went over to investigate. It turned out to be a Hessian Sabre. Not far away from that wreck we spotted another ship. We thought "Well, at least he took one out with him." We went over to that ship and found it had Corsair markings.
We turned around and headed back into the asteroid field. We headed back to the gravity well. Out of nowhere we picked up a huge signal somewhere in the distance. Gefreiter Vollkegel noted that she saw what appeared to be "An asteroid with weapons and....is that a docking port?" I instructed Vollkegel to head back to the jump hole. She complied and I went into the asteroid for a closer look. When I got two klicks away the automated weapons on the rock started to shoot at me. Flashes of purple blurred across my nose and I started to dodge for my life. I then noticed the docking ports on the rock. I punched my cruise to get out of there when I heard Vollkegel say "Look there is another one over here." I said to get back to the hole quick. I lost sensor range and communication range of Vollkegel. I went to the coordinates I marked on my map and saw her sitting there. "Jump, go quick." She aimed her nose into the well and got sucked into the vortex. I aimed my nose and punched it full throttle into the hole.
The radioactive area symbol flashed on our panels. We were back in Omega 11 from what ever desolate place we were just in. We headed as fast as we could back to the Stuttgart Gate. On the other side of the gate was the Schwanstein. We were hailed and asked to identify ourselves. We did and we were told to report to Planet Baden Baden for "decontamination" from the radiation.
We landed and headed straight for the medical facilities. Nothing like a freezing cold shower to get the radiation away. Upon returning to the landing pad I saw a man in a black jumpsuit, goggles and a helmet doing something with my ship. I reported it to Schwanstein Control who contacted the Docking Ring Control and shut it down. A bomb squad came and looked at the ship. I went to the nearest airbase and picked up another Wraith.
Quite the interesting day. I have signed off duty for today on Strausberg. Hope we find Drum in one piece.
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