Kaiserliche Rheinwehr [RM] - Message Dump

[Bluest of Blues]

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===Encryption Type: Rheinwhr_TransRep_04-72===
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===Sender: Duncan Werden===
===Recipient: Patrol Report #13===
===Subject: Patrol Report===

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---Guten Tag, Damen und Herren, today was a rather eventful day in Rheinland. When I began duty, I decided that the best place to begin would be Hamburg, so I left Braunschweig and headed to Planet Hamburg. At the New Berlin jump-gate in Hamburg, I met a trader carrying Superconductors from I supposed was Liberty. As I attempted to explain to him why we could not allow Libertonian goods into Rheinland space, I picked up an SCRA vessel on my long-range scanners. Moving to intercept, I abandoned the trader, and kept within 5K of the SCRA piloten, but he managed to escape into an asteroid field and I thought it a rather bad idea to attempt to follow him into the field. At this point, I met Hauptgefreiter Steiger, who soon regrouped with me at Alster Shipyard. Now that we had two piloten on duty, I told Steiger to stay in Hamburg on the watch for more embargo runners, while I initiated a patrol of the Core Rheinland systems. Before I could do so however, I was met by a rather odd sight: a Rheinwehr Valkeyrie with no IFF and no Identification Code (//No ID.), under the callsign of "Carlisle". Obviously distressed at a complete unknown piloting Rheinland equipment, I asked him how he had come across our vessel. After some rather...interesting...conversation, I managed to find out he had found a derelict one and was somehow unaware that it was illegal to be piloting it in Rheinland, let alone other systems. With this, I directed him to Hamburg, where he purchased, with the reward for returning missing property, a Camara freighter, much more suited to his stated vocation of mining. (//He spoke mostly Ukrainian, and only a little English, but I managed to communicate with him, thanks to Google Translate and a Cyrillic to Latin text converter.)

---Despite these events, what happened next rather stunned me. As Vizeadmiral Voelkel brought the cruiser, Seydlitz, into active duty, Herr Steiger reported a vessel with call-sign "ELVIS" had opened fire on him and was attempting to flee from him in Hamburg. I moved to intercept, but somehow he managed to reactivate a trade lane and escaped, whilst I was chasing him, Herr Voelkel reported a vessel smuggling Blood Diamonds out of Rheinland into Liberty. I saw the vessel as I was in a trade lane going in the opposite direction, and he too managed to escape amidst other confusion. At this point, we regrouped in Hamburg orbit, Hauptgefreiter Steigen, Vizeadmiral Voelkel, and myself. After some...frustration...on the part of Vizeadmiral Voelkel at the escaped smugglers/embargo runners, we picked up a vessel, with the callsign "StarRunner", I was ordered to protect the New Berlin jump-gate whilst Herr Steigen stopped StarRunner and Herr Voelkel placed the Seydlitz in position near Alster Shipyard. StarRunner attempted to feign an inability to control his vessel, but after a lengthy discussion with the Vizeadmiral, he agreed to comply with our orders. While Herr Voelkel and Steigen were dealing with StarRunner, ELVLIS appeared at the jump-gate in a completely new ship, he had escaped with a Percheron-class transport and I saw him in a Hegemon-class mining ship. Without any warning, he fired upon me when I ordered him to halt, after shutting down the lane, I took evasive maneuvres and returned fire. With such a hefty ship, ELVIS had no chance of escape, and after a firefight of some length I destroyed him, with some assistance from Herr Steigen nearing the end, however, an odd note, as his vessel was nearing destruction, my sensors detected that the light reflecting from his ship was beginning to shift frequency and wavelength, the signature of a cloaking device, but it did him little good, and, as stated before, he was terminated. A guncam-recording of his vessel imploding and subsequently exploding is attached to this message.


Honorably,
-Duncan Werden

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"ELVIS" Death Confirmation
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Awarded in the defense of New Berlin.