Guten tag, high command,
Flieger Jakob Metzger, submitting report!
After a late start today, I was patrolling the Berlin system, when I decided to check my comms computer and noticed one Insurgent|Black.13, a unioner pilot, and one Redblade, a Hessian, in the Stuttgart system with [IMG]Cowboy.Bebop[T]. Upon entering the Stuttgart system I asked if there was trouble. The Bebop stated that the Black.13 had pinned her down into the Sigma 7 border station. Black.13 threatened that the Bebop would "burn twice as hard" for relaying the position. I made haste to the area as fast as I could and the two had dropped about 10k away. I stated over the system channel "Perhaps it is best to flee" to which the Unioner grew hot and retorted, somewhat vile. At this point the Hessian sent me a private comm and told me he was actually RM in deep cover. He offered me back up, to which I replied needing only if I was close to defeat. The Unioner at that point decided to engage me, and we fought. I had beaten the Unioner quite well and was coming close to a kill when he hit me with something very hard, which I was told later by the CO of the Bebop was something called a SNAC. After my defeat, Redblade quickly dispatched Black.13, true to his word.
Also during the exchange prior to the battle, JimboTheGalacticTrucker may have been trying to offer me a bribe, for what I do not know. He left behind some copper, which I did not take. I had no time to deal with Jimbo.
I feel that although I was defeated in battle, it was by a, how you say, sucker punch. But I have learned from this ordeal and will not make the same mistake. As Gefreiter Guntram Koehler has already told me, I need to work on my dodging.
I do not know of Redblade's true identity, but I feel glad knowing we have an insider with the Hessians and Unioners.
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