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SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Battleship Westfalen[color=#33CC00] Hamburg System.
[color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00][color=#FF0000]High, port RM-CH-MC-1488-F.

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[font=Verdana][color=#33CC00]SUBMITTER: [color=#FFCC00]Agent Ansgar Freyberg, Rheinland Marinenachrichtendienst.
[color=#33CC00]RECIPIENT: [color=#FFCC00]Patrol report database.
[color=#33CC00]SUBJECT: [color=#FFCC00]Full-scale Liberty scout report.

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MND scout report, directed to the Rheinwehr High Command.

Agent Leiche and I have been tasked to check the validity of the nav maps we got out from Willows' crew and the Valkyries from McDowell. We were to scout the systems named "Texas", "California", "Ontario", "Alberta" and "Yukon", in that order. Little did we know we'd find more than we bargained for, finding an entirely new system with an entire fleet of unknown vessels within.

We got our sensor systems rewired on Schatten, so we would detect gravitation anomalies more easily, to the expense of our long-range comms devices and commenced our operation.

Immediately after hitting Texas, we met another MND Agent, Agent "Honk" on a return from his mission, flying a republican bomber as cover-up. I assume he will give a more detailed description on his mission profile, as we had no time or need to interrogate him of anything but the enemy patrols' whereabouts, so we continued to California.

We picked up tremendous amounts of comms traffic in California, most of it was inaudible, but we figured as much as someone was being pirated while we were flying through the area. We locked in the supposed coordinates of the jump hole to Ontario while avoiding the trade lanes and installations, our data was only 10 clicks off, the new information should be up to date.

Upon making a jump, our next waypoint was "Alberta", this time the jump hole coordinates were correct, only the fact that there was a Navy base right near it was a bit off. We circled a desert planet we had no imminent intel of undetected, but near the jump hole, the naval base deployed a wing of Executioners to intercept us. Using their lack of preparations and the surprise we created, we made our way to Alberta with dodging the incoming patrol ships on both sides, taking cover in an asteroid field nearby.

We made a swift and clean escape to the final jump hole, leading us to what is currently named "Yukon", an empty system with a sole base inside. Since we weren't immediately shot at, I assume it belonged to a non-Liberty organization, but we didn't make contact.

It was pretty obvious that Liberty patrols were gathering behind us once we were spotted already, so we couldn't go the way we used to enter. All thanks goes to our enhanced sensor device, spotting another, fainter anomaly nearby, which we had no idea of.

Out of the frying pan, more like. Immediately after coming out of the hyperspace tunnel, I was hit by a pulse cannon or a razor, losing my shield immediately.

I couldn't count how many destroyers were firing at us, but we adopted evasive maneuvers with Leiche, only to be swarmed by an entire wing of bulky, yet painful fighters. Luckily, there was a jump hole just ten clicks away from our position, guarded by another pair of destroyer-class ships, which I immediately kept referring to as Maelstrom, seeing that the esteemed miss McDowell appears to be in command of a similar class.

We made our jump, but suffered moderate damage... I have no idea where that took us, as immediately after leaving the system, we were greeted by a Naval Forces patrol vessel. I assume we got to the northern borders of Liberty. Upon analyzing system lane positions and station data... or the lack thereof, we made the conclusion that we were in the Galileo system, indeed a northern border world.

Having charts of the system's sole jump hole, interestingly enough located right in the middle of an irradiated dark matter field, we could make our way back to Liberty.

We couldn't continue with mapping Colorado, New York or confirming any other jump holes, since our systems have already received critical damage from both the radiation and the projectiles we took from the patrol ships of the unknown organization we met in the uncharted system. My right engine was operating at 30% capacity and had to divert all my power from the weapon systems just to keep my ship flying. Leiche had his comms jammed, the only way for us to interact was to gesture from cockpit.

Via Colorado, New York debris fields and Texas, we made our way back to Rheinland undetected. I lost the video feed I recorded due to the radiation, but I do have the jump hole data and managed to salvage some pictures, though not a fluent feed.

Regardless of the heavy risk and damage we received, we miraculously managed to avoid any larger-scale Navy patrols and collect relatively accurate information. The location of most jump holes have been confirmed and updated, I dare say this was the biggest and most successful MND deep-space covert reconnaissance conducted in the past few months.

Signed,

Agent Freyberg, MND.


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