SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Border Station Ulm,[color=#33CC00] Stuttgart System. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00]Medium, port RM-CH-MC-1488-F.
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I'll gather what relevant data I can find from the past day's happenings.
Let's begin with a forwarded Patrol report from Feldwebel Schuster, who for reasons which I can't detail, couldn't submit it himself. The Feldwebel, while being on patrol around Berlin, intercepted a cargo vessel flying under a Bundschuh IFF. The captain of the Bosco, a Kusari Bumblebee transport, was in possession of hundreds of illegally obtained fauna from Planet Gaia, which the Feldwebel confiscated after a few minutes of persuasion. Since the vessel was registered as a Freelancer ship, despite having a rebel IFF, he could proceed with empty cargo, out of Rheinland.
The following day, I personally intercepted an Interspace vessel smuggling Quantum Multiplexors into Rheinland, along with Flieger Lee. The captain of the Nexor seemed to be, or pretended to be, unaware of Rheinland laws while committing his actions. We merely turned his ship around, during the operation however, his comms started jamming. Luckily, we got the vessel out of Rheinland space before anything serious happened.
The day before today, the 14th, was more eventful. We spotted a Bretonian designated vessel, the HMS-Pint of Beer moving around in Stuttgart, so I sent the Hansa with Major Koehler in charge to intercept, who also met up with Vizeadmiral Weissman near Ulm. The ship was caught successfully in Omega-7. Apparently, it was a Molly-designated pirate train, loaded with a cargo full of MOX, using a fake Bretonian Armed Forces designation, most probably to fool the local authorities.
Koehler didn't report on what exactly happened afterwards, only said that the Pint of Beer made an escape. To my question on why they couldn't intercept a train with a gunboat, Koehler simply replied "he was too fast."
Later that day, Major Koehler and Major Mauser on board the Kreuzer Seydlitz were sent to set up a blockade in the Omega-7 system, where a contingent of Rheinwehr forces were fighting miscellaneous Corsair vessels, up to a Legate-class dreadnaught. The Seydlitz's task was to keep civilians and any possible Corsair reinforcements away from the firefight. The only notable vessel aside an entire Bowex convoy was a Bretonian gunboat, the Apocalypse trying to enter Rheinland space.
After being apprehended in Stuttgart, the gunboat docked Ulm while yelling something about him "being new" and wanting to "buy a better ship". Typical scenario among the infected ones.
Today, yes. Me and WRF Iota-6 got reports of Hessian pirates being present in Omega-7, preying on mining vessels. We were quick enough to catch the slippery Neo Vikings, but not to save their prey from destruction. The Viking strike force, consistent of a Behemoth and a Thor, ran off to a nearby nebula, littered by explosive gas pockets and guarded by a Kusari explorer, contracted by the Vikings.
Since they attempted getting away, me and Iota-6 quickly opened attack profiles and neutralized the Thor, designated Helheim, but the transport and the gunboat started repeatedly hiding right in the middle of the explosive pockets!
Even with the arrival of several more Rheinwehr vessels, we only succeeded in moderately damaging both ships, apparently the Behemoth, callsign Birka was heavily armored. As soon as a pair of gunboats arrived, both the Birka and the Kusari explorer, the Black Bart made their escape.
Final notes: Flieger Karla Lee turned up intact yesterday, so the search for the Sekretärin can be called off. She was shot down by a bunch of Corsairs, but managed to get back to Rheinland safely, she's now combat capable unless her prolonged office hours made her unable to sit.
Furthermore, the Westliche Rheinland Flotte has declared war on the Zoners, further information can be obtained here: <Channel redirect.>
The Rheinwehr High Command's response to the crisis can be found here: <Channel redirect.>
As again, now personally, I ask all Rheinwehr vessels NOT to open fire on any WRF vessels or else you're to face martial court. The Zoners are a small organization and we won't interfere with the conflict unless it gets out of hand.
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