SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Rheinwehr Korvette Hansa,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin System. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00]Medium, port RM-CH-MC-1488-F.
[font=Verdana][color=#33CC00]SUBMITTER: [color=#FFCC00]Hauptmann Michael Wittmann. [color=#33CC00]RECIPIENT: [color=#FFCC00]Patrol report database. [color=#33CC00]SUBJECT: [color=#FFCC00]Report of 28.09.818.
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I temporarily relieved command of the Hansa and got in space using my fighter today. Even though I am long out of practice with a Wraith, me and my Kampfgruppe engaged and scattered a sizable Red Hessian Army strike force near the Bonn-Brandenburg lane. The report in detail is as follows:
Major Higham and Gefreiter Fischer, after taking care of an Outcast gunboat threat in Munich, returned to Berlin where I stood guard with the Korvette Hansa. Radar scans have picked up a pair of enormous vessels entering Berlin space on long-range, so we proceeded to regroup near the Strausberg. Since the Hansa's main engine was scheduled for repairs, I had to commandeer a Wraith from the Battleship's hangar bay.
Gefreiter Fischer signed off duty and a veteran reserve pilot, Otto Bachmeier joined us, our three man patrol proceeded to confirm the whereabouts of the hostiles. Eventually, a Republican transport confirmed our suspicions, noting the presence of a Red Hessian strike force near the Bonn-Brandenburg lane. We went to survey the nature of the threat, spotting a pair of Hessian cruisers, the RHC Hessen and the RHC Jeschke sitting idly by the trade lane, seemingly unprotected.
As we were about to scramble the bombers, a swarm of Red Hessian Army fighters emerged from the asteroid field, ambushing our three-man force recon team. Their premature attack and the arrival of Feldwebel Thome and Flieger Porta with their Wraiths quickly shifted the tide, resulting in the destruction of two Red Hessian fighters, one being destroyed by a wayward razor shot launched by his wingman.
After realizing the turn of the tide, the Hessians kept pushing in with more and more fighters, we were facing at least three new ships as an addition to the original four-five. Being desperate, most of these vessels started using the cruisers as shields and running around the asteroid fields, most of them to no avail.
By the time the enemy force retreated, leaving behind a Volksfront fighter and an RHA recruit to be annihilated by our patrol, we took down about three or four vessels already, although Feldwebel Thome had to retreat because of taking excessive damage. Major Drum arrived at the end to help us cleanse the remains.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Hauptmann Michael Wittmann,
Rheinwehr Kreuzer Abteilung 101 "Seydlitz".
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