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SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Battleship Strausberg,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin.
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[font=Verdana][color=#33CC00]SUBMITTER: [color=#FFCC00]Admiral Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
[color=#33CC00]RECIPIENT: [color=#FFCC00]Rheinland Military High Command, MND Directorate.
[color=#33CC00]SUBJECT: [color=#FFCC00]Observations of extra-terrestrial entities, 11. 23. 818.

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The following report is highly classified and any unauthorized access to it will be dealt with a capital punishment, filed strictly for the eyes of the MND and Rheinwehr leaderships. What we witnessed may be a crucial milestone in our research of the so-called "nomads" or their ability to communicate, collaborate and conduct combat.

Upon undocking from the Karlsruhe, I came to witness a strange contact moving around the area, little time did it take to classify the entity as a spatial life form of an alien origin. It was circling a Kujira-class transport, apparently one functioning as a mobile research vessel under the command of professor Vic Steiner. I have to assume the interest of the scientist was the life form, though I can't tell which ship attracted the other.

As soon as Gefreiter Helge and Feldwebel Landers arrived, I proceeded to stir the civilians away from the area, including the professor and her vessel who flew back to Stuttgart orbit. After scanning and collecting relevant information regarding the aerial life, I gave orders to Landers to engage the entity, which was also an accurate measuring of the alien's combat abilities.

As it appeared, the entity had no armaments, but was rather agile, I'd say much more agile than our Wraith-class fighter chasing it. Its shielding was relatively weak though, whenever Landers hit him, the xenomorph lost a considerable amount of what appeared to be a regenerating shield on it. The most surprising observation still is the fact that it had no projectile-based weapon systems.

Little could we foresee the consequences of our actions though. Landers stopped firing and little afterwards burst out in some trauma, screaming and howling in his cockpit, yet managing to create literate sentences. I ordered Gefreiter Helge to dispatch the threat, during which Professor Steiner, still in Stuttgart orbit with his mobile lab, noted the theory of us hurting the nomad potentially harming the Feldwebel too. He suggested there was some sort of telepathic link between the two as well. Of course, I rejected his theory at first, but as he offered to get Landers out of his cockpit and ferry him to Freiburg to receive medical attention in exchange of us ceasing fire, the pain of Landers ceased as soon as we disengaged, proving the professor right.

Landers passed out and was taken back Freiburg, during which I kept an eye on the alien contact. During that time of absence did I notice that the entity... may actually be able to communicate. Out of carelessness, I used my comms to insert taunts into the channel, to which I... received reply in the form of voices... inner voices of a sort. No, it was not a mere assumption or a though of my own, I literally felt something digging into my head, inserting alien thoughts there.

The Kujira-based laboratory soon returned, along with Helge. Our next steps were to lure the xenomorph away from Stuttgart space, given that neutralization failed. The professor attempted communicating with the life form, calling it "Being" as if it was its name, to which it responded with following the sizable vessel as it drifted away. I instructed the professor to steer his ship to Omega-11, where radiation may have killed the alien, but as we got to four or five kilometers away, the entity flew back to the abandoned ship of Feldwebel Landers. Apparently, it developed some fanatical attraction for the Wraith, or maybe Landers himself once he knocked the soldier out of action. From that point on, we failed at moving the any further.

Eventually, I deployed the repair ship Heimkehr and tasked it to tow the abandoned Wraith into the Karlsruhe. In the meantime, Gefreiter Helge was exchanged by Gefreiter Schmitt on watch, the area around the operation also getting more and more intense with the presence of other vessels, even though we blockaded commercial traffic.

The Heimkehr towed in the Feldwebel's vessel, surprisingly enough the xenomorph relentlessly followed the empty hull. It kept circling the battleship even as the Wraith disappeared into the Karlsruhe's docks after triggering a landing sequence. As it hopelessly tried avoiding the shelling of the battleship, Professor Steiner yet again tried establishing contact with the entity. Triggered by that, the alien left towards New Berlin, pursued by MND agent Trauer and a wingman of his.

It took me a few minutes to get into space and then pursue the target to Berlin, where I found the agent and his wingman, as well as another MND agent with a Phantom-class light fighter already attempting the destruction of the said vessel, or whatever it is. Alarmed by our previous experiences in regard of provoking these post-terrestrial fliers, I tried interfering with the combat, too late to prevent the retaliation.

This time, it materialized in the form of an additional two spatial blue-code specimens emerging from a nearby asteroid field, one of them, a slightly larger being, with projectile-based weaponry equipped. During the combat, I witnessed something never previously seen, also figuring out the role of the apparently unarmed entities. As the fighter, the one with the plasma weaponry, took apparent damage, its partners kept recharging its defense system, apparently a carapace of a sort, to the expense of their own integrity. Similar to what they call "nanobot sharing" in normal space warfare.

The combat lasted for about quarter an hour, during which Herr Schubert, the previously mentioned MND Agent in his Phantom was shot down. After that, the three contacts made an escape for the sun, each heavily damaged either by the sacrifice of their outer hull for their leader, or being damaged by the tachyon-armaments of the MND wing.

It is unknown whether the figures were melted away by the Berlin star or actually survived, it is for certain though that no more reports of unidentified flying organic life forms were reported in the past few hours. Kommissar Nussbaum of the Bundespolizei also contacted me about another pilot potentially affiliated with the "Wild", of course I gave him the standard tale of those being rogue Rheinwehr pilots on the field. No need to cause a stir and paranoia within the already shaken Bundespolizei, due to Putzkanner's death.

The reports of Feldwebel Landers and Agent Trauer should follow up soon, as well as a message from Nussbaum.

Signed,

Admiral Alec Voelkel.


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