I was requested to give you a detailed report on the patrols the Rheinwehr took part in during our stay in Kusari space, so allow me to begin.
Today there were two sorties, both going with dubious success. We launched from Kyushu with Oberfeldwebel Landers and Flieger Von Manstein to participate in a patrol with an Imperial Guard destroyer, the IKN Kirishima.
As we were preparing to depart from planetary orbit, an entire convoy of cardamine smugglers under an Outcast registry appeared from the trade lane, consistent of two unregistered transport vessels and a single Sabre escort.
As soon as the ships reached the end of the lane, they've hit cruise, luckily two of three Rheinwehr vessels were armed with disruptors so we quickly disrupted both transport vessels. One of them, designated as Sava, opened up on the Kirishima along with the escort fighter, after finding no possibility to flee. We immediately received execution permission from the destroyer, as a response the transport attempted an emergency landing on Kyushu and failed at it.
The escort fighter attempted to use the trade lane to get away thereafter, a well-aimed razor shot launched by Flieger Von Manstein destroyed the ship in the automated docking sequence. Only the last transport, the Steb was left, which put up the fiercest resistance as Oberfeldwebel Landers was the only one engaging it until we were clear above the planet. As soon as we got close however, the Steb also ran for the planet and without learning from the fate of his colleague, also failed the emergency landing.
The smuggler convoy was nullified in a matter of minutes, the substance they were carrying was destroyed in space.
After that event... something less comfortable happened... I uhm...
Well, we found ourselves surrounded by the local revolutionary forces soon after the convoy was taken care of, apparently they wished to retaliate our success, as we were informed some of the local rebels are related to the Outcasts in a lot of ties.
While the Kirishima and an arriving gunboat, the Jintsu was handling a gunboat and a bomber, the Rheinwehr patrol wing fell under fire by two "Blood Dragon" very heavy fighters, Juntoku Geniji and Nasu no Yoichi.
I... can't... can't say the engagement ended in our favor...
Admittedly, these two pilots equaled to the skill of the Liberty Navy's top pilots, the Gold Wing. Our escort was consistent of conventional Rheinwehr personnel, we didn't last long against this pair. We lost a pair of Wraiths, mine was heavily damaged, but repaired in a few hours.
As we were informed, the rebels left the area as soon as the KPT arrived.
Later on, me and Generalleutnant Felicia Drum assisted the Naval Forces on a larger scale patrol. Daii Kogan Ryu led the sortie, we had two objectives at hand.
The first one was the interception of smugglers in the Taus, we moved into Tau-29 until Freeport 6, where we indeed ran across a slaver and a luxury liner, in possession of a large quantity of cardamine. The Liner, Pleasure's playground (or "Playground-san" as the Daii was referring to it) refused to comply with the Naval Forces' orders to relinquish the substance and instead, along with the slaver vessel, the Arkania, they both docked Freeport 6.
In that process, a Zoner Fearless, the IKS Vor'cha undocked and after brief negotiations, we agreed to leave the area.
Our next waypoint was Shikoku, where we were meant to supervise the trade embargo to Liberty. No notable events happened there, aside me and the Generalleutnant successfully making acquaintance with additional high ranking Naval Forces and Imperial Guard personnel.
That is all for today.
I would also like to note that the Kreuzer Seydlitz, with escort wing Alpha departed from Kusari and successfully reached New Berlin. Some Rheinwehr personnel were left behind, either to conduct additional negotiations or to enjoy the "vacation" some more.
The list of personnel remaining in Kusari is as follows:
Vizeadmiral Hans Putzkammer (stayed behind to arrange a ship deal)
Generalleutnant Felicia Drum (stayed behind to organize the second portion of the Rheinwehr return)
Leutnant Wotan Schuster (stayed behind to report on the patrols/assist Drum)
Oberfeldwebel Joahim Landers (whereabouts unknown)
Gefreiter Sasha Reginleif (whereabouts unknown, possibly related to some personnel exchange thing)
Again, thank you for your hospitality and we will keep doing our best to assist you in whatever security needs you have as long as we're here.
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