Here the patrol and engagement report from today. Unfortunately the pictures from the Omega-11 patrol have been lost due to radiation damage.
The Admiral ordered all available Truppen to the Strausberg this evening.
Following his call were: Leutnant Kreuzchen, Feldwebel Austerlitz, Flieger Nelson, Rekrut von Reims and myself.
Leutnant Meyer joined us later when he was available.
I was ordered to form up on Leutnant Kreuzchen for a patrol in Omega-11 and Omega-7. Rekrut von Reims joined us on the patrol. Our Gruppe started moving immediately and arrived at Omega-11 without any incidents. Once we were there we patrolled the whole system and except the radiation slowly eating away our hulls nothing worth mentioning in this report happened. After the Omega-11 patrol we moved to Omega-7, getting our hulls fixed at Schlachtschiff Karlsruhe on the way. Feldwebel Austerlitz joined us for the Omega-7 patrol, which should not be as quiet as the one in O-11. We got readings of two unidentified ships on our scanners somewhere in the mining fields so we flew in to investigate. These contacts revealed themself to be Rote Hessen fighters. Leutnant Kreuzchen, Feldwebel Austerlitz and Rekrut von Reims engaged them while I stayed above the fight monitoring the scanners for further contacts and ready to assist if necessary.
The Admiral and Flieger Nelson joined us during the fight. In the meantime we had split up, Leutnant Kreuzchen and Feldwebel Austerlitz were going after one of the Hessen, while Rekrut von Reims fought the other one. The first Hesse was destroyed but the other one fleed after the Admiral joined the fight.
After the Hessen have been pushed back, the Admiral took the lead of the first Gruppe, now consisting of Leutnant Kreuzchen, Rekrut von Reims, the Admiral himself and me. The second Gruppe (Leutnant Meyer und Feldwebel Austerlitz) was to further Patrol the Omegas, Flieger Nelson signed off. First Gruppe then moved to a frontline patrol in Hudson and Bering.
In Bering we then received via comms that second Gruppe was in trouble.
We made our way to assist the second Gruppe in Omega-3 on the double and when we finally arrived we were welcomed by two corsair gunboats, one corsait bomber and a corsair fighter.
The Admiral gave the order to engage and both Gruppen attacked the targets.
During the following fight my Wraiths hull got severly damaged and I had to eject, but not before one of the enemy gunboats went down. After the fight had dragged away from the location of my escape pod, I was picked up by one of our support vessels and brought back to Schlachtschiff Strausberg.