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A little extension to the report of Hollweg, regarding our duty for Queen Carina:
By the time the second wing arrived to Omega-3 at 21:13 SMT, Feldwebel Austerlitz has already taken down a Titan and was working on the second one. We read four contacts; two gunboats, a fighter and some sort of Kusarian bomber at combat readiness.
At first the Corsairs appeared to be preparing to hit the nearby asteroid field and I was willing to let them go, but after a few minutes of hesitation they seemed reluctant on leaving the area so I ordered the wings to dispose of them. The Corsair gunboats headed for the asteroid field regardless, whether they were retreating or it was a bad taste of tactics to take cover in the field with gunboats, it is unknown to me.
We lost the fighters of Hollweg and Reims in the first few minutes, then we took down one of their Imperators, labeled "Shaulanca's revenge 20" successfully. As we were heading for the gunboat Revenge 1, which appeared to contain some sort of leader figure, we also lost Leutnant Kreuzchen in the process.
That was three unexpected casualties in the first few minutes, so far the wing's performance was disappointing, and in the meantime an additional Titan fighter arrived, so the opposing force outnumbered and outgunned the surviving three vessels; that being me, Leutnant Meyer and Feldwebel Austerlitz.
We couldn't make any notable progress with the gunboat from there on, its gunners were rather efficient by spraying projectiles at us with a speed that's rare to encounter. I gave orders to destroy the Kusarian vessel, labeled Revenge 16, so we took it down successfully.
With the arrival of a Daumann escort vessel, we shifted fire back at the gunboat, but the pilot was reluctant to hit the designated target and instead started dueling a Titan which shredded him to pieces.
What happened afterwards was a stall in combat. We were making minor damage to the enemy fighters and in turn the Corsair gunboat was firing at us, so we had to concentrate in surviving long enough for reinforcements to arrive. As opposed to our expectations, only a third Corsair fighter, a Gladiator arrived and entered combat, no allied vessel signed in until little before 11 PM. At that point, our fighter wing was heavily damaged.
Eventually, we picked up the comms of two Armed Forces patrol vessels, parallel to it Gefreite Reginleif and Vizeadmiral Putzkammer also singed in. They arrived to the scene little after a fifth Corsair ship, a Black Sails bomber designated as Vasquez did and engaged the hostiles.
We destroyed the gunboat which appeared to have shocked the enemy force, then the Sails bomber. The remaining three vessels put up slight resistance then fled the area.
Well, the engagement could have been more successful and would have been resolved more efficiently without the premature loss of literally half our wing. Our recruits obviously need more training at handling live situations, the Omega sector has been exceptionally cruel and we don't want them to get demoralized by mere pirates and marauders.
I also believe the Armed Forces pilots were impressed, I do hope it occurs to them that it's not only their part of the Omegas that needs additional attention.
Signed,
Admiral Alec Voelkel,
Oberkommando der Rheinland Militär.
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