[font=Verdana][color=#33CC00]SUBMITTER: [color=#FFCC00]Feldwebel Paul Landers, Rheinland Military. [color=#33CC00]RECIPIENT: [color=#FFCC00]Patrol report database. [color=#33CC00]SUBJECT: [color=#FFCC00]Battle report of 16. 03. 818.
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Hello there, old men! Admirals, Majors and Leutnants... including my favorite Joachim, this is Feldwebel Paul Landers reporting!
We had a little tussle in Stuttgart today, which began with the most boring escort assignment ever!
While I was getting my new disruptor missile installed on the Moselle, a guy contacted me on long-range comms, asking for an escort. Not even remotely suspiciously of the fact that it was actually, a Barge intending to pass through Rheinland, I headed for Omega-7 as soon as my launcher was installed.
Needless to say, after suffering a slight shock caused by the ship's size, me and Feldwebel "not fat, just comfortably plush" Tauber started escorting the monstrosity to Mainz, which was its destination.
The process would have taken a considerably long time, seeing how it took me three cigarettes just to oversee the Barge trying to dock with a trade lane. Luckily, there were certain elements which made our journey more interesting.
The first one was a Corsair Titan, registered to some Bretonian terrorist organization called the Gaians, with a Universal IFF. He opened fire at Tauber who in turn, took him out with a burst or two.
About two decades later, when we reached the New Berlin gate, some random LWB peasant tried to sell us bananas for 8 million credits. We weren't too keen on his offer, so while the Barge got stuck into the jump gate, he called some buddies and they began attacking the poor hunk of junk.
Me and Tauber tried putting up a defense, but apparently supernovas work faster when applied to giant flying factories than vipers when applied to the launchers of the supernovas. Thus, the Barge was grilled and its few billion tons of copper was left for the Junkers.
I have to admit though, it made a nice explosion.
At any rate, we pursued the peasants, one of them rammed the Barge with her Nova launcher as she was about to go down, I assume she wanted to do some additional damage before she bit the dust in some sort of fanatical suicide run. The other bomber ran for it, the two fighters attempted to give us a fight but one of them died and the other ran off too.
I also ran out of cigarettes. That's about it.
Signed,
Feldwebel Paul Landers,
21. Kriegsmarine-Division,
Rheinwehr Hauptflotte.