Message to: RHA and allies
Comm ID: Conrad Egon
Location: Vogtland Base, Dresden
We tried. That much I can say. Our staunch ally, RLB Wolf, contacted me earlier today from the New Berlin side of the Frankfurt jump gate. I reminded him that the RM would be able to tell we were in system before jumping in, but hoped they might be too weary from battle to notice. So I joined him there, with the intention of harrassing RM forces as they returned from repelling some sort of Corsair battlegroup.
After the chatter of battle died down, though, they did not come. Fearing they were resupplying before returning home, we decided to take the offensive and go through the gate. Wolf went first - but no sooner had he jumped than three RM pilots came through! Wolf engaged fighters on the Frankfurt side of the gate, and I, with a cry of "For the Fatherland!", engaged the fighters on the New Berlin side.
I do not know if they were resupplied, but their ships were undamaged. At least two of them were Wraths...I managed to damage one of them before their combined fire - and that of the jump gate's plasma turrets and several merchant escorts - threatened to overwhelm me. I went into cruise; they did not pursue or try to knock me out of cruise.
It was then that I noticed Wolf's plight. He was trapped in Frankfurt! I searched the nearby asteroids for a jump hole I could use to reach him, but alas, before I could find it his fighter was destroyed and communications ceased. I hid in the asteroids until the remainder of the RM forces returned to planet New Berlin to celebrate their victory, then slipped into the Frankfurt system to retrieve Wolf's escape pod. Thankfully, the RM hadn't noticed it, or simply didn't care, or their holds were full of captured Corsairs.
So, we harrassed them, but it was a last-minute effort against odds that were simply too steep; and we were separated, which was the final nail in the plan's coffin. I doubt they'll even mention Wolf and I's attack in their logs...but we learn from our mistakes, and become stronger with every encounter.
