Message to: RHA Command
Comm ID: Conrad Egon, Leutnant
Location: Stralsburg Base, Omega-54
I've just made 250k with a single load of, eh, acquired Daumann diamonds. Three Humpbacks were courteous enough to "lend" me their cargoes. And this rate will increase manyfold when our new transport-class ships are completed soon...I look forward to getting my hands on a larger ship for this task.
Also, yesterday I went and picked up my wife and children from Freistadt. It isn't that I don't trust the IMG people there; it's that I don't trust the Corsair raiders or Rheinland military that both operate nearby. I feel sure they will be much safer on Stralsburg. Besides, we have many pilots, but not many administrative assistants; my wife is already hard at work coordinating the distribution of goods between our bases and ships.
Meanwhile, my children were awed by Vogtland when we stopped by on our way to Omega-54...they'd never been in a hollowed-out asteroid before, and made me promise to bring them back in a week so they could play there.
I would deny them this, but is their freedom not what we are fighting for in the first place? So that they can play and be children without fearing for their lives? So I will bring them, so they can sit in the cockpit of one of the prototype Odins and pretend to be fighter pilots, and run around in the empty hold of my commerce raider counting the imaginary Corsairs they've captured, and sliding down the slope of the make-believe diamond mound they've created.
Though I would be proud to see them fly fighters of their own someday, I truly hope we are victorious before then. Nonetheless, we will, as always, do what we must.
