This report documents the few notable events that I was able to observe over the past week. The first event in question occurred in the California system, myself and Herr Siegfried were patrolling the trade lanes for cargo to re-appropriate or hostiles to neutralize. We happened upon a small convoy of DSE trade vessels, one carrying approximately five-thousand tonnes of boron, this captain was fortunate to possess the common sense that evades most Libertonians and donated his cargo to the Kanzler before taking his leave or being destroyed.

The next and most recent encounter was indeed intriguing. I managed to intercept a large group of VWA accompanied by none other than the Liberty Navy in Hamburg. An object of note for this particular encounter was that the Liberty Navy appeared to be transferring repair ships to the VWA, their use for them at the moment is unknown. I am not sure why they elected to escort their goods with a large military patrol instead of disguising them with civilian transponders before entering our space. Visual documentation of this report will be attached below.

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PRIORITY: Low
ENCRYPTION: Low
IDENTIFICATION: Kommissaroberrat Voss
SOURCE: *CLASSIFIED*
SUBJECT: [ALG] Troubles.

Guten Tag,

Today we accomplished much, and successfully defended the integrity of our Fatherland. We started out patrolling the New York system, our mission was conduct a thread assessment of the DSE security forces and document any aggression, as well as survey any hostile military forces we could find. Both objectives were accomplished.

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Subterfuge - DSE
Status: Successful
Documentation: {|Column.1|}

The DSE security forces acted naturally, responding to our attempts to plunder their transport vessels with a defensive posture. Unlike many hostile entities, however, they show restraint when parleyed and will only fight. At the moment, they appear to only engage us only when we are aggressive, again - this is natural behaviour. We noticed that during our chat with the DSE security personnel, that it took an exceptionally long amount of time for non-reservist Liberty Navy personnel to confront us - this is exploitable. We can assume that this is due to the LN being stretched extremely thin across both the Rheinland, Gallic, and domestic fronts (Hellfire Legion, Xenos, Rogues, etc).

When said naval personnel responded, they pursued our squadron from New York to Hamburg, Westfalen to be specific. Luckily, we were able to assemble reinforcements from the RM and RFP and successfully crushed their assault on our sovereign space. Their squadron consisted of two gunboats, two fighters, and one mercenary; the mercenary was dispatched immediately, and the two gunboats were eliminated shortly after their fighter escort abandoned them.

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HOMELAND DEFENSE - Liberty Navy
Participants: RM, RFP, BDM
Status: Incursion repelled, no casualties
Documentation: {|Column.2|}

During the prelude to this battle, our objective was to propagate or observe a tactical error in the LN formation to exploit in the future. The procedure was simple - attempt to goad them into our own territory, assess tactical behaviour, and eliminate. Unsurprisingly, we succeeded, and the LN formation followed us from their core systems to Hamburg, even engaging in a standoff with us next to the Westfalen whilst we gathered reinforcements to encircle and destroy them. Why they chose to fight us on our own ground and give us time to reinforce is uncertain, it can only be assumed that it was a matter of overconfidence. If they continue this behaviour, they can be further exploited and defeated in the future.