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[color=#009900]Comm ID: Feldwebel Viktor Niklovach
Location: Battleship Strausberg

Priority: High
Report #: 12
Subject: Patrol/Battle Report

Guten tag mein comrades. Today was gut ja. Lots of zhings to report ja. First of all, began my patrol starting from Das Strausberg to Dresden to make a complete patrol of das system. All was calm, but did run across a Dauman miner in the clouds west of Leizpig Station. Ended up heading back out of das system and continued my patrol onward to das Stuttgart system.

Dresden Patrol Map
Scan Log

Had laid out mein way-points towards zhe Omega-11 Jumpgate, had made it zhere safely without any interruptions. While heading back to continue towards zhe Omega-7 jumpgate, I had ran across a few vessels. One of them unfortunately was a mad man. I had ordered him to proceed to his destination but he had continue to keep a ~50M distance next to my vessel in his transport. Not only had he disobeyed Militar orders he had begun to ram my vessel. Fortunately for him I was kind to him and told him one last time to leave my sight. Unfortunately, zhe scum is slightly messed up in das membrane. Along with zhe support of Herr Fleischer, we had taken care of this pest and arrested him for harassment of a Militar pilot, interfering with Militar objectives, and congesting traffic near Planet Suttgart.

Scan Log 2
Stuttgart Patrol Map

Soon after, a Corsair was spotted near orbit and I had began my pursuit. I had shortly caught back up to him halfway between Planet Stuttgart, and Planet Baden Baden. I had ordered him to leave Rhienland space. But he had replied by stating he was on a recon mission, and found that I would be a suitable prize claim. To defend myself and das people of Stuttgart, I had engaged him. Shortly after engaging I had destroyed zhe Corsair, unfortunately zhe whereabouts of his escape pod are unknown.

Guncam

During zhis engagement I had an alert message from a Kruger Employee and Captain, Herr Otto. He had informed me zhat two pirates sighted in New Berlin and heading towards Sigma-13 where threatening our trading. I had set out to Sigma-13 to pursue zhis criminals. While en route in Frankfurt, Herr Voelkel had contacted me. I had proceeded to Hegoland to sit and wait for zhese criminals while Voelkel waited in Frankfurt at das Sigma-13 jumpgate. After some wait zhey had appeared on scanners. Being zhe fools they are, zhey had in the end fled back to zheir rock holes. Transportation had continued after some delay.

Busy tag ja?

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Gefreiter McDowell reporting on an earlier incident which I believe to be of importance.

Whilst flying my personal transport the Alsatia through the Nordheide asteroid field on personal business, I detected the presence of another vessel on the radar. At first I thought it to be part of a Military patrol however upon investigating the ship I found it to be adrift - seemingly dead in space.

I closed in on the ship and visually examined it. It appeared to have significant external damage and was not active in any way. There was no pilot on board nor any visible remains thereof.

I took a number of photographs using the Alsatia's external camera for the purposes of this report. I came to the understanding that the ship had been drifting for many years using several indicators related to the condition of the craft.

It is one of the early 90-ARKM-N9 "Valkyre" models of fighter. This is substantiated by the build and ship identification numbers which were imprinted onto the exterior of the hull. The date of construction is stamped as 07-12-799 A.S. This of course means the vessel was built prior to - and was likely lost during - the 800-801 A.S Nomad War, as according to my understanding this class of ship has not been in production for some time. My belief is also based on further reasons detailed further below.

After assessing the wreckage I had it brought aboard my transport and stored. Originally I had intended to return it to Mecklenburg for proper identification of the ship itself and - if necessary - confirmation of the fate of whoever had been flying it at the point of its demise.

However - and this is where things became interesting - the weaponry that the vessel had equipped (or, what was left of it) was of a design I've never seen before. I thought for one moment that it bore experimental weaponry from the Nomad War - at which point I immediately isolated it from myself and my crew and inspected it with great care.

Intermingled within the mechanical aspects of the weapons themselves was what appeared to be a dull purple sponge-like growth - an organic material. It had long since died, however it had laid undisturbed inside the craft whilst it sat adrift in the asteroid field. This same material was discovered in small amounts throughout the parts of the ship that I dared to search.

At this moment the wreckage is secured in my custody whilst I await further action from high command. I believe it should be moved to Munster Research Station for further investigation. I have chosen to isolate my ship from Mecklenburg to avoid any potential contamination however I am in close proximity to it at this time.

Gefreiter McDowell signing out.