PRIORITY: Medium
ENCRYPTION: Medium
IDENTIFICATION: Wachmann Rolf Schönau
SOURCE: Battleship Westfalen
SUBJECT: Patrol Report
Guten tag, headquarters. You're going to like this one, I think.
I was performing a patrol throughout the Hamburg system utilizing the new Condor gunboat, "SEK-Frankfurt.Flug", we recently stationed with the Battleship Westfalen. With Detektiv Müller's go-ahead, I asked the maintenance crew to affix police lights and see about installing a MOX intake engine, to better suit police pursuit operations. Good thing too, because during my patrol I encountered a Hogosha luxury liner of all things, designation "General.Khan", making a beeline for the Hudson jump anomaly in the Kielfeld. But she wasn't hauling rich, snobby passengers, no sir. Her hold was full to bursting with artifacts and relics. [ ------ ]
This is where it gets good. The captain starts gabbing about how he's taking them a research facility on planet Manhattan, and that the chief of LPI has given him an illegal goods transport permit. I don't know why he thought that mattered to me, because if he'd really thought that those papers were good in Rheinland, he'd have been using the lanes instead of going wide around the sun, I suspect. The lack of the vessel's presence within our registries further cements his wrongdoing. I laid down the fact that he had to surrender the artifacts and pay the fine, and he began to act particularly evasive, behaving like our business was concluded, edging towards the jump hole, and generally trying to make me look like an idiot. [ ------ ]
Despite me being way too patient with him, he eventually bolted through to Hudson. I followed, and the dummkopf captain declares "the Polizei have no authority here!". Apparently the fact that he was still in our half of the system, not Liberty's, didn't occur to him. I'd given him enough of a chance, and he kept trying to move away once I made him aware he was still in my jurisdiction, so I engaged. The vessel returned fire with all weapons and attempted to destroy my ship rather than flee to Liberty. This error in judgement led to the whittling down of his hull, and eventual destruction. [ --- ]
I put in a call for a transport to recover the evidence to be ferried to New Berlin. While I guarded the wreckage, a Liberty Navy pilot crossed into our half of the system to investigate the disturbance. We discussed the matter briefly, and he assured me that Liberty was giving no official sanction for artifact smugglers, as he regularly intercepts them himself. He departed and returned to Liberty territory, and the Saarbrucken, with Detektiv Müller at the helm, arrived to receive the evidence. You can ask him to provide proof of delivery to planet New Berlin. [ --- ]
I brought the Frankfurt Flug back to Westfalen for repair and rearmament. I'd say she's more than fit for service.
[12.08.2017 03:04:31] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Attention. Halt your vessel for inspection.
[12.08.2017 03:04:32] General.Khan: Greetings
[12.08.2017 03:04:58] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Well now. Quite a medley of artifacts you got, Hogosha.
[12.08.2017 03:05:14] General.Khan: I have a permit for this sir, it is vital material for better alien understanding
[12.08.2017 03:05:28] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Is that so? Then why bother flying off the lanes?
[12.08.2017 03:05:39] General.Khan: I can tell you where im taking this for teasherch
[12.08.2017 03:05:50] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: By all means, enlighten me.
[12.08.2017 03:05:53] General.Khan: reasherch
[12.08.2017 03:06:20] General.Khan: This goes to a highly tech laboratory on Manhattan
[12.08.2017 03:06:50] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: You don't say. Purple rocks going to a high tech laboratory.
[12.08.2017 03:06:56] General.Khan: yes
[12.08.2017 03:07:13] General.Khan: with this Artifact technology decoded
[12.08.2017 03:07:20] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Well here's your problem. This isn't Liberty.
[12.08.2017 03:07:25] General.Khan: we might develop better weapons
[12.08.2017 03:07:35] General.Khan: to fight of the Alien threat
[12.08.2017 03:07:49] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: And while the Hogosha have applied for exemptions of other cargo, I don't see artifacts on the list.
[12.08.2017 03:08:00] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Nor do I see any permit of yours in the registry.
[12.08.2017 03:08:12] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: You know where I'm going with this?
[12.08.2017 03:08:16] General.Khan: Do you see others with permit for these things too??
[12.08.2017 03:08:45] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: As a matter of fact, very few. Considering artifacts are -highly- illegal in Rheinland, that shouldn't surprise anyone.
[12.08.2017 03:08:56] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Least of all you, pal.
[12.08.2017 03:09:09] General.Khan: The LPI gave me this permit with very good reason sir
[12.08.2017 03:09:23] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: That little permit you have in your hold doesn't mean squat compared to the Restricted Cargo Registry I'm looking at.
[12.08.2017 03:09:32] General.Khan: Im no small time smuggler, i do research
[12.08.2017 03:09:33] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Maybe ask the LPI about that next time.
[12.08.2017 03:10:04] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Well, I'm sure once you sort things out with the proper -Rheinland- authorities, they'd be happy to let you fly.
[12.08.2017 03:10:06] General.Khan: Well i had no idea it was very ileggal in Rheinland
[12.08.2017 03:10:24] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Crack open our law code next time you're on the toilet captain.
[12.08.2017 03:10:38] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: For now, I'm going to have to ask you to jettison all your xeno relics and artifacts.
[12.08.2017 03:10:51] General.Khan: Sir
[12.08.2017 03:10:56] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: As well as contributing a fine of four million Sirius credits for the infraction.
[12.08.2017 03:11:01] General.Khan: this is a high priority cargo
[12.08.2017 03:11:12] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Well then Liberty can cry us a river.
[12.08.2017 03:11:14] General.Khan: and it must be delivered att all costs
[12.08.2017 03:11:38] General.Khan: We can work this out
[12.08.2017 03:11:42] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Is it worth the lives of you and your crew, captain? If it's so important, you should've done the paperwork.
[12.08.2017 03:12:01] General.Khan: Im willing to contact the Rheinland authorities right now
[12.08.2017 03:12:21] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: I'm not gonna sit here and burn MOX while you write a Neural-Net brief.
[12.08.2017 03:12:39] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: The artifacts, captain. Space 'em.
[12.08.2017 03:15:04] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Look captain, this is getting tedious. You can try and make a run for the hole if you want, but it won't do us either any
[12.08.2017 03:15:06] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: good.
[12.08.2017 03:15:39] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Four million credits isn't worth the ship or the crew.
[12.08.2017 03:15:57] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: All you have to do is dump the artifacts, pay the fine, and I'll say you were -very- cooperative.
[12.08.2017 03:16:00] General.Khan: Give me a 7 second moment and please look at " something imortant" on the pannnel
[12.08.2017 03:16:15] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Maybe then you'll have better luck applying for your "scientific" exemption.
[12.08.2017 03:16:41] General.Khan: Thank you sir
[12.08.2017 03:16:53] General.Khan: you are very kind
[12.08.2017 03:17:03] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Hold it right there!
[12.08.2017 03:17:28] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: I didn't say "you're free to go sir, screw the laws of Rheinland".
[12.08.2017 03:17:35] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: I said drop the cargo and pay your fine.
[12.08.2017 03:17:42] General.Khan: yes i understand
[12.08.2017 03:17:44] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Play me the fool again at your own peril.
[12.08.2017 03:17:59] General.Khan: you are no fool in my book
[12.08.2017 03:18:08] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: I'm dropping your shields so you get the point.
[12.08.2017 03:18:13] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Hold onto your butt.
[12.08.2017 03:18:31] General.Khan: hey
[12.08.2017 03:18:35] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: That doesn't mean "run away".
[12.08.2017 03:18:50] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: It means "pay up or I take your hull next".
[12.08.2017 03:19:08] General.Khan: yes sir
[12.08.2017 03:19:18] General.Khan: how much
[12.08.2017 03:19:24] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: You're still moving.
[12.08.2017 03:19:38] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Jettison the artifacts first.
[12.08.2017 03:19:46] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Then you pay four million-
[12.08.2017 03:20:07] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: You try to be patient with them and this is how it goes. Get ready to pay.
[12.08.2017 03:20:12] General.Khan: you have no jursdiction here sir
[12.08.2017 03:20:27] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: As a matter of fact I do. The entire southern half of the system in fact.
[12.08.2017 03:20:31] General.Khan: The Hudson is of limits to RFP
[12.08.2017 03:20:55] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Only as far as Atka and Sector 4/5 borders.
[12.08.2017 03:21:06] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Meaning you, are very much still screwed if you don't play ball.
[12.08.2017 03:21:20] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Last chance. Drop them now or I melt your hull.
[12.08.2017 03:21:44] General.Khan: thius will be on your report card sir
[12.08.2017 03:21:50] General.Khan: if you dont let me go
[12.08.2017 03:22:00] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: I'm counting on it. Might even get me a promotion.
[12.08.2017 03:22:18] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Times up. See you on the other side, captain.
[12.08.2017 03:27:38] Death: General.Khan was put out of action by RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug (Gun).
[12.08.2017 03:27:57] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: *sigh* What a shame.
[12.08.2017 03:30:18] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: What's this?
[12.08.2017 03:30:23] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Guten tag, pilot.
[12.08.2017 03:30:48] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Intriguing catch you have there.
[12.08.2017 03:30:59] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: This is the debris field left by the remains of an artifact smuggler, ja.
[12.08.2017 03:31:02] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Smuggler, I take it?
[12.08.2017 03:31:07] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Ah, of course.
[12.08.2017 03:31:24] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Well, I suppose it's on your side of the border more than on hours.
[12.08.2017 03:31:41] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Indeed. Which makes me wonder why you're so close to our gate, in fact.
[12.08.2017 03:31:43] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: I take it that you have a recovery team en route then?
[12.08.2017 03:31:58] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Also correct.
[12.08.2017 03:32:02] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Picked up the traffic, wanted to see what was going on.
[12.08.2017 03:32:14] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: One stopped smuggler, it seems.
[12.08.2017 03:32:23] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: You have my regards in that matter.
[12.08.2017 03:32:45] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: That's why I'm here. He was saying he had some sort of permit from the LPI chief, though.
[12.08.2017 03:32:56] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: *snorts*
[12.08.2017 03:32:56] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Is Liberty sanctioning artifact haulers these days?
[12.08.2017 03:33:30] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: As I regularly run reports on smugglers, not that I've noticed.
[12.08.2017 03:34:01] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: But I suppose that's an inter-police matter if you wish to raise it with the LPI.
[12.08.2017 03:34:11] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: I doubt you'll find anything of credence, though.
[12.08.2017 03:34:42] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Well, I'll leave you to your catch.
[12.08.2017 03:34:48] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: I don't think so either, to be honest. I'd hardly trust the word of a desperate smuggler anyways.
[12.08.2017 03:34:56] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: Rolf: Appreciated. Guten flug, pilot.
[12.08.2017 03:38:44] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Oh, and in case the smuggler tries again, do you have a ship registry for it?
[12.08.2017 03:39:27] RFP|SEK-Frankfurt.Flug: The designation was "General.Khan". Hogosha. Luxury Liner.
[12.08.2017 03:39:35] [LN]-Alan.Polstari: Copy that.