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Submitter: Hauptfeldwebel Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
Subject: Patrol Report #18


Guten Tag Piloten,

I have to admit, I was starting to get worried if I was ever going to see space again, but the massive ion storm suddenly passed away. It was astonishing to see the Rheinland traffic and trade being re-established so quickly, although that brought the smugglers and embargo runners along aswell.

I began my duties with embargo supervision, Feldwebel Kreuzchen soon joined me near Planet Hamburg. The first issue to deal with was a Freelancer merchant, a Percheron class transport designated as Dagon.Transport. He hailed us on system comms as he entered Hamburg, so we coordinated him to Planet Hamburg for a routine inspection. The ship complied and I ordered Herr Kreuzchen to run a scan on the Transport's hold. Luckily enough, I ran a routine scan on the ship aswell, since Herr Kreuzchen failed to notice the hundreds of Gaian livestock species stuffed into the Percheron's hold. I informed the ship's captain regardling the Kanzler's laws, and made him relinquish the content of his cargo bay for confiscation. He followed my orders without trouble and due to the lack of any specialists to be found on spot, we had to destroy the Gaian species which the Dagon formerly had in its hold. It turned out that the merchant was contracted by a Cambridge researcher, but since he failed to equip the transport with the proper researcher license, he was not authorised to carry his hold into Rheinland.

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Shortly afterwads, we picked up a Freelancer fighter on our sensors, one that seemed to have been assembled purely out of scrap. The pilot, David Saferight, stopped as soon as we ordered him to do so, although he seemed to be in a hurry. During the scan of his cargo hold, me and Kreuzchen discovered three pieces of unknown organic things, most probably still alive in the pilot's cargo hold. I am more than certain they were nomads or something related. We had to act quick and since no MND agents were available, we ordered the Freelancer to jettison the alien things into space. Luckily, the things were secured in some pod, so they didn't attack us. I ordered Kreuzchen to eliminate the strange things with a salvo of Tachyon. During the trial on the spot, we determined that the Freelancer didn't know what the things he had on board were and what dangers they posed, but we didn't fill him in on our anticipations, mostly because we were yet unaware of what those things exactly were. We authorised him to leave Rheinland and told him to watch out for what he tractors in while flying in unmapped space. After that incident, Feldwebel Kreuzchen left, and Fridrich Heinz, a reserve pilot came to replace him.

Recorded scan of Saferight's cargo hold.

Our next client was not so co-operative. An IMG Atlas class transport under a Freelancer registration code showed up at Hamburg, designated as beasboy.GL. The ship's captain didn't stop for inspection as ordered, we caught him just a moment before him taking the lane to Westfalen. I ran a scan on his cargo hold, which indicated him being in possession of a full hold of Plutonium. I asked the captain where the shipment was going, he admitted that he was shipping to Pennsylvania, that being Liberty territory. I informed him on our hostile status with the House, but he initiated the trade lane sequence to Westfalen just as I was accessing the comms. Luckily enough, I ordered Herr Heinz to move a lane further before that happened, so the reserve pilot was quick enough to prevent the embargo runner from escaping. The beasboy.GL further attempted to elude us by engaging its cruise engines and firing countermeasures as a response to our disruptors, but didn't manage to escape. Eventually, the captain of the transport stopped trying to evade us and started saying something like "read the rules" and we "dont have the rite", however we didn't succeed in figuring out what he wanted to achieve with these senseless statements. We gave him several warning to drop his cargo, then I ordered Herr Heinz to fire a warning salvo at the ship's shields. The beasboy.GL responded with trying to engage some cloaking device, which is something we couldn't allow to happen. We started firing at the ship with all guns, ripping the transport's hull apart. I tried to contact the ALG Waste Disposal to bring the radioactive material back to Dortmund, but failing to do so, we blew the shipment of Plutonium up with a mine after evaquating the area.

Scan of the Bestboy's cargo hold.
Communications log.

Nothing worthy of being detailed happened afterwards besides a smaller encounter with a Freelance miner and a remarkably weird Junker vessel. We did a smaller patrol around Berlin and Dresden with Herr Heinz and I landed on the Strausberg afterwards.

Hauptfeldwebel Voelkel signing off.

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Submitter: Hauptfeldwebel Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
Subject: Patrol Report #19


Guten Tag Piloten,

It's been a while since we last had an encounter with the Red Hessian Army, the miners whose fighting skills never fail to impress me. Despite that, they are nowhere near the glorious Rheinwehr, we managed to be victorious over superior numbers.

Our ships were scrambled to respond to a call issued by the Altenburg in Dresden. The commander of the battleship notified us of several Hessian ships flying around the sector, probably massing for a larger attack on the ship or one of the nearby mining operations. The operation was led by Major Westerman, me, Hauptfeldwebel Weissman and Hauptgefreiter Drum were his wingmen. Upon our arrival to Dresden, we were ordered to commence a search for the enemy vessels, fortunately it was no difficulty locating them, taking into account that they were hiding in the vulcanic asteroid field near the Altenburg.

Hauptgefreiter Drum approached the enemy first, the Saale, Major Westerman's gunboat and the rest of us followed. Our initial contacts were a Cruiser, the Aurora accompanied by the Derzky gunboat and two smaller craft, the Hoenir and the Molotov. They were told to lower their arms and surrender, however the subject soon drifted to a debate about the false communist ideology these miners followed. In the meantime, more and more Hessian ships kept pulling in, even members of the Red Hessian Army started to show up. Soon we found ourselves outnumbered, the Sharp_Eye, some rookie Hessian and four Red Hessian Army soldiers, Hans Becker, Adolf Hessler, Erich Heimdall and the Komet arrived to the scene. Major Westerman ordered us to back up torwards to Altenburg, while we called for reinforcements.

The Hessians didn't really take notice of the reason for our "tactical retreat". With the independent members as cannon fooder in the first line, they approached us and started shooting at our vessels, with the Saale in their priority. The Altenburg quickly finished off the Molotov, even before the rest of the Hessians charged their weapons. The Sharp_Eye was our next victim, either because of mere luck or because the pilot was inexperienced, our forces have made short work of him. The good beginning however was followed by a really misfortunate event, the Saale was destroyed by the Hessian forces.

After a short confusion, we managed to set the leadership back up, which was then divided between me and Hauptfeldwebel Weissman. We were heavily outnumbered, but thankfully our calls for backup weren't left unanswered. Flieger Sophi Keiste, the cruiser RNC-Dresden and the RNC-Sturmvolk battleship arrived to aid us, at least temporarily evening the odds a little. With the help of the Dresden, the Aurora was dispatched and the Derzky gunboat damaged. We soon lost the Dresden and the Heimdall-class ship started to flee with Hauptgefreiter Drum and me in pursuit, the two of us successfully took the gunship down eventually.

Unfortunately, the Derzky lured us too far out. We were late to return and help Flieger Keiste, who got her ship destroyed but ejected in time. I don't know how, but there were only four enemy ships left when we arrived to the scene. The RNC Sturmvolk had to stand down due to the danger of hitting us with the all those big guns, so me and Drum were were alone against the Hessians for a few minutes. I don't know where Weissman was, he probably got lured away just like we did, but he returned just in time. We blew up the Hoenir, with that evening the odds to three of our ships against three bearing RHA designations. After a brief firefight and the destrucion of Eric Heimdall's vessel, an LWB ship piloted by a strange acting man, Udo Ackermann arrived on scene and somehow blew up Weissman's slightly damaged ship. He seemed to be... rather emotional and regretting about that act, although that is no excuse for an act of terror.

Well, only two Hessians and the LWB ship remained against me and Herr Drum, Hans Becker weilding a bomber was the next one to go down. The firefight continued, but our last target, Adolf Hessler left off after running out of nanobots. We were exhausted to pursue. I wanted to confront Ackermann, the LWB pilot to understand his motives, but Herr Drum's razor was faster. The area was once again clear of hostiles.

It was an exhausting fight, we had to face immeasurable odds with only a small force available. The Kanzler's forces were again victorious against all those miners, even though the Hessian Army soldiers really put up a fight. I landed on the Altenburg to file this report, along with Herr Drum. Unfortunately, only us survived with our ships intact.

Quote:Here's a complete list of participants in the action:

Rheinland Military:

[RM-RNC]Saale<Destroyed>
[RM]-Hf.Gunter.Weissman<Destroyed>
[RM]Hf.Alec.Voelkel
[RM]Hg.Henrik.Drum
[RM]Fl.Sophi Keiste<Destroyed>
RNC-Dresden<Destroyed>

Rheinland Revolutionaries:

[RHA]HT-Hans.Becker. <Destroyed>
[RHA]Eric.Heimdall. <Destroyed>
[RHA]Adolph.Hessler <AWOL>
[RHA]Komet <AWOL>(?)
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Hoenir <Destroyed>
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Action Report for: Hauptfeldwebel Lenora Schneider
Filed on December 5th, 817 A.S.
Location: Hamburg
Action Type: Repulsion of Liberty Invaders (Class 4)

As I was just finishing paperwork and heading to sleep, the alarm sounded and I was called to duty. Admiral Engels was coordinating a defense group aboard the RNC-Emden, and engaged in combat against a Liberty fleet including heavy capital ships. Although I first went for my Bergelmir, the Liberty capital fleet was swiftly dismantled by our own and only their snub forces remained. I took my Wraith to the site of the battle outside Planet Hamburg, where I encountered not only the fight but also a familiar LWB by the name of Udo Ackermann. While his attitude and career path leaves something to be desired, when I called him to do his duty to Rheinland he happily darted into the fray and opened fire on the Liberty fighter squadron. My guncam was non-functional during the battle, but he, myself, and another pilot in a Wraith engaged multiple Primary Fleet fighters and bombers and destroyed all but one without casualties- the other fled from the scene to report their loss to his superiors. Several of our capital ships were heavily damaged by the enemy bombers while we worked to destroy them, and I suggest working on improving coordination between fighter wings and heavy support to minimize the danger to our own forces. While I am confidant the forces deployed by the Kriegsmarine were more than sufficient to defeat the Liberty attack team, I do believe that without Herr Ackermann's combat "heroics" we may have suffered casualties up to gunboat class... a most distressing thought.

Signed,
Hauptfeldwebel Lenora Schneider

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Submitter: Hauptfeldwebel Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
Subject: Patrol Report #21


Guten Tag Piloten,

This Friday's patrol began with the regulars. After performing a few pre-launch checks and undocking from the Moselle, I met Admiral Malte and Feldwebel Kreuzchen near the Strausberg to perform basic patrol duties.

We did a short patrol around New Berlin, then flew through Halle in order to make our way to Munich. Nothing interesting happened during our patrol, until we reached Frankfurt, where we ran across an SCRA terrorist disrupting the trade lane. He identified himself as Viktor Heinz and admitted his attempts to work against the Rheinland government.

Quickly, several rookie Hessian and Unioner fighter wings arrived on the spot to assist their 'comrade'. The Admiral ordered me and Kreuzchen to intercept the incoming hostiles while she tried to place the terrorist under arrest. I counted altogether six wings of rookies incoming, we had to keep them under constant fire in order to provide a safe ground for arrest, eventually the arrival of two Police rookie wings managed to take the pressure off us. I am not aware how the negotiations went, but I do know that the Admiral made the communist choose between firing squad or execution on spot. After a bit of hesitation, he chose the latter, me and Kreuzchen were told to take his ship out.

The fight was a tough one. The iron beast flown by Heinz managed to both repel damage and evade well. The enemy vessel crippled Kreuzchen's ship, while I was working on keeping his shields down. The Feldwebel somehow managed to use that opportunity and delivered a perfectly aimed SNAC projectile right into the enemy's hull, blowing the communist up to thousands of molten pieces. It was an impressive turn indeed.

Following that encounter, we returned to New Berlin to conduct repairs. I arranged a bay for me and Kreuzchen on Oder Shipyard, the engineers complied without questions. Kreuzchen's ship required longer term repairs, but I could resume my patrol in a few minutes. I didn't have to go far, as soon as I undocked, I spotted four Hessians flying different ships approaching New Berlin.

It was the usual holdup, a smaller attack group led by Vladimir Lenin, with Leo Trotzky, Bolverk and Eric Koehler on his wing. The rag-tag miliants started taunting me as usual, I didn't pay particular attention to their words, but the propaganda machine's presence directly above Berlin was indeed a threat to deal with, considering the civilian populace. Soon enough, Flieger Gustav Heinz and Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Weissman arrived to assist me, we were ready to deal with the threat. The usual arrest attempts took place, but instead of laying down their arms, the Hessians started shooting at the Police rookies flying around the area.

I ordered the Kriegsmarine to open fire at the hostiles. Eric Koehler was our first target, who seemed to be a loosely affiliated Hessian of some sort, flying a Werewolf-class fighter. His large-size ship was easy to hit, not to ignore the fact that he repeatedly tried to hit us with mines, which turned against him as soon as I responded with firing my cruise disruptors into his rear. He didn't last any longer than the others did. Lenin was the next, his crippled ship was destroyed by a mine jettisoned by Weissman. Bolverk left the area, leaving Trotzky, his buddy to be torn apart by the three of us.

We returned to New Berlin after the incident, the reserve ships took charge of cleaning up the area and a Bounty Hunter went after Bolverk to track him down. After a short troop inspection near New Berlin, we returned to our hangars on the planet.

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To: Rheinland Military
Sender: Hauptgefreiter Tomas Meinhardt

Guten tag meine herren. This is merely a suppliment to Frau Lenora Schneider's report. I was the other fighter involved in this attempted invasion by the Liberty Navy. While the Emden, Belagerung, Beigeschmack and the Gerechtigkeit were in defensive positions, Frau Schneider, Herr Ackermann and I fought against the Navy's Robinson, Kreager, Malrone and Launders.

The battlegroup opened fire as the Navy's bombers presented a threat to the gunboats that were on standby. Here is a guncam shot during the fight:





The Navy vessels repelled and those that fled were not pursued. Most ships of the battlegroup are in need of repair and new supplies from the shipyards. Also, as to what Frau Schneider had said, Herr Ackermann's 'interesting' behavior had indeed helped in the end.

Fur Rheinland!

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Submitter: Hauptfeldwebel Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
Subject: Patrol Report #22


Guten Tag Piloten,

A rather long day this was, unfortunately it didn't end well. We had to deal with numerous issues, some even rose to the ground of diplomacy. From lost GMG transports to a Red Hessian battlefleet, the glorious Rheinwehr marched, fought and when all odds were against us, perished with honor.

GMG incursion in Rheinland space

The day began with a routine patrol of the core systems. Reserve pilot Fridrich Heinz joined me soon, the timing was accurate. Frankfurt perimeter patrols have reported the presence of a GMG vessel of unknown class, moving torwards New Berlin. Heinz was close, so I dispatched him to identify and possibly apprehend the ship and her crew. Soon, Major Westerman arrived to take charge of this sensitive matter. The GMG vessel slipped past us and was identified moving through Berlin. The Major and I moved to Berlin while I ordered Heinz to cover the Frankfurt-Berlin Jump Gate. Eventually, the Gas Miner was the one who hailed us first on system comms, his communication code and way of speaking was obvious enough. I quickly informed him of my identification and ordered him to submit his location, however he responded with saying he was "running back to Sigma 13". I responded with telling him he was in violation of the 80 years war peace treaty, but he didn't respond. His ship was later identified by the Altenburg's sensor sweep in Dresden, a dead-end system, which contradicted his previous statement. Major Westerman immediately instructed us to chase him, but we lost his signals upon our entry. Even the Altenburg couldn't get a reading. He was probably taking shelter in one of the nebulas. After spending zirka 10 minutes to track his vessel down, we were ordered to abandon the search and resume our patrols.

Some minutes following that event when we were already in New Berlin, he hailed us on system broadcast channels again, informing us of his position near the Dresden jump gate. The GMG captain made an apology for his deeds and said that his superiors ordered him to cooperate. Me and Major Westerman approached his vessel and after getting a clear reading and identifying the ship as the GMG|GTS-Mang.Kinjo, we informed him of the details of this situation. I started with telling him that his presence was in violation of the peace treaty that followed the 80 years war and demanded an explenation for his presence. The GMG captain replied that he tought an agreement to resolve this situation has already been made and he followed an "outdated" trade route. He didn't answer my question regarding how he didn't realise that using a 200 years old trade route was not the wisest decision to consider, and I also advised him to gather some information on his clearance and freight licensing before flying a 5000 tons transport into a territory where it shouldn't be present. Afterwards, Major Westerman on board the Saale ordered him to drop the large amount of diamonds he had on board and summoned a Kruger transport to pick them up. The Mang Kinjo followed our orders without a second tought, eventually I told him that he would be escorted out from Rheinland, back to GMG space. Me and Fridrich Heinz assumed formation and we escorted him to the Sigma-13 jump hole, via the Brandenburg-Bonn-Dortmund lane configurations. The issue was resolved with his departure. Suddenly, more Rheinwehr ships arrived, me and Heinz told them that the situation was under control, but they attacked us! Realising soon that they were Wilde ships, we engaged and destroyed the ships and the two attack wings that followed.

I also recieved an official apology from a GMG representative while we were still under attack by the Wilde ships. I told him that I was not in a position to be involved in the political issues of Rheinland, but thanked him for making his employee cooperate with us. I am more than confient that Admiral Malte settled the issue with the GMG, since she also instructed us not to pester GMG employees until the Baden Baden conferency is over.

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Libertonian spy in Hamburg

A rough 30 minutes following the previous issue with the GMG, Major Westerman returned to base, while me and Fridrich Heinz were supervising embargo duties in the Hamburg system. We picked up a faint, illiterable comm signal coming from an unknown location somewhere in Hamburg. We told the submitter to identify himself, which he did without hesitation. The signal originated from a person called Gary Numan, claiming to be an officer of the Liberty Navy. I ordered Heinz, Feldwebel Kreuzchen and the Hannover corvette of the K-211 reserve fleet to prepare for a battle, but eventually we determined that it was just a sole ship, not an assault fleet.

The Libertonian officer started taunting us, first dishonoring the Kanzler and the Bundestag, then getting to racial and personal insults. I ordered a search party to find him and take him down, but he was nowhere to be found. He eventually started claiming that he was scouting the system, reporting unexisting flaws of different locations, but since I had a sentry placed at every location he reported and neither of them reported anything moving, he was obvioulsy lying in order to provoke us. Even though I notably didn't commence a search of the hazardous asteroid fields, captain Lange of the Hannover roamed his gunboat into the asteroid field covering the Bering jump hole. I don't know how to take that action, since he found the Libertonian, but he risked a valuable gunboat and the crew by taking her in. However, the Libertonian succeeded in evading the gunboat and even though he claimed he was on his way to Planet Hamburg, he never showed up again.

Realising that apprehanding this foolish Libertonian was neither possible or necessary, I landed on Planet Hamburg and gave command to Feldwebel Kreuzchen.

Hessian routine sweep of Dresden

The next situation was adequate as an afternoon practice, but otherwise nothing notable. Bautzen reported us the presence of the usual Hessian raid party, led by Vladimir Lenin and his cronies.

I was on patrol around New Berlin when I was called to respond. Some Volksfront pilot, Daniel Boehmer was roaming around the system, but I couldn't track him down. A reserve RFP pilot was after him already, but I later learned that Boehmer took him out with ease. Regardless, I was ordered by Major Westerman to proceed to the assembly point at Bautzen, since we had some Hessians to take out.

Hauptfeldwebel Leonora Schneider, Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Weissman and eventually Vizeadmiral Walter Krupinski arrived to the assembly point. More ships were on the way, including Admiral Malexa Malte, but we had the situation already handled. In a mere few minutes, five Hessian contacts showed up, I could get a reading on Vladimir Lenin, Eric Koehler, Leo Trotzky, Bolverk and Sharp Eye. The fight quickly erupted, our first target, the Sharp Eye was destroyed under a mere few seconds. Other enemies only caused us hardship by flooding the battlefield with mines and missiles, which even caused the destruction of Major Westerman's bomber-class craft. The rest was easy though, Trotzky and Koehler quickly went down. Bloverk again slipped out of the battle without anyone noticing, leaving his comrades behind for destruction.

The day was saved, we thought at that point. We resumed our patrols, I was ordered to patrol Frankfurt and Munich with Weissman on my wing, while the Admiral took Herr Krupinski and Kaptain Hatten of the RNC Dresden to guard the Omegas. Our patrol pattern was all clear, but the Admiral spotted a Liberty warship lurking around in the Omegas (!), which fled the area as soon as the Admiral had visual contact.

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Invasion of the Red Hessian Army

As soon as our patrols were over and our pilots were leaving back to barracks, reports have come in of a Red Hessian ship being spotted around Dortmund. I am not aware of the exact details, Kapitaen Hatten scrambled an intercept wing to take the pilot, Adoph Hessler out. As far as I recall, he fled into a nearby asteroid field and only reserve pilot Heinz chased him further, where the Hessian turned back and destroyed the pilot's fighter craft.

Things went awkwardly silent afterwards until a large Hessian military force, including their flagship, the Von Rohe was spotted approaching torwards Dortmund via the Bonn trade lane. We were ordered to take battle positions and brace for the attack, Admiral Malte personally came to the field to coordinate our forces. The Von Rohe came under fire by the station and the Military patrols present and started evading torwards New Berlin. Quickly afterwards, more Hessians followed their flagship, including Gunter Hoerst, Ernst Neurath, the Messerschmidt and even another cruiser, the Frau Blucker. Our forces were obviously outnumbered, only minimal reinforcements came with almost no heavy support to deal with the enemy cruisers. The Admiral ordered the civilian vessels to evaquate and the Hessians to lay down their weapons, the former was successful, the latter was not.

I was hoping that we might reach some sort of compremise, but the fight erupted quickly, unfortunately close enough to Rheinland's key civilian installations. The Hessians have destroyed a Military cruiser and its gunboat escort, which sealed the deal. We were ordered to open fire and try to bring down the Hessian cruisers. The Frau Blucker was the first target, the RNC Dresden and our bomber wings managed to destroy the Hessian cruiser, while the fighters (including myself) were ordered to cover our cruiser from the bombers the enemy threw at us. Unfortunately, the Dresden couldn't withstand two cruisers and several bombers hitting her either, it suffered a reactor meltdown and was brought out of action.

Minimal reinforcements arrived, Gefreiter Boettcher and Kapitaen Lang joined the battle, but the arriving enemy support crushed our attempt to balance the battle. Alfred Wagner and a Unioner, Matthias Zevonen arrived for the enemy as backup, we quickly found the need for the two reserve gunboat standing by for orders. Unfortunately, they didn't last long, I wouldn't bet that they even scratched the hull of the heavily armored Hessian flagship before all being wiped out.

The situation was getting dire. Our ships were picked off like flies and I quickly found myself alone in the field, fighting numerous Hessian ships among the drifting wrecks and escape pods of Rheinwehr ships as well as the wreckage of the Frau Blucker. I was aiming to bring their bomber down, one that was designated as Messerschmidt, which was a remarkably difficult fact both because a lot of ships were shooting at me and because the Hessian's nanobot supply got constant shots from his 'comrades'. I succeeded to bring the Messerschmidt close to destruction three times, but I soon realised that due to the circumstances (that being the fact that I had to drain the nanobot supply of the whole battlefleet alone if I wanted to finish the Messerschmidt off), my task was impossible. I shouted a "Wir kapitulieren nie" into the comms and hit the eject button, my ship was destroyed and I passed out.

It's sure been a while since I last visited the New Berlin hospital, but I woke up there today. I'm still not aware if the sacrifice our men made was enough to guarantee the safety of Dortmund and Essen, I still have to see if the stations are intact. I will give my papers in to request a new ship, my wounds were treated, so I can continue my duty as soon as possible.

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Submitter: Hauptfeldwebel Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
Subject: Patrol Report #23


Guten Tag Piloten,

Indeed one of the days that I classify as "I'm lucky to be alive", but all that matters is that we managed to secure the safety of Rheinland and kept civilian casualties at a minimum to nothing.

I was called on duty to respond to some Liberty Revolutionary Front ships showing up in Frankfurt, however as soon as I launched my ship to space, I have been notified of the threat already being neutralised. Since multiple SCRA ships have also been sighted moving around Stuttgart, we were told to investigate and intercept before they got to reinforce their fallen comrades. Fortunately, upon our arrival to Stuttgart we noticed that the Coalition ships were engaged in a firefight by Mandalorian Mercenaries, we didn't succeed in locating them though. A reserve pilot, Etzel Kuhn went a bit too overzealous and risked himself by going into a nebula to track the hostiles down and as soon as I told him it was a risky and unnecessary action to take, the pilot chose to disrespect my orders and start an argument about my situation. He somehow failed to realised that the Military is not existent to kill people, but to protect Rheinland citizens and if necessary do we have to resort to taking arms.

Our argument was quickly dissolved as the Wild Dragons reserve fleet reported multiple unidentified ships, later classified as Phantoms, approaching into the heart of Berlin. Since the reserve division failed to deal with the threat, we were called in to respond, Herr Stein from the Marinenachrichtendienst took charge of the anomalous situation. We eventually confronted the hostiles between the Bonn-Dortmund lane, we both dropped out of the trade lane at the same time. Their ship designations were most odd, the first one to identify was Shillelagh, quickly more of them arrived on spot. Overload, Shock, Mindrender, Ze'ev's Revenge, Rawshank and Valentine were the enemies I listed, standing against me, Feldwebel Kreuzchen, Hauptfeldwebel Weissman, MND Agent Stein, Wild Dragon Dominik Mertins and reserve pilot Etzel Kuhn. Not only did the enemy outman us, but their technological superiority was rather obvious aswell. Their ships were covered in an unusual, black paintjob with a sole insignia serving as their only decoration and strange, purple light was erupting from where their reactor seemed to be located. Their weapons were all producing an energy reading way above the standards, as it was proven later, it was painful to be hit by them. The ships all seemed to be piloted by madmen. Sadists, lunatics and psychopats equipped with superior technology, I admit, even as a Rheinwehr officer, they made me shiver for a moment.

They didn't really ask for an arrest warrant, they straight-out opened fire on our vessels. Our priority target was the Ze'ev's rage, a Farmers Alliance bomber. The vessel's pilot managed to fly his craft remarkably well, even though it was a bomber, it was really hard to hit. The odds were against our favour, the enemy seemed to be capable of good teamwork, while we were shooting at the bomber, they flanked us and got on our tail to cover their ship. Feldwebel Kreuzchen was the first one to go down from our ranks, I'm not aware of the details of his destruction, but I think he was hit by a torpedo. Following the destruction of Dominik Mertins and the realisation that we were most probably doomed, MND Agent Stein ordered a retreat torwards the Strausberg. We did not make it. First they shot down Hauptfeldwebel Weissman, then Agent Stein followed. A Bounty Hunter gunboat, designated as "Judge Jury Executioner" was also dropped out of the lane, but he was shot to pieces under a matter of seconds, he didn't even stand a chance.

Loosing Weissman and Stein made me face serious doubts regarding my survival. The cheeky reserve pilot, Kuhn was still holding the front with me, he even managed to deliver numerous razor shots to the enemy bomber's hull, making him flee the scenario. The enemy forces were so certain of their victory that they resupplied their bomber over and over again, but I think that was the point when the tide turned. After spending about 10 minutes in space against 6 Phantoms against me and Kuhn, backup arrived finally! Reserve pilots Sven Hassel and Fredrich Weiler dropped into the fight, balancing the odds a little. Herr Hassel even managed to blow the Phantom called Valentine up with a marvelous SNAC shot. Unfortunately, Herr Hassel was vulnerable in a bomber, the courageous pilot perished for Rheinland in honor. Targets afterwards switched between Shock, Shillelagh, Rawshank and Overload. The fight that followed was pretty balanced, we managed to get to a point where were weren't outmached anymore. We eventually stopped at targeting Shillelagh, by the time Vizeadmiral Krupinski and Admiral Malte arrived, he was almost destroyed. The Phantoms didn't try their chances with the Admirality's backup, the cowards ran for it.

We were told to pursue the targets, but they were too fast and fled. I returned to Planet New Berlin to inform Admiral Malte of our bitter victory. The fight lasted for about an hour and a quarter, we lost many good men today, but drove the terrorists off. We protected Rheinland and the Rheinlander citizens, if these vile beasts are really as merciless as the rumour has it, the loss of good men saved many more.

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Action Report for: Hauptfeldwebel Lenora Schneider
Filed on December 9th, 817 A.S.
Location: Hamburg
Action Type: Repulsion of Liberty Invaders (Class 1)

Today I was called to action by Admiral Engels in response to intel about incoming Liberty craft. Believing it to be only a fighter force, we set out in fighters and began to sweep the Hamburg system. We found them near the jumpholes to Frankfurt, maintaining radio silence- led by an LSF agent with only a pair of wingmen, it appeared to be a recon group. Admiral Engels gave the engagement order and we opened fire, after which the Liberty patrol broke radio silence and returned fire. They made heavy use of mines early in our skirmish, but after seeing our proficiency with tactical cruise disruptors, they issued an order to target me. We destroyed the LSF vessel in short order, but their pilot "Gold 7" proved very effective- he took out my ship as well as one of my wingmen's. I am safe and sound back at Hamburg, and have scheduled time with our flight instructors to ensure they do not defeat me again.

Signed,
Hauptfeldwebel Lenora Schneider

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Action Report for: Hauptfeldwebel Lenora Schneider
Filed on December 9th, 817 A.S.
Location: Braunschweig, New Berlin
Action Type: Training, repulsion of enemy mercenaries (class 2)

After losing my ship to Liberty invaders earlier today, I got into a training session with Feldwebel Gunther Rall. We did a lot of work on my turning and usage of mines, and I believe I have learned a lot in even a single session. I fully recommend his training to everyone in the Rheinwehr, it should improve our effectiveness against Liberty forces- and especially their minefield strategems- quite significantly.

We cut our session short upon receiving word of four Mandalorians in New Berlin. When we arrived, they confirmed their intentions as to collecting on us. Feldwebel Rall suggested he escort them out of the system, and they agreed, fully intending to jump him and score an easy kill... but they were quite surprised. Myself, Flieger Conrad Adler, and one of our gunboats remained on standby while Rall weakened the enemy's bomber. At that point, I came in and assisted him in finishing it off, before moving to the other major threat- a "Mafic" super-heavy-fighter. Adler assisted us in disabling that, and we proceeded to mop up the remaining Eagle and Wasapu fighters. No casualties on our part, and Rall only took minimal damage to his hull despite taking on four enemies at once for several minutes- and almost singlehandedly destroying an enemy bomber while doing so.



Signed,
Hauptfeldwebel Lenora Schneider

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Submitter: Hauptfeldwebel Alec Voelkel, Rheinland Military.
Subject: Patrol Report #25


Guten Tag Piloten,

Long day this was, lots of issues to attend, from Hessians to Mandalorians, the glorious Rheinwehr stood ground.

I began my patrol with a brief run around New Berlin. Just as I arrived to Dortmund, I spotted two Hessian vessels, Olaf Handlampe and Herbert Taschenlampe moving around Dortmund. At first, I asked them to identify themselves, even though the Heimdall-class gunship was pretty obvious. They only replied with saying "we are hostile" and that I "don't need to identify them". I replied with the usual, attempting to place them under arrest, but they were't willing to be escorted to Vierlande.

Even though the Hessian gunboat wasn't armored, it still seemed to be a formidable opponent on the first look and even though later it didn't prove to be so, I called for reinforcements and opened fire on the targets. Herbert Taschenlampe, a Thor-class bomber was my priority target, while the Heimdall-class kept covering him with its solaris turrets. Despite that, the Thor was a rather easy target, the pilot wasn't paricularly skilled, despite his dangerous armament, I quickly dispatched his ship without them hardly even scratching my shield. Flieger Wilhelm Gerard also arrived to assist me against the gunboat, Olaf Handlampe was no more difficult target, we took the Heimdall out with using only two Wraiths.

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Flieger Stephan Mueller and a reserve gunboat, the RNC Der Ritter arrived as soon as the area was clear. Flieger Gerard returned to hangar to conduct repairs, but I began a patrol with Flieger Mueller on my wing and the Ritter covering our flank. We flew around Frankfurt, by splitting to two at Holstein, the Ritter took the lane to the Sigma-13 gate and inspected incoming traders while I took Flieger Mueller to patrol Munich. Everything was clear until we got back to Frankfurt. We spotted numerous ships incoming and had to split our forces to three to deal with them. The Ritter was ordered to chase down an Ageira ship that was lurking around the Westerwald nebula minefield, Flieger Mueller inspected a Junker of some sort while I had to deal with a weird Republican agent and ships baring false registration codes. First of all, the Gozert, a GMG Kujira-class transport under a Republican IFF was my primary objective. The pilot was talking all kinds of weird and senseless things about him spending 20 years in Sigma-13 under the orders of our government to hijack a Kujira, which he did successfully and he was in Rheinland to give it in for inspection. I told the pilot that I didn't believe that nonsense and in light of the current GMG-Rheinland negotiations, ordered him to return the transport to the GMG and face their prosecution for thievery. He was willing to comply, he said he'd give himself up at the next GMG outpost he sees. Due to the lack of our Sigma access, I couldn't supervise if he indeed did so. Secondly, a Falcon claiming to be a belonging of a Freelancer was spotted flying around New Berlin with a Liberty Police IFF. We told the pilot that he was to fix his reg codes, then he started talking about being "new to this game". I told him that he shouldn't play games while piloting an armed ship in our capital's orbit, he didn't reply anything. However, we had more pressing matters to attend soon.

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We caught a transmission on system comms that seemed to be a distress signal. The pilot was claiming to be under attack by Corsairs on the Bonn-Dortmund lane, I immediately took Flieger Mueller to investigate. The Flieger remarked that he had a bad feeling about this transmission, unfortunately he turned out to be right. As soon as we've cut the lane, a ship that confirmed itself as a Mandalorian Mercenary, namingly one called Cat Lover. I kept my finger on the trigger as the conversation lasted, even though this merc didn't seem to be the mindless butcher as the others were, I didn't let her fool me with her manners. Although most of her sentences didn't make the slightest sense, as she was talking about things like "Cat House" and "Cat President" while often making cat-like noises, she was talking a remarkable lot. Of course, I asked her to leave Rheinland immediately, the conversation quickly turned into her introducing a bounty claim with using her weird sentence structures to express it. Although the Mandalorian wasn't entirely sane, she was skilled. She quickly took the Flieger's vessel out and switched to me. I managed to tag her ship with a few nuclear mines, but neither was sufficient to bring her down. Eventually, another Mandalorian, Karl Mannheim and an MND Agent, Herr Christian Stein have arrived to the area, instead of assisting either me or my enemy, the reinforcements started shooting at each other.

The fight was a long-lasting one, the Cat Lover scored quite a few well-placed hits with her dreadful Buckshot cannons. However, I somehow managed to hit her to disable her flight navigation or something, because she ejected the ship before even being heavily damaged. Karl Mannheim, the other Mandalorian picked her escape pod up. Since her ship was still flown by the automatic navigation system, I had to destroy the slowly moving Sabre with the danger of leaving the armed chassis behind unguarded and only then I could go after the fleeing Mannheim. I was unfortunately too late. They ran off into an asteroid field that scrambled my sensors, I couldn't catch them.

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I ordered the RNC Mahmaschine, a battleship present to commence a sensor sweep, but it could not locate the ships either. However, we suddenly had another important danger to deal with, a Hessian gunboat moving around the system. The Heimdall, designated as Furcht was located by the Ritter and opened fire on our gunboat. I switched to my bomber, but in the meantime, as soon as the Hessian spotted the Mahmaschine, it started to flee without sense, flying all around Berlin. I told the battleship to stay behind and worry about the sensors, while we started our sweep. We caught up with the Furcht near Planet New Berlin, the Heimdall threw itself into an asteroid field. Since the threat was imminent, we had to follow. Flieger Mueller also joined us, we managed to stop the fleeing Hessian a few clicks away from the lanes. I ordered the Heimdall to power down and surrender. The ship seemed to be doing so and I ordered the Ritter to board it with a squad marines in order to attempt to take the crew alive. However, as soon as our gunboat was preparing to lock in a docking pattern, the Furcht lit up, the Hessian captain told us on system comms that he would not surrender and opened fire on the unexpecting Flieger Mueller's ship, who was too late to save his ship from destruction. I hastily gave the order to destroy the Hessian gunboat, which again attempted to flee back torwards New Berlin. His vessel was ripped apart with ease, I managed to blow him open with numerous direct hit SNAC shots.

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The area was secure, we couldn't salvage any survivors from the exploding gunboat. The Ritter managed to secure Flieger Mueller's escape pod and we returned to New Berlin. I went off duty to file the report and attend other issues.

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