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Getriebe Zu: Rheinland Militar Oberkommando
Von: Flieger Xander Vogel
An: Patrouillenbericht #3


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Flieger Xander Vogel reporting in.

While not necessarily on patrol, I ran into a few interesting things while earning my bomber qualifications, training out of the RNC Regensburg. I came into contact with what appeared to be a reservist military unit engaging a Volksfront fighter not more than 50 klicks from the docking bay of the battleship. I'd intercepted some of their transmissions to each other, some of which were of questionable content; at one point he appeared on the verge of accepting bribes by the VF pilot, and the next he betrayed himself as a simple executioner, saying that "Arresting is the ideal of the police, usually I just shoot people". Afterward I closed enough to scan them both with my primitive training craft's cargo scanner. Much to my surprise, he was actually flying a Mjolnir with a military ID and IFF. To my knowledge, this fighter is an RFP craft only, due to its power and function.

If these are the reservist pilots cruising our space lanes, flying restricted equipment and playing themselves off not as law enforcers, nor even as soldiers, but as 'executioners', then perhaps it is no wonder where the Military's reputation is coming from. Is a crackdown on these freelancing units necessary? I've seen plenty do great good, supporting when ordered, model reservists. But this is appalling. Ironically, he paid for it; the VF fighter killed him in the fight. Almost as if in redemption, another reservist, in proper garb, joined the fight mid-way, and kicked the Volksfront pilot across the system.

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To: Rheinland Military Command
From: Hauptgefreiter Hans Putzkammer
Subject: Forth Patrol report

Mein herren,

A LONG day today. i cant even remember how it started. the first thing i remember was flying to battleship Westphalia on a patrol of the Bremen system. once i arrived on station the battleship Westphalia informed me of several enemy signatures in the neighboring New Hampshire system. I docked for a short while to initiate communications with the Rheinland military barracks and to inform them of the situation. After doing so I set out on a scouting mission to determine enemy opposition and with a secondary objective to determine the ship class of LNS-Vangard.

upon entering the New Hampshire system, I passed by the battleship Concord and proceeded to scout the area as I was performing my duties I ran into a patrol of two Navy fighters both with the [ESPADA] tag. I had to beat a hasty retreat in the face of the current opposition as I did not want to engage in a two on one battle.

Once I arrived back in the Bremen system I docked with the Westphalia and quickly checked the barracks comms for any activity. there was response to my alert and soon we had assembled three ships in space. Adm. Malixa Malte in a fafnir bomber, Maj. Alec Voelkel in a heavy assault fighter, and I in a standard assault fighter.

Maj. Voelkel and I proceeded into the New Hampshire system where we encountered a liberty gunboat by the name of [ESPADA]Elegos. after a very confusing and short prelude all ships commenced firing upon one another. The major and I held the upper hand from the beginning of the engagement and once our admiral got there the gunboat's fate was sealed. another libertine Navy officer by the name of McQueen arrived halfway through the engagement and at all times stayed 10 km or more away and cowardly watched his friends die. at the end of the engagement he ran away.

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after dealing with the gunboat a long-range sweep of the system showed that our quarry, the LNS-Vanguard had managed to escape our clutches.

After clearing the New Hampshire system our admiral set a new objective for the day, the reconquer of the Texas system.Capt. Frederick Lang, Adm. Malexa malte, and myself moved to infiltrate first Hudson and then Texas. We arrived on station in the Texas system and began to fly a patrol of the debris fields. We found what looked like an abandoned storage depot and made note of it by marking its location on the map and dropping a buoy set the standby mode therefor future activation. Also we came across what looked to be the remains of a jumpgate and investigated it for a moment.

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On our way to Houston restarted receiving system wide transmissions originating from a RNC reserve cruiser. it seems the cruiser was confronting its counterpart of the LNS variety and may have been suffering from some of the space madness. With the Navy alerted in our cover blown we decided to make a quick pit stop to check out the nearby prison installation known as sugarland and head back to Hudson. On our way out we started picking up multitudes of liberty Navy comm chatter in Texas and decided to lay in ambush in the Hudson system.

Unfortunately things did not go with plan, our forces became splintered and before we could coalesces strong enough force to ambush together, the libertine Navy showed up with, if you will parden my Gallic, A *-= censorship brought to you by the Rheinland Association for a better tomorrow=-* load of ships. they proceeded to surround our admiral and made moves to capture her.

I shall leave the resulting furball to be deciphered buy the others who fought there with me. I was only able to take one guncam shot, and the participants involved were so numerous I cannot remember their names. notable happenings in the fight are the arrival of two RNC reserve cruises, the arrival of one libertine Navy assault battle cruiser [LN]Plymouth Rock and one liberty assault carrier LNS-Wrath.of.liberty. to the best of my knowledge our capital fleet ran into the [LN] Plymouth Rock while securing the jump gate to Texas. I think one was destroyed, the other's fate is unknown. also the libertine Navy's commanding Adm. David Hale was personally involved in the battle.

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as a result of miscommunication and faulty orders, I fled the battle and proceeded to the Texas system in an attempt to move around to bearing and get back to Hamburg. I later learned that these orders I received were miscommunicated and that I had left my comrades for nothing.

As I got back to Hamburg and was sulking over my departure from battle, I took up the hobby of scanning ships inbound from the liberty systems. Several freighters came and went until one named raynor showed up on my scanners. He was a rhino freighter with a hold full of counterfeit software. I demanded that he stop and so he did but only after I disabled the tradelane in front of him. I told him that he was accused of calling counterfeit software and that doing such was illegal in all four colonies.therefore I proposed to levy a fine upon him, however he would have none of that and began docking procedures with the orbiting station. I had no choice but to quickly open fire and prevent him from seeking refuge aboard the station. He was destroyed in his pod tractored in for interrogation as well as the counterfeit software seized and under study on planet hamburg.

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after dealing with the smuggler I received an emergency call from a reserve gunboat about the blockade of red Hessians flying under the [RF] tag which had taken control of the new Berlin Jumpgate in Stuttgart. to the best of my knowledge the blockade consisted of three pirate transports and two bombers. we grouped together with a Dauman heavy construction escort vessel and vice Adm. Walter Krupinski. I stationed myself on the new Berlin side of the gate. There was little to no communication between us And the attack started without me. I was idling on the other side of the gate while our men faced down the opposition. By the time I had learned the attack was already on and jumped in all that was left was fleeing Hassan bomber and one Hessian gunboat. the gunboat was destroyed as soon as I arrived on station.

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after departing as quickly as I had arrived, I headed for new Berlin. Once I jumped in the system i heard a member of the Volk's Front talking on open comms. I took the tradelane from bonn to brandenburg and ran into him halfway through. it was none other than Daniel Boehmer. After having a lengthy discussion about ideology, corruption, pirating, treachery, our differences, and our similarities it was decided that one of us had to leave the system and neither of us were willing to depart. Therefore we settled our disputes with gunfire.

In the end, the Volk's front won the day, and i was forced to make an emergency landing on the battleship Strasbourg with half a flaming, twisted, heap of metal that one could never have imagined was once an operational fighter.

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Transmission source: [RM-RNC]Ammersee, Central communications
Submitter identification: Jaeger Wolfgang Spielman, 1st Rheinwehr "Valkyrie" Jagddivison
Identification of address: Rheinland Military High Command, Valkyrie Squad operatives
Subject of communication: Report on our first incursion

Sehr Geehrte Damen und Herren,

The Jagddivision Einz, also known as the "Valkyrie Squad" made its first introduction yesterday at 0941 Zulu time, in an assault against the Libertonian defenders of Planet Houston, located in the Texas system.

Our task force, consisting of Stafelkommandant Katrina Mitzi, Jagdfuehrers Gustav Rothstein, Stephan Schmidt and Jaeger Wolfgang Spielman was successful at crippling the defences of Houston sent out in superior force, destroying ONE Siege Cruiser, TWO Navy Gunboats, THREE Avengers, TWO Guardians and several other smaller patrol ships. As an addition, we also could cripple and force out a landing or retreat of ONE Rogue Gunboat and TWO Siege cruisers. All that while maintaining our losses of Valkyrie Squad members is at zero, each of the four pilots returned home with suffering merely a minor amount of damage.

The assault in detail is as follows:

Stafelkommandant Katrina Mitzi scrambled our wing to assault Houston, as a response to a smaller Libertonian raid on Hamburg earlier that day. The Navy raid party consisted of a carrier and a cruiser, of which the Rheinwehr interceptor wing could only take down the cruiser, deisgnated as -EisenSeele- before the fleeing Libertonians reached Texas.

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Following the pursuit, the Rheinwehr commanders on the field decided on retaliation. The Valkyrie Squad was scrambled to form an assault wing, backed up by parts of the Rheinwehr defense squad. Stafelkommandant Katrina Mitzi split us into two groups, me and Jagdfuehrer Gustav Rothstein were to approach from Hudson, while the rest of the attack group went through Bering.

Our first and only contact was a Libertonian Siege Cruiser, the Blast02, maintaining its position in Hudson orbit. Our approach got unnoticed, even though we tried luring it out of the planet's orbit and from the range of the Mississippi's guns. Our provocations were followed by no response by the Navy, but a group of local militiants, the Liberty Rogues emerged to respond to our threats.

We got locks on two gunboat-class vessels and a Rogue destroyer, the Maelstrom. The militiants' superior line of ships managed to destroy one of the Rheinwehr reserve bombers, but the Valkyrie Squad damaged one of their gunboats to an irreversible extent.

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An arriving Navy Battlegroup forced the militiants to pull out before their destruction, more than obviously because they were the sent replacement. This line of actions describes the anarchy in control of Liberty thanks to the lack of response by the Navy and the Presidency. Open cooperation with "outlaw" assets was a pain to witness. Three LSF Avengers, three Siege Cruisers and one Navy Gunboats were now attacking us. Slowly, but steadily starting with the gunboat then the fighters, we brought the opposition to its knees. The enemy siege cruisers attempted a retreat to the Hudson atmosphere, the Battleship Mississippi or the prison station every time they were under fire, the fighters were shot down one by one.

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<A few of the opposing force, all of the above was either crippled or destroyed>

The enemy reinforcements kept pulling in and even though we hardly lost anything more than half of our shields, we had to retreat before a fourth wave arrived. We left a pile of burning Libertonian wrecks as we made our escape, a successful introduction by the Valkyries.

Long live Rheinland! Long live das Volk! Long live the Kanzler!


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-<Guest ID: Jake Lightwing>-
-<Location:Barrier Station, Coronado>-


Guten tag frau Admiral.

I have brought down a LSF agent for you. Ze Conditions presented was later expanded to include Libertonians as per. private question. Thus i did just this and brough down a LSF agent of all things.

I flew to Pennsylvania to get zome .... medical checkup at Bethlehem station. Upon my return to ze New York system i meet a LSF agent. I greet him, in Rheinlandish, and thiz makes him go hostile from ze first moment. I tried to explain that i waz brought up in ze sigmas, but ze "Dude" didn't care, zo i took defensive stance and managed to destroy his vessel. There was no life signs within the remains of his ship, zo i assume he died in ze process.

This man was rather agressive and engaged me becauze of my accent alone. I found it unacceptable and defended myzelf with ze best of means


Evidence:
Evidence 1
Evidence 2
Evidence 3
Evidence 4

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I assume thiz makes my part of ze deal complete.

Jake Lightwing


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Getriebe Zu: Rheinland Militar Oberkommando
Von: Flieger Xander Vogel
An: Patrouillenbericht #4


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Flieger Xander Vogel reporting in.

Yesterdays patrol began shortly after I had finished qualifications in the Bergelmir; the SCRA agent Luka was spotted by Herr Daniel Richter, and I moved with him to intercept. The suspect ran into the Westerstede Nebula and hid by the hostile station within. But while he was making his ideologically fired propaganda speeches, we had received a notice by Herr Admiral Engels that two Corsair cruisers were sighted within the Neu Berlin system. Naturally, priority mandated that we disengage from a small-time bandit and move to assist the Admiral. Of course, by the time we arrived, the Ravensburg had already made space dust of them. Luka actually followed us back to Neu Berlin, where we gave him the ultimatum to surrender. Needless to say he did not, but in the ensuing fight between Richter and the SCRA agent a rather hefty ionic storm swept by, and Luka managed to escape, although plenty scathed.

After Id returned my new bomber to its proper hangar on the Strausburg, I set out in my Wraith along with Herr Richter on genuine patrol. I rejoined him just as he was stopping a ship and interrogating its skipper. However, wed received a call from a reservist pilot claiming there were Libertonians in Hamburg. Richter ordered me to check it out while he handled the situation, so off I went. I found that the reservist was flying a Fafnir, and had stopped a Liberty gunship commanded by a Lieutenant Roe. The hold carried some fourteen Rheinland Police pilots; he could not be permitted to leave under those circumstances. The reservists ship gave the gunship plenty of pause, but admittedly the reservist was being coarse about the whole deal, saying such things bluntly as, Drop em. I addressed the Libertonian with all due severity but professionalism, and he complied to my demands to relinquish our pilots. The reservist picked them up, and I ordered him to return them to Altona Station for processing, which he did while I saw off the rather frightened gunship. I returned to base shortly thereafter.


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Late that afternoon I took part in the prisoner transfer of a Commissar Katz of the SCRA from the Munster Research Station in Bremen to Vierlande. I was part of the advanced guard, and arrived at the station before any of the primary escort. When said escort had arrived, along with the RNC Schmeidehammer, I moved out yet again as the advance scout. It wasnt very long before Id detected the massive SCRA battlefleet en route to the station in order to rescue their fearless leader, so I relayed the information to the rest of the escort and quickly doubled back to their location. The SCRA crowded outside of the stations minefield; too hesitant to breach it. We took advantage of this by moving the convoy out the other side of the field, forcing them to circumnavigate it. Nevertheless, they cut off the formation and demanded their Commissar back, after much gloating of their superior numbers.

In the ensuing firefight, the four Wraiths of myself, Herr Flieger Richter, Frau Gefreiter Fessel, and Herr Oberfeldwebel Meinhardt engaged the entire formation of ships while the two cruisers and gunboat made a break for the jump hole. They succeeded in drawing away the SCRA battleship and the accompanying bomber, which left us the gunboat and fighters that had escorted it. The gunboat and bomber were promptly destroyed, being the highest value targets, so while the cruisers plied at the battleships shields, a massive furball was developing between us fighters nearby. During the action, Id latched onto one of the ships which was the most badly damaged and held on tight, even while being fired upon; needless to say in the state it was in it was easy pickings, and I destroyed it when it leveled out and flew straight for even the slightest moment. Of course, every one of us had put lasers into all of the SCRA fighters out there at one point or another, so I was simply there to administer the coup de grace for this particular Communist. After some fifteen more minutes of heavy fighting, another SCRA fighter met the same fate, and shortly thereafter so did the battleship. They must have called a general retreat, as the whole of their fighter contingent bugged out of the fight in unison. We let them go; we hadnt lost a single of our fighters, although a gunboat was heard to have been destroyed elsewhere. My gun camera was a little off, so the number of available shots is sadly limited.

So, after a good hours worth of knife-fighting in the Bremen system, the crippled SCRA fleet abandoned their attempt to save their Commissar, while our escort suffered only very few losses. We rendezvoused with the Schmeidehammer and escorted it all the way to Vierlande, where Commissar Katz was given a nice cell where he couldnt see the sun. The Schmediehammer returned to Alster to undergo repairs while the rest of us landed on Hamburg, much in need of a bar and a bed.


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[color=#FFFFFF]Subject: SCRA Invasion of Munster
From: Admiral Auztin Engels
To: Flieger Xander Vogel
Copy: All Rheinwehr forces

This is a suprising matter indeed, I am still confused of why I was not called for this matter, the attack must of been all of a sudden our communications broke down, something I am bound to investigate. To think that the Coalition found out where our secret research station is is downright disturbing. I am starting to believe that they have an inside man. However, I am proud of all the piloten that defended the Station, Reserve and Primary Fleet alike. Your actions showed your valour in time of combat Flieger, and that is a trait I would like to see in every other piloten that is under my command.

Commisar-Captain Katz will stay at Vierlande, and I do believe we will be more ready than the Munster attack should the Coalition attempt at a futile rescue mission again. Lets hope they learnt their lesson. I want patrols around there around the clock and a Capital Fleet nearby just incase they find the location of the station. We will be ready mein piloten.

Keep Rheinland proud!

Signed,
Admiral Auztin Engels


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Patrol report #31

To: Rheinland Military
From: Hauptfeldwebel Gunter Weissman

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Meine Damen und Herren,

Yesterday i have started my patrol on battleship strassberg with gefreiter Yelena Vollkegel. During the patrol we have met 2 ships who were bothering a civilian ship. I ordered the civilian to continue in his way and i concentrated on the 2 ships there. We talked a bit, but i already knew that kind of ships, but i wanted to have a reason to arrest them. First they dont wanted to say who they really are and were avoiding the name of their group, but after some minutes one of them said this:

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Now i had my reason for the arrestment so I have given them the chance to surrender, but of course they refused it. They have made a mistake so we had to take them by force, I ordered the gefreiter to open fire and the fight started.

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Our first target was [RHA]HT-Hans.Becker, who was not so difficult to take down becouse he was flying the border worlds bomber, the big falcata. Becouse of this is ship was destroyed in a while:
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Just in that minute when we have destroyed the fisrt target there came another one vessel- [RHA]Ernst.Neurath and tried to help his comrade. But we targeted his friend- [RHA]Concord.Dawn, becouse he was also flying a bomber class vessel. His destruction lasted longer as the first one, but nevertheless his ship was also destroyed:
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When this saw his friend he has realised that he cant match the rheinland military and fled into the field:

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After this we mooved to Strassberg to make the necessari repairs.

Location: TL between Bonn station and Stuttgart jumpgate
Ships:
[RM]Hf.Gunter.Weissman
[RM]Ge.Yelena.Vollkegel

[RHA]HT-Hans.Becker.
[RHA]Concord.Dawn
[RHA]Ernst.Neurath


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Source: Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin system
Encryption channel: RMFTL-2279-(H8)-TX8-KRPT4-C


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Sender: Gefreiter Yelena Vollkegel, Rheinland Military

Subject:[color=#FFCC00] Report on alien sightings inside the Sigma-13 system, 06.02.818

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We begun our patrol in the Frankfurt system with the esdeemed [color=#33CC00]Admiral Malte on board the RNC Carinthia and [color=#33CC00]Hauptfeldwebel Weissman, to track down a squad of Hessian terrorists, disrupting the internal security and economy of Rheinland with pirating different convoys of cargo transport ships passing torwards Kusari.

Once I stocked up on cookies and chewing gums bought from a bunch of grumpy traders on Mainz, I fetched my Schmetterling and reported to space, where the patrol was already going on! We did a few circles around the system, but just as we were about to leave, my communicator intercepted some scribble, embraced by a vast level of static. The signals were quite unusual though, not the default infected trader, but something else, a "blue code specimen", as Admiral Malte kept referring to it.

Hauptfeldwebel Weissman and I were told to set up a blockade near Mainz and then near the Sigma-13 jump gate, while scanning all ships passing through, looking for the source of the repeated signal. At that point, something happened to my systems, erm... taking them all offline. I don't know what it was exactly though, as I lost my memory aswell. *Giggles.* Ja, I think I crashed into something, still don't know what happened.

As soon as I regained my consciousness, we were to move out to the Sigma-13 gate at once. Followed by a few minutes of waiting, we jumped, but... *takes a deep breath*... directly into ein AMBUSH!

The patrol wing found itself surrounded by an amount of blue spirits and a black hunk of iron, some Junker ship I guess. I managed to get a picture of it with my Schmetterling's gun-camera!

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Ja, it does seem to look like a Junker ship, but it did not act as one. We determined that the earlier comms signals we got in Frankfurt originated from this thing. I couldn't make out a word he said, so I actually determined it was some Libertonian spy drone. It also had some minions, but they were only a little similar to the Libertonian Junker spydrone itself. They were rather slippery and quick, also transmitting weird signals, duh. I assembled a whole scientific fauna presentation album of my gun-camera shots! *Giggles.*


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I also did some research into these spirits, afterwards. I determined they were the decendants of a species died on ancient Earth, called the flying fish.

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All notions of scientific approach aside, we were almost immediately shot at by the specimens of Flying fish, which has some sorts of plasma lances erupting from their noses. The lances did some remarkable damage, also managing to cripple the [color=#33CC00]Carinthia. We could have saves the gunboat, if it was not for a rouge Kusarian gunboat approaching! I got the reading on one bearing an early, yet clearly Naval Forces registration code, the KNS Kataki. On the attached guncam evidence, it can clearly be seen plundering the Carinthia!


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Me and Weissman were busy shooting the fishes to protect the Korvette, thus it was brought down by the Junker-Libertonian and the Kusarian gunboats. The Junker-Libertonian one was heavily damaged, forced to pull out under the cover of the Kusarian one. We were left alone against the [color=#FF6600]flying fish, shooting them down one by one.

Eventually, Feldwebel Kreuzchen showed up to assist, even though more mutants arrived, we were successful at countering them. Two of the jellyfish were left alive, but they both suddenly left off, obviously their spineless plasma couldn't take any more of our Tachyon.

Rheinland Macht!

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We then patrolled the nebula with Feldwebel Drum, while the rest of the wing went back to do repairs. Herr Drum said he was looking for the two hostile gunboats, but he took my ship ridiculously deep in the nebula... if you might... *coughs* excuse me.

So once we were done without finding either the Kusarian or the Junker gunboat, we went back to Frankfurt, where we met an anxious civilian. He started shouting about himself being really angry and that he was going to kill us. We kept igoring him at first, but he really provoked a fight at Mainz!

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He started shooting at Mainz station, then fleeing from the stations turrets. It was a rather hilarious sight at first. *Chuckles.*

Then he started attempting to kill us aswell! That was the point when we switched to a serious state. We powered our weapons to counter his assault, but he just ran into a razor shot by Feldwebel Drum, and got his ship ripped apart.

Poor, misled citizen. *Sighs.*

Das ist alles fuer Heute.

Gefreiter Vollkegel signing off.

*Salutes and presses a button.*





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Getriebe Zu: Rheinland Militar Oberkommando
Von: Flieger Xander Vogel
An: Patrouillenbericht #5


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Flieger Xander Vogel reporting in.

Today's series of events were varied and interesting to say the least. I was just finishing up a run in the Eisenkreuz when I got a message from a reservist bomber pilot (Military-Bergelmir) that a Liberty Navy ship had penetrated Hamburg space. The LNS sobriquet the ship's IFF was sporting would indicate a capital ship of some sort, but that was apparently some naive ploy since it was only a fighter, and a rather poorly equipped one at that. The reservist tracked the Libertonian, who flew around the system aimlessly, saw the bomber following him, and made a break for the Hudson gate. By the time I'd arrived at that gate, they had both already jumped to that system, but as it were, after moving a bit into the nearby asteroid field, the Liberty pilot stopped and a standoff ensued. The Liberty ship seemed to have been in the middle of destroying sensor data, as it ejected a flight recorder just as I arrived. The reservist, however, not quite aware of the importance of such a development 'shot and destroyed it'. In any case, I showed up in time to take matters into more official hands.

The Liberty pilot was flying a poorly equipped but properly ID'd and IFF'd Guardian fighter. From the looks of it, my Wraith would have stomped him flat if I so much as sneezed and pulled the trigger, but apparently this poor soul was too green to realize that. I went through proper protocol, making known his violation of our space and our state of war, and demanded his immediate surrender. At first he seemed to warm up to the idea of saving himself (and as such I inquired of Gefreiter Fessel what protocol was required in terms of accepting surrendering ships, as I have never before been in command in such a situation). However, yet again, this poor pilot's naivete showed in spades: he refused to surrender on the grounds that he "could not let Liberty technology fall into Rheinland hands", not that his ship was by any means top-of-the-line material. With such a declaration made, I had no choice but to engage. The fight only lasted at most two minutes, maybe less. I hardly had to fly at all, just turn and fire while my far superior Wraith absorbed his shots, while his downtrodden Guardian took salvo after salvo of Tachyon beams. The reservist offered to help but by then the pilot was already space debris. There was no escape pod; I do not know whether or not the pilot chose not to use it, given the ample opportunity I gave him in the last few seconds. This fight left me a little disturbed; why were totally green pilots being allowed to gallivant into Rheinland space, alone, and in such unworthy ships? Is this a sign of desperation on the Liberty front, or is this some new kind of heinous psychological warfare tactic? Or perhaps simply a naive pilot who thought he could take on Rheinland by himself? The implications of any are mind boggling. Nevertheless, I thanked the reservist for his service and set off to return to the Strausburg.

In any case, this marks my third confirmed kill with the Rheinland Militar; the first shared with the Gunboat Lausitz, the second shared with meine kameraden during the battle in Bremen, and now this rather.. bittersweet victory.

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On my way back, however, I struck up a correspondence with an aspiring military pilot, and, remembering my tender rookie days, decided to briefly take him under my wing and assist him. It would be a tad challenging; just like me he had been working for the Libertonians up until this point, yet he had managed to procure a Valkyrie fighter, rendering him a Rheinland fighter pilot recruit with a Liberty Navy IFF transponder. I took him over to the RNC Regensburg, my old stomping ground, and introduced him to Dietrich and all of the other fellows I came to know during my stay there. We set off on a few missions, got his transponder working properly, and I even went out of my way to buy him some more advanced equipment for the Wraith he promptly purchased, such was the enthusiasm and willingness to learn I found in this new pilot. When I met him he was just as green as the Libertonian I'd smashed in Hudson, but by the end of the day he was a military pilot flying a full-blown Wraith with the proper ID and IFF. Perhaps this was a way of soothing my guilty conscience...

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On one last note, our good old little rat of an SCRA agent Luka was spotted again multiple times throughout the day. But between his blithering propaganda and nonsense about some master plan to save Commissar Katz, I did happen to run into an interesting little situation. I was going on a brief mapping excursion to find the jump hole from Neu Berlin to Hamburg and plug its coordinates into my computer for later reference. On the way there I ran into none other than Luka, his ship idling by Kreuzberg Depot, which is what I can only assume to be some Unioner or LWB forward base. I quickly pulled away before I was detected and went on with my mission, knowing that it was inappropriate to engage targets in such an environment as the Ruhrfeld. But after I had found the jump hole, I made my way back over in that direction and discovered Luka staring down a pair of what appeared to be Junker freighters. I stayed to observe, some ten klicks above their current plane, and for a good minute or two they simply sat there. I intercepted no transmissions so if they were indeed conversing, it was by private chat, and very clandestine. Then both groups left simultaneously, in opposite directions. I attempted to track Luka, staying at ten clicks, but he eventually caught wind of my presence and ran back to the Depot. Just an interesting little series of events; Luka, although genuinely hostile, has not proven himself to be much of a threat as of yet. But it's my conviction something was going on here; I only wish I knew what.

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: Operation Blitzkrieg of Freiheit
From: Admiral Auztin Engels
To: All of the Rheinwehr Primary Fleet

Mein Herren und Daumen,

This war with Liberty has dragged on for far too long. And while the Liberty Fleet mobolizes we do little to resist the dark storm that is upon us. Ever since the war we have not done any large-scale or long-term operations, mein piloten, that is about to change.

I want all members of the Primary Fleet to stay on alert and to mobolize resources, This Operation will require the bravery and strength of all the Rheinwehr's soldiers. Do not let me down.

Leading this operation will be our newly established "Valkyrie" Squadron. These pilots are the elites, the best of the best, I trust you will give them the same dedication as you have given me and the RMHC. They will lead these missions and you will be under their orders. Any strikecraft with the callsign of [RM-V] will be a Valkryie pilot. Staffelkommandant Katrina Mitzi leads the Valkyries, so look for her if you find yourself in trouble. Frau Mitzi, this is a huge responsibility, I trust you can prepare the piloten under your wing to achieve victory:

I now call all piloten of the [RM] Primary Fleet to be part of the Operation.


Objectives: Piloten, your goal is important and will require every amount of bravery and dedication in you. We have kept the Libertorians waiting for too long, and we will push the fight to them. You are to venture into the Texas, New Hampshire, and Kansas. While you will be in Liberty Territory, we will not make you go deep inside Liberty, as that is suicidal. Recon Squadrons consisting of fighters and bombers will seek out any and all Liberty defences, installations, and stations. You will also scout out and grab intel on battlefield terrain, including possible attack locations such as asteriod fields, planets and clouds. Take in mind that if you see any supply depots or storage units anywhere that belongs to the enemy you are to destroy it, failure is not an option. We have word that the Liberty Navy are concentrating for an incursion into Bremen territory, hoping to strike us from our weak point! I will not and cannot let this be allowed! When you are at the mission waypoint I want you to take guncam shots of anything and everything you encounter that may be important to our operation. When you return back home I expect a full report on this channel frequency

Hostile vessels: Your task will not be simple piloten, you will be facing Liberty Forces, and you will most likely be outnumbered and outgunned most of the time. However your goal is to get in there, get the mission done, and get out, do not stay for a long-term engagement, you will be quickly overpowered. You will be facing fighters and bombers all the way up to Capital ships. Do not underestimate the Liberty Navy, as they have the largest armada in all of Sirius.

Possible Friendlies: You may encounter MND agents already in the field, but do not expect to see them, as they mainly operate in secrecy

We will not sit back and watch the Libertorians come in and scorch our lands. We will not sit back and watch the Libertorians harm innocent citizens and our loved ones, we will not sit back and watch the Libertorians destroy the place we call home, we cannot rest until the vaterland is safe!

Piloten, the time has come for all of you to show your courage, fur rheinland, fur the kanzler!


Signed,
Admiral Auztin Engels


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