' Wrote:From: Alan Groteck, RepEx-Shipping|868
I thought the RM Command would like to know about the theft of a Rheinland Battleship by the BHG.
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How do you know it was stollen? Could it have been a cheap copy? Could it have been mayhaps a salvage by a young pilot with ....um.....say around 650 million credits to make repairs? Should it be determined as theft then the Admiral of the RM needs to step down! The buck stops with him! So do the dancing girls apparently!
Tallyho what!
Comm ID: Gerhard Barkhorn
To: Asylum 51 Shipper
The plans and designs of Kriegsmarine battleships are classified under Rheinland law, and the only groups with the resources to even attempt to construct such a massive, 1500 metre vessel are enemies of Rheinland.
Therefore, logical deduction follows that the battleship was stolen, which is quite troubling, and punishable by death under the Gottkanzler's law. If you have concerns with Kriegsmarine operations, it would be best to address them to the joint leaders of the Kriegsmarine, Grosseadmiral Krieg of the Northern Fleet and Grosseadmiral Hiltraud Kaiser of the Southern Fleet.
Fur Rheinland, Fur Der Gottkanzler, Fur Der Kriegsmarine!
Hauptegreiter Gerhard Barkhorn Heraus!
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CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
How the... Very well, Mr. Groteck, thank you for this information, action will be taken. How they managed to get a hold of this ship is uncertain to us as our shipyards are on full lockdown, so this will be looked in to.
Freelamen out
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CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
Next A51 comm signature to attempt hacking Rheinland Military High Command communications gets a blaster up their a... well, you get the picture. Now, Rheinland Class Battleships are restricted to the Admirals of the Rheinland Military only, there are no exceptions and there never will be. We -will not- stand for some worthless Bounty Hunter crew that managed to get their hands on one to get away with it. Those are the
laws, either accept them or run off to Liberty.
Freelamen out
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CommID: The Muellfahrer
Subject: Asylum 51 Transgressions
It would appear as though another Asylum 51 crew has found it fit to somehow acquire a Rheinland Battleship. The callsign of said battleship is [A51]HellsWrath. Our longrange scanners have also read it as being active within the restricted Halle system. We hope that the Kreigsmarines will deal with it accordingly. Such a powerful vessel in such... loose hands worries us.
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CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
Muellfahrer, I wish for any and all visual proof that you have acquired on this A51 Battleship class vessel sent to me over private comms, that's the last straw.
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CommID: The Muellfahrer
Subject: RE: A51 Transgressions
Here is data that we collected on our first run through.
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If we encounter the vessel again, we shall collect further information
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CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
Thank you for the visual content, this issue has been dealt with.
Freelamen out
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CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
Message ID: 15144
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Message to: ALL Asylum 51 Vessels
Carbon Copy: The Rheinland Military
CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen of the Rheinland Military's High Command
I'm sure you're all aware of what this message is to be, I hope you weren't thinking it was an invitation to my nephews birthday party, otherwise it makes you bigger idiots then I thought.
Lets get straight to the point shall we? After -many- reports of Asylum 51 use of OUR Rheinland Military craft and abusing it, we received information on a very strange comm signature, that being [A51]HellsWrath. A Battleship, NOT ONLY is this craft illegally flown through Rheinland space, but also stolen from our shipyards. Yes, a Rheinland Battleship, that is meant to be restricted to Admirals of the Rheinland Military only. You know of this law damn well, and you chose to ignore and break it, so, you now deal with the consequences.
Any and all Rheinland class vessels flown by A51 are to be returned to Rheinlands shipyards at once! Everything, all of them. From that damn Battleship you stole all the way down to Light Fighters, everything goes back. If any A51 vessel is seen within Rheinland with one of our vessels, you will follow orders to dock on our nearest base and replace the ship. If you chose to refuse this order, we will force your escape pods to eject and pull the ship back ourselves.
We will not stand for this, especially from the Bounty Hunters. We will not have you steal our craft, or even find some odd wreck and repair it. You've made far to many mistakes, were done playing your games. This order is final, it's my order, the Admirals order, and the Chancellor's order.
Start running.
-Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
Rheinland Military High Command
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**Comm ID: Thomas Merrill - Freelancer**
**Recipient: RMHC**
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Seeing as I have gotten no sleep in that past 48 hours I will make this as brief as possible, for obvious reasons. Two days ago, my personal fighter, a Borderworld's line Sabre, was nearly vaporized by a Wild engagement. The only things that survived, were my escape pod, and a portion of my wing, if you can call it that. I have since then spent the last 36 hours researching local shipyards, and came across something that seemed.... appropriate: The 90-ARKM-N5, also know as the "Wrath" Very Heavy Fighter. A very superb piece of Rheinland engineering. I am sure that you all know what will come next, and I have very little hope that you will accept my request, as I know that this, and all other official military craft, are reserved for the Rheinland Military. But I have very few other choices. I am requesting registration and a list of requirements to purchase one of these vessels. I have a feeling what the decision will be, and I understand. But one must never lose hope, even if there isn't much hope left. I await your decision. Forgive me if this is the wrong comm channel to send this, but I am literally asleep right now, so my apologies. Thank you for your time, and good night.
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Coded Message Sent : Rheinland Military
C/o: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
Re: Rheinland Designed Battleships
From: Ambassador and Admiral of Vice - Shipper
Dear Sir,
As official Ambassador at large, small and of Fem-Bots, Cigars and possibly Dancing Girls (if I can run fast enough) I can state that our High Command (and possibly our low command if we can get Captain Sytrik and Admiral Kvant away from the porn) will address this misunderstanding, at their earliest convenience.
The Asylum51 (also known as the [A51] ) Clan shall make a formal response addressing these severe and shocking allegations, when they are ready. I Sir (and I do use that term loosely, nothing personal and as an example after a wild bender in the officers club last night I remember calling the cleaning-bot Sir and saluting the urinal) shall act only in my official Ambassadorial position of passing on their opinion and passing back yours.
To cover the current air of hostilities and to let you know that we will do all to work this out peacefully (we always try the peaceful bit before using our superior numbers to beat the crap out of people) I point out that we did come across 4 ships in the wastelands that were of a Rheinland Battleship Class. Common mistake that your scanners confused things here. We did Sir (used just as loosely) spend considerable time, effort and credits to get the first two of these ships operational. It is Sir (so loose it just fell off) rather bad manners to;
1. Claim we have stolen ships from you.
2. Demand that we return vessels we built from scrap and without just compensation. My understanding of our current position is that they were never yours in the first place.
3. Demand that we follow your orders when we are yet to break any known written rule in Sirius (except that bit about dating cleaning-bots! But what can I say? It was late, I was drunk and that bot can kiss!)
At this stage we ask that you stand down from further hostile actions until our High and Low Command respond officially (rather than the bite-me Rheinlander I heard from a Liberty pilot the other day). We believe that this can all be worked out and recommend that you see your bank manager and arrange finances just in case our High and Low Command decide to sell said vessels to the RM.
Finally, We are not playing games. We do not make mistakes. We dont start running.. but we do come running. You have labelled us Bounty Hunters (a fine body of men in the BHG here in Sirius who have the A51 clans upmost respect) but we point out that we are only working as Bounty Hunters and Traders at this stage while we secure our System / Systems. We are a Military force of your equal. Like you our words are backed by such strength. There are two options available to us all, peace or war. We will work for the first but are always ready for the second. Ill forward to our High and low Command your position and respect your right to make such comments. Our High and Low Command will more than likely respond directly to you (should you have finally got some sleep. Charging to war often leaves people stressed. I recommend a purple pill and one of those green and yellow specials!)
With best regards.
Ambassador Shipper Guinness Knight
A51 Ambassador