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Vessel Name: Bantau, Donau Cruiser
Author: Captain Michael Withmann, der Alster Union.
Subject: New Commission




Been delightful to fly this old girl; I’ve been really surprised of its responsiveness to the flight controls. I’ve expected by its age and previous usage it to be a barely scrapped together piece of scrap, instead it reminded me of the quality of Rheinlandic shipbuilding capability.

As expected, our escorts kept our ship safe, as the weapons and sensors systems, unknown to me if due to battle damage, bad maintenance or lack of parts are pretty much offline or missing... shield abnormalities are making me particularly worried. Thankfully engines are up to standards, its maintenance officer; a man seemingly older than ship itself came along with the ship. He even addressed the engine by a personal name...

Our trip has been safe and even boring, which I thank any greatly any God responsible for blessing our voyage, because the crew assigned to me seems less combat-trusty than the old ship itself... I hope can shape this "mob" in a battle-ready crew... only time will tell.

Once checking procedures been ended at Koeln, I will write again.

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For the Union.
Michael Withmann
Koeln Cell, Krefeld Base.

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Vessel Name: Bantau, Donau Cruiser
Author: Captain Michael Withmann, der Alster Union.
Subject: Initial repairs & Instructions




Been four days of examinations of our glorious old lady; she passed master on her structural integrity (reminding me again how tough she is), but powergrids... I’ll just say lot of work will be needed to bring its weapons systems to operational status, let alone Federal standard.

Actual system status are healthier than expected, shield "hickups" were due to damaged wiring, a simple replacement of these bring system up to standards (kinda’, engineers reported some parts are working, but in bad shape, need be shortly replaced, too).

Scanners were in need of complete revision, I’ve been advised by tech to requisite its complete replacement, repair will be time-costly and hard due to age of system, some parts aren’t produced anymore, so I’m requesting a new system.

Engines are ok, to be fair, even a little above standard. Old fella (who now i call Grandpa, he doesn’t seem bothered; half crew are calling him that way anyways), is responsible for half of engineering. He treat those drives as sons... I’ve been told he once raged on a commander who asked him to overload em’ to escape a Hessian battleship… I will remember this.

On a shameful note, I’ve ran some drill training with my "new" crew... just got some emergency procedures and damage control routines run through… the whole crew didn’t know how to act further than panic… No one seems to know what they are supposed to do... But after some retries they are at least journeying where they should go, seems to be some progress.


During next few days we will be doing some more drill exercises, and, as soon we have the shield and scanners replaced, I want take the old lady on a (escorted) walk around, to see how she (and the crew) react to some real flying.

For the Union.
Michael Withmann
Koeln Cell, Krefeld Base.

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