To: Cmdr. Hofmann, Kruger Security Division | Subject: GDE and Reutlingen security

*Carsten appears on the screen in her office in the polizei office building on planet New Berlin with view on the metropolis behind her*

Guten Tag, Sehr geehrter commander Hofmann. My name is Laura Carsten and I´m detektiv of the Rheinland Federal Polizei. I´m contacting you because of your earlier message where you reported suspicious activity of two ships of GDE| group. First of all, danke again for this information and evidence, it is gut to see that Kruger pilots are vigilant. I can´t speak for military or Büro der Marineintelligenz, but polizei is already investigating mentioned group. Not only because incident you reported but becase...there was something more.

But to the reason why I´m sending you this message. I of course oficially can´t give you complete or any partial information about ongoing investigation. So bitte, take everything what I will now say as confidential information only for you and do not use openly anything of it, ja? I just feel that you should know about this.

To sum it up quickly, two days ago pair of GDE ships entered Rheinland and I stopped them near Bonn Station. Because the GDE| group - by the way they said this means Guild Department of Exploratory - is not formally accused nor sentenced for any crime, I had to let them go but I held surveillance on them all the time as possible suspicious persons.

What is important for your corporation - after some time, they entered Omega-7 system where they flew into open space, pretending that this is some kind of "spaceseeing". But obviously they were scouting the system including mining fields, what they even later admitted, and also looking for something. After some time, they split so I stayed with one of them and got little disoriented about navigation and exact position in the system as we were flying all around it. But some time later, it appeared what they were after because when we arrived near your base Reutlingen Storage Facility, the GDE pilot commented it with shouting "Bingo!" and later admitted that they want and need to know about possibilities of Kruger as their "business concurents" as they said.

Well, just for you, part of mein flight record exactly around at moment when GDE ship arrived near Reutlingen:

Part of communication record

I guess you will agree with me that this looks quite worrying and you should know about this because Reutlingen is important mining base so this is bordering issues of national economic security and there were some conflicts between your corporation and Gas Miners Guild.

So maybe better to keep more patrols around Reutlingen just for the case. But it is of course up to you.

Anyway, once again, everything in this transmission is for your eyes only to give you, personnel of Reutlingen base and Kruger corporation as whole some heads up. I hope you understand.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, detektiv Carsten out.

Guten Tag again, commander Hofmann. Delay is understandable, I´m myself very busy due to sudden increase of Red Hessians' activity in Stuttgart system where they repeatedly tried to destroy a Synth Food´s base. And current situation in Omega-7 is well known to me.

But to the matter of GDE. I was informed that whole issue goes to hands of military and Büro der Marineintelligenz and Kanzler himself is informed about it. But feel free to ask military for direct help. As for polizei, as far as I know I doubt it can provide stronger presence in Omega-7 when there are immediate dangers in Rheinland´s core systems. But this isn´t up to me of course, so feel free to contact polizei director about this, I will mention it as well when there will be opportunity to speak with him.

Oh, and by the way, if you have impression of weakness, you have to complain to someone else than polizei. Actually to Kanzler himself, at least I was told he was the one who decided to take mild reaction in this matter. If your ships were target of guild´s attacks in Rheinland or Kusari, you should have report it with evidence and maybe the reaction would be different. But attacks in Sigma-13 doesn´t count I guess, as far as I know Kruger ships are banned from GMG space so you basically shouldn´t enter it, or not?

Anyway, I´m not aware about any incidents as you imply, especially not in Rheinland house space. What did I miss? And do you have evidence for it? As I said, you really should report these incidents with evidence and then we can try to do something about it. Until then, there is not much we can do.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen, detektiv Carsten out.