To: Government of The Crayter Republic, Cc: BDM| -|- Subj.: Warships in Rheinland

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IDENTIFICATION: Minister for Foreign Affairs Christina Lauritz
SOURCE: Hauptsitz des Auswärtigen Amts, Planet New Berlin
SUBJECT: Your warships in Rheinland space

Representatives of The Crayter Republic government!

My name is Christina Lauritz and I hold position of Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of The Bundesrepublik Rheinland. It was brought to its attention by the Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts that few days ago several warships of the Crayter Republic military or affiliated to it entered Rheinland space without permission and with unregistered special equipment such as jump drive devices and cloaking devices, violating our laws by this action. Your fleet also brought a ship of the Gallic Royal Navy and capital ship of The Council under dubious circumstances it seems.

You can see excerpt from the report with the most important parts in the data attachment of this message. The Rheinland government finds this incident very disturbing and thus requests immediate explanation.

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Report excerpt

Offenders:

● =CR=FV-Olympia|01
● CFV-Shatterboat
● =CR=FV-Eris|231
● FV-Mercury
● [224th]CFV-Chimaera|01
● CFV-Erinyes

Are currently subject of an official criminal investigation, suspected/accused of committing the following offence(s):

☑ Usage of illegal equipment (Article 2: §2.2.4., §2.2.2.)
☑ Trespassing with foreign war ships (Article 4: §1. §4.)

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An interrogation on site, as far as that was possible, has come to the following conclusion:

The captains of the involved vessels admitted to have conducted an unauthorized jump, via illegal and unsecure equipment, into Rheinland space (New Berlin System). We have to assume that persons aboard one of the Colonial vessels - identified as members of the Gallic Royal Navy - and one vessel of the GRN (MRG|Christian.Sauvageot) were kept as hostages by the Crayerians, within Rheinland space. Officers on site did not grant any further precarious jump maneuvers with unsecure hardware. However, the Colonial fleet jumped out before our reinforcement could reach the crime scene.

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Comm ID: Alicia Young; Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Crayter Republic
Location: Coronado


Dear Ms. Lauritz,

thank you for notifiying us about the investigation. We will certainly collaborate with you on this issue.

There are however a few things you should know about this issue.
The commanders in question did not intent to move to Rheinland space with their vessels, it was an unfortunate chain of events combined with experimental technology, that, while we can already control most of its functions, still has the potential to cause unforseen incidents like this one.
The vessels in question were engaged in a fleet battle with the Gallic Royal Navy, one that started to turn in a very unfavourable way. In order to prevent the loss of many lives, the commander of the Olympia had no choice, but to use the newly developed piece of jump technology. As this happened directly within a battle situation, we can only assume that some variables were not set correctly. This caused the Olympia and all vessels nearby to jump into Rheinland space, instead of the planned destination at planet Yuma in Coronado.
This also explains why different Gallic vessels 'travelled' together with the Crayter fleet. Those people were no hostages, as your report described, they simply were at the wrong place when this happened. The only reason that prevented our commanders from executing pilots belonging to a nation at war, was the respect for your laws.
When confronted with the BDM vessels accusations the commander onboard the Olympia had no other choice, but to attempt another jump with the fleet, as he feared that his ship, as well as everyone else belonging to the fleet would be locked down in Rheinland, while we, as you certainly know, are fighting a war on different fronts against different enemies. Our survival depends on the availability of every ship possible, having a fleet of six vessels rendered unusable by Rheinland law authorities would not have been acceptable. Additionally it would also have been highly problematic to lose a vessel with experimental and war-critical technology.
While the commander in question certainly did not display the behaviour we expect from commanding officers, the Republic generally agrees with the actions taken after the technological malfunction, which in no way could have been influences by the commanders and their crews.

I hope you do understand that the actions of these vessels were neither intended to cause the Bundesrepublik any trouble, neither were they intended to cause you or the people within Rheinland any harm. They were simply a very unfortunate turn of events, caused by experimental technology.

Regards
-A.Young

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IDENTIFICATION: Minister for Foreign Affairs Christina Lauritz
SOURCE: Hauptsitz des Auswärtigen Amts, Planet New Berlin
SUBJECT: Your warships in Rheinland space

Dear Ms. Young,

after careful consideration which required some time, the Rheinland government decided to accept your explanation of the incident and will not take any political measures against the Crayter Republic. But we strongly expect that your military will be able to control properly the advanced technologies it use in the future. Because if such situation should repeat, it will not be taken lightly at all. Also, we would expect that your government or representatives of the military would contact us as soon as possible after the incident, inform us about it and apologize on their own, not only after you are confronted with it by us.

Anyway, for now we are leaving resolving of this matter to the law enforcement authority which documented and reported it. Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts will handle the legal aspect of the situation and will determine exact fine for the violation of Rheinland laws which, despite unintentionally, occurred.

However, we would like to use the opportunity that we are in contact already to talk about different issue. As you may or may not know, several weeks ago the paragraph 4 of Article Four of Rheinland laws was changed due to some incidents with certain Libertonian organization. The main part now states that "all foreign police, military and intelligence agency spaceships of any size are banned from Rheinland space, unless permission to enter is given by a High Command member of the Rheinwehr primary fleet ([RM]) or the Bundestag."

Unfortunately, over the time it appeared that there is problem of recognizing affiliation of transport and escort ships of the Crayter Republic. Precisely, law enforcement is unclear how to recognize civilian ships from those which belong to your military (and thus can not enter Rheinland without permission). For this reason we would like to ask for clarification regarding what IDs, IFFs and/or tags are used for primary and secondary fleet military ships, and what are used for non-military/civilian ones we suppose you have for obtaining commodities from abroad. Basically some manual or clear rules which the law enforcement can use to identify affiliation of your ships quickly and properly is what we ask for.

Respectfully

Christina Lauritz

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Comm ID: Alicia Young; Ministry of Foreign Relations of the Crayter Republic
Location: Coronado


Dear Ms. Lauritz,

the Crayter Republics civilian sector consists of a variety of different state-owned and private corporations, the most important ones, as well as their business area are listed below:

Crayter Defense Industries (Military engineering and construction)
Ares Logistics (Military transport)
Integral Systems Engineering (Civillian transport and maintenence)
Conveyor Minerals Incorporated (Civillian mining operations)
Hephaestus Constructions (Civillian construction and infrastructure)
Yuma Robotics (Civillian engineering and design)
Felix Manufacturing (Civillian goods production)
Yuma Ocean Farming (Food prouction and distribution)
Intersun Luxury Liners (Entertainment venue handling)

While this list covers the most important corporations, it is unlikely that most of them will venture abroad to visit Rheinland. Currently Integral Systems Engineering is the only corporation that has dealings with partners in most of Sirius. Their ships can be identified by the =CR=ISE tag.

The matter of escort ships can be troblesome, as there are currently no privately owned Fighter vessels in the Republic. All ships of this type are controlled by the Military, which has become necessary to allow operational readiness and swift decisions in terms of our war efforts.
Thats why ships formally belonging to the Military and thus flying with the appropriate paperwork are used as escort vessels by the corporations. This also counts for transport ships to some degree.

In order to allow an identification for your law enforcement units, I would advise the following procedure:
-Crayter transport ships flying abroad belong to our civilan forces, regardless of the identification
-Military ships up to Bomber class escorting said transports, are exactly that, escorts sent or hired by Crayter corportaions, regardless of the identification
-Military ships flying alone are indeed what they appear to be, Military ships, which according to your legistlation would require a permission issued by your law enforcement authorities to enter Rheinland

I hope this can help to clear things up. I also hope that you can understand that most aspects of the Republics life are currently dominated by our war efforts and thus have to be dealt with accordingly.


Regards
-A.Young

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