Com ID: Leopard
Location: Planet Malta, Omicron Alpha system
Callsign: Red Hessians Grey 1. "Sitting Bufallo".
Transmitted to: Vogtland control, Dresden system.
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Gutten tag comrades. This is Oberleutnant Matt Black aboard gunship Leopard. Transmitting report.
I have been investigating Solaris station for two weeks now and indeed made the conclusion that Kruger are continuing to gather in Omega 11 system. Hence, I am gathering my forces too.
I took Leopard out of the dry dock. It was time for the old pal to get his paint job. I gathered a small amount of forces to escort me to Outcasts territory to upgrading the vessel in Omicron Alpha. Leutnant Kaspar Meisnerr happened to be in the area. He took off with me.
I tryed to arrive on Planet Malta via Omega's route, through hostile Corsairs territory, thinking that I could stumble upon some knowledge about Corsairs infrastructure on my way. I must say I was soon to regret the decision, as our presence was spotted by the Corsairs patrols several times. It was close, but we made it. Even too close, though. I and Leutnant Meisnerr both ran out of countermeasures in Omicron Eta. Collected data is minimum, the risk was big and we nearly didnt make it, but it was a magnificient feat executed by our forces. The journey itself proves that Corsairs defence is not unbreachable.
Unfortunately our little act wasnt left unresponded. Corsairs invaded Omicron Eta with 2 Fighters, 4 Gunboats and a Cruiser. Outcasts sent a group of 4 Fighters and 1 Gunboat to repel the threat. I couldn't cease to amaze Outcasts battle proficienty. If Blood Dragons are masters of tactics and strategy, the Outcasts are no doubt masters of fighting skills on individual level.
It seemed that Outcasts could break and flee at any moment, as they were on constant, heavy fire from the Corsairs, but they held their positions bravely. Although on heavy pressure, the Outcasts force managed to hold their position and repel the attack by attacking themselves. I counted three to four Corsairs SOS signals. Their ships were taken down. It is amazing how well the Outcasts, while being outnumbered, did in battle, espiacally against such audacious enemy as Corsairs.
It inspired full tust for me with Outcasts mechanics and engineers. I asked them to install all the proper equipment within the Leopard at their own distinction, when the battle was over and I safely docked with Malta. I recalled Leutnant Meisnerr out of duty and ordered him to set coordinates to Vogtland. I heard reports of him meeting up with Dieter Lenz to head out home then.
There are still a few minor tasks to complete to set up Leopard fully, but I will soon head out back myself.
Message to: RHA Command
Comm ID: Leutenant Kaspar Meisnerr
Location: Vogtland Base, Dresden
The Leopard has managed to return to Dresden safely today and it has been decided to test the mettle of it's new weaponry against the limitless enemies of the Red Hessian Army. So we proceeded to New Berlin which had seemed to be completely undefended at the time. Knowing the recent opportunity most traders are pursuing in a route to Kusari we have made way to the Sigma-13 jump hole, only to notice a pirate cruiser had already engaged in interception there. The cruiser was increasingly hostile at first, but chose to hail us with a proposition of cooperation the moment a Rheinland Military ship had appeared on close range scanners.
We have chose to engage the Military Wrath with our superior firepower, knowing that we had the upper hand. During the course of the battle we have made a tactical mistake however, following the Wrath into the nearby asteroid field only to be engaged by a whole squadron of Wilde and allow the enemy to hide behind asteroids from the gunfire of the Leopard. We have maintained the advantage however, regardless of the weird displacement anomalies the Wrath was suffering, until the first independent ships started to arrive a few minutes later. Within a matter of a minute the enemy force was reinforced by another Wrath, a Bounty Hunter cruiser and one more ship which I had not managed to scan. We could not stand a chance against this combined firepower, and the Leopard was incapacitated by a lucky shot to the engine. I managed to tractor in the crew's escape pods and make haste towards Dresden, losing the pursuit soon after.
This attack was uneventful, with no losses on the enemy side. It proves that every time we strike we must quickly disappear soon after, especially when the strike takes place in New Berlin. The Vogtland hauling crews have already been ordered to pick up the abandoned Leopard from the site of the battle as soon as the enemies clear off.
I hence formally put in a request for the acquisition and outfitting of a Loki Light Fighter to start off my Light Fighter training. The Wrath cannot possibly match the agility of this ship, a skilled pilot should be able to outmaneuver the Military dogs with ease and cut down our losses to their superior codename weapons. If this request is granted, I will require help setting the ships' IFF to match the one used by the Red Hessian Army.
Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Leutenant Kaspar Meisnerr
Location: Vogtland Base, Dresden
Fellow brothers, the Red Hessian Army is expanding it's influence and our actions are spreading word about us fast! Two days ago we have managed to score a plethora of victories, both against the corrupt Kanzler and the wretched Corsairs!
Our first victory dealt a massive blow to the Kanzlers war machine. I have led an incursion into New Berlin that day, with our forces comprised of my Odin, miss Olsen's bomber, brother Lenz's fighter and brothers Kurze and Todsturm in their bombers. Positioning ourselves near a trade lane we begun collecting donations from traders and have soon encountered a Rheinland Battleship under the handle Max_Payne. The battleship's captain was foolish enough to fly into the asteroid field to get to us, where our forces finished him off in short order.
The traders were in complete awe of this Hessian victory, and dared not challenge our superiority that day. Not even the massive Rheinland battleships can survive our devastating attacks!
Shortly after I was called by a person whos name I will not reveal right now (his safety at stake, if the Rheinland Military discovered his name, he would most likely suffer repercussions) to meet him in Sigma-13. I have of course complied to his request, and met him near the New Berlin jump hole. After a short conversation he has proposed to give a voluntary contribution to the Red Hessian cause in the number of 10 million credits! I have accepted the contribution and spread it amongst our forces participating in the destruction of the Rheinland battleship for repair and restock purposes. I will be transmitting the name of this benefactor to Red Hessian forces on secure channels soon, it is only appropriate that we do not tax him and acknowledge his help requests if he ever requires it!
After this extremely eventful trip our forces fell back to Vogtland to regroup. We have succesfully executed an incursion into Omicron Gamma afterwards, destroying two Corsair capital ships at which point we fell back. My fighter was incapacitated, and brother Konrad Kurze had to tractor in my escape pod, but the damage dealt to the Corsairs was much higher. All in all, this was a successful surprise attack! The Corsairs never even saw it coming.
We had all returned to Vogtland afterwards, and Oberleutenant Matt Black had assumed command of our forces at that point. Another supporter under the callsign Frayist has joined us at that point. After a while of operating in the Omegas we had returned to Dresden, and followed with another attack on New Berlin. No known elite military fighters were detected on long range scanners, and we proceeded in knowing that there won't be much challenge against us. Oberleutenant Black took point in the Leopard, and we made way to the Sigma-13 jump hole, the recent major artery in Rheinland - Kusari trade. After extracting another 6 million credits of donations to the cause, resistance had finally reared it's head in the form of a Bounty Hunter cruiser under the callsign SlikRik. The ship was helpless as our bombers relentlessly pounded it's hull until there was nothing left. The Leopard has dealt the finishing blow in this encounter, scoring a direct hit to the reactor and turning the cruiser into a brilliant fireball.
Another Bounty Hunter cruiser shown up afterwards, this one under the callsign Megiddo. Unfortunately in this encounter our forces had made a blunder of engaging him outside of the asteroid field. Initially the battle was quite successful with the cruiser haplessly trying to hit our nimble bombers. After a few minutes of pummeling his hull down the cruiser managed to score three lucky shots somehow, and hit three of our ships in a way reminiscent of the ship AiRaGe. Damaged heavily, our squadron had to return to Vogtland.
This blunder notwithstanding, the day was an enormous success for the Red Hessian Army! This is but the beginning of many more such rallies against our enemies. As long as we are challenged, we must not rest! And we will not rest.
I must commend brothers Todsturm, Kurze and Frayist for their extraordinary dedication to the cause. These victories would not be possible without them, and I sincerely hope for many more supporters like them joining our attacks in the near future. With people like them, the Red Hessians will soon succeed!
Com ID: Leopard
Location: Vogtland Base, Dresden system
Callsign: Red Hessians Grey 1. "Sitting Bufallo".
Transmitted to: Vogtland control, Dresden system.
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Gutten tag. This is Oberleutnant Matt Black speaking. This report is to fullfill Leutnant Kaspar Meisnerr's report with detailed skirmish in Omega systems with Corsairs.
A few days ago revolutionary forces lost Leopard in New Berlin system to heavy Bounty Hunters fire. Luckily Hessians Mikhail Todsturm and Konrad Kurze, who were guarding the site, managed to push back Junkers and prevented salvaging of the vessel. Leopard did not take any critical damage and was retrieved back to Vogtland a day ago for mechanics to work on it.
Leopard was still in dry-dock when Leutnant Kaspar Meisnerr accompanied with Mr.Todsturm, Mr.Kurze and Miss Olsen led a successful attack in New Berlin system.
Rheinland Battleship was destroyed in the attack, while Red Hessians took no casualties.
Total of 2 million credits were gained from the attack with additional voluntary 10 million credits donation from an unspecified Zoner as mentioned.
After successful attack on Rheinland Leutnant Meisnerr decided to launch a direct onslaught on Omicron Gamma deep inside the Corsair territory. Leutnant Meisnerrs forces were increased when Leutnant Dieter Lenz launched his bomber in space. However, our mediator, Miss Olsen did not participate in the attack. I had to observe the attack on long range scanners.
Red Hessians led by Mister Meisnerr managed to advance deep inside hostile territory and launched a full scale attack in Omicron Gamma. The battle failed with 3 Hessian and 2 Corsair casualties, but it was the first of such large attacks against Corsairs in a long time.
Finally, all the remaining fighters regrouped at Dresden and fixed Leopard joined the pack to attack New Berlin once again. This time I led the attack myself. Two traders were killed and three more were taxed on this attempt with total of 6 millions credits acquired. Then Bounty Hunter Cruisers started to appear. Hessian forces managed to take down one Battlecruiser, but took heavy damage while fighting the other. After taking several fighter casualties I ordered Hessians to retreat back to Vogtland again, where we regrouped once more.
I also led another assault into Omegas. The pack happened to cross a Farmer Alliance IDed, Corsair Battlecruiser by the name of IkArO. I ordered my men to engage the vessel, whose captain then claimed that he is of Farmers Alliance and pointed me towards famous Farmer Alliance member Zeev. However, I did not believe him one bit, especially when he fled towards Cadiz to call for backup of another Corsair Cruiser called Muten.
However, the attack on Cadiz was a success and Muten was destroyed.
IkArO then fled from Cadiz as well. Red Hessian forces chased him up to Cambridge system, where I gave up the chase. Our mediator Miss Olsen will soon contact Zeev for information on this IkArO and his suspicious background.
Corsairs then gathered force of 2 fighters and 2 gunboats for a counter-attack. Unfortunately Leutnant Kaspar Meisnerr was in Dresden at the moment involved in arms trade and Mikhail Todsturm was on his way to Malta to restock his cardamine supplies. Corsairs striked at most inconvenient time and pushed us back to Ronneburg station. The siege was broken only minutes after that and Red Hessians returned to Vogtland once more.
While Red Hessians made a significant progress in Rheinland, our conflict with Corsairs remains at a stalemate.
I cease to amaze Leutnant Meisnerr's potential in leading successful attacks against both Rheinland forces and Corsairs. Leutnant Meisnerr is the most talented of our young crew. (Matt isn't talented, hes experienced:P)
Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Fleet Kapitan Conrad Egon
Location: Ronneburg Base, Omega-5
Excellent work, all of you. There will be another round of promotions coming soon with the influx of new rekruts, and as always they are well-deserved and hard-won.
There is little to report this time, except for the showing of our old friend, AzzAzEllO and his gunboat. I dueled him unsuccessfully in my first fleet engagement when I was but a rekrut myself, and more recently near Freeport6. But this time, with Ansgar's Thor and the RHA flagship, we brought our old foe to his knees.
He put up one hell of a fight, more than some cruisers I've come up against...so if you should encounter this one again, be cautious.
After tractoring the gunboat's cargo of Nomad weapons, Ansgar and I rushed to Omega-5, where Rekrut Markus was battling a Corsair Nephthys by the callsign of |ALMEROS|. Dieter docked his bomber, retrieved his Loki, and arrived before I did. A local freak ion spike in his targetting systems rendered him vulnerable to a mine, and his ship was destroyed. When I finally arrived, Almeros had restocked on Cadiz and was preparing to re-engage. The presence of the mighty Sternenfaust frightened him off, however, and Markus and I returned to Ronneburg.
An oddity of note, however...once Almeros had fled, he contacted me via private channels, claiming to be the captain of the Corsair Osiris |LEE|...and he challenged me to a duel in Omega-41. I, ah, politely declined to commit suicide, and cut off the communications.
Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Leutenant Kaspar Meisnerr
Location: Vogtland Base, Dresden
During the last two days we have decreased our enemies by two fighters and a cruiser.
The day before I have engaged in funds interception with supporters Todsturm and Schumacher. During our eventful watch in Dresden we have encountered Der Todesking, a Rheinland cruiser. Our attempts of communication have been met with a hail of gunfire, and as such, we began our attack. After a few minutes of fighting, with my manuevers successfully drawing said cruisers fire away from the bomber the ship was blown up.
Today, I seen action from the moment I undocked. A corsair fighter engaging in a fight with Leutenant Wetter right next to Vogtland itself. I have sped to help immediately, and our combined firepower quickly finished him off.
We have decided to do a patrol around New Berlin, with the idea of picking up some donations on the way. As we arrived near the orbit of New Berlin, no military vessel in sight, we have noticed a single Corsair fighter engaging in troublesome activities. Knowing we can't let that scum operate on our territory, we attacked him on sight and the fighter was soon floating in space, powerless, despite attempting to escape.
The pilot was perfectly comfortable to yell at us from the safety of his escape pod, which we could not find unfortunately.
At that point the two bounty hunters with the identifications "Chimp" decided to engage us near The Ring, one of them in a gunboat, the other in a bomber. They have managed to incapacitate Wilhelm's ship while he was sorting out his comm system, a bad accident really, though I have managed to tractor in his pod. I have made way for the asteroid field in an attempt to drag the two in behind me, at which point Mikhail Todsturm turned up to help me in his bomber. We have engaged the "Chimps" in a 2v2 fight, but unfortunately the gunboat was harder to take down than anticipated, as well as transferring nanobots to the bomber constantly due to which I was unable to take it down, regardless of easily outmanuevering both ships.
We have decided to take our leave once Mikhail's nanobots have ran out, splitting up in the process as he retreated into Sigma-13 while I made my way towards Dresden. The two vessels pursued me all the way to Vogtland, taunting me along the way. I have assured them that they will yet again meet us in force.
During these two days we have managed to deal losses to the enemy and mostly avoid losses on our side. I will be prepping my ship for more patrols the next day.
Due to the amount of enemy ships of capital class threatening us all across Rheinland, I change my ship request from a Loki light fighter to a Thor bomber. A bomber will be much more useful in the case of this heavy ship presence, and I will want to proceed to set it up whilst keeping my personal Odin for dogfights. I have not yet recieved confirmation on my previous request, so I assume it is still appropriate to change it now. If this is granted, I will require help in setting up the new ships IFF systems.
Greetings fellow Hessians. I'm sorry for my inactivity these past couple of days, but I had to impound my Odin and track down those in Daumann who thought trying to kill one of their most dangerous men was a good idea. Suffice to say, we'll have much less base security concerns in the near future.
I launched my Odin today for the first time in several weeks, and I must say it felt great. I toured our ZOI, ending in the Omega 5 system, where I met a playmate, a Corsair by the name of |ALMERO| or something. I engaged, but was quickly overcome by the horde of Centurions the Corsairs had deployed in that area. Sensing caution to be the best course, I started to attempt a retreat, being thwarted at every turn by those damnable Corsairs.
Finally help arrived in the form of an Outcast, Maria Banderas. She offered to help, and I gladly accepted, running to the Omega 41 jumphole, she jumped in and engaged the Corsair. Unfortunately my Odin took extensive damage during the fight and I had to eject. Nonetheless, Maria tractored me in and dealt with the Corsair swiftly and efficiently, avenging my poor Odin.
This Outcast has my undying thanks, she saved my life.
Com ID: Oberleutnant Matt Black
Location: Freital, Omega 11 system
Callsign: Red Hessians Grey 1. "Sitting Bufallo".
Transmitted to: Vogtland control, Dresden system.
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Gutten tag once again comrades. This is Red Hessiens Oberleutnant Matt Black submitting yet another report from the remote Omega 11 system.
Today I was accompanied by Mikhail Todsturm, our brother of Outcast heritage. A Bowex convoy signatues have been spotted in the system and the transport was soon met by our ambush wing. This time we encountered a cargo more profitable than any raw material found in Von Rohe belt. Bowex were transporting Prisoners. The convoy leader assured us that he has no Hessian prisoners on board and request to drop any captured Corsairs was made. The convoy leader agreed to our demands and jetisoned Corsair prisoners into open space in exchange for safe passage.
The Odins hadnt have the capability to carry so many prisoners on board and the fate of the Corsairs was undecided for the moment.
However time was running low and the pods were slowly being breached by radiation. A Zoner was called in for help. He agreed on transporting the prisoners for a fee to our main instalation of Vogtland.
Red Hessian forces escorted the Zoner to Dresden system with the Corsair prisoners in hold. The convoy was extremely vulnerable for a while, as cruise engines could not be used, due to thick law of asteroids in the area, but we encountered no resistance on the run.
The Prisoners were transfered to Vogtland succesfully. I leave it to command to decide their fate.
Later that day an attempt to weaken Corsair forces was held. Leutnant Shimada joined me and Mikhail Todsturm in the attack, however it failed utterly. The two pilots took critical damage. I tryed to fight back Corsairs as long as I could, but we were pushed back eventually. Unfortunately some of Red Hessians (npcs) fell during the attack and were tractored by the Benitez family craft. Perhaps a prisoner transfer could be made some day on neutral grounds.
The rest of the day was rather quiet. Mikhail Todsturm remained on Freital, as he was lighty wounded in the fight, and I together with Leutnant Shimada attempted pirating on lanes of Dresden system. Piracy is not a thing to be proud of, but we managed to tax two traders instantly.
On our usual patrol in New Berlin, we came across a freighter hauling prisoners from the cursed Battleship Altenburg. Not wanting to risk the lives of those caged on board, we stopped the trader and offered to buy them. The trader agreed and we loaded their cryo pods onto the Varyag. The ship was completely crewed by robots, extremely strange. The automated captain of the vessel offered to run prisoners to Voghtland in secret, but the crew was already nervous interacting with this ship so we declined and moved them on their way.
Once we were under power again, our ship's surgeon started to unlock the pods. One by one, we cracked every one of them open. It was an incredibly fulfilling to see the expressions of surprise and delight on the faces of those men and women when they realized where they were. It seems we hit a goldmine. Many of the people we liberated were friends and relatives of members of the crew, most where Hessians mixed with a few Bundschuh, all political prisoners. We returned to Voghtland within a few hours and released nearly 500 new fighters to our cause. Our return was made even more satisfying by the arrival of my XO shortly after. He disembarked his monster and quickly dropped off newly acquired supplies and information.
Today I was contacted by leautenant Leopard about problems in frankfurt. Our friends from bundshuch were engaged by RM member. From moment when I arived into battlefield, I was primary target for that RM pilot. He was realy good in flying but not very good in aiming because I wasnt seriously injured during whole fight. RM pilot was wery bad injured when he fled from battle. An half hour ago we were engaged by 2 bountyhunters (chimp_? - dont remember second name and John_Rambo or something similar, maybe Bundshuch have better evidence about names). They had same bad tactic as RM pilot before. I was primary target again but again they were realy bad in aiming and I was able in my bomber fly more or same agile then they in their fighters. They were killed one by one by bundshuch boys with my asistance, again I wasnt injured... in fact they allways killed only my shields.
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