Guten Tag,
i am proud to report another successful duty today. After the events from yesterday i decided to patrol Dresden System. I sneaked through the Altenburg's defense grid and lurked between the asteroids near Leipzig Station. I waited the routine patrols passing by and took the opportunity to destroy 3 Daumann Depots.
Than i returned to Freital Base to refuel and support Major Gunther Hoerst in Omega 7. We avoided to get in touch with the usual DHC patrols. Instead we engaged several corsair ships, 3 corsair pilots captured. That caught the attention of 2 HAF Titan fighters. Major Hoerst and me had no choice but to fight. Before my GM17 got destroyed, i was able neutralize the Titan of MarquesDelRiscal but unable to reach his escape pod. My very own escape pod was safely tractored back to Freital Base, where i am already setting up a new ship for my next mission.
While I was gathering and stalling their advancement in the Revolution, I met a trader and offered him to either drop his cargo of 4980 fertilizers or give 3mill and he chose to drop it.
( The fertilizers are at the top of pictures and his ID was Republic shipping but his IFF was police.)
Their advancement has been stall and we are now 1 step closer to beating them!
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Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering!
Message to: Red Hessians
Comm ID: Major Gunther Hoerst, Spezialoperationabteilung
Location: Freital, Omega-11
This is a report concerning the lock down operation in the New Berlin system carried out on the saturday of the previous week with heavy cooperation from members of the Rot Front brigade.
Report begins >>
Our mole within the Rheinland Federal Police had tipped us exactly two weeks ago about something most peculiar, namely a supposed Cardamine transport that was meant to come down from that crack heaven that is Liberty towards Kreuzberg itself and be intercepted by the police there. What immediately striked me as odd was the fact that the police knew about this shipment so well in the first place. This prompted me to call our Berliner wings and see this situation through in the hope of uncovering new information about the Federal Police' activities.
On saturday morning Berlin time myself and Ernst Neurath as well as a large wing of Rot Front forces arrived in New Berlin with the intent to monitor all ways in and out of the system, and the hope of catching that drug transport before it could make it to its destination.
Attachment 1:
Image from the reverse cam of my own fighter showing of part of the force operating to shut down the jump holes within the system.
Attachment 2:
The plan of advance in the New Berlin system.
Myself being in command of operations, I briefed the men on the lockdown plan and our strategy of fast response. The group was split into three teams: Team 1 (signified on attachment 2 as the centre advance) was led by Major Neurath, it would take to the Hamburg jump hole and patrol the area around it, as well as monitor the Hamburg jump gate. Team 2 (the east advance) was led by myself and was in charge of Aachenfeld patrols. Team 3 (the west advance) would secure the area around Kreuzberg and assure that the smuggler is intercepted should he slip by our patrols at the jump holes. Should the smuggler group be sighted, all patrols were to converge on the reported area, thus assuring that the smugglers would be intercepted by at least one of the three groups before reaching their destination.
The plan was flawless, the forces set in place. We continued heavy patrols throughout the hour with little results however. It appeared that our mole had to be incorrect as to the point of convergence of the smugglers. I ordered a scan from our hidden satellites across Rheinland to determine the position of the strongest police force at the present moment, however the police forces were evenly spread.
Therefore I have ordered to stretch patrols to Frankfurt in hope that we might run into them there. We picked up some more forces on the way, however the information about the smugglers turned out to be completely false, and the mission was aborted after two hours.
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It was not a complete failure however, as we have encountered several different forces across Berlin during the lockdown. The infamous Joker and his cronies has been reported to operate in the area, robbing transports. I was keen to keep our men off of him for the duration of the mission until he perpetrated a crime of killing 2000 refugees off of a transport. While no explicit order to remove him from Berlin was given, the forces of the Rot Front joined with two Volksfront fighters converged on the Joker's location and enacted justice upon him for his crimes. Images from his destruction are attached below.
Attachment 3:
Destruction of the Joker's gunboat by Rot Front and Volksfront forces.
Despite this setback, it should be noted that the Joker and his thugs have been useful in the past as distractions in the Omega systems, launching themselves at the Corsairs there. I advise no change in status towards his force and the continuation of operations based on circumstance.
In addition to that, we have managed to convince a captain of a Military cruiser, the RNC-Oldenburg, that we indeed fight for the people. We have let the captain keep his ship despite our obvious tactical superiority. However a day in Rheinland isn't a day without a destruction of a few Military, and as was expected soon enough another cruiser called "Rote_Baron" saw us along with a crony gunboat of his called the "prometnik", and demanded our lives. The result was of course predictable:
Attachment 4:
Destruction of the Rote Baron.
On a final note, although we have not encountered the predicted smugglers we did find something else that was worth of attention. One of the Harvester vessels who was carrying a plethora of different samples turned out to have material in his cargo bay that was immediately recognised by our scanners as a cardamine-like substance. The unit was ordered to drop the crate, with which it immediately complied. Upon detailed scan of the crate the substance was discovered to have been of much higher concentration than the usual cardamine dust, to the point of it being in a liquid state.
This substance must be some kind of an Outcast research project, no doubt designed to be even more addictive than the regular dust. The scans were submitted to the Spezialoperationabteilung research team, and the crate was promptly destroyed to prevent any traces of it making contact with any human.
Attachment 5:
Scans of the liquid cardamine crate.
Due to these disturbing foundings I have grounds to suspect that the smugglers might be trying to bring in this liquid type cardamine substance to establish stronger business within Rheinland, hence the attention by the Federal Police. Those smugglers must be stopped at all costs, and as such I am leaving the operation open and to be continued at a later date.
Another successful day is here! I was taking Patrol in Omega - 11 when I met a miner. Unfortunately it was very easy and there was no chase or anything he just gave me the donation.
May the Revolution prosper to victory!
Transmission ends
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Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering!
Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Oberst Johannes Farb
Location: Vogtland, Dresden
Guten Morgen! As you already know we launched an interdiction operation on Daumann convoy transporting valuable goods and arms to the BHG base rumored to be Omicron Delta from The Ring. Our intelligence section had been tipped off of the time of the departure, but no other details were available. Major Gunther Hoerst assembled a force to see that the convoy would not reach it's destination. The convoy was protected by BHG escort force of unknown quantity and numbers.
At 2000 PM the initial interdiction force launched from Vogtland and headed to New Berlin.
Major Hoerst ordered us to S-13 hole as he himself took upon himself the scouting of the direction where the convoy would head. While we were waiting for the order to move out it was soothing and relaxing to listen to the Truth Transmitter drone broadcasting one of the finest propaganda messages ever to grace Rheinland. Although it's latrine duty and demotion for my adjutant for that one grave mistake in the message I ordered him to send to the Rote Front technicians preparing the drone.
Finally Major told us that the convoy had made it's move. It was headed towards Frankfurt and we scrambled to cut the lanes in S-13 and in Frankfurt side near Brucshal. Our forces were spread quite thin so everything was hanging on a balance. Commanding officer Hoerst had managed to enlist help in form of a known loose cannon, The Joker who happened to be in the area to keep us informed of the convoys movements. He helped our forces to patch our drag-net. At that moment it looked like the opportunity to strike a grievous body blow to Daumann had slipped through our hands. Moments later Major Hoerst told that the convoy had gone to Munich and we moved our forces to S-17 as it was the only reasonable route they could take.
Our forces covered the Theta hole and were poised to spring the trap. After agonizing wait finally the convoy was spotted and was ordered to halt summarily and hand over the goods.
But it's never as simple as that. The events quickly lead to fight with the escorts. One GB and GS was quickly reduced to cooling flotsam by our concentrated efforts. Major Hoerst ordered our 2 bombers to go and see that the prize grab, DHC-Train.Leipzig, would not try to seize the advantage and flee. Everything went according to script until a bounty hunter Manta forced me and the other bomber to switch our attention to himself. And then Leipzig bolted! I, in Red Autumn and Major Hessler in Messerschmidt, had dropped the ball, 49.8 million ball to be exact, big time. Gunther went on a trajectory for that and immediately our forces dispersed to lock down and search for the lost Leipzig as couple of fighters were left to perform delaying action. It could not be found.
Our intercomms were ominously silent after such a major blunder. We could practically hear Major Hoerst grinding his teeth in anger and frustration. Our only hope was that his anger would have been directed at the BHG pilots still remaining and let them be the scape-goats.
Our forces managed get a hold of Bavaria and tried to use it as a hostage and force Leipzig out of hiding. In this the Daumann showed their true colors and sent a clear message to it's workers and left Bavaria hanging out there alone. At least the cargo of Bavaria never reached it's destination as our forces made it drop all the guns and get out while he could.
While waiting for the fighting to die down and praying for the news of our scouts that they had located Leipzig our bomber squadron intercepted traders at Theta hole and made some amends by asking them to support the revolution financially. And for a wonder a DHC escort bomber wandered out of Theta. It looked like he was lost his way as he just stood there immobile and silent for a long time. Finally we ran him off to Kurile.
But alas. It was no use. The big prize had slipped from our grasp and we headed back to Dresden mollified.
Guten Tag Kameraden,
i took some days to rebuild my ship, but yesterday i finally could go back on duty. When i started from Freital Base a Hessian named Beppo Blutfels joined me for a rendez-vous with Major Ernst Neurath at New Berlin. In Stuttgart we noticed the KMT-Jatzeel, after a short talk he was willing to donate the Volksrevolution. We continued fast to New Berlin to restock and join Major Neurath and Herrn Maik Lehmann, to disrupt the trade connection to Stuttgart system.
Besides we liberated 2 allied pilots from the Bounty Hunter PhD.Danger, we cought the KMT-Wipper and convinced several other traders to donate the revolution.
I am currently at Kaiserslauter, refitting my ship. It got critical damages after we encountered the RFP officer Drache and the RNC Bananhej showed up.
Oberst Farb,
i gladly accept the promotion and thank you fur the warm words and the trust in my person. I will pay tribute to that trust and acquire a GM82, to be able to fulfill my duty within this new scope of responsibility.