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Sender: Obergefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Intelligence Offices
Subject: Patrol report
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The night was quiet today in New Berlin. Mostly traders coming and going, seems like some of the citizens have finally understood our mandate and started cooperating. Not only our known traders will promptly report for inspection, but they'll go as far as report any sightings of criminals and rumors of pirate activity.
A trader informed me of a considerable Unioneer fleet moving yesterday composed of a couple of gunboats, a few bombers and fighters.
I was doing a broad patrol all around Rheinland when I noticed a gathering of ships in Hamburg through long range scanners. I was moving to investigate. When I reached Dortmund, I picked up a pirate ship on my scanners registered Fusion(Marsflyer) is was an Outcast Sabre fighter. I moved to engage the hostile fighter.
As the battle progressed another fighter joined the battle against me, that fighter was registered [ABC]Hammerstein, it was a Marauder with a Helghast IFF. Soon after the second ship engaged I managed to connect a Razor shot at the Sabre and proceeded to the second target. Unfortunately, he was laying a good number of mines in the battle area and one of those ended up hitting my ship while my shields were down.
My scape pod was retrieved by Essen station personnel. Fortunately I was unharmed, my Wrath's hull absorbed most of the blast. I got a bit shaken, but our doctors said I'm capable of resuming my duties.