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Sender: Hauptgefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Action report
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I was on call when I was informed of a large Corsair force entering New Berlin. As took off from the planet and undocked, I met a big Corsair fleet promoting chaos in system. At first I identified a force of some four or five Corsair vessels, only two or three of those close enough to the orbit for me to pick them up on scanners. I understand a portion of that fleet was already engaging some other pilot(s) in system. Unfortunately as I started understanding the situation, that pilot's ship was destroyed by a known Corsair bomber vessel. The force was comprised by one TBH bomber, three OPG vessels and one unmarked Corsair ship. I acknowledge this data can be incorrect or incomplete, but I had little chance to do a proper assessment of the situation before I engaged the forces, given a portion of it was already orbiting the planet putting the lives of the civilians at risk.
To my understanding, I was fighting alone in the midst of some three or four vessels of the total force before some welcome backup arrived from unaffiliated forces. I take it most of them were Bounty Hunters. A couple of bombers put out one of the two Cruisers present. I myself put down an OPG Titan, I understand another OPG vessel had malfunctions of some kind and left the battle. Unfortunately the forces that came to aid all perished to the two remaining vessels (a Praetorian and a Cruiser). I kept tailing the bomber while tried to avoid both it's deadly supernova cannon and the rain of fire coming from the Cruiser. The bomber cleverly used the Cruiser as a shield against me, but in time it was loosing ground in the fight as I was slowly corroding it's hull. As I tried to bring him out of the Cruiser's range the bomber finally stood behing the larger vessel, avoiding fight.
With my reserves almost depleted, seeing that we had come to a stand off, since I wouldn't be able to down the Cruiser single handedly, and also seeing the bomber unwillingness to give up the Cruiser's shielding, I ordered them out. The bomber didn't take my offer to leave and moved to the planet. He said something in open comms about planet bombardment and started deflagrating Supernova fire directed at the atmosphere. I didn't quite understand his futile attempts to have the weapon's energy fire survive the drop inside the dense atmosphere, but I wouldn't have it freely acting right on New Berlin's orbit, let alone firing such a dangerous weapon right next to the docking ring.
With his hull in a bad shape and me firing at him, apparently he finally saw the futility of it all and both vessels left.