Sender ID - Feldwebel Michael Schmidt Location – Battleship Moselle, Braunschweig
Subject – Pilot Report Guten Tag,
Today, I went on a patrol through the Hamburg system, checking ships that went in and out of Rheinland. Through the course of the hours, several smugglers attempted to bring Basic Alloys, Light Arms and Artifacts to Liberty. Said smugglers showed no attempt of reason, and tried to escape mostly without saying a word. I bet some of them are Libertonians who don't even speak a language.
Those attempts were, of course, short lived and suffocated in space dust that their ships now are. Their escape pods and cargo have been sent to the Hamburg police force for further investigation. Artifact smuggling becomes more common in the Republic.
The next hours were invested into a patrol in both Stuttgart and Omega-7.
An issue I had to face was that I could escort a trader towards Omega-7, but had to stop at gate to Omega-3, when the trader was pirated on the other side. Unfortunately, entering Omega-3 is not an option for me. Furthermore, the hessian, corsair and other pirate activity in these systems is getting out of hand. Omega-3 could use more Military presence, and Omega-7 more presence of the Bretonia Armed Forces. It should be for interest of both parties to have traders and miners in that region more secure, wouldn't it?
Hochachtungsvoll, Feldwebel Michael Schmidt
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