Starting to wonder if I've got the right frequency here. Anyway, safe to say that I'm now back in Rheinland, with the Donnerkind, Cameron, and my sanity intact. Which is nice. We've been running fertilizer out to the Zoners on Gran Canaria and hauling heavy water back to Munich for the Augsberg restoration.
So, the first run went well. So well, in fact, that the docking officer mentioned there was a bit of a pick up in demand. Go us. With that in mind, the Oberst was good enough to lend Cameron and I use of Arsenal, which made a few runs over the past couple of days. Alex(ander Fuchs) has been good enough to provide us with an escort for most of the time, aside from that one night he ran off with my co-pilot, but that's..Er... Between the two of them, I guess.
Anyway, Steve Harlow joined us aboard Liberty for a run out to Canaria, when Alex caught sight of this signature hanging around on the edge of the scanner's range. Despite the initial fear that it might've been a pirate out to plunder our ships and enslave the crews, and all the associated fun that would involve, the pilot turned out to be a Libertonian tourist (sound familiar?) named Lily looking for somewhere safe to dock in Munich. So, as we were heading that way anyway, we ended up playing tour guides. In all honesty, I think Steve was a little disappointed not to run into someone trying to kill him.
The trip passed without incident, minus a Hessian cruiser flashing the name Vidar waiting at Augsberg. The captain was nice enough, so no harm done there, and we dropped Lily off there. We did run into the Vidar and a crew of other Hessian cruisers later on, though.
Three Hessian cruisers were attacking military ships in New Berlin's orbit, so the Oberst, Alex, Steve, and I headed out to take a look. Obviously there wasn't really a lot we could do at that point, but Erich eventually convinced them to move on, with a promise to offload the captured prisoners, which is something, I guess. Alex and I managed to retrieve seven escape pods between us, which have been offloaded on Bruchsal for processing. It's not a great result, but it's a lot better then it could have been.
Oh, and I managed to grab a picture.
From left to right: Steve Harlow, Erich Klugman, and Alexander Fuchs.
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