A while back I was working with one of Zwickau's clean-up crews. Trying to clear some of the scrap that sunk into orbit after the attack, that sort of thing. Anyway, in the process we came across something interesting. I'm not sure who got it, might've been Alex, but there were bits of a Fafnir floating around that I've been working on putting back together. After how well that bird held up against our fleet I figured it can't hurt to have a couple of them on our side. It's not perfect, not yet, but the early simulations are looking pretty promising. The hull's just about spaceworthy; had to push it out to cruise earlier today to investigate a contact, actually. Everything held together, and the weapon trials haven't killed anyone yet, so it's looking pretty good so far.
Onto more day-to-day stuff. Alex and I met up with a Landr- LWB pilot (the Sense still looks like a pregnant guppy, if anyone was wondering), and the three of us tracked down a DSE Mastodon that was moonlighting in the Taunusfeld. The Captain was apparently looking for ports that'd berth a Libertonian ship. Not sure why he'd be doing it all the way out here with the war on, but there you go. Anyway, we turned him back towards hom- Liberty.
Shortly after, things got a little weird. On the way through Dresden, we ran across a Mammoth without an identifier and an unarmored cargo hold bulging with nuclear devices. When we couldn't get any response from the bridge, I went back for Donnerkind, since the bombers the two boys were flying'd probably cause some sort of planetary extinction event if they tried to take the ship apart. After a bit of sweat, I managed to get the bay open and tractored aboard what Donnerkind could carry. Nick detonated everything else from a safe distance.
After a chat with the Oberst, we've decided to split the devices between restoring the reactors on Zwickau and patching up Metropolis, with anything we can't use going to ALG for disposal. So, if anyone needs a nuke for something, this'd be the time to say so. In the meantime, everyone might want to stay out of docking bay two on Bruchsal, if you're fond of living.
Other then that, not too much to report except a strangely- Well, just plain strange'd probably do it, Kusari Naval Forces pilot floating around. Thankfully the Oberst arrived to defuse things before someone got shot, and we all lined up and saw her off like proper revolutionaries. I also managed to get complete scans of her ship, and a rough idea of how it handles. Helped that she kept turning it the whole time. Anyway, I'll be running that data through the computers over the next couple of days and I'll let you know what I come up with.
