To:Communications Hub Sender:Kommandant Steve Harlow Origin:Bruchsal
Report 08-12-822
Hello, it's Harlow reporting in,
So we've started in earnest trying to deal with the crisis in Munich now. Seems infrastructure and such are slowly collapsing planetside as the dark matter catastrophe unfolds ever so slowly. People can't move away quickly enough and with the way things are going, farming can't keep up anymore and there's a legitimate food crisis happening.
Well, at the same time harvests in many regions of Los Angeles have been very good this year, and the prices of food are low.
We're trying to arrange regular shipments of food from California. Obviously with the border situation, not a lot of people are willing or capable of making the trip. Of course we'd have trouble landing on the actual planet, so we're relying on Junkers and other sympathizers to haul the food the last bit from the Augsburg wreck.
Anyway, I figured I could take out the Liberty and make a few trips. We've been on number of trips in that sort of region, the border between Rheinland and Liberty, so it wasn't hard to work out a good route.
On my way, I passed a Planetform vessel, the Tyrrhenian. Her pilots, Fiona and Simon hailed me, they were curious who I was and what I was doing. So, we spoke for a while over direct comms as we went about our business. I tried to explain the VWA as best I could, I think I did a reasonable job. They seemed sympathetic and even offered to donate. Maybe we'll hear from those Planetform people.
As for the route, it turns out the Widerstandsarmee isn't alone: I met a Bundschuh captain named Maria, flying a Pitbull-class named Andernach who was going the same way. We flew together a while, made the trip a lot more interesting. And it's encouraging to see our people trying to help out, of course.
Later on, the Widerstandsarmee really got rolling and I was joined by Klugmann, Fuchs and Goldschmidt. And as for me, our newly acquired Uruz-class heavy transport had finished its final checkups and was launched under the name Erntedank.
That means "harvest festival", when farmers traditionally celebrate the - harvest. We'd call it Thanksgiving in Liberty.
Anyway, I'll write about that ship on another occasion.
We took another two trips, this time as a proper convoy, to Los Angeles and back. Went smooth as butter, although the second time back we encountered two Liberty Navy ships.
They were nice enough, escorting us back to the border - just seemed a little strange. We met up with them in the middle of nowhere in the Whitney field. And they used some sort of anti-cloaking pulse on us, at least that's what we speculated.
Shortly after that, we briefly had some very strange contacts in range in Texas - only saw them for a second, but apparently they were Corsairs? In Texas?
When we finally arrived, what would we find right outside Augsburg but a Rheinland Military Oder-class gunboat. We were all tired from the flying and that kind of trouble was really the last thing we wanted.
As it turned out though, the captain was sympathetic of our mission and let us moor with no issue. I gave him a couple beers, too. I guess even in the military there are folks that recognize a good cause.
• Kommandant Steve Harlow - VWA|Liberty (Behemoth) | VWA|Erntedank (Uruz) • Kommandant Alexander Fuchs - VWA|Alexander.Fuchs (Switchblade) • Quartiermeister Jakob Goldschmidt - VWA|Morgensonne (Uruz)
Notable Encounters:
•PFI)Tyrrhenian - Neutral Planetform transport ship I briefly passed. But we talked for a while and her crew seemed nice and understanding, so I felt they should be mentioned.
•Andernach - Friendly Bundschuh Pitbull-class I encountered making the same trip. We traveled together and I spoke with her captain, Maria, at length. Good to see people helping out.
•[LN]-ESRD|Hunter and 5th|John.Darius - Friendly Liberty Navy snubcraft encountered in Texas. They were kind enough to escort us to the border, but for some reason they seemed a little strange to me. Hard to describe, maybe it's just the unusual place we met them. Overall they were polite and friendly and got us to the border safely.
•RSE|RNC-Donau - Neutral Rheinland Military Gunboat encountered directly outside Augsburg. As it turned out, they supported our deliveries for this crisis. We didn't talk long, but it was nice to get this kind of understanding from military folks.
They seemed nervous about this sympathy coming out, which is pretty sad really. We'll keep it to ourselves.
I think I've covered everything pretty adequately. It's been a long day, and we've all earned our bar time for it. The Erntedank is performing great, although I really can't say too much yet, only really got the basic rundown of how to fly it. She's huge.
I'm sure we'll be making a lot more of these deliveries in the near future, they sure are needed.
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