Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Leutnant Hagen von Seelenburg
Location: Vogtland, Dresden
Guten Tag, Kameraden.
As ordered, I am hereby reporting the events of yesterday evening to Hessian High Command.
We received a message from Ronneburg/Omega-5 of more intensive corsair activities than usual. As I was ordered to lead a reinforcing squadron to Ronneburg, me and Lt. Reinhold Krupp as well as Lt. Marisa Leyden were preparing for battle as fast as we could. As we launched from Vogtland, we surprisingly met Flottenkapitaen Kaspar Meisnerr. After telling us that the Corsair squads retreated to Cardiz for unknown reason, he gave us new instructions.
Meisnerr took command of the squad, ordering us to head for Neu Berlin to support a pilot of the "Hessian Tears".
Arriving at Neu Berlin, we formed up at the rendezvous point (Dresden SL), noticing a heated conversation between the Hessian Tear and the armed forces of Rheinland. Cought in emotions, the Flottenkapitaen instantly joined the conversation without leaving a hint to the manners, he is known for.
The Flottenkapitaen ordered us to fallow him (formed up) to the sigma 13 Jumphole. It took the Rheinwehr only two minutes to locate us at this common place and exit the Trade Lane half the way between Neu Berlin and Brandenburg Station. Bravely but stupid, only two Rheinland Militaries started the fight against five Hessian vessels who boiled in hate for those oppressing fascists.
I didn't wait for the order. No one did. We all pushed the triggers hard, as soon as we thrusted in range. As the coms cooled down, the heat of the conversation was carried on by our weapons, to decide the battle for justice.
We didn't fight for a minute as the first fascist died: Hans Krieger. The freshly promoted officer of the Rheinwehr lost his shields and his vessel was ripped apart by a Hessian Minirazor. One could almost feel the confidence rising in our squad, smiles rushing throught the faces .... but not mine. Hastily I was hammering on the sensors' console in order to find the escape pod of Krieger. I was successful, targeted it and fired! Just to see it being tractored in one second before the shots of my Natterturns heated up the particles in space, where the pod of Krieger had been.
Shortly after this event, the Hessian Tear left the battle, telling us that he would have to go without specifying any reason. My last scan showed, that he was fully equipped as he broke off and suddenly disappeared from short-range scanners.
To make things worse, Walter Krupinski entered the fight to aid his fellow fascists along side another Soldier of the RM. Struggling for not even three minutes with both sides not being able to gain the upper hand, we noticed that Krupinski, on whom we concentrated our fire, constantly received Nanobots from his subordinates. The numbers of both factions were evened, as a Bounty Hunter VHF entered the fight. Me and Lt. Krupp were concentrating fire on the bounty hunter with great effect. We quickly gained new motivation, as an independent and apparently under-equipped gunboat pilot named "Eisenwolf" joined our force. But to no ones surprise, he was destroyed quite fast, as the concentrated fire of the RMs' Codenames and Minirazors redefined the molecular structure of the gunboats' hull. During this process, I managed to disabled the Bounty Hunters vessel after a long chase, by ripping down half of his hull and nonchalantly watching him to be vaporized by a random nuke-mine or even a shot of a Minirazor, after he tried evasive maneuvers to escape the undeniable arguments of my Natterturns.
Meanwhile Lt. Leyden took constant gunfire during the battle and as my attempt to transfere some nanobots failed, she lost here vessel but was instantly tractored into my cargo hold. Another Solider of the Kanzler must have entered the fight before, as I noticed us being outnumbered by the oppressors.
But me and Leutnant Krupp managed to destroy the vessel of Wolfgang Hansworth (again, Krupp managed to nick him off my crosshair with his minirazor). As the fight lasted longer than half an hour, we had to face exhaustion of our hardware, as another Bounty Hunter Gunboat was called in by the coward "forces" of the Rheinwehr. Out gunned, the Flottenkapitaen ordered us to retreat as a result, with our Hessian Kameraden in our cargo holds, to minimize the losses of the RHA ranks and screamed at us to obey the order as we attempted to protest. Me and Flottenkapitaen Meisnerr managed it to start cruise drives successfully. But Leutnant Krupp, on whom the fire of the Gunboat and the three other Rheinland Military Vessels was concentrated had to thrust into the direction of the Dresden Jumphole. He was chased until Brandenburg station, where one of the Soldiers managed it to hit him with a Minirazor. In a daring maneuver, Flottenkapitaen Meisnerr cruised by to successfully tractor in Leutnant Krupps escape pod and meet me at the Dresden Jumphole afterwards. The RM attempted to fallow us, but failed to find the location at our hideout in the acidic nebula.
As a result of this battle, we destroyed two Military vessels and lost two of our own. Also an independent gunboat and a Bounty Hunters VHF were destroyed. We didn't win or loose, and as we found a new, classified funding source, our lost Odins will be restored quite fast.
In this battle we just saw the prove for the true reasons of the Rheinland Government ending the ban on Bounty Hunters and Mercenaries: Weakness. The Regime of the Oppressors seems to get weaker with every day that passes by as they have to rely on hired forces. I can feel it brothers... The event of the revolution comes closer!
End-note: As reporting officer, I strongly suggest the High Command to order further military exercises on squadron scale, to minimalize further losses of Hardware or men-power by working on tactics and individual skills.