Flight of the Walkure

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COMMAND LOG - BDM|RNC-WALKURE - Kapitän Leopold Katz:

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As is naval tradition, I will be keeping a personal log of our ship operations for the archives. Per our commissioning orders, we are to refer to our vessel as the Walkure in order to maintain the legal fiction that is the continued service of the Danube under Fleet Bayern in Thuringia. The transition will take some getting used to.

It has been only a few weeks since the onset of the Imperial coup. Koblenz is still fresh on all of our minds, as is how quickly so much of our group mutinied and turned on us. The Imperials had planned on quietly synchronizing the coup with the assignment of traitors to scheduled bridge crew rotations immediately before the attack throughout the fleet - though thankfully, they were inept and the coup happened several hours ahead of schedule. From what I could piece together, the imperials set to pose as our bridge crew shift were caught in the midst of preparing for sabotage, so the Danube remained in our hands. The Koblenz was not so fortunate.

It was quite traumatic to find that my XO was among the traitors prepared to take the Danube for the coup - and even more so to have to watch him, and those with him, asphyxiate outside the keel deck of our ship in punishment for attempted mutiny. Had he not served me well for nearly two years, I may not have granted him such a quick and merciful death by spacing. I may not trust again for quite some time after this.

Per the terms of our refit, the Walkure will now fly under MND colors and in the direct command of the BDM discretionary taskforce hierarchy. Most of my crew has been transitioned into MND service, and holes in our roster have been filled by the Buro. As far as I am told, we will be engaging in more unconventional operations than to which we are accustomed. Special command and control, sensor, engineering, and weapons suites have been installed, with Buro personnel to operate and maintain them. The several I have spoken to thus far have indicated that they are veterans of the Sigma campaign - I will continue meeting with them individually until I have gotten an opportunity to assess each and every one. I will not tolerate strangers on my ship.

Our first orders are to serve as a stealth carrier platform for asymmetrical bomber sorties in Stuttgart. The gates and holes from Thuringia to Stuttgart are quite well patrolled - so we will be attempting to use our experimental interstellar drives to fly there manually. I am told our drives should get us there in a matter of weeks rather than the years it should take, but I will hold my judgement for when I am pleasantly surprised by our survival of the ordeal.

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