The Einbeck

[Einbeck]

Ship Name: RNC Einbeck
Ship Class: "Donau"-class Rheinland Cruiser
Manufacturer: Daumann Heavy Construction
Place of Construction: Oder Shipyard, New Berlin
Commissioned: January 3rd 787 A.S., Oder Shipyard, New Berlin
Operational Area: Rheinland, Sigmas
Status: Missing in Action

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Official Report:

787 - 800 A.S.

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Faced with an ever-increasing number of Bundschuh, Hessian and even pirate attacks by the closing decades of the 700s, first in the nearby Border Worlds and Independent Worlds, but then also within the Core Regions of Hamburg and Frankfurt, going as far as New Berlin, the Military became increasingly aware that the present status quo would not last for long at such a rate. With the ascension of Chancellor Niemann to near absolute power, plans were drafted up after talks with Daumann and Kruger representatives to construct a fleet unseen before in Rheinland and even Sirius itself; their purpose, to secure "Rheinland's borders and the security of its citizens".

The rapid pace at which these plans were put into action, however, meant that the hulls constructed lagged behind their modern counterparts in both combat capabilities but also overall designs -- Niemann's fleet was, at large, made up of old, 80 Years War-era hull designs, retrofitted to mount a plethora of weaponry. One such hull was christened the RNC Einbeck and launched from the docks of Oder Shipyard in 787. It was to receive a brand new batch of graduates, from the officer core under command of one Fynn Meyer, a proud Stuttgart man from a farmers' family, and all the way down to the scores of marines stationed on-board. Only a few years worth of training missions truly stood between them and their first true "combat mission".

When that time came, however, it was not combat that they would get to see, rather, the RNC Einbeck was ordered to Frankfurt on a "special assignment" in the Westerwald. For some months at the end of 799 A.S., it remained there overseeing the construction of a grand shipyard, housing never before heard-of ships. Indeed, this special assignment now bore the fruits of success in a twist of fate; the RNC Einbeck came, together with the rest of the elements stationed in Frankfurt as part of the Northern Rheinland Fleet, under the complete control of the so-called Nomads and was refitted, by December, with seemingly alien equipment.

Colony Wars (800-801 A.S.)

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The new overlords of the Northern Rheinland Fleet -- and by and large, of Rheinland as a whole by 800 A.S. -- now turned their gaze outward towards Kusari. It was here that the RNC Einbeck, marching first into Sigma-13 with such surprise that even the veterans of oh-so-many nebulae skirmishes, the GMG, were overwhelmed and forced to fall back, and then into Honshu, with the vanguard of the Northern Fleet, struck its first victories. At the behest of Chancellor Niemann, Rheinland was to invade and crush Kusari's defenders for daring to stage attacks on Rheinland shipping and for their attempt to gather forces "beyond the Honshu jump gate", as the Ministry of Truth so well put it.

The Nomad control over their infested forces, however, slowly withered away, first through the defeat of major forces of the Western Fleet, then by the death of high-importance thralls, such as Lord Tekagi and Chancellor Niemann and finally due to The Order's intervention together with an elite group of former LSF and freelancers in the Omicrons. As fast as they assumed total control over Rheinland and many other crucial figures on the political stage of Sirius, the Nomads suffered a catastrophic defeat when the hypergate in Omicron Major was activated, effectively cutting the hivemind into many, localized, ones. Such was the end of the line for many of the former thralls, with most turning back to their homes and families.