► Source:Planet Neu Berlin ► Encryption:port RM-MAS-1NTS-TMD-TRM-0UT-TRG ► Submitter:Oberleutnant Traudel Habermeyer ► Recipient:Kaiserliche Rheinwehr HQ, Kolonnenplatz Neu Berlin ► Subject:Trade lane disruptions in New Berlin & Smuggling in Hamburg, 25.01.830
Guten Abend Officers,
as i was informing our newest addition about frequented smuggling routes from and to the Rurhfeld, we received intel about trade lane disruptions in sector 4C.
With me were Bootsmann Fischer, Flieger Schwan and Voigt as well as Shafen. We adjusted course and headed out of the field, catching two pirates, callsigns HRZ~Terpentin and HRZ~Ulfhedinn, as well as Herr Botzler right near a disabled trade lane ring. The Wodan as well as Agent Lock attested to their interruptions, Botzler's attempts to wiggle out of being involved naturally fell on collectively deaf ears at this point. Still insisting on not having committed an attack on Rheinwehr personnel, despite it being clearly documented. I sent Shafen after Botzler as he attempted to flee, while my remaining squad was ordered to apprehend the pirates doing the same towards the Ruhrfeld. Inside the rubble of it they managed to disable my craft first.
[25.01.2023 20:55:02] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: We received a call...close to the Ruhrfeld. Maybe we were just slightly to late.
[25.01.2023 20:55:24] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Shit.
[25.01.2023 20:55:27] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Ah, contacts.
[25.01.2023 20:55:29] RNC-Wodan: I don't think you should be trying to interrupt civilian ships here
[25.01.2023 20:55:29] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Now look at that.
[25.01.2023 20:55:36] Hitman-76: Lock: What in the world... half the entire fleet is here.
[25.01.2023 20:55:46] HRZ~Terpentin: We've been set up.
[25.01.2023 20:55:50] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: What a glorious sight.
[25.01.2023 20:55:59] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Not so much for you.
[25.01.2023 20:56:07] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Start moving Terpentin. They're not here to donate to the poor or something.
[25.01.2023 20:56:10] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Oh, well.......
[25.01.2023 20:56:11] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: This is the Rheinland Military, please stand-by and submit to inspection.
[25.01.2023 20:56:14] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Cut your engines.
[25.01.2023 20:56:20] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Disrupt and apprehend....
[25.01.2023 20:56:32] Hitman-76: Lock: *chuckles* This should be fun to watch.
[25.01.2023 20:56:35] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: You woman, you're going down first.
[25.01.2023 20:56:36] RNC-Wodan: We are on standby mode. Crew, no need to engage
[25.01.2023 20:56:38] Ludwig.Shafen: I'll sit this one out, you have more than enough support.
[25.01.2023 20:56:38] HRZ~Terpentin: Well, now what?
[25.01.2023 20:56:38] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: Civilian ships, this is your last warning.
[25.01.2023 20:56:54] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: I suggest you stand down instead.
[25.01.2023 20:56:54] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: Submit or we will be forced to apprehend you.
[25.01.2023 20:56:55] RNC-Wodan: Someone must apprehend the Bundschuh pilot here
[25.01.2023 20:57:03] NWB|Paul.Botzler: There is no need for that.
[25.01.2023 20:57:14] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Shall I pursue, Oberleutnant?
[25.01.2023 20:57:22] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Herr Botzler of all people! Oh but there is - you attacked Rheinwehr last time. Tsk.
[25.01.2023 20:57:38] NWB|Paul.Botzler: I have not done such a thing.
[25.01.2023 20:57:46] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Liar.
[25.01.2023 20:57:56] NWB|Paul.Botzler: Surely you have evidence of this.
[25.01.2023 20:58:00] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Get these pirates off me. Oh we do.
[25.01.2023 20:58:13] Hitman-76: Lock: Pirates, I wouldn't get so close if I was you.
[25.01.2023 20:58:18] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: All I'm seeing is an activist laying the heat on someone else, then vanish.
[25.01.2023 20:58:39] NWB|Paul.Botzler: I hope you are not truly thinking that it was me who brough the authorities.
[25.01.2023 20:58:48] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: That's the neat part.
[25.01.2023 20:58:53] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: I don't usually think!
[25.01.2023 20:58:53] HRZ~Terpentin: Probably not...
[25.01.2023 20:59:13] NWB|Paul.Botzler: You certainly are not losing your wit in a situation like this.
[25.01.2023 20:59:29] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Irrelevant. Wodan - these two have been spotted disrupting the lanes?
[25.01.2023 20:59:36] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Us? Never.
[25.01.2023 20:59:39] Hitman-76: Lock: They have done so for me.
[25.01.2023 20:59:41] RNC-Wodan: They were sitting near one of the lanes
[25.01.2023 20:59:44] HRZ~Terpentin: Maybe you should show some solidarity with the working class for once.
[25.01.2023 20:59:45] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Am I to let the Rebel go, Oberleutnant?
[25.01.2023 21:00:06] Ludwig.Shafen: Leave him be, if he comes anywhere close to 6 clicks I'll blast him to where he belongs.
[25.01.2023 21:00:20] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Ich verstehe, regrouping.
[25.01.2023 21:00:24] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: The lane was already shut down when we got here!
[25.01.2023 21:00:32] Hitman-76: Lock: Uh huh.
[25.01.2023 21:00:32] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Why do I doubt that?
[25.01.2023 21:00:43] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Maybe you shouldn't doubt honest words.
[25.01.2023 21:00:51] Hitman-76: Lock: Your IFF tells me otherwise.
[25.01.2023 21:00:55] Ludwig.Shafen: You were warned Botzler.
[25.01.2023 21:01:06] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: I could, allegedly, be a pirate. But I'll be damned if I am a liar.
[25.01.2023 21:01:17] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Maybe you shouldn't lie. I have heard enough. Shafen? Arrest Botzler.
[25.01.2023 21:01:27] Ludwig.Shafen: I am already on it.
[25.01.2023 21:01:31] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Good.
[25.01.2023 21:01:39] HRZ~Terpentin: Hey, leave the guy alone. Is littering really a crime?
[25.01.2023 21:02:06] Ludwig.Shafen: I don't have to.
[25.01.2023 21:02:19] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Obstructing administration of law and assaulting Rheinwehr forces is. And you two have been spotted disrupting trade lanes.
[25.01.2023 21:02:25] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Proof?
[25.01.2023 21:02:32] HRZ~Terpentin: What next, gonna call in KKS-Schwanzgesicht to arrest us?
[25.01.2023 21:02:33] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Me breathing isn't a proof.
[25.01.2023 21:02:37] RNC-Wodan: Hitman and I can attest to that
[25.01.2023 21:02:44] Hitman-76: Lock: Tcah, I can handle these two my self.
[25.01.2023 21:03:07] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: *Snickers* Ah .... add some disorderly conduct on top. My favourite.
[25.01.2023 21:03:17] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: In addition, you are in possession of illegal craft and your IFF verification system is invalid.
[25.01.2023 21:03:34] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Sounds to me like there's only one solution left for all of these transgressions.
[25.01.2023 21:03:43] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: More than enough grounds to act upon. It indeed is Voigt.
[25.01.2023 21:03:45] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: There is.
[25.01.2023 21:03:48] RNC-Wodan: Alright, keep an eye on them. Make sure they do not attempt to escape
[25.01.2023 21:03:50] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Gentlemen. It's been a pleasure.
[25.01.2023 21:04:02] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Escaping? Really?
[25.01.2023 21:04:03] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: I bid you a good day, and I promise not to shit on your lanes again.
[25.01.2023 21:04:03] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: They're routing.
[25.01.2023 21:04:03] Hitman-76: Lock: Cowards!
[25.01.2023 21:04:04] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Get them.
[25.01.2023 21:04:05] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: Intercepting.
[25.01.2023 21:04:55] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: One tagged.
[25.01.2023 21:05:01] RNC-Wodan: I hear a beep
[25.01.2023 21:05:04] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: ECM readings detected!
[25.01.2023 21:05:05] HRZ~Terpentin: Piss off, will you?
[25.01.2023 21:05:08] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Well shit, I ain't leaving that cunt alone.
[25.01.2023 21:05:19] [RM]Fl-Ignatz.Schwan: Moving in to detain suspect.
[25.01.2023 21:05:36] Hitman-76: Lock: Pipe down was just me...
[25.01.2023 21:05:37] HRZ~Ulfhedinn: Cap their knees before they cap ours!
[25.01.2023 21:05:39] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Understood, moving in!
[25.01.2023 21:06:02] Hitman-76: Lock: Four on two, fools.
[25.01.2023 21:06:10] Hitman-76: Lock: .. Or three. [25.01.2023 21:09:19] Death: [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer was put out of action by HRZ~Ulfhedinn (Gun).
Approximately two sirian standard hours later in Hamburg a prime opportunity to give Voigt some hands-on experience with applying our laws presented itself. A Freelancer, callsign Carlos-Benitez, left the trade lane to planet Hamburg early and headed towards Hudson instead. I managed to conduct a scan from afar and spotted 1500 units of Sorted Artifacts in the hold of his CT-100 "Grouse" transport. The order to intercept was given and successfully executed. While Shafen shook some sense into an overconfident pilot, Voigt prepared and continued to carry out her assigned task. For a yet unknown reason the pilot in possession of said artifacts dropped them himself and destroyed them - then went ahead to pay 48.500.000 SC more than the fine required him to. Refusing to remain and have that incorrect amount properly processed, Carlos-Benitez attempted and succeeded to vanish in the traffic around Altona station.
[25.01.2023 23:01:13] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Long range comms had my attention for a moment, hence my question.
[25.01.2023 23:01:14] Hitman-76: Lock: But as I said, he can choose what he wants to believe, right or wrong.
[25.01.2023 23:01:21] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Halt right there.
[25.01.2023 23:01:24] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Intercept
[25.01.2023 23:01:24] Ludwig.Shafen: I've started making sense.
[25.01.2023 23:01:31] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Freelancer, cut your enginse please.
[25.01.2023 23:01:37] Carlos-Benitez: whistles innocently
[25.01.2023 23:01:42] Carlos-Benitez: oh...damn
[25.01.2023 23:01:49] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Cut your engines... and remain where you are.
[25.01.2023 23:01:56] Ludwig.Shafen: Traudel.
[25.01.2023 23:02:01] Ludwig.Shafen: Let the younglings handle it.
[25.01.2023 23:02:10] Ludwig.Shafen: Voigt.
[25.01.2023 23:02:11] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: That is the idea, Shafen.
[25.01.2023 23:02:13] Carlos-Benitez: where we go.. harrassing an honest chap trying to make a living.. typical
[25.01.2023 23:02:16] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Coming over.
[25.01.2023 23:02:32] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Ahh... artifacts.
[25.01.2023 23:02:34] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Honest? With your sorted artifacts?
[25.01.2023 23:02:50] Carlos-Benitez: sorted to the max... as they used to say, back when it was fashionable.
[25.01.2023 23:03:15] Ludwig.Shafen: I suggest you hold fire or you simply get scrapped.
[25.01.2023 23:03:19] Carlos-Benitez: Are they not sorted? If there was anything dodgy with them I wouldnt have pucrchased.
[25.01.2023 23:03:34] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: You are well aware of how illegal artifact trading is, ja?
[25.01.2023 23:04:16] Carlos-Benitez: but youve not found me trading them, good sir.. youve found me carrying them
[25.01.2023 23:04:36] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Trading, carrying, still illegal.
[25.01.2023 23:04:53] Carlos-Benitez: I had literally no idea. I'd hand them over.. but that would be artefact trading
[25.01.2023 23:05:25] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: That would be surrendering illegal items to the authorities.
[25.01.2023 23:05:30] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Which is, you know. Required.
[25.01.2023 23:05:41] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Because we are upholding laws that you are not respecting.
[25.01.2023 23:05:54] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Don't make me do the spiel, Freelancer.
[25.01.2023 23:06:01] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Though, I'd gladly do it.
[25.01.2023 23:06:26] Carlos-Benitez: oops
[25.01.2023 23:06:55] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Arghh... verdammt. Thankfully, I've captured evidence at the right time.
[25.01.2023 23:07:06] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: [Sighs.]
[25.01.2023 23:07:09] Ludwig.Shafen: Didn't I tell you to not open fire?
[25.01.2023 23:07:19] Ludwig.Shafen: Alright boys and girls.
[25.01.2023 23:07:21] Ludwig.Shafen: Rip it apart.
[25.01.2023 23:07:23] Ludwig.Shafen: Weapons hot!
[25.01.2023 23:07:27] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Hold it, herr Shafen.
[25.01.2023 23:07:30] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: I must make this former.
[25.01.2023 23:07:43] Hitman-76: Lock: Hmm... dishonorable.
[25.01.2023 23:07:45] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Hey, she told you to hold.
[25.01.2023 23:07:50] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Herr Shafen, please.
[25.01.2023 23:07:58] Carlos-Benitez: Gentlemen... control your instrument
[25.01.2023 23:08:05] Ludwig.Shafen: Since you asked nicely.
[25.01.2023 23:08:11] Ludwig.Shafen: But again you're being to soft Voigt.
[25.01.2023 23:08:18] Ludwig.Shafen: If you're soft more of them appear.
[25.01.2023 23:08:21] Carlos-Benitez: You will find no evidence of illegal commodities on my vessel, and you are now committing criminal damage to my property
[25.01.2023 23:08:52] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: But evidence was noticed and witnessed by us. Which means that you are in violation of Law
[25.01.2023 23:09:18] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Two-oh-one of the Rheinland Imperial Laws.
[25.01.2023 23:09:36] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Amusing attempt. I suggest you keep your mouth shut unless addressed and expected to answer, Freelancer. Unless you wish this
[25.01.2023 23:09:38] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: to add up more and more.
[25.01.2023 23:09:41] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Then go ahead.
[25.01.2023 23:09:52] Ludwig.Shafen: Anytime Voigt.
[25.01.2023 23:09:53] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: We asked you to stand down, and you refused to comply, much against our demands.
[25.01.2023 23:09:57] Carlos-Benitez: What precisely do you expect for me? Am I to be escorted to one of your prison colonies?
[25.01.2023 23:10:31] Carlos-Benitez: Or are you merely going through petty formalities before ripping apart my frieghter... as your pet has already jumped the gun
[25.01.2023 23:10:33] Carlos-Benitez: on doing?
[25.01.2023 23:10:53] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Ja. You are to be arrested. We have captured evidence of the possession of your illegal artifacts.
[25.01.2023 23:10:59] Carlos-Benitez: This racket has nothing to do with the rule of law... I see a group of highwaymen... running a protection racket.
[25.01.2023 23:11:02] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Anything else, Oberleutnant?
[25.01.2023 23:11:36] Ludwig.Shafen: And his vessel Voigt?
[25.01.2023 23:11:57] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: To be dismantled, since we are arresting the pilot. Is that right, Oberleutnant?
[25.01.2023 23:12:36] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: No, it is not. Even though his demeanor is starting to make this happen rather sooner than later. Law, right now, demands a
[25.01.2023 23:12:37] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: fine.
[25.01.2023 23:12:50] Ludwig.Shafen: Soft.
[25.01.2023 23:12:52] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: The artifacts have been destroyed as is required. Just by the wrong person.
[25.01.2023 23:12:59] Hitman-76: Lock: Its the law not "soft".
[25.01.2023 23:13:03] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: I have not made the laws, Shafen. I uphold them.
[25.01.2023 23:13:19] Ludwig.Shafen: You'll have more of them, don't worry.
[25.01.2023 23:13:41] Carlos-Benitez: Sigh... it seems the conflict you have here is not with me.
[25.01.2023 23:13:42] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Ah, I understand. Das tut mir leid.
[25.01.2023 23:13:46] Ludwig.Shafen: Give me a call if something worth while comes.
[25.01.2023 23:14:05] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: *Sigh*
[25.01.2023 23:14:06] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: His cargo were 1500 units of Sorted Artifacts, each unit of illegal cargo amounts to 1000 SC
[25.01.2023 23:14:33] Hitman-76: Lock: *sighs* Shafen, full of pride, and has no honor.
[25.01.2023 23:14:40] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: So - a fine of 1.500.000 SC is in order. To be paid to Voigt there.
[25.01.2023 23:17:00] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Err... F-Freelancer.
[25.01.2023 23:17:03] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: That's.
[25.01.2023 23:17:08] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: has he paid?
[25.01.2023 23:17:12] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Hold it, please.
[25.01.2023 23:17:15] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: That was the wrong sum. [25.01.2023 23:17:21] 2023-01-25 23:17:21 SMT Traffic control alert: Carlos-Benitez has requested to dock
[25.01.2023 23:17:24] 2023-01-25 23:17:24 SMT Traffic control alert: Carlos-Benitez has requested to dock
[25.01.2023 23:17:29] Hitman-76: Lock: Hmm... [25.01.2023 23:17:31] 2023-01-25 23:17:31 SMT Traffic control alert: Carlos-Benitez has requested to dock
[25.01.2023 23:17:38] Hitman-76: Lock: That one is going be problematic it seems.
[25.01.2023 23:17:40] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Stop interacting with this station, Freelancer.
[25.01.2023 23:17:41] Carlos-Benitez: Im off.
[25.01.2023 23:17:44] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: So you refuse to comply. Last warning - cut your engines.
[25.01.2023 23:17:45] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: You are not.
[25.01.2023 23:17:51] Carlos-Benitez: Do as you please
[25.01.2023 23:17:53] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: You just paid me fifty million credits!
[25.01.2023 23:18:00] Hitman-76: Lock: Fifty?!
[25.01.2023 23:18:04] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Fifty?
[25.01.2023 23:18:09] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Ja, Oberleutnant.
[25.01.2023 23:18:39] Hitman-76: Lock: ... Ship's power has declined rapidly...
[25.01.2023 23:19:35] Hitman-76: Lock: *sighs*
[25.01.2023 23:19:40] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Anyone care to tell me what just happen.
[25.01.2023 23:19:45] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: It... seems I can finally afford a Valkyrie now!
[25.01.2023 23:19:52] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: I would have expected that from Sigma-15...
[25.01.2023 23:20:05] Hitman-76: Lock: That money isn't the correct amount though, what to do with the excess?
[25.01.2023 23:20:12] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: That is a good question.
[25.01.2023 23:20:33] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: *Traudel sighs* A donation to the Rheinwehr.
[25.01.2023 23:20:39] [RM]Bmn-Jurgen.Fischer: Ah, wunderbar. Valkyries are good vessels.
[25.01.2023 23:20:52] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: He did this on his volition, such ... generosity will certainly not be forgotten.
[25.01.2023 23:21:06] Hitman-76: Lock: Bribery attempt perhaps.
[25.01.2023 23:21:08] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Are we to just take this money?
[25.01.2023 23:21:16] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Uhm... I've never had this much in my life!
[25.01.2023 23:21:24] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: Most certainly. I'll inform you later, Voigt. This is, for now, to be held until it is sorted out.
[25.01.2023 23:21:40] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: If there is no statement from this pilot to reclaim the overpaid amount - it will be kept.
[25.01.2023 23:21:42] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Shall I deliver this payment to you, Oberleutnant?
[25.01.2023 23:22:00] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: I don't have ties with the Rheinwehr's pockets.
[25.01.2023 23:22:17] [RM]Obl-Trau.Habermeyer: You may do so, i will take care of it.
[25.01.2023 23:23:30] [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt: Alles klar dann... [25.01.2023 23:23:48] [2023-01-25] 23:23:48 You have received 50.000.000 credits from [RM]Fl-Frieda.Voigt
Für den Kaiser! Für das Volk! Für Rheinland!
Hochachtungsvoll,
Traudel Habermeyer
Oberleutnant der Kaiserlichen Rheinwehr