To Rheinland Military
From Applicant Hugo Stiglitz
Subject Failure to capture Liberty transport in Rheinland Territory
- Prior to the forced patrol.
Forced patrol begun est 5.30pm WST. Foreign vessel detected coming through Bering from Liberty to Rheinland by Ge.Karl.Schulz. Schulz headed to Hamburg to intercept in case of a threat, and would have called upon myself and FI.Schubert.Shetland if required back up.
The vessel was a Gull civilian transport piloted by a man named Illegal. Illegal is affiliated with Liberty and Schulz asked him to stop in Hamburg. Schulz then notified Shetland and myself to his presence in NB. Schulz was in pursuit. He arrived at Strausberg via tradelane, and I disabled other trade lanes to prevent further escape. He promptly docked at Bonn Station.
Schulz arrived while Illegal was still docked and we made consistently kept surrounding tradelanes down. He launched from Bonn and Schulz and I opened fire, generally to little effect against his shields. We pursed him in cruise till the next tradelane ring and further to the Stuttgart system. I fell behind due to Red Hessians disrupting tradelanes which were engaged by me, and Schulz continued pursuit.
By now Schulz and Illegal had reached the Omega 7 system. Schulz had managed to hold him up in Freistadt, and Shetland and I caught up. Illegal didn't show again, and Schulz decided against continuing the hold up and pursing into the further Omega systems. All 3 of us returned to Strausberg to finish patrol and complete paper work. Schulz was quoted saying 'what a mess!' and I believe he intends to have Illegal put on the RM KIA list.
No RM ships were damaged in the pursuit while Illegal is believed to have suffered a reasonable amount of hull damage.
Please contact Ge.Karl.Schulz for further details on the event.