Red Hessian Reporting Facility

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Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Flottekapitan Kaspar Meisnerr
Location: Vogtland, Dresden

Brothers! Today is a day of victory! Our unstoppable forces swept aside the vile Corsairs, corrupt Bounty Hunters and the fanatical Military all at the same time, hitting at critical targets all across southern Sirius.

Our elite fighter force first eradicated the group of Corsairs massing for a strike on Ronneburg. After weeks of silence they are throwing their elites at us once again, so we responded by sending in our best pilots. The OPG barbarians dispatched a group of four aces, which were intercepted en route to Ronneburg in the middle of the Hammen Hole in Omega-5. Our glorious squadron comprised of myself, Oberleutnant Schnitt, Oberleutnant Farb in our Odins and Oberleutnant Gryneus in the experimental ship Volsung. The Volsung turned out to perform admirably, as the attackers quickly fled or perished to our guns. The suicidal Corsairs then sent two more fighters at us, one by one, only to be chewed up by our guns and forced to flee. All in all out of seven targets four were destroyed, three fled to fight another day.

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With the Corsair assault repelled, Ronneburg gave us a critical piece of info forwarded from Vogtland: apparently a fleet of Bounty Hunters was in the forming in Omega-15. We decided to act on initiative and neutralise that threat before it came to us. Oberleutnant Nantz joined us as we departed in our bombers from Vogtland soon after. We arrived in Omega-15 to find a Bounty Hunter battlecruiser and gunship hoarding next to Rostock station, apparently in contact with a member of the rogue Liberty Navy who managed to wander into the area. The "522nd" warship observed us as the battlecruiser fought us to it's untimely demise. The gunship ran into drydock to preserve itself from our wrath.

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We planned to deal with the Liberty Navy capship in the area by interrogating it, but before we turned around to it, it's pilot already fled out of our reach. Instead, I recieved a long range message from Vogtland about the scourge of Rheinland, RNC_Aachen appearing on our hidden scanners in New Berlin. I immediately rallied our bomber wing to location. A sudden malfunction of one of the drives on my ship required me to dock for a few minutes on Vogtland while en route to Berlin, but our engineers were extremely quick in repairing the damage, and when I launched into space once again, the fight was only beginning some 30k from the high orbit of planet New Berlin. We were engaged with the planetary guard itself in our quest to destroy the traitorous Aachen, only to find an even bigger prize show up on our scanners: the legendary Military battleship Westphalia. Faced with two Rheinland battleships and an incoming Bounty Hunter battlecruiser, we knew we had little chance with the small strike force we had at our disposal, so a general distress call was sent.

Our reinforcements arrived soon after, boosting our numbers considerably. Several fighters, bombers and even two elite pilots of the SCRA allowed us to deal far more damage than we originally could. The overwhelming firepower unleashed from our force quickly incapacitated all the warships attacking us, and we claimed victory after critically overloading the reactor of the Westphalia, and forcing it's crew to abandon the floating hulk. The Aachen managed to somehow escape in the chaos, but our comm crews are already ordered to keep a look out for her.
Meanwhile, the battle itself seemed won as we fought the remained of the Military elites, our forces vastly outnumbering the enemy. This was short lived however, as another fleet of Bounty Hunters came on location to reinforce the fascists. We knew that our primary targets were already destroyed or fled, so I gave the order for all damaged ships to immediately withdraw from the battle to minimise losses. This strategy worked perfectly, as during the New Berlin engagement only Oberleutnant Farb caught an unlucky blast to the reactor and was forced to eject. He was delivered to Vogtland by our retreating forces safely.

During our slow retreat we managed to carefully obliterate much of the Bounty Hunter fleet. DW-Odin had the honour to be destroyed last, before I had finally called a full retreat, with just myself and the two SCRA pilots left in the fray at the time. I successfully made my way into Sigma-13, knowing that it's political immunity will protect me from my pursuers.

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I have recieved unconfirmed information so far that the cruiser Varyag managed to intercept two more of the fascist fighters on the home front, as they pursued the lone SCRA rear guard all the way to Vogtland.

I hereby have to commend the captain and crew of the Varyag for bravery in the face of insurmountable odds, even when facing reactor chamber breach. They managed to take several of the enemy with them before suffering critical damage. I will personally send an order to our shipyards to give the Varyag first priority for repairs and resupply, once I return to Vogtland. Our own pilots, along with the pilots of the Hessian Tears will all be given distinctions during the next parade, and the pilots of the SCRA will recieve an honourable mention. This is only the beginning of a great cooperation.

Glory to the Revolution!

Regards,
Meisnerr