Red Hessian Reporting Facility

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

Gentlemen.

It is hard to describe with words how proud I am of all of you. We've expunged the Corsair and Hunter and Military threat from all sides today, and even when the battle looked grim, we striked back with overwhelming force and annihilated our enemies!

The battle in Omega-11 deserves mention. It is here that we destroyed a defected Rheinland Military gunboat, foolishly trying to escape us despite his obvious lack of allegiance to our cause. Despite it's tricks involving the use of cruise engines and drifting, our good teamwork managed to dispatch it with a well placed double supernova. Next came a Hunter in a Manta, looking to destroy one of our brothers next to our very base in the system. He lasted a minute, before a inferno from Rekrut's Veiss' ship blew his shields off and I finished it off with a well placed supernova. We thought then the fools would learn. We thought wrong. A lone Corsair emerged from Omega-41, and attacked us in his fighter. He too died in a few minutes, as we furiously defended what is rightfully ours. They will learn that they will find no honour in Omega-11!

We returned to Dresden afterwards, only to find our very home invaded by the likes of the fascists and the Corsairs. The Corsair gunboat present was hunted down immediately, although in the process we have encounted a rather tenacious hunter in a BHG Bomber. She managed to take out one of our bombers unfortunately, but our other pilots consisting of Leutnant Hoerst and Rekrut Veiss managed to survive the engagement, even despite the help of the Military and a whole wing of Daumann security helping her.

As the fight moved closer and closer to Vogtland, we were trying to draw the hunter closer to our grounds in order to get more backup to deal with this troublesome enemy. Instead, what we encounted was a most disgusting sight: a Rheinland Military battlegroup advancing at our very home base of Vogtland! The revered cruiser Von Rohe was launched at once and engaged the fascist invaders, but was largely unsuccessful due to the presence of two bombers. It was forced to retreat to the safety of the base quickly, but was not destroyed thankfully. Our forces in space were momentarily scattered. Despite the grim outlook, the Red Hessians were rallied: a friendly gunboat along with two fighters had advanced from the Omega systems to help Vogtland, and two of our bombers undocked to face the enemy. The everhelpful LWB also came to our aid, bringing their own flagship: the Erste Ernte into the fray. This forced the fascists to retreat. We used this time to regroup and decide jointly that this tresspass simply cannot go unpunished.

Our battlegroup was formed, and the stage was set. We jumped the New Berlin quickly to destroy these attackers on their own ground. As we slowly moved through the Saarfeld, the LWB cruiser leading the way with three of ours and LWB bombers, two fighters and a Hessian gunboat supporting it, we were met with excessive force. The Military fools rallied a battleship to drive us back, the blasted RNC Aachen! Those jackboot fascists exhibited no sense of tactics however, and followed us into the asteroid field. First came two of their bombers, quickly engaged by our forces while the LWB flagship stayed back. Then the cruiser and battleship entered the field, and both were engaged by us. As the cruiser eventually gave into the guns of our bombers, the brave crews of the Erste Ernte advanced on the Aachen, managing to cripple it's shield before being forced to retreat.

Our bombers quickly took advantage of the situation, rocking the Aachen back and forth with our supernova cannons. The cowards retreated soon after, fearing destruction from our hands. One of the bombers was blown up afterwards, and then the Rheinland fighter.

Eventually all we had to deal with was a group of insolent hunter capital ships, who thought it wise to engage us. One of them was so terrified, he even exclaimed his own inadequacy in this fight:


All were destroyed. Declaring victory over the fascists, we didn't spare to inform them that this attack was due only to their tresspass in Dresden. They will never do so again if they value their lives.

Friendly losses:
- 1 Odin
- 1 Falcata bomber
- 1 LWB Thor bomber
- 1 Loki light fighter
- 1 Gunboat

Enemy casualties:
- 1 Rheinland gunboat
- 1 Bounty Hunter Manta
- 1 Corsair Ravens Talon
- 1 Corsair gunboat
- 2 Wrath fighters
- 1 Rheinland bomber
- 1 Rheinland cruiser
- 1 Bounty Hunter Battlecruiser
- 1 Bounty Hunter Gunship with 6 missile turrets

Some of the most prominent captured kills:


I believe this is an excellent occassion to go forth with promotions and commendations. First of all a honorary mention to the valiant forces of the LWB, who assisted us with their best in our battle. Miss Olsen managed to deal a good amount of damage, before falling to hunter scum, and deserves mention as well, as does Leutnant Sternhammer. Oberleutnant Farb also leads the way with his valiant assault of the Bounty Hunter missile boat in Berlin.

The list of people deserving promotion is longer than just the participants of this particular battle. Here are the changes:

• Oberleutnant Farb to Hauptmann
  
• Oberleutnant Gryneus to Hauptmann
  
• Leutnant Sternhammer to Oberleutnant
  
• Leutnant Shimada to Oberleutnant
  
• Rekrut Olezhka to Leutnant
  
• Rekrut Veiss to Leutnant
  

Congratulations to all of you. You have deserved it in full. I hope to see more battles like this at your side soon. A celebration is in full order.

Regards,
Meisnerr