Red Hessian Reporting Facility

[looqas]

Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Hauptmann Johannes Farb
Location: Vogtland, Dresden



I feel like the luckiest man in Vogtland. Yesterday I decided to take out my Odin and proceed to New Berlin for some opinion molding of the public. It was sure quiet. No RM and only silent comms. Couple of pilots had caught the lol-disease thought but I warned them that it's seven days in guarantee ward if the doctors notice it. And miraculously they were cured on the spot!

System was full of traders and I decided to make the most of it and headed back to Vogtland to pick up my bomber [RHA]Red.Autumn. As slowly flew towards the Sigma-13 jump hole and once I got there I spotted first a BH gunship HIJENA_000 coming towards me. I encouraged him to just move on and not to get involved. Well, he decided to stick around, but did not engage straight away. The the crowd really started to come to me. Military pilot [RM]Fritz.Mannerheim was steadily moving on an intercept course too.



Even though I said that I was not going anywhere... yet and said the what's the hurry here pilots. Meanwhile also Battleship RNC_Aachen and a Battlecruiser BH-Defender had entered the scanner range too. I was becoming to feel loved. Fritz must have a lot of clout in the inner working of the RM since asked Aachen to back him up. Aachen was a bit disgusted at the proposal. So we had a bit of a stand off. [HT]Klaus.Reinhardt contacted me and offered his help. I was waiting for Klaus to arrive bantering with the hostiles, but finally HIJENA lost it and opened up. Delivered a good old time sucker punch draining my shields in a second. I tried to at least take post shots the HIJENA but when Aachen opened up I decided it was time to move on and headed for the S-13 hole.




I made it to the S-13 where I was stumped! No less than 3 OPG vessels were waiting with open arms; Grimly-{ZweiHander}, [OPG-SM]Quozz and [OPG]-Wraith-. And to top it all off my cruise engine succumbed to the damage received from the posse I just had ran. I felt the wind taken out of my sail and resigned to my fate. We talked. Corsairs were in no hurry to open up. They were savoring the every minute of it. Suddenly the BH-Defender pops up. He had followed me to Sigma-13 and immediately the Corsairs down-grade killing me to the second place in their to-do list.

A classical Mexican stand off ensues where I'm the crippled, half blind old man in this particular play. Corsairs start to ask questions from the Hunter and I feel the tensions rising. Another Battlecruiser, BH-Hammerfall, comes to aid Defender. I have a sudden moment of an enlightenment! The BH can not cash in on me because there is no active bounty on Hessians in Sigma-13! And I start to play the big boys against each other while they are circling each others. Finally Defender looses his cool and opens up on Corsairs. I can't believe my luck! I got a front row seat to this carnage.



While I'm there I thought that why not make the most of it and take video of the whole thing. Otherwise guys back at the Vogtland bar would not believe me if I would still manage to get out of there alive. Then Klaus comes like a man in those TV-shows through the door and start saying, "you won't believe what I encounter back there in New Berlin..." and sees the situation where I'm at. I immediately instruct him not to engage. The Bounty hunters managed to wipe the Corsairs and I realize that I'm home free. But still no engine.



I explain to Klaus that I have an busted engine and in need of repairs. I also ask him to hurry with the repairs. The place is starting to feel crowded again and a BH bomber [BHG]Lovac comes to sniff around too. I beg Klaus to hurry and not for without the reason. Hunters are luckily distracted by a pilot Shimizu who must have been flying at least a battleship given the way he let his mouth run. Or he was just plain ballsy. Good for me and Klaus, potentially lethal to him.

Hunters leave and we see 2 more Corsair vessels moving towards us. One of them is no other than Gentle, the leader of OPG. In the last moment Klaus gets the repairs done and we get the heck out of there and fly to Vogtland. I'm still shaking from what just happened... I believe I've used up all the remaining luck for this year.





- Hauptmann Johannes Farb

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Flying under radar.