Message to: RHA
Comm ID: Hauptmann Johannes Farb in emergency command of Transport Raeuber
Location: Freital
A Rogue shuttle took me to take an emergency command of the Transport [RHA]RHT-Raeuber after the captain had been drinking and gotten into a fist fight with his Executive Officer. Der Dumpkopf! The captain is in coma and his ex XO is custody of the ship's weapons officer awaiting for trial. For their sake I hope Kapitan Meissner is in good mood when he reads this report. I doubt he will be.
I took command of Raueber and set course from Cortez to home via California, Texas, Hudson, Bering, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dresden to finally making a delivery to Freital. Those Counterfeit Software sure comes handy there. I stopped at Dawson in Hudson to strengthen our ties with the Rogues and sent the pilot of the shuttle a case of brandy for taking me to Raeuber.
Next stop at Pacifica in Bering was crucial. There I was able to upload Raeuber's special codes to Unioner's network so that they do know now that Raeuber is an allied ship. No need to introduce ourselves to Unioners anymore since they know a friend when they see us now. I also reminded them of our roots and equipped the Raeuber with a mining laser Mk 2. Not that The Army needs really introduce themselves really, but better to be safe than sorry.
Hopping from Bering to Hamburg and to Frankfurt was kein Problem. But as I emerged from the jump I got a tail in form of Alpha, a military IDed Bergelmir bomber. Ich was in Trouble. The Transport level 1 turrets were not going to get me out of the hot gases and having the hold full of essential cargo I decided to talk. You can imagine my surprise when the pilots starts talking about 'pen' and me wanting to buy it or else... Well, see for yourself. I've included the communique here.
And my eyebrows climbed even higher when I realised that this pilot had no clue what-so-ever who he had stumbled upon. All he did see was a Smuggler and not the name painted on the hull. I even thanked him for the deal we had struck. No point in bashing in the glass house of ignorance he had built up for himself.
Military truly must be scraping the bottom of the barrel by now with conscripts like this yahoo. The war with Liberty surely seem to put a strain on their resources. I wonder if we need to step up after all and fight those invaders with more vengeance.
The rest of the long journey went without problems. And I sighed of relief when Freital came up on the bridge view. At Freital I places an order for the Raeuber to be fitted with Transport level 4 turrets.