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Location Confirmed: Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin.

Neural Net ID: Hauptgefreiter, Heinrich Kraus.

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I'm reporting on the events occuring on the 17th of may, 818 A.S.

Today as I left the hanger of the Strausberg, I was hailed by one of our Fliegers, herr Hund and told my attention was required in Stuttgart to deal with a Corsair gunboat. I was quite excited, as it has been some time since I've been able to leave my desk and take to the deep green Rheinland star seas, especially to cleanse the area of foes.

Herr Hund was recalled to base and I came to oversee the actions of one of our other Fliegers, Herr Fisher. He was accompanied by a local police officer as they attempted to take down what was only a Corsair heavy fighter. Being the sporting type, I took the opportunity and hung on the sidelines, evaluating their combat tactics, vowing only to jump in if things got too dangerous. I'm proud to say that our Flieger's display was more impressive than the officer's, but not by much. Indeed we'll be needing much more training these days for our new recruits if we wish for them to meet the standards of our honorable and most high Kanzler. After watching the display drag on for some time, I decided I would put a close to the situation.

After quickly damaging the Corsair, he agreed to power down his weapons and surrender. I called the others off of him and began negotiating the terms of his release. A Hessian cruiser came from nowhere and demanded I turn over the Corsair. This was unacceptable. I do not take orders from Hessian filth! I'm also not one for abiding stupidity and unnecessary bloodshed. I told the Corsair if he wanted to live, he'd do exactly as I said and fire upon the vessel if there was sufficient cause. However, through the use of my training, I was able to persuade the Cruiser into going into the Omega 7 sector, under the assumption we would bring the Corsair to him. I took this window of opportunity to make a quick retreat.

The Corsair was very grateful toward me and I allowed him to leave under the condition that I never saw his face again. He knows the repercussions for a repeat performance. I think my Flieger nearly wet himself when he saw that cruiser, but it's good to put some hair on these kid's chests. I'm just glad I was able to talk my way out of this one. I don't think he'll be so quick to trust me next time, but it definitely could have taken a much worse turn. As for me? I thought I'd consider myself lucky and send the kids back home. I parked my bird on the Strausberg and . . . well, you know the rest.

I think that Corsair must've hit my ship just right during our quick skirmish. On my way back through the jump gate into New Berlin, I had a total systems failure. It came back online quickly, but my guncam was wiped and I had to jumpstart my diagnostics. (I dropped from the server and couldn't snap my logs.)

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