Red Hessian Reporting Facility

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Message to: Red Hessians
Comm ID: Major Gunther Hoerst, Spezialoperationabteilung
Location: Freital, Omega-11

This is a report concerning the lock down operation in the New Berlin system carried out on the saturday of the previous week with heavy cooperation from members of the Rot Front brigade.

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Our mole within the Rheinland Federal Police had tipped us exactly two weeks ago about something most peculiar, namely a supposed Cardamine transport that was meant to come down from that crack heaven that is Liberty towards Kreuzberg itself and be intercepted by the police there. What immediately striked me as odd was the fact that the police knew about this shipment so well in the first place. This prompted me to call our Berliner wings and see this situation through in the hope of uncovering new information about the Federal Police' activities.

On saturday morning Berlin time myself and Ernst Neurath as well as a large wing of Rot Front forces arrived in New Berlin with the intent to monitor all ways in and out of the system, and the hope of catching that drug transport before it could make it to its destination.

Attachment 1:
Image from the reverse cam of my own fighter showing of part of the force operating to shut down the jump holes within the system.

Attachment 2:
The plan of advance in the New Berlin system.

Myself being in command of operations, I briefed the men on the lockdown plan and our strategy of fast response. The group was split into three teams: Team 1 (signified on attachment 2 as the centre advance) was led by Major Neurath, it would take to the Hamburg jump hole and patrol the area around it, as well as monitor the Hamburg jump gate. Team 2 (the east advance) was led by myself and was in charge of Aachenfeld patrols. Team 3 (the west advance) would secure the area around Kreuzberg and assure that the smuggler is intercepted should he slip by our patrols at the jump holes. Should the smuggler group be sighted, all patrols were to converge on the reported area, thus assuring that the smugglers would be intercepted by at least one of the three groups before reaching their destination.

The plan was flawless, the forces set in place. We continued heavy patrols throughout the hour with little results however. It appeared that our mole had to be incorrect as to the point of convergence of the smugglers. I ordered a scan from our hidden satellites across Rheinland to determine the position of the strongest police force at the present moment, however the police forces were evenly spread.

Therefore I have ordered to stretch patrols to Frankfurt in hope that we might run into them there. We picked up some more forces on the way, however the information about the smugglers turned out to be completely false, and the mission was aborted after two hours.

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It was not a complete failure however, as we have encountered several different forces across Berlin during the lockdown. The infamous Joker and his cronies has been reported to operate in the area, robbing transports. I was keen to keep our men off of him for the duration of the mission until he perpetrated a crime of killing 2000 refugees off of a transport. While no explicit order to remove him from Berlin was given, the forces of the Rot Front joined with two Volksfront fighters converged on the Joker's location and enacted justice upon him for his crimes. Images from his destruction are attached below.

Attachment 3:
Destruction of the Joker's gunboat by Rot Front and Volksfront forces.

Despite this setback, it should be noted that the Joker and his thugs have been useful in the past as distractions in the Omega systems, launching themselves at the Corsairs there. I advise no change in status towards his force and the continuation of operations based on circumstance.

In addition to that, we have managed to convince a captain of a Military cruiser, the RNC-Oldenburg, that we indeed fight for the people. We have let the captain keep his ship despite our obvious tactical superiority. However a day in Rheinland isn't a day without a destruction of a few Military, and as was expected soon enough another cruiser called "Rote_Baron" saw us along with a crony gunboat of his called the "prometnik", and demanded our lives. The result was of course predictable:

Attachment 4:
Destruction of the Rote Baron.

On a final note, although we have not encountered the predicted smugglers we did find something else that was worth of attention. One of the Harvester vessels who was carrying a plethora of different samples turned out to have material in his cargo bay that was immediately recognised by our scanners as a cardamine-like substance. The unit was ordered to drop the crate, with which it immediately complied. Upon detailed scan of the crate the substance was discovered to have been of much higher concentration than the usual cardamine dust, to the point of it being in a liquid state.

This substance must be some kind of an Outcast research project, no doubt designed to be even more addictive than the regular dust. The scans were submitted to the Spezialoperationabteilung research team, and the crate was promptly destroyed to prevent any traces of it making contact with any human.

Attachment 5:
Scans of the liquid cardamine crate.

Due to these disturbing foundings I have grounds to suspect that the smugglers might be trying to bring in this liquid type cardamine substance to establish stronger business within Rheinland, hence the attention by the Federal Police. Those smugglers must be stopped at all costs, and as such I am leaving the operation open and to be continued at a later date.

<< Report concluded.