SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Battleship Strausberg,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00]Medium, port RM-CH-MC-1488-F.
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Reporting of a smaller-scale combat engagement I didn't personally participate in, but organized.
Early-warning systems on Rheinland borders picked up a massive vessel approaching our space, cruiser class of unknown designation and affiliation. The captain of the vessel, the vicious terrorist known as "The Joker" as later identified, interestingly enough didn't employ any sensor-deception devices, nor did he even attempt covering his approach in any manner. It wasn't really a difficult task to pick him up, as if he was trying to be noticed.
Regardless, as we didn't know what was approaching originally, only knowing it was huge, I sent out Vizeadmiral Weissman and three other men (Major Mauser, Feldwebel Koehler and Flieger Xaver) kitted with bombers to handle the threat. Weissman's idea was to set up an ambush near the Stuttgart gate, due to the fact that no important commercial establishments would be in danger unless the vessel was to reach Berlin, which the bomber wing was scrambled to stop.
Following approximately ten minutes of waiting, the cruiser (which is of the Scylla class we frequently see visiting Braunschweig in the past 5 months) dropped out of the trade lane, running into the ambush cleverly set up by the Vizeadmiral. Then was the cruiser... or destroyer to be precise and the crew identified, the terrorist Joker in command of a crew consistent of ex-Red Hessian rebels. The sole note I received before the cruiser was engaged after as usual; resisting arrest, was that Major Mauser kept an inappropriately long conversation with the captain of the terrorist-crewed vessel to no avail.
Eventually, Vizeadmiral Weissman gave the orders to sink the ship, which the four bombers did with relative ease. The Joker did survive; his escape pod was seen drifting away from the wreck of his destroyer with several of his crewman.
....The only confirmed kill was his cat, Lorenzo Lamas....