Kaiserliche Rheinwehr [RM] - Message Dump

[Unit-sk855]

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To: Rheinland Military Logfiles
From: Lieutenant Katharina Guntram
Subject: Strange events

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Sh.. *clears throat* Shortly after the others retired for the evening, a mercenary ship IDed as the Ali's Sabre requested permission to drop some mechanized units on planet New Berlin's dark side as part of a contract to root out some pirates hiding in our system. I advised him that he would be watched closely due to the recent prison break, but to proceed. He up linked the com chatter straight to my receivers and... They succeeded in finding a pirate encampment on the planet in the mountains. Some of the escaped prisoners must have commandeered Rheinland craft, for his ground forces encountered IFF Rheinland mechanized forces that were not in any report of being in the area. I double checked with command, and my earlier assumption was correct. Rheinland was not engaging his forces, so the pirates must have obtained the units somehow. I told him to have his men defend themselves.

After the assault was done, i retrieved the coordinates of the base, forwarded them to ground control, and units were dispatched to investigate and control the area further. No prisoners were brought back on board the mercenaries ship, only his own men. I scanned him extensively and found nothing out of order.

Just as he finished collecting his people, a mercenary IDed ship flying police tags of an unknown house moved to where I and the Ali's Sabre were in orbit. the ship labled Debiru began transmitting unknown data, and spitting out messages with details seemingly that he was filming the Ali's Sabre's operation, and myself specifically. I attempted to hail the ship, with no response returned. I then warned that not responding will be treated as hostile intent, no response was given. I fired warning shots, and the ship returned fire. The resulting engagement flew us all over the system, he still transmitting random data at different times, i trying to shoot him down, and the Sabre attempting to decode the transmissions and aiding in my attempt to silence this unknown hostile. The ship ended up fleeing to the sigma 13 system, which i then broke chase.

The only data the Ali's Sabre was able to decode was "Westerwald".

I am unsure of how to treat the situation, so for now i will resume patrols.

Kat... Lieutenant Gunther out.

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*Wilson shows off his ham sandwich* - Armory.003
*mark placed on Unit-sk855's forehead* - Head hitting the desk as of reading the above