I have a rather unfortunate report for this evening.
Dieter Schprokets and I were on patrol in New Berlin tonight. Unfortunately I was docked and having Hessian stains cleaned off my ship when a Coalition VHF entered Dieter engaged him. By the time I arrived Dieter had been destroyed. Fortunately I was able to tractor in his pod before I engaged the fighter. After a furious but somewhat short battle, my ship was destroyed as well. A battle group arrived at that moment to rescue us and managed to chase off the Coalition criminal.
We were able to refit and get into new ships when the smugglers arrived. Both NightbladeCH and SU Freedom were carrying Cardamine to Pl. New Berlin. We engaged, but do to our lack of cruise disruptors - both smugglers managed to escape to Sigma 13. We couldn't follow as that system is full of Corsairs, and we didn't want to have to report the loss of 2 more Wraths.
I promised Dieter I would handle the paperwork in regards to the smugglers, and they will shortly have a felony smuggling charge added.