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Sender: Hauptgefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Action Report
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Kapitan sur Zee Schprokets and myself engaged the Hessian Cruiser Varyag between New Berlin and the Dortmund station. The battle was a fierce one, but we inflicted enough damage for the ship's commander to cease the attack and leave the area. One of the Mandalorians, Or'dinii, showed up in the area and helped us stop and destroy the fleeing vessel.
from: Cheshire, currently docked at Battleship Straussberg, new Berlin
to: RM
"well, we had quite a ... disturbing ... incident. One of your pilots, mr Kuprinski was present - but not from the very start, i believe. When i approached New Berlin low orbit, i saw one of our guilds precious Battleships there - and some trader ( Deltaforce-1 or so ) announcing Dragons, and not only Blood Dragons, but actually their Flagship being in the system.
it was quickly clear that they were after my guilds buddy. - what was interesting though is that really most of those traders announced their affiliation to the dragons, even calling them "mighty dragon" and such rubbish. - they were prolly curtsying to them.
unfortunately my log is fractured and i can only remember two names there, - one is deltaforce ( in a whale ) the other was the trader Kuraine, who also gave the position of the guildbattleship to the dragons.
at that time, things became messy. the battleship blew the train of that trader up with a full broadside - but some reactor failure blew the guildbattleship into little bits.
since i dont really support the murder of semi- innocents ( allthough i see the reason, as that trader announced affiliatoin to the dragons aswell as giving the position away ) - i stayed out of that mess. at that time, mr kuprinski arrived on my scanner.
there were more traders announcing affiliation to the dragons - and that is one troubling incident for who knows what exactly the dragons do with those traders when they stop them in sigma-13. for all we know, the traders are allowed to pass with their cargo... but why?
the RM might want to look into that.
edit: i might add that mr kuprinski faught bravely. a little fighter he attacked the flagship and escorts on his own - and survived it. personally, i wouldn t go for it - but i guess you rheinlanders are more determined.
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Sender: Lieutenant Walter Krupinski
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Dragon intrusion to New Berlin
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For the second time in two day I was scrambled from New Berlin to defend Rheinland from Blood Dragon forces.
As I launched a horrifying sight came to my view:
2 Blood Dragon Battleships
2 Blood Dragon Bombers
1 Golden Chrysantemum Gunboat
1 Golden Chrysantemum Fighter
The defending forces compromised of 2 Wraths and 1 Rheinland Bomber. Later joined by another fighter and a BHG Battleship.
Both Golden Chrysantemun ships were destroyed and the Blood Dragons fled without any losses on our side.
Fur Chancellor!
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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.
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Sender: Hauptgefreiter Hans Krieger
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Action Report
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I was under the command of Stabskapitanleutnant Lang in patrol when we identified an Osiris entering New Berlin. We chased the vessel out of New Berlin, to Hamburg and then finally to Bering. We weren't able to destroy the warship, but made sure our sovereign space safe from it.
A Cardamine smuggler identified as 'allecs' carrying the said material in a large transport was stopped midway between Brandenburg and Bonn by Stabskapitanleutnant Lang and myself. He was ordered to drop his cargo, but tried to deceive and evade us. As the vessel disobeyed orders and engaged its engines without permission it was destroyed.
We've had a number of Liberty ships trespassing our space, including one trader transport with a clear enough link to their military, [SA]-LNT-Lake.Horon, the ship was escorted out and ordered not to return to Rheinland space. Another number of ships with shady affiliations with Liberty* dared show their faces in New Berlin, including one flying a Huntress Cruiser of all ships.
Another problem is Mercenaries and Freelancers utterly ignoring military directives and Rheinland law. I can't really count the times I've said and heard from other RM pilots the phrase, "Are you aware there's a military ban in Rheinland? You will leave Rheinland." just to have these pilots return to our space later. This has become a great distraction from our more pressing duties sometimes. I hereby beg command to contact CNS and make our regulations widely available to both citizens and visitors, so they won't be able to claim ignorance of the law and we can act swiftly and without restraints against the offenders.
I've issued an order to a Freelancer named Jabba to leave Rheinland. He refused orders, and I made it abundantly clear that he was not to return as Stabskapitanleutnant Lang ordered me back to deal with the said Osiris that showed up in system. Later, this Jabba pilot returned to Rheinland and I gave him an ultimatum to leave. He was grouped with a trader and an unknown military** named Mannix. Apparently they were both escorting the trader. I gave Jabba an ultimatum to leave our space which he not only ignored, but also managed to be granted landing permits in New Berlin (I'm personally seeing that the man responsible loses his job). As the ship launched I opened fire. In an unthinkable development, the military engaged me in defense of the Freelancer while the trader, incapable of really joining the fray, threw the cheapest kinds of threats and imprecations at me.
The mess was cleared by an ion storm that ended the engagement.
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Sender: Lieutenant Friedrich Lang
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Corsairs in New Berlin
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Corsair cruiser arrived in New Berlin from the Hamburg system. He was destroyed by a combined force of my bomber, Krieger's bomber and a Rheinland Gunboat.
Right after his demise a Corsair Dreadnought of enormous size came on our scanners and was destroyed as well:
I have no idea how is it possible for them to safely pass to the heart of Rheinland.
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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.
Run Messaging Program
Run Command "To"
Message to The Rheinland Military
CommID: Vice Admiral Meric Freelamen
For all of those who missed it, I had just been on the CNS reports no more then an hour ago, I have a recording here they was given to me. I expect you all to watch it.
Again, it is about the cruiser tagged [RN]_Pinky&Brain.
I was the gunboat mentioned in Lt. Lang's report. Prior to the RM pilots and me engaging I observed Pinky and Co's ship sitting next to Ryu about 8k from New Berlin. Neither sides' ships were damaged in the slightest.
While Herrs Kreiger, Lang and I made short work of the Corsair scum the battle would have been over much quicker if this ship had done its job. I am more then willing to risk my life and my ship for Rheinland, but I will not sit by and watch Pinky let Corsairs all over New Berlin soverign space."
*incoming priority message*
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Sender: Consul Ranov'la Aran of the Mandalorians
Subject: Transfer of communications logs captured in the New Berlin system
Sirs, I beg your pardon for tapping to your frequencies, but I believe the subject at hand is important enough. While flying through New Berlin the other day, I overheard a conversation in open communications frequencies between one Rheinland Military vessel and a known Hessian cruiser. I never got into scanners range, but I know that is a Hessian cruiser, because one of our men helped fight that vessel recently.
Apparently the two vessels' commanders were peacefully discussing each other's loadouts. Understanding that vessel not to belong to your organization's inner circle, but a rogue ship, I allowed myself to break protocol and radio silence and tossed a sarcastic line about the absurdity of what I was witnessing to see how they reacted. I was ignored. Since I had more pressing business at the time, I moved on.
Before leaving the system, one statement made by the Hessian cruiser's commander captured my attention. It sounded very odd and I can only imagine it was related to some other subject they were discussing before I arrived there. I've highlighted that phrase in the logs I'm sending you.
Please accept this as a token of our gratitude to the RM for allowing us passage through Rheinland during this ban. Again, forgive me for using your general frequencies for this, but I considered it wise to make this information available to you as fast as possible.
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To:Rheinland High Command
from:Trek Centauri Flying NCC.Trekker
Your Majesty and royal officers,
I am a merc Named Trek Centauri Flying NCC.Trekker, and I have to prove to you that I am a worthy ally in helping you defeat pirates in Rheinland and Escorting lone trades through Fatherland. I have been following orders by your officers to stay out of Rheinland even though the pirates have seeking refuge in the Fatherland. Hans kreiger and Officer Quentin have seen my respect for your fatherland. If you still need prove I submit a transmission from a well known pirate asking for lawful targets.
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Sender: Lieutenant Walter Krupinski
Destination: Rheinland Military Command Offices
Subject: Dragons in New Berlin
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I launched from planet New Berlin to hear distress calls from a fight going on around the Sigma 13 Jumphole.
As I arrived there I found a Black Talon fighter and a Rheinland Military bomber. Fighting no less than 5 Blood Dragon bombers, Spatial SHF with junker signature and a Blood Dragon Cruiser.
We focused our fire on the Spatial and soon took it down:
Cruiser was our next target and it disintegrated as well:
After that the Black Talon operative as well as one newly arrived Rheinland Military ship was destroyed. I managed to eliminated one more bomber:
Then a new Pirate arrived trough the jump hole so I switched my focus on him. He was half way down his nanobot supply when Conrad arrived to help.
The Dragons then left the fight and the Pirate fighter soon fled with his ship almost on fire.
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Igiss says: Martin, you give them a finger, they bite off your arm.