To: Rheinland Military
Sender: Hauptgefreiter Tomas Meinhardt
Guten tag meine herren. Today, we had another successful patrol throughout our Vaterland. With Herr Chezberger giving out our patrol assignments, I was in command of Alpha wing vith Herr Weissman and Herr Landau. Ve patrolled ze Stuttgart and Dresden. Herr Keller also joined us fur ze Dresden patrol.
During our Dresden patrol, ve spotted XimiX with an enemy Navy transponder. He tried to flee several times, however our cruise distruptors halted him. Once asked to change his transponder,he had no idea how to change it. Apparently he did not read ze manual so I ordered Herr Weissman to continue patrols without me. I switched over to private comms to give zis man some sense and left him. An unexpected ion storm hit ze system so we were forced to land.
>>Comm ID: Albert Keller
>>Location: Planet New Berlin
>>Report Number: 1
>>To: Rheinland Military Command
Dear Madams and Sirs,
Today I was on a patrol in ze capitol when a very strange thing happened to my ship...I lost all power except life support, it would seem as though I was caught inside a miniture Ion storm, after about 5 minutes I managed to get my ship online again. Once scanners were back up I noticed 2 Hessians 2k away from my ship, as no backup was available I moved towards the border station and orderded them to leave the area, they did not...
This consequincely led to an engagement, here are the guncam shots: Guncam 001, Guncam 002
As you can see this did not end out well for me...lets just say I will be needing a new bomber...
He was an honourable fighter and vastly superior to be but I think I did well.
Keller out.
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Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. - David Hackworth (1930 - 2005)
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ID - Hauptfeldwebel August von Speer
Battle Report #23
Guten Tag meine Damen und Herren,
I started my duty after a long night with a pretty headache. Fortunately I was sober again, so I was abled to do my tasks properly. I was called to Hamburg to stop a Libertonian intruder. I gathered the troops in orbit of planet Hamburg to await further orders.
Luckily there was no waste of lifes today, because the intruder went back to Liberty, before we found him. Afterwards I attended a patrol of Omega 7 with Admiral Malte.
Nothing special, except one unaware trader, who nearly rammed my ship. Those guys should be more careful with theirs and others ships.
Heavy ion storms interrupted the galactic communications. I was abled to get a guncam shot of some DSE trader in Stuttgart:
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ID - Hauptfeldwebel August von Speer
Report #25
Guten Tag meine Damen und Herren,
fortunately I found one of our newest recruits in space: Duncan Werden. It seemed to me that he did not know about his successful application. I ordered him to get the proper [RM] tag and meet me near the Strausberg for a patrol. Due to the many good points which were raised in his application discussion, I was looking forward to a patrol with him.
And he did not disappoint me. We set our course to Omega 7, to uphold the current patrol contract with the Bretonian gouvernment. Nothing special happened in this soup there, except an ambush from some rookie Corsair pilots. Those guys must be so frantic, that they send children on patrols.
After we reached the gate to Omega 3, we returned to our core space and continued to Dresden. Two reserve pilots, if I remember right Sven Reiner and Anja... I forget about the surname, joined our patrols. We might have a look at them in the future, their behaviour was appropriate.
I took off after receiving a message form Battleship Karlsruhe, An unregistered Rheinalnd Gunboat left ze system heading to the Omegas.
A weak signal was coming from the Omega three system and ich looked into it.
Uploading Ship logs and visual data........
Ship logs uploaded........
Bjorn out. Data Uploaded...... ............Link Lost
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ID - Hauptfeldwebel August von Speer
Report #26
Guten Tag meine Damen und Herren,
today we had a little incident with some stolen or otherwise taken away Rheinland Corvette. Some guy claimed to be a former MND member and so on. Read the complete report in Chezbergers Data
Afterwards we stopped some suspicious vessel in New Berlin and ordered him out of Rheinland through the Hamburg system. When we arrived there, he disappeared on the L?beck border station and this conversation took place:
I will report this vessel seperately, to put it on the KoS list. We do not need Libertonian spies in Rheinland.
And we got a unwilling trader in Hamburg, who tried to pass persons without proper passports through Hamburg. The result as always:
Furthermore this was the first day of duty for the crew of the [RM-H]Rotes.Kreuz. Oberfeldwebel Chezberger was in charge of this ship and its crew. After some spaller incidents with some lone pirates and the people smuggler, which I shot, the Rotes Kreuz gathered all drifting cargo pods and brought all to the defined destination: pirate pilots to Vierlande and the people to New Berlin to take them to the temporary asylum.
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ID - Hauptfeldwebel August von Speer
Report #27
Guten Tag meine Damen und Herren,
the alarm on the Hamburg barracks was very loud and annoying today. That meaned a direct threat of the Fatherland by enemy forces. I jumped into by Snubnose and launched from the starting bay.
In space I found Hauptgefreiter Weissman and reserve pilot Karl Wolfenberg searching for the intruder, which seemed to be a Libertonian Intervention Squadron. We patroled nearly the entire sector, until we found the squadron near the Bering jumpgate: One Liberty Battlecruiser, the LNS-Pegasus followed by two bomber pilots. As this is a warzone, we gave them one chance to surrender and leave sovereign Rheinland territory. Fortunately they followed our orders and retreated to Bering system.
One moment before the LNS-Pegasus jumped out, it released a heavy mortar shot on the jumpgate. These cowards tried to interrupt the connection from Rheinland to Bering! Right in this moment, Admiral Malte showed up and ordered to chase the enemy to Bering and further, if neccessary. So we followed the enemy forces to Bering.
Somehow they managed to bring themself in position right behind the gate and this time I wasn't prepared to be faced a battlecruiser and two bombers. My Snubnose was heavy damaged, when I managed to get myself out of their fire range. I ran the System Repair Routine IV, which included the left wing, the propulsion amplifiyer and the target computer. Afterwards I turned my Snubnose around and opened fire again.
One of the bombers used the tradelanes to escape, the battlecruiser and the second bomber did that too, but were interrupted by some Unioners somewhere in nowhere, luckily. We Herr Weissman managed to fire the deadly hit for the unlukcky bomber and we continued to chase the battlecruiser.
We finally managed to catch him near planet Houston. Herr Wolfenberg, Herr Weissman and myself instantly opened our Supernova fire on the LNS-Pegasus and managed to bring down its shields and hull pretty quick. It was destroyed in low orbit of planet Houston.
Admiral Malte ordered to fall back, when another LNS vessel and a LSF pilot appeared out of nowhere. It was an unfair ambush and they quickly destroyed Herr Weissmans and my vessel. The last thing I know is, that I was ejected and drifted deep into the South Dallas Debris Field.
Later on the medics on the Westfalen told me, that some passing ALG vessel took my pod and brought me to our battleship. That was my luck... or misfortune. Shortly after I got a new Snubnose, I was contacted to move to Stuttgart immediately. Wilde and some robotic units were attacking our forces. So I jumped to maximum speed and set course to Stuttgart.
When I arrived I found many pilots of our fleet there, as you can see on the following guncam shot: Herr Chezberger arrived at the same time like me and both of us powered up our weapon systems. Primary target was the Wilde entity Wilde.Eselin, which seemed to be some kind of vessel with tentacles and a glowing power core. It remembers me of a scorpion somehow, but I can't describe it precisely.
This gunboat like vessel went down pretty quick under our concentrated fire. The remaining forces were:
Admiral Malexa Malte
Oberfeldwebel Chezberger
Obergefreiter Weddingen
Flieger Voelkel
Reserve pilot Christian Stein
Reserve pilot Wisslor
RBT-51
RBT-82
Wolfram Manfred (Wilde)
Admiral Malte went on the Wilde pilot, while I opened fire on the robot entities:
It was a tough fight, as both toasters were concentrating on me. I don't know why, but they seem to like me somehow. It was really close at one point, when I ran out of repair bots and shield batteries. Luckily Herr Stein transported 54 repair bots to my ship, so that I was abled to repair at least the most important systems, like the Supernova Power Core, which resulted in the following lucky incident:
The robot was destroyed immediately by my Supernova Cannon. The remaining forces fled. The Wilde pilot managed to escape, as like as the second robot unit.
Bless the Kanzler, that we did not lose a single pilot and destroyed two enemies.
Earlier in the Hudson system a Liberty Naval vessel was detected, the flagship, Ravensburg with Admiral Malte aboard, went to Hudson accompanied by myself to dispatch this vessel. We first detected this vessel by the small planet there named "Atka" I do believe, I hung back and started to record the vessel for further research into Libertonian technology, but unfortuantely my recording equipment was damaged in an earlier engagement and could only take still shots of this vessel, I hope these will suffice for inspections.
A few minutes after first detecting the vessel, the Ravensburg engaged with all guns ablaze, it was a magnifficant sight seeing it ripping through the shied of the hostile vessel, here is a shot of this at long range.
The engagement lasted what I would judge to be 30 minutes and it was a very close call but eventually the Ravensburg provailed with heavy damage, it was a very close engagement indeed, here is the shot of the Ravensburg after the engagement.
The Ravensburg was unable to move after this engagement and luckily a Junker offered to get some MOX for the vessel so that it could be moved to Alster for extensive repairs, while this was happening a Liberty Naval fleet formed in Texas and it was apparent that they were going to try and take down the Ravensburg.
Luckily for us reinforcements arrived in Hudson and we went to secure the Hamburg jump gate, but it had already been swamped my Libery Naval craft, the Emden, a cruiser, and an escort of 2 fighters and 2 bombers, including myself in a bomber, were engaged by these forces and had to retreat back to Hamburg, while this was going on the Ravensburg managed to slip past them into Hamburg and begin repairs.
Keller signing off.
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Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. - David Hackworth (1930 - 2005)
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ID - Hauptfeldwebel August von Speer
Report #28
Guten Tag meine Damen und Herren,
it was the first time for me today, to serve as an escort pilot for the [RM-REP]Blenheim, our military transport vessel. Herr Stein was in charge today, ordered by Leutnant Westermann. We met at battleship Strausberg/New Berlin to get to Bretonia. The flight plan showed a full load of High Temperature Alloys, which needed to be transported to the Kensington Shipping Platform in New London. So a dangerous flight through the Omegas approached.
At the same time Hauptgefreiter Voss and Hauptgefreiter Weissman chased various Hessian intruders in New Berlin.
The journey to New London processed, with the exception of some minor ambushes from Corsairs, without any incidents. We passed the Aland Shipyard in Omega 3, flew by on Cambridge and finally reached the shipping platform without being harmed. Herr Stein decided to transport Fertilizers to planet Cambridge and docked at Canterbury Station, when again a small group of Corsair interceptors attacked us.
When arriving at Cambridge, we had a decent lunch at "The Queen Carina's", a small tavern at Cambridge Capital. Nice tea, but I think I will stick to beer, when not in duty.
The last shipment started at Cardiff Mining Facility. The Blenheim was fully loaded with Beryllium, which Daumann always needs for the smelters on The Ring. Even the journey back to Rheinland was without incidents.
The first suspicios thing happened in Stuttgart, where some reserve pilot, namely Murad.Zimmermann (A strange name for a Rheinland Corvette, isn't it?) tried to find a criminal, namely LWB|Goldener.Hopfen. I took over the command and started to talk to the criminal, you know, that it would be better to surrender now and come with us to Vierlande. Naturally the criminal refused to do so, when I continued my verbal conviction method.
The Murad.Zimmermann suddenly heated its cruise engines and moved straight into the dangerous Ostnebel. I ordered to retreat there, because the danger of a pirate or a terrorist ambush is too high in this soup. Even the lowest reserve pilot needs to be protected for the Kanzler.