NAME: Kopnik
SHIP NAME: KOPNIK
SHIP TYPE: BK-65 "Serenity"-class Transport
ID: Zoner
IFF: Zoner
List of equipments: cloaking device mk 3 (transport)
Purpose: Study the enemy's movements on the territory of another state, in particular - the Rhineland, and quiet transport of goods from the Freeport 1 in Rheinland.
Notes: none
Name/Callsign: MD-1032
Ship name: Pyro-GL
Ship type: Absolute space superiority fighter.
ID: Material Defender
IFF: PTMC
List of equipment: Cloaking device, Teleport-Energy Encapsulation temporal device, AI support bot; misc equipment--unknown technology to Sirius sector.
Purpose: Advanced defense and monitoring.
Notes: Zone of Influence--Anywhere.
PRIORITY:Medium ENCRYPTION:Medium IDENTIFICATION:Kommissar Christiane Laurich SOURCE:Nibelung Polizei Plaza, Planet New Berlin TO:Kopnik SUBJECT:Request for permission for use of cloaking device
Guten Tag, Herr Kopnik. My name is Christiane Laurich and I´m kommissar from administrative department of the Rheinland Federal Polizei which handle this registry.
So you finally decided to obey the Rheinland laws... Unfortunately it is too late. According to your record in polizei database, you several times directly violated orders of law enforcer and repeatedly entered Rheinland space with illegal equipment onboard, despite you were told to stay out of it until you obtain permission for your device. According to the records, you got even several chances to fix the troubles you caused to yourself, yet you decided to both not follow order to stay out of Rheinland when you were escorted out, and then repeatedly refused to pay fine for your numerous violations except one time when you had valuable cargo onboard.
Ships with cloaking device onboard out of hands of law enforcement authorities are delicate matter due to possible security risk. For this reason, only trustworthy individuals or organizations are given permission to use them. You definitely can´t be considered as trustworthy after you repeatedly showed absolute disregard of Rheinland laws and orders of law enforcer.
For mentioned reasons, your request for registration is denied.
PRIORITY:Medium ENCRYPTION:Medium IDENTIFICATION:Kommissar Christiane Laurich SOURCE:Nibelung Polizei Plaza, Planet New Berlin TO:MD-1032 SUBJECT:Request for permission for use of cloaking device
Guten Tag, Herr...MD-1032. My name is Christiane Laurich and I´m kommissar from administrative department of the Rheinland Federal Polizei which handle this registry.
The ID you stated in submitted application form was not recognized, same applies to the IFF. Not to mention that you didn´t state what ship type exactly you want to register and your name...is not a name, at least definitely not civilian one.
For mentioned reasons, your request for registration is denied.
My name is James Morgan and I am a captain of Interspace Commerce's luxury liner called - Hartford. I am hereby requesting permission to have mounted Cloaking Device Mark three that is used for transports, liners and so on. You will find everything important in the file below.
§1.1. Callsign of the ship:IC|Hartford
§1.2. Type of the ship:L-600 "Chrysler" - Luxury Liner
§1.3. Name of the Captain:James Morgan
§1.4. Ship papers (ID) and affiliation (IFF):ID / IFF
§1.5. Type(s) of the installed extraordinary equipment:Cloaking Device Mk. III
§1.6. Purpose:Sometimes our customers/passengers want to remain unnoticed mostly because of their popularity as people tend to stop us and take pictures. The device isn't nor it's going to be used for illegal purposes.
PRIORITY:Medium ENCRYPTION:Medium IDENTIFICATION:Kommissar Christiane Laurich SOURCE:Nibelung Polizei Plaza, Planet New Berlin TO:James Morgan SUBJECT:Request for permission for use of cloaking device
Guten Tag, Sehr geehrter captain Morgan. My name is Christiane Laurich and I´m kommissar from administrative department of the Rheinland Federal Polizei which handle this registry.
Reason for use of cloaking device which you stated in your request confuse me. What people tend to stop you and take pictures? Someone from other ships in space? If this is the case, then the source of your problem is likely leak in passanger database and thus change of your data security measures can fix the problem. And even if someone somehow knows there is some popular person aboard, civilians have no right to stop your ship so your crew can simply refuse their request. Not to mention - all they can do from space is take a picture of your liner´s hull, I do not see problem in that. If they would want to take photo with the famous person directly, they would have to dock with the liner what can be again denied by your crew.
So, to conclude - we don´t see the stated reason as sufficient to give you permission for use of cloaking device. Every ship with cloaking device out of law enforcement authorities´s control means some security risk, so there must be serious reason for its permission. The problem which you described regarding privacy of your passangers can be relatively easily solved by other means.
My name is Helmut Weinstein, Director of Corporate Security for ALG Waste Disposal, more commonly known as Division V. It seems as though the previously-approved request which I am sending was lost in a database corruption of some sort. I will elaborate again on the requested item to hopefully clear this up.
The request was for the operation of a "Vache"-class train, the Solothurn, which is equipped with a cloaking device. It is not a ship commonly used by our Division, as there are not many scenarios which require such a specialized vessel.
Primarily, it is used for shipments for which insurmountable opposition is expected. While this is rarely the case within Rheinland space, I'm afraid to say the increasing presence of bandit capital ships sometimes necessitate such measures.
Far more commonly though, it is used for trips through very hostile space in the Omegas and occasionally Omicrons, space controlled by powerful pirate organizations such as the Red Hessians and Corsairs. Since trips to these regions usually originate in Rheinland, it is necessary to request permission for the Solothurn to fly through the Federal Republic equipped as it is.
§1.1. Callsign of the ship: [ALG]-V-Solothurn
§1.2. Type of the ship: ME-UH "Vache" Gallic Train
§1.3. Name of the Captain: no captain assigned permanently
§1.4. Ship papers (ID) and affiliation (IFF): ALG
§1.5. Type(s) of the installed extraordinary equipment: Cloaking Device Mk III
§1.6. Purpose: <see above>
§1.7. Notes: <see above>
I hope this answers any concerns you may have. As this request was previously approved, I do not anticipate any issues with it. Thank you for your time.
Callsign of the ship: [FL-ER]Sidhe
Type of the ship: Raven's Talon class very heavy fighter
Name of the Captain: Jimmy O'Brian
Ship papers (ID) and affiliation (IFF): Freelancer ID, Freelancer
Type(s) of the installed extraordinary equipment: Cloak Mk. I
Purpose: Well, I usually escort traders with this ship and lately, there's been quite a lot o' pirates around. Since I prefer avoidin' fights, the cloak allows me to better scout pirate positions, so me client can go around without bein' spotted. And of course, allows me to disengage from fight, in case I'm coverin' me client's escape.
Notes: The reason I decided to buy the cloak is encountering a pirating Hessian cruiser in New Berlin.
PRIORITY:Medium ENCRYPTION:Medium IDENTIFICATION:Kommissar Christiane Laurich SOURCE:Nibelung Polizei Plaza, Planet New Berlin TO:Helmut Weinstein SUBJECT:Cloaking Device Mk III equipment registration
Guten Tag, Sehr gehrteer direktor Weinstein. My name is Christiane Laurich and I´m kommissar from administrative department of the Rheinland Federal Polizei which handle this registry.
First, I want to apologize for huge delay. Searching the lost data from the corrupted database took quite time but in the end technicians were not able to manage it, so we had to start the approval process from the beginning with all necessary paperwork, and the officer which was assigned to it died in an accident so it got stuck in the stuff which another officer had to take over.
Anyway, permission to use the cloaking device is issued for your ship under these conditions:
The ship [ALG]-V-Solothurn is not allowed to fly in Rheinland space with batteries onboard for the cloaking device regularly. It can load batteries only on last station just before leaving Rheinland territory (typically on border station) and after reentering must unload them there again. In case that there will be need to deploy the ship with the device ready to use due to very dangerous situation in Rheinland space, ALG is obliged to report this situation with documented reason to the RFP| within next 96 hours.
Also, special transmitter will be installed inside the ship. The transmitter will stay in passive mode, but will turn on, react and mark the position after receiving specific code sent on specific frequency, which will be known only to inspekteur der polizei, admiral of Rheinland military and direktor of Büro der Marineintelligenz. This is safety measure for case the ALG will lose control over the ship, or there will be justified suspicion that ship is used to illegal actions.
I hope everything is clear, if not, feel free to ask.
PRIORITY:Medium ENCRYPTION:Medium IDENTIFICATION:Kommissar Christiane Laurich SOURCE:Nibelung Polizei Plaza, Planet New Berlin TO:Jimmy O'Brian SUBJECT:Cloaking Device Mk I equipment registration
Guten Tag, Herr O'Brian. My name is Christiane Laurich and I´m kommissar from administrative department of the Rheinland Federal Polizei which handle this registry. I apologize for the delay.
Oberkommando of the federal polizei reviewed your request and denied it. Reasons were not considered as enough since you can avoid the fight by other means such as watching your scanners carefully for hostile ships. Also organization you are part of as well as you personally were not considered to be trustworthy enough to be allowed to use cloaking device.