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ID: Feldwebel Joachim Landers Source: Alster shipyard, Hamburg system. Target: RMHC Subject: Clearing Hamburg from criminals.
This report is about Hessian, Liberty, coalition und smuggler presences in the Hamburg system.I received a message from agent Martin Trauer about a Coalition gunboat in our space. That ship didn't attempt to engage us, it went to Bering system and herr Trauer followed it with his wingman. Please contact him for details. I just went back to Planet Hamburg, when a Libertonian gunboat appeared. It was in hurry, he tried to rush to the Bering gate. That ship might be a spy, so we destroyed it before the crew could sent any transmissions to Liberty. We went back to Planet Hamburg, and what a suprise, there was a transport ship, carring military vehicles. He didn't drop the cargo, but attemped to cloak his ship. We took it down, of course and the vehicles are on the planet. I just rearmed my bomber, when a hessian cruiser arrived. It was heading to the borders to, so I tought it he was a spy as well. Don't worry, we made sure that he can't say anything to our enemies.
One more thing. I think we are in danger. The coalition in Hamburg? A smuggler tried to take military vehicles to our enemies? A Libertonian gunboat? A hessian cruiser? There's a lot of questions in my head.
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ID: Feldwebel Joachim Landers Source: Alster shipyard, Hamburg system. Target: RMHC Subject: Battle in Hamburg
That gunboat in my last report, was a spy indeed. In the evening time, the Navy sent 3 Assault gunboat to Hamburg. When I arrived, Feldwebel Marck was already engaged them, unfortunately, he's Snubnose was destroyed in crossfire, but we could tractor the feldwebel's escape pod. I took the lead, and we took down two Libertonian Gunboat. The third was escaped. (Or taken down, I can't remember).
We were going back to Planet Hamburg, when the soldiers of the Sirius Coalition Revolution Army appeard. As the highest ranked officer on duty, I took the lead of our forces. We were outnumbered, but we had two Battleship. I don't know how, but they destroyed our caps, and they bring they battleships as well. We kept fighting, but the Red Hessian army arrived in large numbers. They impaired us, so we had to retreat to the Westfallen.
Two more thing in fine. I'm the one, who ordered our forces to retreat because we were heavily outnumbered. All the responsibility is on me for that order.
Considering our numbers and the enemy, I have to say, that our men did a very gut job on the battlefield. They kept fireing, even in the worst situations.
The name of the pilots:
Martin Trauer, MND agent Gloria Sternenschein, MND agent Maria Schneider, Flieger A. Reisinger, Flieger Paul Van Dyk, soldat from the secondary fleet
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ID: Fischer, Christian
Location: Battleship Moselle
Subject: Battle Report
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'Tag there Herren und Damen. Feldwebel Fischer here, reporting from mission. I must admit, the ambush was a great success ! Everything, well, most of it, went after plan.
We've gathered our forces near Border Station Konstanz, as told in the mission-briefing. We were able to gather about eigth soldaten, including me. Unfortunately, Major Higham and Hauptmann Wittman weren't able to come, as planned in the briefing. I do not have access to the information about why they couldn't, but we performed just fine under my command aswell.
We've splitted the squad into two groups, me leading the main group, and in the other Frau Geusau and Flieger Speiser. As always, Frau Geusau acted absolutely professional in combat, which makes up her lack of respect towards higher ranked Soldaten.
The ambush itself went flawless in the majority. We were able to nullify the enemy forces completely, with minimal loss on our side. Unfortunately, Frau Gefreite Schoon was shot down in action, her pod was brought back to base safe, though.
I've been able to capture some of the ambush on my guncam, hold on a moment, bitte...
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Uh, seems that the guncam got hit, what a shame...Entschuldigung, Meine Damen und Herren. I'm sure another Soldat was able to get clean, captured recordings.
SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Battleship Strausberg,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00][color=#FF0000]High, port RM-CH-HC-1488-M.
It appears the Corsair presence in the Northern regions of Rheinland is intensifying. Not only are we getting reports of attacks in Frankfurt and the Sigmas, but yesterday a huge contingent of Corsair forces have been identified and neutralized in Hamburg by a Rheinwehr patrol under the Rheinwehr Kreuzer Seydlitz and Oberfeldwebel Meyer.
What is apparent and we're accustomed to is that they are equipped with mixed, yet effective weaponry. M-10s, M-14s, M-7s and high-grade pulse weapons have been in employ by the intruders, which they seem to use with various degrees of success. M-10s are usually the easier targets and preferred by the fighter wings, while the proper use of M-7s can cause a considerable setback for our forces. M-9s or any other Corsair vessel classes are yet to be seen, though we believe they have at least a transport and a gunboat-class vessel at their disposal.
What is previously unseen is that they seem to have found allies, or at least assistants, from within Rheinland. It appears that certain members of the Unioner splinter group, all being affiliated with the Rheinland AGS, chose to take arms in defense of cannibals intruding.
Moreover, a new type of fighter previously not seen in Corsair hands, apparently of Kusari design, was spotted to be assisting the intruders with top of the line Corsair weaponry and possibly even training. McDowell (to whom we can also thank the survival of the Seydlitz) identified it to be of Samura make, how it got into Corsair hands or whether that claim is true to begin with is debatable.
In the firefight taking place between Hamburg and Alster, the opposing forces managed to destroy two or three of our fighters and heavily damage the Seydlitz, which is currently in the shipyard's drydock, undergoing repairs. The enemy force lost six vessels (Corsairs and Unioners both) and has withdrawn after a three hours long, intense firefight.
We also got reports of various supply convoys falling under attack in the Frankfurt region. Yesterday was the largest Corsair attack we ever received in the Eastern region and apparent failure didn't discourage them either. Keep an eye out for Corsairs and their potential assistants, gather and report all the intel possible. A larger-scale Corsair invasion in the Hamburg sector can be a major setback to our defenses against Liberty.
SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Battleship Strausberg,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00][color=#FF0000]High, port RM-CH-HC-1488-M.
We just got reports of a rogue IMG group committing acts of piracy within the Omega-7 region against Kruger and Daumann vessels while being non-responsive to Rheinland military or corporate directives, nor acknowledging either Rheinland law or any of the Omega treaties. They've shot down numerous corporate miners, sentries and patrol vessels, they have also been seen in the company of Red Hessians up to a cruiser size.
If all is as they say, the IMG itself declared them rouge so shooting them down should be no problem. Yes, you heard that right. Take this as an official death warrant for the following vessels:
So far we have little information on their exact organization, vessel classes, equipment or directives since the miners hardly provided any clear intel. That will also be your job to collect, as well as the heads of these individuals.
Watch out not to go trigger happy though, most IMG ships out there still count as civilians and while you're free to treat them with suspicion, don't go as far as shooting any of them down unless you see them committing similarly bold acts.
Omega-7 is lighting up again, Soldaten. Official directives are to intensify patrols, secure the rocks and stay on guard while doing so. If you run across any of these marauders, report on their destruction and I'll see to giving you a little bonus.
Oh, we also just got a message. The Bounty Hunters noted that whatever BHG capital ship we may see in the Omegas is probably rogue. I don't know what that exactly stands for since Bounty Hunter capital ships never have been allowed to traverse the region, I'll give you an update once I find out.
[color=#000000]Source: Battleship Karlsruhe, Stuttgart Submitter: Carl Von Manstein Recipient: Rheinland Military High Command Subject: Patrol NM-24 Report Encryption:High
Guten Tag, Das ist second rate Rheinland Military Offizier Carl Von Manstein
This a report about the Patrol NM-24. The patrol started from Battleship Karlsruhe and it continued in Omega-7. When I got there, I firstly reached Freistadt. There I recieved a distress call by a Kruger mining vessel, so I moved to the Ebersfelde Asteroid Field. Inside the field I encounter a Corsair capital ship, which from it's size I assumed it was a Heavy Battleship Class and one Corsair Gunboat. A minute later, 2 Red Hessian cruisers appeared in my scanners. One remained near Freistadt - which seems to be their base of operations in Omega-7 - and one engaged the corsair capital ships. I didn't intervene, primarily because my main aim was to secure the Kruger ships. Half an hour later the Red Hessian cruiser was destroyed.
Fortunately, some minutes later I was contacted by the RNC-Wallenhorst and I gave a full description of the situation. I was ordered to hold the capital ships until RM forces arrive. The Corsairs were busy attacking an IMG Gunboat Class ship, so RNC-Wallenhorst and a bomber, RM-Armin:Stein, arrived in time. Half an hour later the battle ended with the destruction of the Corsair Dreadnought & Gunboat. Our side had zero casualties. Afterwards, I was ordered to return to normal patrol duties. The rest of the patrol didn't have any signifact encounter.
The corsair presence in the rheinland-controlled systems has increased the last weeks, which may be consequential of the Red Hessian - Corsair war.
Submitter:Feldwebel Joachim Landers Source:Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin system. Recipient:Rheinland Military High Command Subject:PhantomsEncryption:High
Guten Tag, Feldwebel Landers here. Before you start reading the following report, please make sure you have the right security level.
Time: 19:24 SMT Date: 7. december 818.
At this time, three unidentified flying object appeard in New Berlin. I've never seen any vessels like those. The shape of the ships was fearful. Their identification transponder shows nothing, but hostile.
So Agent Ansgar Freyberg, Feldwebel Vivien Schmitt and me attempted to destroy the "big one". It jumped to Frankfurt, where we able to make it dust. In the meantime, the Rheinland Federal Polizei was fighting with the "big one"s fighter escort. When we jumped back to New Berlin, the RFP vessels are gone, and didn't respond to us. We scanned the whole system, and we found them at the Stuttgart lane, where we engaged them. They runned into the nearest field and disappeard.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to scan them, maybe they used a jammer device or something.
Submitter:Feldwebel Joachim Landers Source:Battleship Strausberg, New Berlin system. Recipient:Rheinland Military High Command Subject:About the rogue IMG vessels.Encryption:High
So, it seems like we really have some problem with these IMG vessels. We were just doing the regular warming up in Braunschweig, when a Daumann Escort fighter sent us an emergency call. Ich und Feldwebel Laura Schoon went to Omega 7. The DHC fighter was already in combat with three IMG pirate fighter. Well the members of the IMG could be good miners, but not gut fighters. They had no chance againts our well trained soldiers. Ich think we have to patrol in Omega 7 more often. That's all for now.
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[color=#000000]Source: Battleship Westfalen, Hamburg System Submitter: Carl Von Manstein Recipient: Rheinland Military High Command Subject: Patrol NM-28 Report Encryption:High
Guten Tag, Das ist second rate Rheinland Military Offizier Carl Von Manstein
Das ist a report about the Patrol NM-28. It was a typical support until the last part. I was in the orbit of the Planet Hamburg, before I take the trade lane to Batteship Westfalen when a convoy consisting of 2 super transports came from Alster Shipyard. I asked them to stop but they didn't reply and took the trade lane to the Bering Jump Gate. I followed and I asked them again to stop. They ignored me again and they jumped; I also followed to Bering. In Bering, I was fast enough to deactivate the trade lane, but still they didn't stop and activated their cruise engines. Unfortunately my ship didn't have a Cruise Disruptor, so I couldn't do much. I activated my guncam in the Bering system and you might find the following photos interesting.
The primary reason that this report is sent directly to the High Command is that these two transports belong to an IMG group, the "RDA". I believe the two offences of their transports (1. Disobbeying multiple times an offizier's orders 2. Ignoring the embargo) are enough to contact their command and ask for clarifications. But natürlich this is not in my jurisdiction, so I leave it your capable hands. I would only request to give me some guidelines if it happens to meet the RDA transports again. Danke Schön.
::::Ubertragung von: Hauptmann Hans Putzkammer::::
::::Ubermittlung an: Rheinland Military Personnel::::
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Meine Komeraden,
Regarding RDA vessels, in Rheinland space.
All RDA vessels found inside the Vaterland are to be questioned in regard to what reason they have to be in Rheinland space as well as their destination. At this time, RDA vessels are not to be barred from Rheinland space, though if reports of misbehavior continue, that may be a possibility.
<strike>The ships RDA-Chromium and RDA-Hydrogen are a different story however. Effective immediately, the two aforementioned ships are wanted for charges of Violation of the Liberty/Rheinland embargo and are to be taken into custody on sight. If they refuse to cooperate, you are authorized to use lethal force.</strike>
Above situation has been resolved.
Thank-you for your time,
Rheinwehr High Command Officer Hauptmann Hans Putzkammer