First off, Captain Topf wishes to report that his new cruiser is fully operational. I will allow him to fill you in on these details.
Second, we have a reported Smuggler. His call sign is Nooob-.-. He was caught Smuggling Cardimine. Refusing to acknowlege our orders to halt, and docking to remove the evidence. We have snap-shots of his hold. We terminated the target, but have no confirmation other than Captain Topf and Lt. Archer's word. That, and this pice of scrap metal *Presents a lump of metal the size of a fist*. I believe it will make an excellent paper weight for you, Sir.
Finally, I am reporting a weapons malfunction on my Wrath. The ship refuses to fire when I lay my target-scope over the crosshair. I am servicing the wrath as we speak, but goes to how that new tch isnt as good as the old.
*Bows* That is all I have to report and I shall take my leave.
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CommID: Captain Meric Freelamen
Busy here, quiet there. But during patrol within New Berlin with Lt. Archer, Lt. Rall. and Lt. Hartmann, a smuggler with the comm signature 'Nooob-.-' was was found carrying Cardimine. After refusing to drop it, he ran for The Ring attempting to get docking clearance. Docking comm detected the Cardimine on board his ship and shut down all access hangers, we fired on his transport and was destroyed by Rall's Bomber.
Though, something must of been off. As the pilot returned with yet another load of Cardimine... As ordering to halt didn't seem to work out, we destroyed his ship once again, along with the Cardimine. He returned again but this time only with a small dosage. He dropped it and thought he would be able to roam free, how wrong he was. Admiral Hiltraud Kaiser came on to call and ordered him out, seems he thought suicide was a better option... Damn addicts can never think strait. Consider this brain damaged pilot 'kill on sight'.
Lt. Guntrum then came on call, and we decided a bit of weapons tests we're in order as most of us has newly equipped weaponry. We entered our HQ and began training. And I must say, everyone has improved far beyond my belief. Excellent work to all!
We returned to the planet after our little exercise and will be returning to patrols shortly.
Freelamen out
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CommID: Captain Meric Freelamen
PRIORITY; [color=#FF0000]RED!
Freelamen here, I have just received a distress call from The Frankfurt system. Patrols within Frankfurt have picked up a fleet of Corsairs within the Sigma 13 system! Rumors report that their first target is Fulda Border Station. Their estimated time of arrival is 22:00 GMT (10pm GMT 0). I want all ships ready for battle half an hour before they arrive! Prepare your weapons, war is afoot.
Freelamen out End Message
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// If I'm fighting alone, someone will get smacked...:dry:
Comm. ID: Lukas "Damon" Engel
Re: After-Action Report
I apologize, Kommandant, for my lateness in sending this report to you. I will start two days ago.
When beginning my daily patrols, the wing I had joined up with came across a Outcast Destroyer in Rheinland. We quickly engaged and destroyed the vessel with no casualties, though it required a little taunting to get the captain to stop running and fire his flak at our wing of bombers. His flak was useless, and I only lost my shields once; while dealing the killing blow, I was caught in his explosion.
Today I took to my patrols alone and launched to find several Corsairs and a Liberty Rogue in Rheinland. Since I was severely outnumbered I gave them the option to leave. They did. Shortly after, when I returned to planet New Berlin I found an OPG-tagged Hessian Cruiser attacking an Armored Transport. I quickly engaged, fighting the cruiser alone. During the fight, which I feel I would have been victorous, the Hessian cruiser while in engine kill flew backwards into Planet New Berlin and burned up in atmo. Whatever pieces that weren't destroyed by the heat were eliminated by the planetary defense grid.
Axel Topf sat in his chair. He was onboard his flagship, going over the reports for today's conflict with the corsairs. On his patrols, he was un-able to return to the Frankfurt system to help the Rheinland Imperial Navy from getting annihilated by the pirate scum.
Futher more, one of the BDM ships had been caught in the turmoil, and all of the valuable information it stored in its spacious databanks had been compromised. Captain Topf slamed his fist into the green-tinged wood of his desk, rattling the alabastor statue of the chancellor. He quickly moved it back to its rightly spot, make some hasty prayers, and stood up.
The reports lay sprawled on his desk, and he left them, not caring about his usual pristine self and waslked into the Atrium of the Rheinland Cruiser.
'Evening Captain!' said an Orderly as he passed and he simply nodded. He was in no mood to inspire. His crew could tell. As he ascended the staircase to the command deck, they stepped asside, in no mood to have his anger vented upon them.
Once on the command Deck, he follow the short hallway and entered the Bridge, stepping past the banner with the words: 'Strong of Mind and Faith shall cause death onto the foes of Rheinland' and he stood on the Command Dias over looking the Bridge.
Two stories lower then him and one higher, the Bridge was an Impressive place, with over one-hundred diffferent people in change of keeping the ship running sitting and standing all around. Several of his orderlies tried to approch him but he shooed them away.
'Deck Officer!' He called.
'Yes Captain?' Said his second in Command.
'I need you to get my scribe, he will be nescicary for recording my communications.'
'Yes Captian! Right away.' The officer strode off admist the trafic coming in and out of the bridge.
'I need my imperial Guard.' Said Axel, apparently to no-one. IN seconds, his two personal body-guards strode from the shadows of the Bridge.
'We are hear to serve.' they said at the smae time with flat, mechanised voices.
'Good, it is essectial to look impressive when facing those higher then you.'
The deck officer returned with the Scribe, a hunched man with mechanical implants and an enhanced memory for storing conversations. He had a long, green-tinged scroll on plantform. As he recorded what was said in a coversation, the scoll automatically rolled along, winding itself up at the top to be archived later.
'Finaly. Now, get my Admiral Hiltraud on the line, as well cas Captain Freelamen. If we are do prevent these scum from getting any futher, we must coordinate a better defence.'
The Deck Officer punched in the corresponding codes into the comm unit and captain Topf stepped away from the Holoplate, awaiting the Admiral.
**IncomingTransmission**
From the Deck of the Kormoran, Rheinland Imperial Military Gunship
This is an after-action report from myself, Captain Axel Topf of the RM. Today, after Making my roudns in the Berlin system, I came across a group of pirates known by the Tag [OZN]. One of them was disrupting the trade lane going from the Hamburg hole o Dortmund station while the rest attacked a trader named 'Bragg' I managed to Destroy one of them and saved the trader before the other two Pirate rabbited:
I followed them all the way to Omega 15, where they had the nerve to dock on the Battleship Schwerin where they spat protests and accusations of war. They also claimed that they were Aliens from a different Galaxy, so they must be investigated:
Finally, I moved back to Berlin, where I scanned several traders and encountered a ship that was attacking our pilots. He was dealt with:
I have also spoken to the Admiral Krieg and Kanzler Rhinehardt about a Police Owned Rhienland Battleship. He is under inspection as I send this communication.
Axel Topf signing out!
EIn Volk, Ein Kanzler Ein Rheinland!
Comm. ID: Lt. Gerd von Warsteiner
Re: Patrol Report.
Patrol Contact report from action with Lt. Dieter Schprockets in the New Berlin system. We detected a contact ID: [TC]-RIRRKRI. We ordered the Unknown to delcare their business in the Rheinland and to report to Planet New Berlin to be Scanned. The Target was unresponsive and we moved to search and intercept.
[TC]-RIRRKRI was found engaging multiple unlawful targets between Dortmund Station and Planet New Berlin. Upon Scanning we ID him as a Blood Dragon and was in possession of 5 Rheinland Police captive in his hold. Lt. Schprockets ordered him to release the Rheinland Police into our custody. He released only one. Lt. Schprockets ordered him to release them all or we shall act to release them. He refused, we both engaged.
On the first pass I managed to drop his shield to 20% Strength. Beyond that, Lt. Schprockets and I engaged the hostile in an intense but brief dogfight which ended when I managed to get the final Kill shot with my guns. All Rheinland Police we tractored in and were transported safely to the Rheinland Military Medical Center on New Berlin.
Lt. Gerd von Warsteiner
Brandenburg Border Station Squadron