Comm ID: Sandra Rivers, recruit
Address: Liberty Navy reporting facility
Encryption: low
Priority: low
Subject: Rheinland Raid, Texas system
This is going to be a brief report. Another emergency call went throughout the Mississippi and all pilots were called to scramble on emergency response to defend against an incoming rheinland fleet.
Unfortunately I just had to be under the shower in that moment, so I launched as one of the last.
Never the less, I saw enough of the combat scene yet, there were warships, gunboats, bombers and fightercraft. What struck me as really odd about this attack was that the rheinland gunboat forces were mostly, if not exclusively composed of bounty hunter gunships of the "Bottlenose" classification.
Not that I have seen many battles, but I honestly wonder if the Bounty Hunter's Guild is aware of that and what they would have to say about it.
Anyways, the battle proceeded in our favor. Despite losses we were able to push their assault back. I was under fire myself several times as fighter craft and bombers attacked me hoping for an easy kill but I withdrew into cover fire as my bomber is ill suited to match with space superiority fighters.
There was one pilot of note that I found intrigueing, one BDM|U-Hanswurst. He held his own against four or five of our craft attacking, plus a mercenary as far as I could see. I have seldomly seen such flying, it almost seemed as if it was madness or insanity. Maybe this pilot was infected? Who knows...
At any rate, once the rheinlanders had retreated I landed on battleship mississippi and went to the briefing room for debriefing.