[font=Verdana][color=#C0C0C0]SUBMITTER: [color=#999999]Major Einar Harkonnen, Rheinland Military. [color=#C0C0C0]RECIPIENT: [color=#999999]Rheinwehr High Command. [color=#C0C0C0]SUBJECT: [color=#999999]Our first strike.
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Sehr geehrtes Oberkommando,
This is indeed a great day for Rheinland, for we have finally made our first move towards pushing out the Ausländer vermin poaching on our fields in Omega-7.
During the deployment of our forces, we have found these communist criminals waving the flag of the ICMG hauling light arms to Freistadt. The ICMG transport China Red and Azurite were found carrying these items without licensing, so we confiscated them on spot. Later on, these wretched Ausländers were also heard spouting ear-tearing Marxist propaganda.
Since we found out that they were moving material needed for reinforcing Freistadt, in fear of a marine attack from the Rheinwehr, we blockaded the Omega-3 gate, though the majority of the Ausländer transports got through. They kept insulting and taunting us during the process, but we managed to strip most of the military shipments, until we got back to Freistadt.
Back at the base, we've found even more violators of the light arms licensing law, the director himself aboard the Emerald transport had illegal weapons on board.
Following a heated conversation and taunting that ensued, I gave orders to open fire at the vessel, since the captain refused to hand over the illegal weapons, and thus he violated Rheinland law. His escort retaliated, but most of our fighter wing was wiped out by the missiles from XB0-Excalibur, a cruiser of our own.
Later on, the miners were reinforced by their communist allies too; the Red Hessians and the SCRA. We took them all down, the ones that did not flee or dock, that is. Among a bomber and 3 or 4 fighters, we lost a cruiser too, the RNC-Passau. The opposing force lost two gunboats, about half dozen fighters, among them officers such as Major Skalski and Colonel Sterne. Sterne saw it fit to express how he'll have my head a hundred times before he went down. I can only hope neither of them survived, pesky Ausländers.
We've secured about two thousand weapons, I'm quite confident most of their Freistadt defense didn't get armed properly. Recommend cutting supply lines and annexing the upper parts of Omega-7 too.
Signed,
Major Einar Harkonnen,
Kriegsmarine Division 8,
Rheinwehr Hauptflotte.