From: Katharina Guntram
To: Rheinland Command
Subject: Nov 16th action report.
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I... *Katharina coughs once to clear her throat*............. Earlier today, on the 16th of November, I and other members of the Rheinland Military were... patrolling our space when we came across a few ships of note. The first encounter was with a Chase Malone. It was known at the time that he has been a past smuggler of the drug cardimine. We moved to intercept, and in the process it was determined that he again was hauling the narcotic. He docked at Kruezberg and sold his cargo before we could confiscate and destroy. He did however halt after the fact, and cooperate and pay a fine of 8 million credits. 4 for past offenses, and 4 for this new one.
He was then instructed that a repeat offense no fine opportunity would be given.
The.... The.... Im sorry.... *sniffles loudly then continues* The next situation was with a ship designated.. SU Yanagi Temptress.. A behemoth flagged for the slavers union.. We moved to intercept, and attempted to get the vessel to halt. He refused... Repeatedly.
I was trying to convince the pilot to stop... to cooperate... To let us help him.. He refused. He did say that if he were to comply, that his employer would kill him, so it was best if he ran from us even though we would destroy his ship. I tried to tell him that we could help him, but he....
After refusing to halt again, he was intercepted and cruise disrupted. Unfortunately, there was ... an...... *muffled sniffles can be heard for a moment again* .... There was an accident.. One of our ships missfired its weapon groups. The behemoths hull was cracked, and the ships engines went critical....
We were able to salvage its cargo mostly..
After that, another slavers union ship came onto scanners. The utopia. It was also ordered to halt, and to report for scans and questioning. The response was the same, to refuse and flee the system... A solar storm occurred, and the ship was lost as of my submitting this.. We will resume tracking once the storm has passed..
Guntram... Guntram out.
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*Wilson shows off his ham sandwich* - Armory.003
*mark placed on Unit-sk855's forehead* - Head hitting the desk as of reading the above