To: Enclosed Parties. Subject: Operation Hammer Ascendent | From: E.Abendroth

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To: All parties
From: Admiral Abendroth, Southern Hamburg.
Subject: Battlecruisers.

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"On your feet.

This is Admiral Abendroth of attack group Nord. I’m in need of your strategic advisement, Arbeiters.
Requesitioning syndicconsultant Rousse for strategic information oversight. I hear you have the ears of the GEIST liason. Good. I want you to offer me a viability appraisal on the possibility of disarming the self-destruct mechanisms of large vessels whilst in flight. I’ll be offering you precise target information on a separate line – do you believe you would be able to spare a reconnaissance wing for Sigma operations upon short notice?

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Arbeiter Travis Doyle. I hear that you have been invaluable to the Bering salvage operations. I’m pulling you back to Rheinland on the next freighter out. You’re needed at home, not the western front. Do you believe that the Bering debris fields contain enough spacecraft components to reconstruct Rheinland retrofits to the destroyed powerplant of a captured battlecruiser, say, focused torpedo assault? Do you have the technical abilities to surrogate the powerplants of vessels of equivalent size and power to the Tirpitz, regardless of orgin?

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Operative…. Katya. Your file is incomplete, there’s no surname attached to your file. What documentation does exist upon you state that you are one of the most proficient cruiser commanders in the service, and that you have prior experience as an engineer within the Rheinland Military’s own Tirpitz project. Your experience will be invaluable. I need a full strategic brief upon the strategic advantages and disadvantages of battlecruiser class combatants, and the most effective methods for capturing one at short notice using only bomber and gunboat armaments.

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From Vorarbeiter Gunda Riehl, I need a boarding team, and a full run-down of your encounter with the OCV [REDACTED] from May 22nd, 824 AS.

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Quartermaster contact James Hollywood: Provide me with component consultancy for Daumann drive systems and shipboard wiring harnuses, structural plates, robotics, anything that is useful in the reconstruction of a spacecraft – send it to my office. You Libertonians are meant to be mercantilists. Get me a requisition form.

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Finally, Operative Kommerikut. You're as experienced a bomber pilot as we have in the service. I need notification of travel up to Sigma fifteen. You're to message me back with confirmation of arrival at Freeport Eight. Be subtle. Don't get tracked.

Get to it. Have the reports upon my desk by 09:00 hours, Stuttgart time. Ucagleon protects. I need a full operational assessment from all of you so I can present a mission assessment form to the Syndicdirektor within the week."

"As you were."

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With honour;
E.W.Abendroth
Syndicadmiral, Battleship Undine.

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Date: 11/12/741 A.G.S

Sender: Franz Rousse
Location: Pacifica Base
Topic: Battlecruisers
Transmission Type: Textual

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Bonjour Madmoiselle Abendroth,

It's pleasing to hear that even the people on the Northern front hear of my services.

Your question is both interesting and concerning at the same time. Whilst I think it is not impossible to disarm the self-destruct mechanism of a warship the size of even a Valor, I seriously wonder what you would need it for. Technically speaking, I do think that a ship of sheer size might suffer from being hit by multiple Electro-Magnetic Torpedos and bombardment while their Shields are not able to be sustained with energy will result in the fact that the devices that control the ship suffer for a short amount of time. How long? I have absolutely no idea, I am not even sure if what I suggested works. Maybe our engineers on Pacifica are able to tell you more about how a ship's mechanism works than myself.

About the wing, that's something that I can provide after a short time for preparations. Since I've not had the fortune to visit the northern frontier yet, I'd like to know what me and my men might be facing based on the information that you could gather there. Technically speaking, a composition of bombers and fighters is something I can provide easily, however, if we will need a Gunboat-Class or even larger then I require considerable time to organize things.

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To: Admiral Abendroth
From: "Kommerikut"
Subject: Re: Battlecruisers

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Oberarbeiter "Kommerikut" reporting in.

I arrive to Freeport acht at 21:34 at Sirius time. Now I am awaiting further orders.

That's all for now.

Für die Union, für Unser Rheinland
Callsign "Kommerikut"
Oberarbeiter, Freeport Acht, Sigma fünfzehn

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Destination: Admiral Abendroth
Source: Cruiser Verletzer, Bering System, Sector H-2
Subject: Did someone say "Tirpitz?"

Daschner. The name you're looking for is Katya Daschner. It would seem as though my ever-careful Gunda failed to completely fill my personnel log. I'm sure the minutia will be cared for at a later date. As to my success commanding the Verletzer, I would be keen to chalk that up to good fortune as opposed to personal skill. Then again, as the Libertonians say: "Better to be lucky than good."

With regards to your request for the Tirpitz, or battlecruisers in general, there isn't much combat-related to say that isn't common knowledge among those who participate in our great game of chess. The vessels themselves fall dead between a light battleship and a heavy cruiser, sporting weapons capable of striking the former at range while remaining safe from return fire. Against the latter, a battlecruiser can bring her high-velocity secondary turrets to bear, negating the advantage in maneuverability a cruiser may possess.

In the right hands, a battlecruiser is a deadly combatant. I'm sure we've all had our fair share of run-ins with the squadrons of Interdictor-class vessels the Liberty Security Force is so fond of. They are perhaps the best examples of how to correctly utilize a battlecruiser in general combat operations. Liberty has been producing their own Interdictor in one form or another for decades, and their success with the vessels has yet to be approached by any other house. The Tirpitz project was designed to counter the advantage granted to Liberty by the Interdictor. By creating a vessel that could dance step-for-step with the Assault Battlecruiser, the Rheinland Military sought to counterbalance their lack of experience with the craft through sheer, dogged aggression and shipbuilding prowess.

This is your one great advantage against current captains of the Tirpitz within the Rheinland Military: inexperience. Liberty has been training and studying battlecruiser doctrine for a significant period, and the vessel has seen thousands of combat operations against every conceivable foe. On the other hand, the Military has had fewer opportunities to prove their vessel in actual combat. With the limited resources available following the wind-down of the second Liberty-Rheinland war, the Rheinwehr appears hesitant to fully commit fleet vessels like the Tirpitz to battle. While you could place a seasoned admiral in the command chair of the vessel, it takes a great deal of time to form a familiarity and a bond with the ship. Until that bond is forged and that familiarity gained, the ship is vulnerable.

With that in mind, I would be inclined to suggest a coordinated assault by bomber-class craft and troop transports. Since it would appear you've excluded direct assault by our own cruisers, a boarding action is the next best option. I previously mentioned the secondary defensive turrets of a battlecruiser as being a very potent weapon, and against lightly armored transports they would spell certain death. In a typical boarding operation, the troop transports physically attach to the hull of the target vessel and bore a hole through the hull. Perfectly acceptable, assuming you were attempting to board a disabled or severely damaged craft. A maneuver like that would be suicide against an operational Tirpitz with even the greenest commander.

No, what's required is something with a bit more gravitas, more... Impact. I'd be happy to provide an extended operational outline for a potential engagement, if requested. Such a presentation is best made in person, though.

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[Wulfen]

From: Travis Doyle, Alster Union
To: All involved parties
Subject: Battlecruisers.

In short, yes. In long...

Good news is that Rheinland capital engines and power plants operate on same principle and often are resized versions of one another. They are simple, easy to armor, easy to replace, and often replacement is preferable to repairs of damaged reactor-engine block. That was actually a problem, because reactors often sustain critical damage even with all that armor around them, and ship loses ability to produce any kind of thrust or power exept for life support.
That means all MOX-reactors are operating on same principles and use same materials, and often - same components.
Bad news is that Danau and Oder reactors is uselless on Bismark-class or, for that matter, Tipritz-class. Reactor in working conditions is a rare prize even for older designs, and Tirpitz is shiny new compared to things we dig up in Bering. Materials the same, but scales are not.
My team may use some reactor cores, rig two or three of them together and so on. but that require some really extensive preparations for repairs on a ship that I don`t even have precise schematics or damage reports.
We still can improvize something from smaller engines, some kind of array perhaps? Hoveber that will be ugly, fragile and inefffective.
Not everything is so bad, materials are still in working conditions, and Pacifica can build destroyer-size ships, which means it can reprocess reactor pieces into, well, bigger reactor pieces. Theoretically at least, but my faith in Bering debree fields is small help here.
And a little advice, if I can provide one: don't sell the hide before the bear is shot.

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"Granted as requested. "

"Good. I see Riehl's faith in you was not misplaced, Vorarbeiter Daschner. She has written that you are are audacious and show initiative in tactics. The Union is in need of enthusiastic artisans like yourself. You'd do well to continue on the path you've set yourself."



"The tirpitz is not our bullseye. However, it is encouraging to me to see how you critically address the prospect of defanging your own creation - proves you're suitable for the assignment. Implies a necessary detachment from the task. The target is narrower, with bow-inclined habitat volume and the vessel's aft entirely comprised of machine spaces. Exact target ident can be provided in person."

"I'll need you in tactics. Rendezvous with the Schwartzwald, the Ertanax has been assigned south to tank off the Vidar's oxygen supply and the fog will hide our correspondence from signal intelligence. You will be flying cover till we reach the northern zones. If you warm to the assignment, I will personally instate your docking access."


"I await your plan. Till then, pilot, you are released. "

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Syndicadmiral, Battleship Undine.

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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.

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To: Admiral Abendroth
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Subject: Soon to be done

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