▌SECTION I - PROJECT SUMMARY ▌SECTION II - REQUISITIONS
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PROJECT DETAILS:
SECTION IPROJECT SUMMARY
Originally commissioned in 826AS by the Federal Rheinland Military as part of rear-guard tactical support and artillery platform under the name RNC-Danube to Battlegroup Koblenz in 827AS. Upon the outbreak of the Imperial Coup, RNC-Danube was one of several loyalist ships from the Koblenz formation to regroup under Battlegroup Bayern to defend the Thuringia Defense Perimeter.
Due to a persistent shortage of manpower and materiel in the face of continuous Imperial assault, the MND elected to refit the Danube to become a quick-response-force artillery and hangar platform capable of asymmetric deployment, fighter support, and long-range bombardment. As a measure to mask the numbers of the Federalist fleet from Imperial spies, the Danube remained in deployment under Group Bayern on paper, while the ship was quietly refit and redeployed as RNC-WALKURE.
During the Rheinland Civil War, the Walkure served with distinction in combat actions against both the Imperial and Corsair fleets in the defense of Thuringia and Munich, respectively, earning over 40 confirmed capital ship kills, 23 combat exfiltration support citations, and 4 citations for meritorious service. Combat Archives
Immediately post war, the Walkure was assigned to joint Rheinland Military operations to retake Cologne as part of an MND advanced skirmishing party.
STATUS: AWAITING OPERATION TO RECAPTURE COLOGNE
SECTION IIREQUISITIONS AND SPECIAL EQUIPMENT COMPLETE MK2A CLOAK - acquired from AESIR SPECIAL PRODUCTION DIVISION MK2 JUMP DRIVE - acquired from AESIR SPECIAL PRODUCTION DIVISION WOTAN class LONG RANGE SCANNING ARRAY "BREAKER" Class 32-BREAKER ARTILLERY SYSTEM - RnD and pilot production COMPLETE AS OF 8271026, AESIR-SPD HANGAR BAYS - Pelican Configuration "Tirpitz" Class Battle cruiser chassis - Retrofit from RNC-Danube
IN PROGRESS HYPERSPACE MATRIX - AESIR SPECIAL PRODUCTION DIVISION
>: BEGIN ENTRY COMMAND LOG - BDM|RNC-WALKURE - Kapitän Leopold Katz:
8270611
As is naval tradition, I will be keeping a personal log of our ship operations for the archives. Per our commissioning orders, we are to refer to our vessel as the Walkure in order to maintain the legal fiction that is the continued service of the Danube under Fleet Bayern in Thuringia. The transition will take some getting used to.
It has been only a few weeks since the onset of the Imperial coup. Koblenz is still fresh on all of our minds, as is how quickly so much of our group mutinied and turned on us. The Imperials had planned on quietly synchronizing the coup with the assignment of traitors to scheduled bridge crew rotations immediately before the attack throughout the fleet - though thankfully, they were inept and the coup happened several hours ahead of schedule. From what I could piece together, the imperials set to pose as our bridge crew shift were caught in the midst of preparing for sabotage, so the Danube remained in our hands. The Koblenz was not so fortunate.
It was quite traumatic to find that my XO was among the traitors prepared to take the Danube for the coup - and even more so to have to watch him, and those with him, asphyxiate outside the keel deck of our ship in punishment for attempted mutiny. Had he not served me well for nearly two years, I may not have granted him such a quick and merciful death by spacing. I may not trust again for quite some time after this.
Per the terms of our refit, the Walkure will now fly under MND colors and in the direct command of the BDM discretionary taskforce hierarchy. Most of my crew has been transitioned into MND service, and holes in our roster have been filled by the Buro. As far as I am told, we will be engaging in more unconventional operations than to which we are accustomed. Special command and control, sensor, engineering, and weapons suites have been installed, with Buro personnel to operate and maintain them. The several I have spoken to thus far have indicated that they are veterans of the Sigma campaign - I will continue meeting with them individually until I have gotten an opportunity to assess each and every one. I will not tolerate strangers on my ship.
Our first orders are to serve as a stealth carrier platform for asymmetrical bomber sorties in Stuttgart. The gates and holes from Thuringia to Stuttgart are quite well patrolled - so we will be attempting to use our experimental interstellar drives to fly there manually. I am told our drives should get us there in a matter of weeks rather than the years it should take, but I will hold my judgement for when I am pleasantly surprised by our survival of the ordeal.
>: BEGIN ENTRY COMMAND LOG - BDM|RNC-WALKURE - Kapitän Leopold Katz:
8270730
Our first mission is now concluded. It took a little under a week to jump to just within the Heliosphere of Stuttgart, and the same back. The drives appear to have worked well for the most part, and I hope that they will see good, reliable use as part of our operations in the future. We did suffer one casualty - one of our technicians neglected to use his harness for the deceleration and bowshock as we breached the heliosphere out of Thuringia. He was treated for a concussion and spent the week to Stuttgart in quiet shame - but was among the first to secure himself for the bowshock of our entry into Stuttgart. I suppose he will never make the same mistake again.
Our operations in Stuttgart were rather uneventful - we delivered our payload of a BDM UKORPS detachment to Stuttgart proper, some supplies to the Karlsruhe in neighboring Cologne, and jumped back with a damaged interceptor wing from Karlsruhe. It seems more loyalists are scattered in pockets throughout Rheinland, resisting the illegitimate Imperial regime through guerilla warfare. Several of the pilots we took in for circulation back to Weimar were members of the Bundeschuh - serving as advisors on the unconventional warfare strategies for our holdout operations. I was shocked to hear that one of them served on the Alsace, a Bundie cruiser that I had encountered as an enemy several years ago during my tenure as XO of the RNC Brandenburg. Wars make for strange bedfellows.
I have also received a three month old letter from my mother that my brother and my father on Stuttgart were arrested for participating in protests against the Imperial coup. Against my better judgement, I wrote a letter of my own in reply to let her know that I am safe, and will do all I can to find and save them if I can. I hope that will not be an empty promise.
In the mean time, our next deployment is to Frankfurt in order to establish a secure corridor from our holdout in Thuringia to our forces in Munich. I hear Frankfurt is the most intense front of fighting as of now - so it will be very likely we will encounter direct combat during our operations. The Walkure is assigned to support the Director's flagship RNC-Brynhildr under UKORPS Taskforce "Steuerberater" to alleviate the front lines.
>: BEGIN ENTRY COMMAND LOG - BDM|RNC-WALKURE - Kapitän Leopold Katz:
8270813
Good people died today.
Our battlegroup sat cloaked at the New Berlin gate in Frankfurt, ready to strike on Imperial relief columns, as we had done for weeks now.
Battlecruisers Edda and Walkure, cruisers Dahme, Rednitz and Nidda, and transports Tiwaz and Ehwaz formed Squadron Edda under Flotillendadmiral Leibniz as part of Taskforce Steuerberater. UKORPS on the New Berlin side of the gate signaled the quiet elimination of the rearguard of the Imperial relief convoy - and we were to decloak, ambush the head, and re appropriate the contents of the supply train while enemy reinforcements from New Berlin would be engaged with the UKORPS on the Berlin side.
The plan began without issue - Squadron Edda decloaked and wiped out their forward cruiser guard before they could raise the alarm.
Our transports were en route to collect the supplies when Imperial battleships Nord and Hammer, and battlecruisers Tyr, Donner, and Mainz decloaked and opened fire.
The initial volleys instantly destroyed the Dahme, Rednitz, our fighter/bomber screens, and crippled the Edda.
The Edda and Walkure scrambled our reserve screens to intercept their bomber wings, but they were cut down by the Imperial point defenses.
Our return volley disabled the Nord engine compartment, and the Mainz bridge.
FADM Leibniz ordered general retreat for the Nidda, Walkure, and the transports - electing to turn the crippled Edda about to face the Nord head on. As the Imperial fleet bore down on the Edda, the Walkure, Nidda, and the transports engaged cruise engines to withdraw to Rally Point Delta. Before we could make it out of the Imperial sensor range, three heavy bombers from the Tyr began closing in on us, with the Tyr, Donner, and Hammer not far behind. The Nidda turned about to cruise disrupt the pursuit fraction head on so that the Walkure and our transports could get clear.
We cruised all the way back to the nebula, hearing the Edda and Nidda fighting off the entire Imperial fleet for several minutes until they fell silent one after another.
Gott preserve and keep their souls in this life and the next.
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