To: [color=#FFFFFF]Major Gunther Hoerst of the Red Hessians Comm. ID:Commodore Stanislaw Rokossowsky of the SCRA Priority:Medium Subject:Reinforcements
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Privet, Comrade Hoerst,
In accordance with our recently formalised alliance, High Command, on my insistence, has mobilised a flotilla of warships to assist in the defence of the Omega Front against the Nomads and their agents. This may free up some of your vessels for other duties, such as offensive actions and supply missions, including the currently planned convoy to Omega 52 which you have contacted my subordinate, Commander Maximilian about.
The flotilla, under my personal command, has moved to Freital Station, where its heavy guns will prevent alien advances from their strongholds towards Dresden, and should also prevent flanking movements to surround Ronneburg in Omega 5.
I enclose footage of our force deploying.
These vessels, multiple gunboats and my personal flagship, the 'Jan Richthofen' (soon to be renamed 'the International', in honour of our casting out tribal loyalties as a part of this glorious movement, and in order to lay the good Captain's memory to rest), will conduct patrols around Freital, interdicting hostile movement and potential advances.
We also have a small force of single-man fighters on active duty in the area, including Commander Maximilian, as well as other junior officers. They will operate as scouts and escorts, and a small number should be available for the upcoming mission. These men have all been extensively briefed on the delicate nature of their duties, and the importance thereof. Several, such as Captain Totenkopt, Commander Maximilian and Commander Weise, have a lot of knowledge and experience regarding our Wild enemies.
Hopefully this can be of assistance, and hopefully one understands that we take consider the alien threat to be
our number one priority.
It seems I shouldn't take any vacation... As soon as I'm gone there's hundreds of them.
Anyways, I think it would be good if I report this:
One (1) week ago, before I took the vacation and before the destruction of Tiger, I ran into the same sort of ships... They attacked us, we fought back. It was two (2) of those blue weird things. We destroyed them though, and they didn't seem too dangerous. It didn't seem worthy reporting this, as it was very easy to destroy them and it didn't to seem to me that they bring any danger. And also, they appeared in Omega-11, and as you know, we always see some weird things in Omegas, especially because of The Wild presence there. So, it didn't seem anything special to me...
Unfortunately, I was mistaken. Tiger taken out. May the crew rest in piece.
Here's the proof of destruction of those vessels. They appeared in Omega-11.
Herman Schnitt out.
I wrote a really funny FL story, but it disappeared when the old forum went away. So, no lulz for you today.
Message to: Rheinland Revolutionary Alliance
CC: Coalition Admiralty
Comm ID: Brigadegeneral Kaspar Meisnerr, RHA Oberkommando
Location: Vogtland, Dresden
I'm not sure how to begin this... I am very disappointed. I will take responsibility for my men being unable to realise what was happening. After careful reviewing of the logs it seemed quite obvious, but I guess they just couldn't weather the fact that this might occur.
This afternoon an organised group of Outcasts breached our lines under the guise of their flaunted alliance, and executed a precision strike on a transport carrying the alien artifacts to the Coalition Omega-52 system. As I have been informed, they have quickly dispatched the transport and stole everything on it, while attacking and destroying the fighter of Major Hoerst. Our forces tried to pursue the attackers, but the Outcast ships quickly dispersed taking with them our data and specimens. They've managed to track at least one of the Outcasts to Lentini base in the Omicron Eta system. By then the SCRA assumed command, and our joint forces breached the defenses of the station, boarding it. Despite the efforts however, they brought back only a part of the artifacts. At first I couldn't believe it myself, but Major Hoerst's event logs clearly showed that they knew what they were doing.
Attachment #1
This, gentlemen, is an extreme setback. What we have managed to save is currently safely onboard Mykolaiv Station in Omega-52. All other artifacts and research crews are to remain within Omega-54 for fear of further Outcast hits.
Now, the High Command knows all about this and they are furious. War has already been declared, which means that at the very least we will be ready for their next attacks. It's unfortunate, but considering they attacked the very shipment that was looking to absolve them of the suspicions that they harboured aliens... well... it proves that they were scared of the contents. It proves above all that they were aware that should that transport reach Omega-52, the truth would reach the public eye anyways. We have all the proof we need now. But the damage has been done regardless.
I have ordered all Red Hessian Army units to withdraw into a defensive stance. We are no longer in a position to assault the Wilde directly, and must hope to weather their increasing assaults instead. In the mean time the SOA has been appointed a new task: working with Coalition agents to recover as much data as possible from other parties known to maintain data on the alien entities. This should in time allow us to at least partially reconstruct our research, using what data we have backed up on our computers.
Due to the High Command's unwillingness to put any more artifacts at risk main research will now be conducted on bases within the Omega-54 system. All artifacts are grounded, and science transports will be limited to storing data on their travels back to the Coalition home system. We cannot lose any further irrecoverable artifacts in foolish escapades.
With regards to Hessian - Coalition cooperation: I will be making contact with Commodore Rokkosovsky soon enough. I believe there are a few things that need discussion.
To: [color=#FFFFFF]Rheinland Cominform Agents Comm. ID:Commissar-Captain Anton Gorodetsky of the SCRA Priority: Medium Subject:Prisoners
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
First, please extend our thanks to the crews of the Von Rohe and Frau Blucker for their assistance in capturing Outcast and Wild personnel respectively.
Secondly, and admittedly more importantly, inform your superiors, particularly Brigadegeneral Meisnerr of the Red Hessian Army, of the information gleaned from said prisoners. Interrogation of the Wild pilots has revealed nothing, which in itself is revealing; we have found that torture has little to no effect on them apart from causing them much deserved suffering, which I am developing something of a knack for.
The Outcasts that were captured by the Von Rohe's strike at Lentini have, however, been slightly more helpful, one prisoner appearing to be somewhat close to the RoS that attacked the CPS-Moscow. She (Captive Seven Omega), as well as a prisoner that appears to have a personal dislike of the RoS, has let slip that the specimens taken by our mutual enemy were to be delivered to a system named 'Omicron 81'.
Questioning continues, and intelligence is being gathered in the Omicrons.