SOURCE..................................................Nibelung Polizei Plaza, Planet New Berlin
COMM ID.................................................Thomas Wolthers
DELIVERING MESSAGE...
Guten Tag dear officers,
yesterday's shift kept me and other officers of the Bundespolizei quite busy. It seems that we may face more and more smugglers and pirates in our core systems these days. Now let me clear of the report.
The first incident just happened when I launched from Planet New Berlin. A bounty hunter named Serj_Tankian had positioned his Manta right in front of the docking rings of New Berlin, so that every starting vessel would have crushed into him. When ordering to move his ship to another position, he refused, telling me he would only follow orders from the Bounty hunters Guild Core. I asked the military officer Magnus von Teckton with his Rheinland gunboat as witness and possible aid. As this crazy bounty hunter still refused to place his ship elsewhere Herr von Teckton and I had to rely on our weapons to convince him. We could seriously damage Serj_Tankian, but he managed to land on planet New Berlin.
I could rescue some guncamshots for this issue, but not all. So I am not sure, if those will suffice for an entry in the Criminal data base:
With this bounty hunter being chased off I could start my patrol with flying to Frankfurt jump gate. There I encountered a captain of the IMG transporting light arms without any permission.
When ordering him to drop the contraband he complied so I was able to destroy the light arms. Herr Schmidt positioned himself for any help but this was not necessarry anymore. *
Continuing patrol I met Polizei officer Isildur Kugelblitz, so I joined him on his patrol and set course to Essen station and afterwards Bonn station. There we met a Barge under the name of Zoner_Big-Whale. Checking the Barge registry I could not find any entry for a vessel with such a name, so we ordered the captain to stop his engines and to tell us about his ship. **
He told us, that he had obtained the barge from another man not long ago and was on a tesflight from Omega-7 to Hamburg with his Barge. He was escorted by a mercenary namend Boba_Fett in a bounty hunter bomber. This mercenary was really annoying both me and officer Kugelblitz with his comments so we ordered him to silence or move away.
As neither Herr Kugelblitz nor I were sure about how to handle this unregistered Barge we asked Herr Schmidt for help. A few minutes later Herr Schmidt arrived and he explained the zoner captain about his mistake. Afterwards he took all necessary information for registering the Barge. At the end Herr Schmidt escorted the Barge to Hamburg system.
Meanwhile Herr Kugelblitz and I checked possible smuggler vessel but in the end we had to let him go, because we had no evidence so we had to let him go. The mercenary Boba_Fett tried several times to destroy the investigated ship, even as we commaned him to stop fire.
Herr Kugelblitz, Rheinwehr officer Herr von Teckton withi his gunboat and I tried to put the mercenary for violating the laws under arrest. At first he responded to the command to land on vierlande but on the way to prison the lane was disrupted. Boba_Fett took this as a opportunity to fool us again and escape arrest.
This time Herr von Teckton and I activated our wepaons and hunted the rogue mercenary down. He was finally destroy by the Rheinwehr officer. *
Shortly afterwards officer Isildur Kugelblitz and I continued with our patrol ( he had some engine failure during the chase of Boba_Fett) when we noticed a Rheinwehr gunboat chasing a Liberty Rogue near Dortmund Station. We activated our weapons again and assisted the Rheinwehr officer in hunting the Rogue. After some little fight the Rogue got destroyed. To my bad luck I have no guncam shots from this incident as my camera was still damaged from the fight with Boba_Fett.
Now with a little break I let my Phantom be repaired at Dortmund station. Herr Kugelblitz continued meanwhile with his patrol alone. I must say this little break helped me to recover a little bit from the many fights so far.
Launching from Dortmund station I set course to Hamburg system. At the lane from Lubeck border station to Alster shipyard I noticed a Borderworlds transport. Scanning him near Alster showed that he was loaded with copper ore. In Informed Kadett Stone at planet Hamburg, while I interrogated the possible embargo breaker. The ship's name was The.Escapist: **
As soon as Kadett Stone arrived on the scene we were able to convice the captain of The.Escapist to change course back to New Berlin and then to Sigma-13. I checked the vessel doing this while Kadett Stone returned to planet Hamburg to supervise any in and outgoing traffic there.
When The.Escapist had reached Dortmund station I had to leave him alone as I received a distress call from some SMP-vessels in Omega-7. They were under attack by a group of Red Hessians. I informed all police units in system New Berlin. Kadett Stone and Herr Kugelblitz responded and together we flew to Omega-7.
As soon as we arrived near Briesen facility, the Hessians had already withdrewn from the scene, so there was nothing more to do for us and we returned to the core systems again.
Although it was time to me to end my shift there was one last incident. The Borderworlds transport The.Escapist at first obeyed my orders to set course to Sigma-13 again, but when reaching the jump gate at Frankfurt, the captain tried to fool me and feign an engines failure. Discussing with him about him getting this done was futile, so it came to my mind that the captain refused my orders.
I asked Kadett Stone for help, while I still commanded the smuggler to jump into Sigma-13. He still refused, even when Herr Stone arrived for assistance. We were both fed up with his annoying complaints and opened fire on him to encourage the captain to leave Rheinland territory. He returned fire but was driven out of Rheinland as soon as he knew that he would perish to the combined firepower of Herr Stone and I.
I could recover some pictures and communication logs of this battle: ********
Both Kadett Stone and I held position at Sigma-13 jump gate just in case the smuggler tried to come back. As soon as we were sure that this did not happen we set course to planet New Berlin where we finally landed and ended our yesterday's shift.
I want to express my deepest gratitude for the help of the Herrn Kugelblitz, Schmidt and Stone. If would have been worse without their crucial assistance.