SOURCE..................................................Planet New Berlin, New Berlin System
COMM ID.................................................Thomas Wolthers, voluntary Rheinland Federal Police
DELIVERING MESSAGE...
Guten Tag, dear Officers,
taking a double shift yesterday proved to be quite dangerous for me and colleagues of the Bundespolizei, especially near the end of my shift.
First I launched the Geilenkirchen from Konstanz Boder station into the Hamburg System. the Kommandeur of Konstanz aksed me to transport some prisoners to Vierlande so I made a little detour to Vierlande. *
After stationing the Geilenkirchen on planet Hamburg I took a shuttle back to planet New Berlin to get into my Phantom light fighter and actually start my patrol in Rheinland. Flying around in system New Berlin I encountered some ships of the Bretonian CONVOY on its way back to their Kingdom. The group consisted of two Shire transport hauling nuclear devices escorted by a Bretonia gunboat. ****
With the help of newcoming Polizei officer callsigh Andy2002 I escorted the Bretonians out of Rheinland to Omega-7. During this escort officer Andy and I encountered an IC vessel violating the cargo restriction in our Vaterland, so I ordered Herr Andy to stop and investigate the violator. From what I have heard he had to destroy the embargo breaker near Bonn station while I was near planet Stuttgart with CONVOY.
In orbit of Stuttgart a vessel of Gateway shipping was broadcasting a wrong Interspace TAG-signal, so I ordered him to get his repaired quickly. **
With the Bretonian transports reaching the trade lane to Freistadt Base officer Andy and I resumed patrol when we met Officer Kugelblitz. We went on patrol together. Most of this patrol was quite calm, even in Omega-7 and we three were en route back to Stuttgart again when we received a system wide broadcast by am member of the Sirius Coaltion Revolutionary Army, spreading his communistic propaganda. *
Both Officer Kugelblitz and I were aware how dangerous such a Coalition pilot can be so we ordered Officer Andy to stay behind us in case of a fight which would likely occur.
Me and Kugelblitz tried to interrogate the Coalition pilot for his intentions and ordered him to leave Rheinland space immediatly. Instead this Herr Claus opened fire and destroyed Officer Andy's ship with a few well placed shots. Officer Kugelblitz and I activated wepaons and fought this terrorist some kilometers away from planet Stuttgart. This vilian was not alone as a Revolution - KSD-C9902 arrived on the scene. With the balance of firepower on their side I sent a systemwide broadcast for support by Rheinwehr and other Bundespolizei forces. Some of them arrived time by time, on the other hand the coalition was enforced by one of their gunboats. The fighting was brutal and no quarter of mercy was given by any side, but despite the initial loss of Herr Andy's ship there were no casualties on either side.
Some minutes later this cursed mercenary called Silver Reaver showed up and made clear that she wanted to be hired by the Coalition to fight against us. Officer Kugelblitz tried to inhibit this by hiring this wanted criminal himself, but this was futile. Silver Reaver engaged our forces in a Kusari Black Dragon. I have never fought against this cursed mercenary before but I have to admit that she is top notch fighter and it wouldn't have taken much and I would have been another victim to her weapons.
In this moment I was grateful for the training with Oberst Bommel and Kadett Stone in Halle. Polizei officer Herr Heck did not have so much luck as he was shot down some moments later.
Some time during the battle near Stuttgart the Coalition gunboat made a stealthy retreat, but was replaced by Coalition destroyer immediately! It seemed the Coalition wanted to raise the stakes for a victory, and we had difficulties to come against this kind of capital ship. Despite this, Rheinwehr officer Derman managed to shoot down the Coalition bomber, but his ship was badly damaged so he had to retreat to Stuttgart. We asked him to inform Rheinwehr Oberkommando about the SCRA incursion and soon we got an answer by the Rheinwehr Reserveflotte with the arrival of the RNC-Augsburg.
Meine Damen and Herren Polizisten, seeing the Augsburg arriving on the scene was a big deliverance for us all. On the other side the captain of the SCRA-International was suddenly eager to get out of Rheinland. Nun, with my assistance by disrupting the cruise engines of the destroyer, the communists fell victim to the superior firepower of the RNC-Augsburg.
With only one Coalition pilot in an Odin Heavy fighter and the mercenary Silver Reaver left, the Augsburg went on standby to avoid friendly fire. I managed to shoot down the Coalition pilot, but nobody of our forces was able to stop Silver.Reaver from fleeing again. I can only advice all Bundespolizei officers to watch their backs for this mercenary, as she got out of this battle almost undamaged.
I managed to tractor Officer Andy's escape pod into my cargo room, but we could not find any sign of Officer Heck. I hope the rescue teams of Stuttgart have found him.
Rheinwehr soldier Frau Higham stayed on Stuttgart to have an eye on the border while the rest of us flew back to system New Berlin. Officer Kugelblitz continued his shift while I landed on planet New Berlin to get officer Andy to hospital. He should be well today again from what I have heard.
The casualties during the fights on our side were:
2 Fighters destroyed,
Several damaged, amount of damage varies from light to critical
1 Bundespolizei officer MIA, 1 rescued to New Berlin
Enemy casualties:
1 Coalition bomber destroyed
1 Odin Heavy fighter destroyed
1 Coalition destroyer Typhoon-class destroyed
1 Coaltion gunboat and 1 Black Dragon fighter forced to retreat
Attached you can find some guncam shots. I apologize for the quaility of some, but my Phantom light fighter took some damage from this battle: *********