SOURCE..................................................Planet New Berlin, New Berlin System
COMM ID.................................................Thomas Wolthers, voluntary Rheinland Federal Police
DELIVERING MESSAGE...
Guten Abend dear Oberkommando,
recovering from last night's battle I had an uneasy feeling in my stomach when I started my next night shift. I should soon after be right of this.
I flew to Hamburg so supervise any in and outgoing traffic so that no smuggler might break the embargo. At first there was nothing exciting, but about some minutes later, long range scanner network of planet Hamburg showed three unidentified ships approching. As soon as it was possible I ordered the vessels to identify themselves. In the end they turned out to be corsair capital ships consisting of 1 dreadnough, 1 cruiser and a gunboat! See attached the results of my scans: ******
Oppossing such huge firepower I could do nothing than make a hasty retreat before the Geilenkirchen got into weapon range of the corsairs. As soon as I reached system New Berlin, I informed all Rheinwehr and Bundespolizei units about the Corsair incursion. Kadet Becker responded as well as the RNC-Skorzeny and the RNC-Panther and others. I myself landed the Geilenkirchen on New Berlin, climbed into my Phantom and accompanied the Skorzeny on its flight to Hamburg.
We soon spotted the Corsair capital ships some kilometers from Alter shipyard away, engaged in a battle with the RNC-Panther and another RNC-vessel. The latter was destroyed soon after. I have no clue if there were any survivors of this ship.
Anyway, our first target was the Corsair dreadnought and it soon came under fire by the RNC-Skorzeny. Although my energy weapons were no match for the Corsair, I assisted the Rheinwehr vessel with my nuclear mines. These proved to be quite useful as the dreadnought did not move. The result was clear soon after. **
Some minutes later the Corsair cruiser and the Corsair gunboat were destroyed by our combined forces as well. **
With the Corsair raiders being neutralized, we encountered a rather strange behaviour of the RNC-Panther. The crew of the Rheinland gunboat withdrew from battlefield without any word, while at least I received some rather strange signals from her. I informed the other Rheinwehr and Bundespolizei members of my sneaking suspicion of a possible Wild infestation and together we tried to find the RNC-Panther, but she had disappeared from our screens entirely. Even the TLAGSNET showed no sign of her. Only a hint from a Zoner-fighter indicated the ship in system Stuttgart. The last sighting I got was the RNC-Panther disapperaing in the Ostnebel, broadcasting a strange message, something like "Fear the unknown." *
Dear Bundespolizisten, I have never had such a creepy feeling when hearing this message and somehow I refused to enter Ostnebel. Meanwhile Frau Obers Bommel informed me that the Bundespolizei SEK had investigated the RNC-Panther earlier and had not found anything strange. She ordered me back to patrol and I complied.
Continuing patrol I met a Kruger-Barge named Cooperator in New Berlin, filled with copper ore. **
As the Barge was not registered in our data base, Frau Oberst Bommel and Kadett Nic Becker assisted me in this matter. After interrogation of the captain he was to met with a Samura-pilot to trade the copper ore.
Frau Oberst ordered the Barge to leave Rheinland to Omega-7 while I resumed patrol. From what I have heard this Barge later disapperared due to using a cloaking device.
I still have Oberst Bommel's words in my ears to destroy any Barge rightaway that is not registered in Rheinland. She seemed to be very angry about this.
The rest of my patrol through the systems New Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich was rather quite, despite confiscating some illegal weapons from traders who had an encounter with some minor unlawfuls. They all complied to my order.
At the end of my shift I landed on New Berlin to get the Geilenkirchen into space again, transporting some prisoners to Vierlande.
Just right after entering system Hamburg, I encountered a freelancer with a Hegemon named KitRae2. He was transporting diamonds to planet Denver in Liberty as he admitted. ***
After some interrogation by me and the Rheinwehr gunboat RNG-Bladerunner the freelancer dropped his cargo and paid the fine of 2.5 million credits to me. I have destroyed the contraband and forwarded the fine to RFP|Arsenal already. **
My last action was transporting the prisoners to Vierlande before I stationed the Geilenkirchen on planet Hamburg. During this I had a conversation with Oberst Bommel. She suggested that I should get a wingman when flying with the Ragnar armored transport. I suggested officer Isidor Kugelblitz for this as we both proved to work together very nicely in the past. That means if he agrees to this, of course.
With this I took a shuttle back to New Berlin to get all the paper work done. End of report.