PRIORITY:Low ENCRYPTION:RFP 9234 - Medium IDENTIFICATION: Wachmann Gustav Nijmegen SOURCE:Brandenburg Station SUBJECT: Patrol Reports -
Guten tag, Wachmann Gustav Nijmegen reporting in the latest patrol. Some maintenance failures on the ship systems have corrupted some of older flight records, and the new server in Brandenburg seems to be hanging up, so I'm unable to catalogue some flight patrols mostly with Polizeidirektorin Laura Carsten, intercepting smugglers and getting into confrontation with LWB and Hessians on occasion.
Most recent action to be recorded was a patrol operation in the New Berlin and Stuttgart systems. At first, wachmann Steinmeyer and I were on the lookout for strange traffic, and we noticed the movements of a inbound ship, with what seemed to be a cargohold of Cardamine.
We did set up a police barricade on its path, but we failed to account for what it was revealed later to be a cloaking device operating on the ship. The [SU]-Ourang_Medan failed to appear on our scanners, and we only got records of it docking on New Berlin. Planetside quarters have been notified to track the shipment.
After that, Polizeidirektorin Laura Carsten joined the patrol, and was present when the Ourang_Medan appeared once again from New Berlin surface and was stopped for interrogation. Said cloak device was detected and checked against the licensed vessels, and came out that it was in violation of the current regulations. Carsten issued a fine and surrendering of the cloaking batteries, as well as a deportation order to Captain Crippen. I received the 3,6 million credit fine and the task of escorting it out to the Sigmas.
After a few moments, our patrol got word that there was criminal activity in the Stuttgart system. Rheinland Military and RFP units met and engaged Red Hessian cruisers, LWB and Hessian fighter groups, and even that VWA activist Kluggmann was involved in the skirmishes. In the end, our side always held some advantage in numbers due to the support units, and I was spared of any heavy fighting.
Wachmann Steinmeyer suffered a ship incapacitation during the patrol, and one military cruiser was damaged by the Hessians. On the other hand, Rheinland forces took out a Hessian cruiser, 2 LWB fighters, one VWA fighter, and warded off one VWA pilot and another Hessian bomber.