Today's traffic was immense, i dont know what has caused this, but it might have been special prices for goods that had this effect on increased activity.
Hamburg Patrol started with some routine Frachtscanning and providing escorts. Pirate activity was very high too... especially The Unioners seemed to be in need of funds.
The first embargo-breaker was halted by Herr Hildebrandt and me.
The Captain of the HMMS.Queen.Anne tried to bypass our Grenzkontrolle and haul Superconductors towards Libertonian space. This is a direct violation of Article 3, §1.
The criminal ran and was not reasonable at all. He took a massive detour west of Vierlande prison and we lost the ship from our scanners. I still dont know how he managed to slip through our net and be gone towards the Texas system. Herr Hildebrandt will add him to the RCDB.
Maybe half an hour later something really disturbing and weird happened! A massive Bounty Hunter Battleship arrived in the Hamburg system and declared that it had business with the military.
We were not informed of this action, even other military personell was surprised by this event.
Under close observation a meeting and exchange of classified material between the BH and RM took place near Alster. I hope the Military recieved the wanted "material" and can work out some new strategies that help Rheinland to success.
After Herr Hildebrandt left for some well deserved rest i went on patroling and crosschecked a lot of Trading Contracts and other Papers.
A convoy of four heavily loaded transports was about to move Engine components trying to bypass the embargo. The freelancing Pilots were very cooperative and unloaded the goods at Alster Shipyard. I hear we bought them for less than the normal market value, so i refrained from fining those poor Pilots. Hard earned money it is... Escorting them out of the system was needed as not less then four packs of Pirates fiddeled with our Trade Lines on our way to the Jumpgate.
Finally after a few hours i scored big! A Kursari Transport ship aroused my suspicion and what did i see ? A smuggler trying to haul Slaves through Rheinland space! Incredible. He immediately tried to run and didnt answer any communication attempts so i had to take him down. After a quick and fierce fight i managed to free the poor souls! After saving as many as i could i transferred them to a few colleagues from the RFP who passed by. Finally a hit against the inhuman smugglers was successful!
Todays Patrol was concluded with sending a Junker Transport full of Engine Components back towards New Berlin, from where the Pilot took the route through Bretonian space towards the Junker Base in Puerto Rico.
This commander of ze transport was also very cooperative and so no force was necessary to enforce Rheinland law.
A long workday is finished and the Tiger Shark has to be refueld and outfitted.