Comm ID: Roland Koenig
Source: Freital Base, Omega-11
Subject: Routine patrol, almost
Guten abend.
I started out today from Freital and moved to Omega-5 to coordinate operations with herrs Quattro and Kuhnert. The system was relatively quiet, however there was one corsair gunboat daring enough to sail right by us toward Cadiz. We took some chunks of his hull for his troubles, but inevitably he had enough onboard repair supplies to make it to Cadiz with plenty of his hull intact. Next time we will make sure there is a bomber on standby, that will no doubt illicit more of a reaction and of course a result.
We then moved back through Omega-11 with the intention of doing a sweep from there through Omega-7 when we noticed a Rheinland Military vessel on our scanners. It was herr Drum. Further to Major Hoerst previous update regarding herr Drum, I was somewhat cautious about dealing with him. He seemed slightly irrational, intent on performing a mission of some kind around the area of the Omega-55 jump hole. When queried as to the nature of his mission, he simply said he was "scouting". The true motives of herr Drum remain a mystery, at least to me.
Eventually after several minutes of uneasy interactions with herr Drum due to his proximity to Freital and his apparent lack of rationality, he turned his vessel back toward the Daumann Solarius base and engaged his cruise engines. Of course we followed to ensure he left the area. He cut his engines just short of the Solarius base and came about. A skirmish then broke out between herr Drum and herr Quattro, and they proceeded to settle it in combat. Herr Drum took herr Quattro down. We tractored in his escape pod and decided to engage herr Drum ourselves. However, herr Kuhnert's ship suffered a major engine failure, so he had to break off and return to Freital. Myself and herr Drum sparred for several minutes, but unfortunately in the end my hull gave way and I found myself sailing for Freital in my own escape pod. Naturally I will see to obtaining a new vessel and report to Omega-54 for further training.