⧫ Akabat
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 21/10/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch
⧫ TO: ALG V Division, The Directorate
Assigment
Ample opportunity has arrived for us to rip benefits off, ladies and gentlemen.
Your corporation had done us a a good favour since your black ships received permission to haul cargo to and from our installations. I have a very special assigment for your very particular skill and talents in covert corporate operation and also... waste disposal. The Orded Overwatch needs you to join the clean up operation in Frankfurt, to comb though intricate Ageira components of the Sigma 13 jump gate and the last trade lane ring in the sequence. Whatever you find, ship it to Taba starbase, Omicron Mu where my people will take over the salvage from you. It is of great importance that you co-operate.
Our R&D has vast knowledge about not just Nomad revelant subjects but also ammased experience with Liberty's deepest darkest. We will use the opportunity to reverse engineer as much of Liberty tech to our advantage. Faster Than Light technology has too long been subject of Liberty's unchallenged dominance in Sirius. As a certain... side effect, we can make ALG a dominant force in the technology market and accelerate human development past several centuries old and stale Ageira diagrams in unprecedented and for once, peaceful way. There are likely many more applications, which we at Order's research division will investigate.
Once the operation has concluded, we'll begin the works. Your scientists will of course be invited, though do mind they may be forced to dissapear into the void. Worry not, Alexandria Institute is simply distant and secretive place from Rheinland. Second phase will begin once Ageira will attempt to inevitably repair the gate. I want our contacts and collaborators in Rheinland to leech off as many parts and subsystems as it is humanly possible. Resort to piracy if needed, The White Rose may perhaps arrange something in the likes... while ALG may continue running the logistics behind the scenes.
To summarize, your task here is:
⧫ Get in there, focus on the classified secrets of the Liberty's State and Ageira. ⧫ Disperse into Tanusfeld or extraction point of your choice. Your objective is to disperse into Sigmas and reach The Order Protectorate no matter the cost. ⧫ Blame the Core forward raiding parties or whatever organization you seem fit. Forge the evidence, fabricate the dirt. We will be both better off in the long run. ⧫ Deliver the cargo intact to Taba Starbase. Do not hesitate asking our patrols to aid you. Your mission is tasked with high priority by us. ⧫ Most importantly, document as much as possible! We are expecting considerable haulage of hardware to arrive on our doorstep, makes our job a little easier. Hand over the data, purge evidence on your side afterwards.
I do not believe I misplaced my trust with operation so ambitious as this one. Do make me proud.
Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
Black Fleet, 1st Battlegroup "Wargods"
I'm not surprised to find your message in my inbox. This crisis, or whatever one wishes to call it, has caused chaos in our communications network, and necessitated all manner of emergency contact. In any such chaotic situation however, there lies opportunity.
I do find it amusing that you make no mention at all of the actual bombing, and perhaps that is for the best. It is painfully obvious that this isn't the work of the Gas Miners Guild, but speculation on the true perpetrators is probably unhelpful at this point; still, it's something that we must get to the bottom of eventually.
As for the task at hand, I had already anticipated that you would share our interest in this technology, and you may well be in a better position to unlock at least a part of Liberty's best kept secrets of the centuries. The situation at the gate itself is an absolute mess; there are Ageira salvaging ships desperately trying to enforce their intellectual property rights, Junkers picking up anything not physically attached to the gate, even Coalition battlegroups sniffing around. And, of course, ceaseless attacks by "GMG" fighter squadrons. We had to ask Security Division to park the battlecruiser Erdbeben on site just to get a little breathing room.
This chaotic situation is good for us. At this time, we can slip shipments out largely unbothered, and the window for doing so may not last too long. Our position is excellent, we have full support from Security Division's Epsilon Squadron, stationed at Holstein, and I've sent a few transports to base out of Bruchsal for the operation.
In fact, the first few deliveries have already arrived at Taba with no incident.
Now for your plans. We will continue shipments as long as possible. I will select a small team of engineers and scientists to be brought to Taba, to assist your R&D and act as correspondence. And we will contact the White Rose for the second part of your plan, when reconstruction is underway. Given the security situation on site, it seems this will not be immediate.
Epsilon Squadron, given their location in Frankfurt, have already been used for missions to support you and various Bundschuh groups, and are completely trustworthy in this regard. All transport pilots involved are either from my division, or individuals I trust.
If there is anything I want you to do to make this project run easier, it is to harass the Core. When our ships leave for the Sigmas and Omicrons, they are the main potential source of problems. Distract them, fight them somewhere else, keep them out of the way. They have already publicly declared their involvement, and we need them to not be a factor.
There are also longer term astropolitical factors which we will have to discuss, but we will get there one step at a time.
Hopefully at the end of this, we will be looking at results we can both benefit from.
Regards,
Helmut Weinstein
Division V Directorate
ALG Waste Disposal
⧫ Akabat
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 22/10/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch
⧫ TO: ALG V Division, The Directorate
Assigment
Helmut Weinstein, I see that you work fast and waste no time. The Order had already made its stance known though public channels. My own opinion upon the matter aligns exactly with that of rest of the Overwatch. You and I are not easily fooled men.
Per your request, we'll attempt to delay and direct Core's attention elsewhere though diversions and small scale raids. Until we have clear drawn objectives to seize in this crisis, The Order's main force will hold in Omicron Sigma. I believe you will agree that it is for the best, keeping Core alertness and attention at minimum. Once in Omicrons, warship escort can be easily arranged if situation demands such.
The Order Intelligence and R&D started combing though this goldmine of a salvage you already delivered. Our scientists unilaterally confirm that ALG delivers mostly tech sensitive parts of the gate and lane system which suffer only minimal physical damage. I can only commend you and your men on your efforts, but we will need more shipments. We are experiencing anticipated delays in form of NEMP induced radiation and electromagnetic pulse still affecting major share of the components but this hold-up is temporary.
Ageira for long time had held Sirius hostage with its FTL capability, almost leading to Rheinland's economic and communication collapse during conflict with the Liberty. Interstellar politics are fragile affair but one requirement of sector-wide peace involves guarantee of stability for all its participants. Deregulated lanes and gates are kind of Prometheus Fire if we are feeling dramatic. The old pre 800 A.S. system that held for centuries had failed with arrival of the Nomads and this will be part of new solution.
Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
Black Fleet, 1st Battlegroup "Wargods"
However, that is not our only concern at this point. The new auxiliary station to Freeport 11, Fort Carthage, seems to be under control of a solid Zoner-Core alliance. This may jeopardize our entire economic connection to the far Omicrons, and we need alternatives. We are not fully locked out yet, but we have no reason to doubt that the Core will be effectively controlling access to the Freeport with support from their IRG allies. When this happens, we need alternative sources of Iridium.
The price will shoot up, no doubt, and we will have no choice but to pass it along to the consumer. Market upsets are to be expected in the region, and the last time open war happened in the area, we had the same. It is impossible to predict the balance of power that will result from this, but it will affect the entire network we have built.
The connection we have constructed, with us, the Bundschuh, the GMG and you, is under threat from multiple sides. Until that situation stabilizes, we will not have a greater priority. But that will become necessary when we discuss the terms of payment for our support.
I hope our deliveries were of use.
Regards,
Helmut Weinstein
Division V Directorate
ALG Waste Disposal
⧫ Akabat
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 08/11/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch
⧫ TO: ALG V Division, The Directorate
Assigment
A total of 20194Standard Cargo Units has been registered to come from ALG sources. Impressive record and my compliments go to you and your crews, Weinstein.
The global H-Fuel and Iridium prices are already skyrocketing merely on the word of war alone. The fuel still flows though Kusari as the major harvesting and production centres are untouched. However Sirius stockpiles to face the coming darkness. It is also outside of my Intelligence network to ascertain details of Iridium trade. Our estimation is that all transports commonly associated with collection and distribution of both ore and refined iridium were all redirected to support "Carthage" annex. The Core has iron tight grip upon Freeport 11 which The Order is attempting to wrestle about.
The Order is taking neccesary steps to ensure that Confederate menace is taken out of action and that hopefully we may liberate Freeport 11 within reasonable ammount of time before iridium market collapses. It is not an easy task but I have taken it upon my principles to see these objectives seen though no matter what. Temporarily, it also means that Core retreated from Sigmas entirely and the only threat to our link at the momenth is Rheinland aggression. Our Intelligence claims that the Rheinwerh had stalled and not made any progress. Use this window of opportunity to keep the supply lines flowing. Use some of your influence to tilt GMG view on our side alike.
The most promising elements of your salvage has been moved to adequate research facilities, including deep space Alexandria Research Institute and Akabat's surface-based labolatories. More or less Intact core elements of jump gate crucial to proper functioning of the portal have been identified, as well some lane wreckage. Origin of the two technologies is... simmilar but I am not talking about exclusively Ageira. I would welcome to speak with your finest minds about this topic as implications are better best thought out among our brightest.
My experts tell me that it is within reasonable practical reach to develop an orbital elevator with trade lane parts. This contraption would use the alcubierre properties of trade lane's tunnel to accelerate and deccelerate traffic not suited for orbital operations. Such installation would take shape in planetary-based ring terminating at low-orbit equivalent, linked in tandem. It has been confirmed by our science teams that because trade lane bends the timespace itself, we will be able to quickly land starships without them experiencing extreme forces of atmospheric re-entry. For the hypothethical heavy fighter in lane, he travels at nominal 80 meters per second according to the pilot, while relatively being propelled at lightspeed by compressing and expanding space itself.
Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
Black Fleet, 1st Battlegroup "Wargods"
⧫ Akabat
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 08/11/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch
⧫ TO: ALG V Division, The Directorate
Assigment
The path is clear, Direktor.
I advise you to capitalize on the window of opportunity and deliver humanitarian (and only humanitarian) aid on our behalf to Freeport 11 and pulverize whatever stocks of iridium they have left. We are beggining phase two to push the ones responsibile out of the position of power. Be warned, there might be several Corsair heavy units still operating in the area that lust for Core blood. Use the Protectorate supply routes for maximum cover
Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
Black Fleet, 1st Battlegroup "Wargods"