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Lane Hackers.


We have a long-running concern we believe you could help us with. For the past year, we’ve had on-off detection of Libertonian ECM data in various Rheinlandic nebulae. Of late, the broadcasts have become more focused – we last lost fixture about a month ago, somewhere in the Frankfurt system.

What do you know of the spyglass electronic warfare array? We’re not looking for contemporary models, as presumably we would not be able to detect them, nor are we wishing to violate your intellectual property. Information on models in service between eight oh’ one and eight oh seven would be a sufficient startpoint for our search.

Below is a sample of the waveform patterning.

Lane Hackers.


I apologise for the delay in developments. The trail appeared to have turned cold - until seven hours ago.

I can confirm reports of vessels claiming to bear the designation "Neo Terran Front" within Bering's own Tanner Belt. Harmony can corroborate the sightings. After protracted conversation, they appear to be searching for the same signatures we are - that of a spyglass or arbiter class tactical asset, apparently lost to the void.

Obviously we cannot have malevolent, unidentified battleships lurking within our zone of operations. I am transferring you the relevant information now;

The NTF Transport Wrote:[27.01.2018 12:58:24] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: Rusk: True enough.
[27.01.2018 12:58:44] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: Rusk: Speaking of friends... one of the reasons I'm here is to investigate rumors of a weird Arbiter-class ship in the area.

I believe your file upon this rather archaic organisation is larger than ours. They referred to a 'Belisarius' - a vessel of theirs, although nothing about their conversation inferred that the lost Arbiter was the Belisarius. Indeed, they appeared to be hunting for various historical spyglass vessels, including the Metropolis.

This does not pass the smell test. Especially with the Hellfire Legion pressing on with their agitations. Be mindful - the Legion appears to be rather keen on rescuing the Harmony at all-to-convenient moments beyond the protective shield of our bomber wings. It is likely they are attempting to sugar-coat themselves in an attempt to break Harmony away from us.

The sooner we can detect their damn battleships, the easier we will sleep.

No proof - strongly suggestive circumstance. Hellfire legion ships have appeared multiple times on record in Bering expressly for the purpose of engaging Liberty navy assets en-masse. Their arrival has a tendency to synchronise with the depletion of Unioner defence forces.


I doubt Knight is consciously betraying us. She is trustworthy and rigidly adherent to her beliefs - besides, I doubt she would knowingly undermine her allies when we hold the strings to the Battlegroup's heart. Rather, I believe, fervently, these actions are an attempt by the Legion to flex muscles - to appear comparatively strong and thus shift Knight's allegiances. She is ultimately a pragmatist and will go where she believes the support lies. She wishes to return to Liberty in her own lifetime and that of her crew, and thus will take whatever steps she considers appropriate to expedite the process.

Knight's pattern of behaviour has been to accept support from whatever corner it may come, if it keeps her people alive. The Legion appear to be employing said trait as leverage.

This kind of tactic is completely consistent with the Legion playbook. Offer with one hand, take with the other. Expected goals of the Legion are obtaining Unioner materials science, thermo-regulation and reactor technology, along with the Lane Hacker Elint technology embedded within the Harmony. We poured our best collective expertise into refitting Knight's flagship. Given access to the vessel, the Legion could acquire massively compromising information as to our own current generation hardware. This is completely unacceptable as we refitted the Harmony to a higher design standard than we pour into own major fleet assets, hoping that Harmony could shoulder the primary logistics burden whilst acting as the defacto home defence for Bering in the times to come.


It is entirely possible that this is simply the Legion attempting to drive us into mutual self-accusation. What is certain is that their actions have the strong likelihood to create a rift - all possibilities are advantageous to them, without intervention. Both of our organisations have been betrayed by the Legion in our past, yours, more distantly, us, more recently. We cannot tolerate Harmony, who we collectively aided for the express purpose of surrogating the Legion, to fall to the same tyranny.

Recovered Log Partitions: Warhawk One Wrote:[27.01.2018 13:32:26] [HF]-HFBC-Invictus: This is Invictus actual. Was that necessary, Harmony?
[27.01.2018 13:32:37] [HF]-HFBC-Invictus: Helm, take us out of here.
[27.01.2018 13:32:49] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: Rusk: Hey, it's the Legion. Good to see you guys again.
[27.01.2018 13:32:54] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: Rusk: Sorry we've been out of touch.
[27.01.2018 13:33:15] UN|Warhawk-1: Freeport 2, now
[27.01.2018 13:33:46] UN|Hydra-Head-1: ready to assist
[27.01.2018 13:33:52] UN|Hydra-Head-1: Moving in
[27.01.2018 13:34:04] ApS|Lanzo.Walker: Welcome to the party
[27.01.2018 13:35:06] Death: UN|Hydra-Head-1 was put out of action by Exe (Gun).

[27.01.2018 13:35:29] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: Rusk: Moving to retrieve downed pilot.
[27.01.2018 13:35:35] Andrew.Coolins: oh man dats unfortunate
[27.01.2018 13:38:35] Waffle.Pancake: ok who are your targets?
[27.01.2018 13:38:52] UN|Warhawk-1: Liberty Navy and the Hunters.
[27.01.2018 13:38:52] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: Rusk: The Chicago's taken terrible, terrible damage. We're running low on beds here, but we can take a few dozen more if she
[27.01.2018 13:38:55] ]NTF[-NTGB-Kimbilio: goes down.
[27.01.2018 13:40:22] Death: H|-SNS-Chicago was divided by zero.
[27.01.2018 13:44:34] H|-SNS-Harmony: Probably not
[27.01.2018 13:45:11] ApS|Lanzo.Walker: Tagging with you
[27.01.2018 13:45:37] UN|Warhawk-1: ?: This is what we are confronted with day-to-day, Corsair.
[27.01.2018 13:45:57] UN|Warhawk-1: The Liberty Navy is relentless, and we have nothing with which to turn the tide. For the Seperatists, we constructed the...
[27.01.2018 13:46:10] UN|Warhawk-1: Harmony, an improved refit of the original design.
[27.01.2018 13:46:20] UN|Warhawk-1: However, our cause is hard-fought.
[27.01.2018 13:50:33] UN|Warhawk-1: Yeah, come down lane
[27.01.2018 13:50:44] Death: Waffle.Pancake was put out of action by 6th|LNS-Hampshire (Gun).
[27.01.2018 13:50:49] UN|Warhawk-1: Here to help your navy friends destroy us all, Hellfire?
[27.01.2018 13:50:56] H|-SNS-Harmony: This should be the end of it
[27.01.2018 13:50:58] Death: PaintedBird suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[27.01.2018 13:51:01] UN|Warhawk-1: Is this your final betrayal of the cause we once stood for?
[27.01.2018 13:51:10] [HF]-Azure.2: Dalgaard's orders are clear.
[27.01.2018 13:51:16] [HF]-Azure.2: No aggression against harmony.
[27.01.2018 13:51:32] UN|Warhawk-1: Dalgaard is a fool if he thinks conspiring against other socialists is bright
[27.01.2018 13:51:43] [HF]-Azure.2: Dalgaard's a liberal, captain.
[27.01.2018 13:51:47] H|-SNS-Harmony: Get out the razor
[27.01.2018 13:51:54] [HF]-HFBC-Invictus: We heard you brought a gun to a knife fight, Harmony.
[27.01.2018 13:51:58] UN|Warhawk-1: If he was you'd get this damn hunter off us.
[27.01.2018 13:51:58] HFBC-Incandescence: RO: oh lord
[27.01.2018 13:52:07] UN|Warhawk-1: Bail us out!
[27.01.2018 13:52:11] [HF]-Azure.2: Permission to eliminate the hunter?
[27.01.2018 13:52:12] H|-SNS-Harmony: Well this is not exactly how it started but appreciated
[27.01.2018 13:52:12] HFBC-Incandescence: RO: quiet a mess
[27.01.2018 13:52:25] UN|Warhawk-1: Damn it, he's on me, now.
[27.01.2018 13:52:28] [HF]-HFBC-Invictus: I'll happily slit your throat afterwards Unioner, but we have bigger problems here.
[27.01.2018 13:52:45] UN|Warhawk-1: We've already lost precious flag vessels defending the Harmony.
[27.01.2018 13:52:52] [HF]-Azure.2: Move to the harmony then.
[27.01.2018 13:52:59] UN|Warhawk-1: And an entire bomber wing.
[27.01.2018 13:53:02] ApS|Lanzo.Walker: <Critical Mine damage taken>
[27.01.2018 13:53:05] UN|Warhawk-1: Harmony has lost her airwing.
[27.01.2018 13:53:20] ApS|Lanzo.Walker: <Ship pilot status: Safe>
[27.01.2018 13:53:30] ApS|Lanzo.Walker: <Location : Pacifica Base >
[27.01.2018 13:53:33] UN|Warhawk-1: They've been throwing cruiser after battlecruiser at us. We've destroyed at least several flag vessels already but they just keep coming!
[27.01.2018 13:53:33] [HF]-HFBC-Invictus: Legionnaires, tear them apart at the gate.
[27.01.2018 13:53:42] [HF]-HFBC-Invictus: I want neither of those two Archers left intact.
[27.01.2018 13:53:56] HFBC-GrizzlyBear: Karl: Roger that!
[27.01.2018 13:54:06] UN|Warhawk-1: Gunn: Friends of yours?
[27.01.2018 13:54:12] [HF]-Azure.2: Consider the archers debris then, Chuck, light the cannon up.
[27.01.2018 13:54:17] H|-SNS-Harmony: It appears they help out.
[27.01.2018 13:54:25] UN|Warhawk-1: Last time I had a brain, the Legion betrayed us both.

The above events reveal the insertion of a strike group of at least three hellfire battlecruisers and their gunship and fighter escorts entering a massive entanglement between Harmony and Unioner forces against the Liberty Navy. The Hellfire Legion waited expressly until Unioner forces were depleted down to a single bomber before entering the engagement zone. Notice the unusually chummy attitude from the Legion regarding the Harmony, in violation of their previous encounter in the New Hampshire system, where the Legion attempted to wipe the battlegroup out.



Now about that Spyglass detector, Malprave? Considering the seemingly vast number of Legion ships pouring into my tanner belt, its value should be obvious.