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"This atrocity is unspeakable. No justice can be done to the bravery of our first responders."

He clasps his hands behind his back, squeezing, squeezing life into the pressure points of his knuckles. He looks directly into the camera, the shock balling behind his eyes, before breaking into a cathartic ease.

"I must find the words."

"Oberstleutnant Franz Olkermann has been killed in the service of his people, in the attempted arrest of the most dangerous man in Rheinland space. The Insurrectionist, former head our dying Republic's national security arm, Geoffrey Enfield, ambushed and murdered officers of the courts sent to bring Enfield in, for public scrutiny and prosecution. Enfield had abandoned his oath of office. Oberst Olkermann, with a chain of command fractured by federal division, under the scrutiny of a fifth column that has imprisoned thousands for smaller acts of bravery, took a detachment of brave volunteers, navigating through the arcologies of our vigilant and tumultuous capital, and found the safe-house of a man who has bent the most fundamental of our nation's laws. A man who has evaded justice from even the rigours of our supreme courts. Not today. Today Enfield had to struggle for his crimes."

"The sacrifice of a few brave Rheinlanders who achieved what the Republic could not. They cornered the man responsible for so many of our modern divisions. A man whose desire for personal control, his belief that only he could conserve peace, a man who bent law and lives in service to the GMG before his responsibility of his own officers. "

A news editor would have cut back to the bodies. Emphasis, narrative. Claussen refused to do so. His voice cracks.

"The bodies of these brave servicemen. Given no dignity or privacy in their final demise, show you who Geoffrey Enfield truly is. A man who will kill anyone, for his own convictions. A man who will point a weapon at a news broadcaster - the very fifth estate that keeps men like him bound by their obligation to the truth. A man who turns fratricide into a speech. "

You can see the public servant's teeth. His knuckles are shaking around him, though he barely feels the touch of the New Berlin snowfall, blending with the ash.

"I do not believe Geoffrey Enfield will turn himself in. But if he does, he has every opportunity to sound out his views in a courtroom. A right that he did not grant Franz Olkermann, Noemi Spielberg, or Robin Eich."

"These brave acts of service, have been repeated all over our homeland. From the police pilotswho keep the terrorists away from the tradelanes and vital infrastructure of our homeland to the espatiers of the Altenburg fleet, who even now do battle with the corrupt and the unprincipled above the verdant fields of stuttgart. From the firefighters of the Atmospheric corps who douse the malfeasance of arsonists, to the baker who provides bread to their street, to the electricians repairing vital infrastructure so children may not listen to gunfire in the dark."

"And we will press through these atrocities sown by those who have abandoned us, and who have enslaved us, and who would chain us all to their oligarchy where Money has value over Lives, and over our Children, and our Children's Children, and who would condemn us to centuries of squalour and death under this Republic in name only!? We spit upon you, monsters, who would make personal assets to your power out of us all, who would trade us like currency in the dark, who would sell us to foreign masters, and make us thank you for your evil!? We cast you down! We choose strong and incorruptible leadership! We choose to return to the traditions of our past! You will not break who we are! You will not unmake us! You will not make us forget ourselves! You will not break our fellowship to one another! You will not destroy our nation, you will not destroy our families, you will not rule us from the darkness of your hideouts and your conspiracies in the piteous darkness of space, where you think you are insulated from the true human catastrophe you have wrought?!"

"You are a great dragon, growing fat on the lives of the poorest citizen, to men like the brave patriots around me. But, dragon. Know we are Siegfried. Know that we will plunge our spear into your heart and create a world without you, Enfield."

"We will build beyond you, and all the mayhem you would make."

"Long live Oberst Franz Olkermann. For they live as long as our nation lives. Long live Rheinland. Long live you all, listening to this transmission in your homes. Long live Kaiser Franz Albrect. Long live hope. For even as our hearts break, so does the dawn."

"There Will be a future! And as I stand on the steps of the place of so much corruption, and malice, and historical scorn, I pronounce this site once more, the Royal Chancellory of the Empire, and a sacred place of Service to our people! A place of justice. A place of order. A place of sacrifice."

"We can only hope to be half as righteous as mister Olkermann. But it does not mean that we should not try. And, in this, Mister Enfield - you have lost. You underestimate us all."