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Rheinlands Kaiserliche Marine

09.04.827 A.S.

Reichsarbeiter,

the transformation of Rheinland into a monarchy has put the Unioners in a special position where past deeds were ignored in order to give you a status of accepted fellow citizens and helpers of the new authorities.

As a result, the indignation which has been expressed in many parts of the population and the imperial powers is self-evident. As for the Kaiserliche Marine, we try to approach the situation as logically and objectively as possible, without further discrediting the work of our fallen soldiers and the lives of those who have been destroyed by your actions.

Even though we do not exclude and even strive for successful cooperation with the Unioners, it is important that the previous deeds of your organization are reconditioned in order to clearly communicate to the people that this part of Rheinland history will not be repeated.

We, therefore, expect a clearly defined apology from the Unioners, condemning the violent clashes with the former state authority, acts of terrorism and piracy.

We also expect that any Unioner units, especially those that continue to be identified as UN|, will abide by the word of the authorities and commanding powers of all the Reich's authorities in order to clarify a clearly defined structure of the division of powers.

Großadmiral Wittgenstein

Rheinlands Kaiserliche Marine

Hochachtungsvoll,

Ernst H. Wittgenstein

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Alster Unioners

Sender ID: Corin Frei
Tacname: Boetius
Positional group: Hoffnung, Führung, Arbeit, Wahrheit
Location: Planet Hamburg. Apartment.
Branchgroup: Unioners

Corin is, for the first time in years, clean-shaven. Rather than holed away in an asteroid base, or a ship, he appears to be in a civic building in Hamburg. He's adjusted well.

Großadmiral Wittgenstein.

We must all answer for what we have done.

I share your distaste at the idea that those who have committed acts which were not necessary will go unpunished, aye? The enemy of the Unioners was the same group that imprisoned us, and forced our workers and engineers to put their labour to crime - as they had no other choice for gainful employment. The Unioners were held up as the whipping post for the Republic's failure to look after its citizens as the old empire did. It turned us, a key part of how Rheinland once was the finest colony to live in for the common man - into a societal problem. We never had a choice in that act.

Yes, many - but not all, not the majority - were driven to theft and crime for the necessity of survival. Some ran contraband - we do not deny what we were. Reluctant pirates - forced to steal from the corporations who were themselves forced to push us out by the same Federal bureaucrats we fight against now.

But we worked, Admiral. We were pushed to crime, alike how your military was forced into unjust wars of aggression. We still remembered who we were. We could have made pirate hideouts, instead, we built shipyards. Honed the skills we had when we filled every compartment of the Alster Works.

There were parts in our history where we lost our way. We were either mislead by the Hessians, or by pirate lords who forgot why they had been forced to piracy in the first times. Those men must be prosecuted. They will be brought forward, they will have their day in court.

Quite so, Admiral. Rheinland will 'ave her state apology. And I will work with the government to make Alster Union membership a proud badge of advocacy, just as it once was. In the meantime, we have the technology to share with the state that is of use in building bridges and healing the divide.

There are a great many lives, generations of families, that 'ave been torn apart over this lost century and a half. It may take another fifty years for us to fully heal. But we will try. We must.

We must make the most of this moment to be different than the Rheinland we left behind. To be better. To heal. All of us.

Shelco

The Syndicate Leagues