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  • <//transmission.sender.name: Eliza Valdez

  • <//transmission.sender.location: Freeport 11, Omicron Delta

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Good evening,

I'm sure that time is something you value highly so I will try to be short. I am interested in acquiring information regarding the seemingly Libertonian group known as "D9", as recently one of their dead men picked my interest as to how openly he spoke about his group's influence inside and outside of Liberty. I am interested in finding out more about their actual influence and the level of nomad control upon them. So far all of their ships I've encountered have been infected or showed signs of such, but my sample is rather limited. I am ready to pay in credits or negotiate any other terms of payment if you so wish.

P.S. Apologies to mr Graves for not contacting him sooner about the pinup calendar that we discussed in California. I was too busy in the past few days to send a proper transmission and sincerely hope he has not forgotten about me and my request for said "sexy" pinup calendar of Queen Carina of Bretonia.

Warm regards,
Eliza Valdez


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Miss Valdez, I am delighted to hear from you, and with such a delicate request indeed! Not talking about the calendar, by the way, although we'll get to that. The Division Nine, you say? Before we really get into that, you should know that this particular topic reaches quite deep and opening that can of worms is really something that can consume quite a lot of free time and slash or sleep. With that being said, it is also quite a lot to sift through. We are not exactly interested in payment so much as information, because that's what we do — we trade it. So this is my proposal: We would like you to get in contact with the Maltese Exiles and hear around a little. We aren't asking anything major, but rather that you provide us with an overview of the organisation and maybe an insight into the figure known as Rosa Veraz. Do that for us and we will provide you with what you sought.

Oh, and sexy pinup calendars.


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  • <//transmission.sender.name: Eliza Valdez

  • <//transmission.sender.location: Planet Malta, Omicron Alpha

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Hello again, mr Graves,

First and foremost - thank you for actually providing me with the pinup calendar. It isn't as horrifying as I expected it to be but regardless of that I'll soon see what results it will bring.

Now onto the more important business. The Maltese Exiles are currently treated as a criminal organisation within Outcast space due to their aggression against the National Council. Their leader Rosa Veraz has even reached the status of a terrorist. As for more notable hardware that the Exiles posses - I know of at least one RM-2A "Storta" Destroyer that they have used outside of Maltese controlled space.

I've attached an official transmission by the Maltese Exiles over some internal communications in the Maltese Nation at the bottom. I believe it's a clear indicator of the Maltese Exiles' stance both against the current ruling body of Malta and the Nomad threat on Sirius. Most of the names that have signed this declaration I have not encountered though I have spend reasonable flight time alongside Rosa before she was labeled a criminal by the National Council. Even back then she had the same hatred for the Nomads and their controlled puppets, but ever since her exile I have seen her less and less as she began operating further away from Maltese space to avoid capture. Notable place where I have encountered her more than once is Freeport 11 in Omicron Delta.

I could try and get some more information about them, but I fear they have buried themselves into hiding and plotting with this whole accident that got Estefania Casta and the 101st squadron exiled and turned quite a few angered Maltese against their own government. Thankfully it has all been just words for now and no new civil war has began.



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To be horrified by a pinup calendar, you should've asked for Golanski motives. I'm sure the hairy chest of the defender of mankind would be an adequate reason to cower and tremble before the might of the Order. His sixpack is impervious to any and all strikes the alien can muster at him, you know.

All jokes aside, I do thank you for what you provided, and that in such a timely manner. I had expected it to take longer, but judging by the general rhetoric of the message you copied for me, it seems like this was part of some sort of debate, or an announcement. Quite fitting for an outlaw. It is probably better if you don't entangle yourself further in their affairs, even if it might yield some more insight. As you said: No actual war has begun and poking too much might just be the final nail.

Lastly, there is of course your reward. Do keep in mind that the information I will provide you with has some delicate sources and therefore, some parts of it will be purposefully damaged so only the relevant parts remain. A summed up version is that there are different 'groups' of infected. The Division Nine is the one operating within Liberty. It is with a degree of vexation that we cannot really state how far their influence goes. The recent war between the LSF and the Liberty Navy was caused by infected forces within the ranks of the Navy, though we do not know any numbers regarding how many there are and in which positions. I hope this will be enough for you, Miss Valdez.


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To: Provocateur Goro Yoshida.
From: Hermann Hossenn

Provocateur Yoshida,
I'm Procurator Hossenn from the Union.

Firstly, I would like to apologize for the delayed answer , but due to some internal changes both me and herr Armin have been buried in bureaucracy work.

During a bloodbath between us and the Liberty Navy, an Osiris-class battleship showed up and helped the Navy, his callsing was Amenhotep, if I am not mistaken. We do not have any visual evidence to prove this , you will have to take my words, but I am sure you already know more about this than we do.

As for the Hellfire Legion, we are in a somewhat neutral stance towards them , but I, personally, dislike them due to their ties to the known terrorist group, the Xenos.
We are , as well, looking for a reliable ally within the Republic , and we are eager to hear your proposal.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.



Grüße, Hermann Hosseenn

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TO: The Lane Hackers

Good Morning,

I would like to request of The Lane Hackers to perform an assassination and public display mission in which The Archangels Fighter Club will be funding.
We would kindly ask too that you keep our support of this mission top secret and under the radar.

We have gone through with providing you with as much detail on the target as we have that will be sent additionally through a secure channel where all the scrambled encryption will be easily decrypted with several keys.

The target you will be up against is [ 5QCFIP-DGHICJQHK ] .

In short, these persons or rather this man needs to be run out of [ FAOCNRY ] with his tail between his legs. We would like you to expose how [ OL HMKSNPLI ROL GPILP QONJ ] and his association to [ SDA ETWARFE ].
When completed, broadcast the explosion throughout [ FAOCNRY ] and expose him. Make him suffer his failure.

Your reward will be 50 million to the killer and 100 million to The Lane Hackers. Consider it a generous reward for a job well done.

I'll be hearing from you soon and perhaps also relaying you more information if we can find any more.

Cheers,


FROM: SUNNY

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Hello Mr Hossenn,

I hope next time we hear again from Diplomat-in-Chief Jansen, he is a wise person and that's a compliment I rarely have the opportunity to make.

Thank you for your response. The Hellfire Legion is a Liberty nationalist organization, which given the opportunity, will betray you during your most vulnerable moment. Please do remember my advice when that time comes.

The Lane Hackers and the Unioners have many things in common. We fight the same corporate regime, we share a number of key and central enemies and the trading opportunities are plenty. Your subscription in our Job Board, even though we have yet to see a delivery, is further proof of this. Henceforth, we believe that an alliance between the two organizations is the natural evolution of this relationship.

I am looking forward in your response.


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Hello Mr Sunny,

Humiliating the enemies of the Lane Hackers and exposing the truth to the people of Liberty is what we do. Now that this is actually a common foe, makes things even better. And profitable.

However deals are made with reliable and consistent partners. And as of recently, you are not one of those. So better go out there Mr Sunny, gather up your lads and send them to work. Once your reputation is where it used to be.. we'll do business.

Oh, and you should not worry about further securing your messages in this channel. The cyber walls of this channel are impenetrable.


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To: Moriarty and kin.
From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
Subject: War and Poaching.




You must pardon my absence. There has been… a purge.

I have been waylaid by war, Professorship. As you have doubtless heard already with your myriad of ears, the Unioners and the Red Hessians are now painting each other as red as their namesakes. It appears the Hessian leadership maintains…. interpersonal… ties to the leader of the Bundschuh, who has been using third party espionage to destring our smuggling networks, two by two. Our trade network is vast, Lane Hackers, and the majority of our chess pieces disposable pawns. Every once in a while a Unioner may grow overconfident running artefacts through the Dresden node - to their peril.

I will not lie - this is a setback to the movement not encountered since the Eight Hundred war. The Red Hessians are our prodigal protégés, Hackers. We nurtured them in their infancy, we armed them. Their famed Vidar attack cruisers are merely bolt-on modifications of a design we exported to them. Yet several hundred years is more than sufficiant for a lovechild to vacate the ideological cradle. We realise now we have raised only a school-shooter: they claim to be socialist yet destroy the livelihoods of the blue-collar they claim to wear. You must see Dresden to know of their sin, Hackers. The devastation. The lanes destroyed. Such piteous retribution against the corporations as to target the citizenry by extension. You, us - we have boundaries. We comprehend the necessity to change the system, not rip and tear, that a hammer is as only indiscriminate as its wielder. In short - the Hessians claim to be fighting for the Rhein. They are not. They are a proxy of the Sirius Coalition, an organisation descended from the very ultimate enemy that sent man eloping from his cosmic Eden. We have raised a psychopath.

I cannot reflect on the parenting of my ancestors with pride, nor will I waste time on regret. What matters is our actions in the now - and, if anything, the Hessians have served most fittingly. They have disenfranchised themselves from the cause of the Rhenish worker. They pushed the people into our palms, by becoming the Great Satan our people needed. The federal sympathisers waste themselves upon the Corsairs as has been their want since the fall of Neimann, which creates a vacuum. Already we have crafted ties with those authorities willing to put prejudice aside. The time is now.

The most compelling risk the Hessians present is their tactical ability. Our ships exceed their own in competence and design, but they remain as fallible as their pilots. The Hessians are combat hardened after years of misguided grind against arguably the most formidable martial power in the edge systems - our prior experience is based upon the skulls of those many foreign manipulators who saw it fit to die for their cause as eagerly as we were to live for ours.

As for the…. risk… concerning the Hellfire Legion, we have seen them fraternising with the Auxesians on innumerable occasions. The same Auxesians who fraternised with the Bundschuh to raid our artefact shipments, on the Hessians’ behalf, because the Bundschuh wish to preserve a neutrality of intentions between the Order and the Auxesian band. You see how the web ties together.


We are confident that we have sufficient resources to combat the Hessians. They are fighting on multiple fronts at once, and, with careful tactical management, we can prevent them from monopolising on us. Our dilemma is not a numbers game, nor is it logistics - we carry the advantage in both. Instead, it is mobilisation. Our economy is, was, partially dependent upon the exchange of blood diamonds. This is obviously no longer the case, nor can we depend on artefacts solely without becoming a client puppet of the Corsairs. We have an answer here, too.

You are doubtless aware of the Bering jump gate debris field? The totalitarian grip of your ex-employers over Jump Gate components?


Think of the geopolitical consequences if some organisation was to, say, export the dead bones of that jump gate to independent researchers? Think of what it would do to the so-called manifestness of the Liberty Government?

You can’t have a manifest if you lack a monopoly. We are already in contact with the Junkers to make our initial arrangements, although we hope you can cast insight. We know next to nothing about jump gate components apart from how to store and transport them - and that is all we require. It is not the technology that intrigues us, it is the delectable potential of seeing the Emperor without his clothes. Agiera is a stranglehold cooperation. It makes every house dependent upon itself - upon Liberty. Their trade practices are disgusting to the individualism we espouse. Jump gate technology must be democratised if Sirius is not to become a client state to the Wall Street diabolus. If it provides us with sufficient funds to sow the constellations with dead Hessians as a side effect, so be it.

I trust your are interested?

Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.
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To: Moriarty and kin.
From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
Subject: War and Poaching.




There is more.

Within the last fourty eight hours, the Bering conclave has confirmed reports of their partisans capturing and securing - alive - Flottillenadmiral Stefan Hofmann, the second brightest head of the chimera. He will not talk, of course, being the spy that he is.

We have him in rotation between installations, increasing the longevity of his capture. He is a critical component of the Federal Intelligence Complex and we will have little time before they recapture Hofmann or force us to arrange is execution, so our present advantage must be pressed.

This man possesses tactically and politically critical information on both the Federal Goverment's internal workings and the whole spectra of BDM black programs. We will never have an opportunity like this one again, nor will the Federals fall for the same trap twice.

We offer you this information freely. If you have any guidance as to how we can conceal our man more effectively, now is the time to show it.

Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.
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