- Rheinland federal goverment agents have made repeated attempts to contact the Separatists.

- Approximately eight months prior to the transmission of this message, a Lane Hacker, Seperatist, and Unioner vessel conversed in Freeport Two airspace over plans to co-operate with the Separatists. The agent was then penalised for talking in confidence with the Unioners. The exact logs were damaged during the pacifica EMP strike, however the ship involved included a BDM agent known as 'Lichthammer'. We are uncertain if the name is a pseudonym drawn from the historical Kaiserin, or the agent's true identity. Lichthammer met with Unioner agents in Seperatist company no less than three times before vanishing from the operational theatre.

- According to the Professor Provocateur's own statement, the Lane Hackers are both in contact with the Rheinland federal government, and have no intention of counteracting Separatists relations with the Rheinland government.

- This was accompanied by a sudden shift in Lane Hacker stance from co-operative to the Unioner peace effort, including arranging a draft treaty, to combative. The only demand the Union has made upon the assembly of this information is that the Lane Hackers disclose the nature of their connection with the Rheinland Goverment concerning the Bering crises, and the apparant deceptions that the Lane Hackers have accused us of. The Lane Hacker narrative is not self-consistent, and this .

- The Union is prepared to become party to the pace that the Lane Hackers, to great credit, co-authored alongside the Atacama and the Unioners, on the condition that the Lane Hackers disclose the nature of the Rheinland Goverment's involvement in the Bering conflict.

This is a reasonable request considering the threat faced by Pacifica. The Rheinland Federal Goverment is a greater threat to the Union than that which the Seperatists represent. If they are collaborating without our awareness, we cannot in good faith agree to the peace, as its guarantees of security for the system would become invalid.

We have deliberately stalled a Nuclear Electromagnetic Warhead strike against Marshall to allow the Lane Hackers time to re-evaluate their position. GEIST repeats: the Union objective is to secure lasting security for the system, a lasting peace. The Rheinland Federal Goverment will not support the survival of Pacifica, and we must know of their motivations before we can proceed.

It is alarming that the Hackers, who are a valued ally of the Union, are casting conspiracy and ad hominem against the Union rather than responding a relatively direct and reasonable question, that would, upon answer, re-assume the peace process.

The alternative is the total war all sides have fought to avoid, along with mistrust within the long lasting and mutually beneficial alliance of the Unioners and the Lane Hackers.