"I see that our Union of equals was better made when we were trading equipment and strategic impetus rather than schemes. I see now that the same truth, the same data, will be coloured by the prism of agenda, no matter if all eyes are bathed in the same light. "


"We're tired - we all are."

"The Union is going to end this conflict. I am in the process of risking my own life to do so, just as my kin have. It will not be under the terms of any party except those who have fought and died, the Unioners, and the Seperatists. No outlay will be given, no update offered, till what must be done has been followed through."


"To the Atacama group, two hundred million credits will be made available to whichever account you request to pay for your efforts protecting the lives of those aboard Pacifica To the Gaians - your movement contains thousands of our brother LWB, not to mention that your ecological expertise will be most essential for ensuring the salvation of Nuremburg's remaining megafauna. We look forward to the prospect of emancipating the Pirashark and the Gimeni worm for extinction, together, whilst your Vidar cruiser would find the aid of our technicians most liberating."

"The Natio, we will continue our negotiations elsewhere. We have shared interests in the Liberty borderworlds and the Taus which transcend the Union's domestic concerns, and are very much of your court - of your history. We have a future together, and we are drawing together plans to recognise this future in due course. You have done much for us - soon, our peoples are to combine."


"As for the Lane Hackers, it's for you to decide what future you endorse for the people of Rheinland - but know that your endorsement will not change history, nor does it have power here. We supported your treaty as the proposal of comrades lending resources to a co-mutual struggle. Now you have nothing to offer to the people of Bering, Separatist or Unioner. I understand that you have long fostered the atmosphere of infallibility. The Union understands that all are human - and will forgive these transgressions in due time. Our alliance is old and it has weathered much. However you must view us as more than useful idiots, more than pawns on a chestboard. Conviction, professor, is worthy of a thousand lies. I do not expect you to respond in kind, aloof as you are. You know it in your hearts. That much is unspoken."

"But it is for the Union to put these days behind us. Carthage must be destroyed, as must all empire. The mercenaries the Separatists have sent after us burn. Their blockade is smashed, they just do not know it yet. Whilst you have been talking about the Union's peril, we have been winning the strategic war, by ourselves, without any military assistance."

"No man can control an independent world. Corsairs, Rogues, Outcasts, Men of the Union from as far afield as Munich, even Landwirtrechbewegung, who have no stake in the fight, have fought the Separatists back, at our sides. Even independent Junkers have banded together to render the belt free."

"Yet still we try for peace. A noble treaty is far finer than the greatest victory in the field of battle. It is self-evidently so."

"We have mobilised. It has taken us three months to do so, but we have mobilised. There are more of us than the Seperatists, better supplied, better maintained, with quantities of logistics and qualities of equipment in excess of the militarised rust that is enfeebling soldiers without an industry. Guns without oil. The Unioners control the airspace around Freeport Two uncontested. We are encircling them. Yet we still desire peace, not destruction - it will be a peace on our own terms, without the consultation of Weimar."



For it is not the physical city of Carthage that must be destroyed, but the idea of Carthage. The concept that an Independent world can be host to house power. I opened this channel in the search of unity, only for my people to discover it within themselves."

"The need for eagles, dies. The land, survives. Solidarity outlives even iron flags, as has been demonstrated time before and time again, as it was during the Nomad War. This conflict in my people's cradle is but a microcosm of the wider war. The war for what kind of men we choose to be."



"Your organisations will hear no more from the Union on the Bering scenario. Hackers, spread disinformation and sedition campaigns if you desire; my support base is concrete and it will continue to regard you as allies once the hammer of the Union restores peace to the belt. I do not expect you to know that he who burns Ucagleon's house can only expect the same in return. We all learn. It's human to think otherwise, whilst it's wisdom to know better."

"A good brother forgives the sins of the prodigal. The best of luck to us all - may we all remain the masters of our own fate."

"For the Unioners valiantly are."

"We always believed peace was possible. We still do."

"The Arbeitsdirektorate is determined by popular support for the mission. We are not a cult of personality. We're determined by a vote from the hundred and twenty seven cells that contribute the most assets to common objectives. It is, by essence, an emergency power process determined by crises. I am a servant, not a master."

"This is not about me. This is not about what you think the Union is, or isn't. It's not about politics, or houses. It's not about the strategic field or about destroying the government of Liberty, or foreign intelligence services, It's about people."

"I made this communication to ask what assistance you were willing to help us with. The mistake you made is was assuming that it was volenteerist act to place ourselves on a chessboard. No. There are no winners and losers. Not with lives."

" The Union is headed to Vespucci to bomb Hykarsis. We'll negotiate peace here in Bering, or we won't. You can put as many holes in the trade lane as you desire, doing Locklear's bidding for him in a fool's errand to maintain an illusion of face, sabotaging your own objectives like vindicative animals, or you can get out of the way, it will not change events. It will not even impact events. You are a breath in a hurricane."


"Sirius is coming apart at the seams. Bretonia hangs in the balance. Rheinland is intertwined with the Gallic economy and the intelligence services have captured the government. Kusari marches in the Sigmas. The Corsairs and the Hessians run rampant through my home. Sirius is as violent as it was during the closing days of the nomad war, and all you think about is winners, and losers. A child playing chess."

"We choose closure instead of war. Even if we must go it alone."


"That is the true loss, demagogue. You can't fabricate reality to suit what you wish it to be. I hope that one day you learn the definition of honesty."

The airspace around Marshal Station.



"For you can't shoot honesty. We rise above."