Transmission to the |U|nioner Leader

Esteemed Unioner Cell Leader,

How do you do it?

I'm asking this question as someone accustomed to leading a ragtag band of desperate refugees and individuals with poor morale, so this makes things even more astounding to me. Let me recant your cell's actions towards the Vereinigte Widerstandsarmee over the past few weeks;

- Your men attacked us in Neu Berlin when we were simply surprised to see you. Possibly your best-fought engagement, honestly. We were caught off guard, but all in all the result was a draw.

- Next, two of your men thought they could sneak-attack us whilst we were occupied with an offending Donau-class Cruiser. Both of your men's ships were disabled even after we repeatedly gave the surviving snubcraft a chance to withdraw. That mercy was refused.

- Then, your men came to the defense of the Corsairs whilst they were once again busy wasting millions of credits in Frankfurt to no visible gain. You know, we in the Bundschuh had always suspected the close proximity of your partition within Munich and the Corsair partition within Sigma-13 to mean something. I suppose we were right, as confirmed in the attachment.

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Once again, your forces were regrettably unsuccessful in wresting our vigilance from our charge, Northern Rheinland.

- And now just yesterday I'm informed that your forces were again treading where we've cautioned them not to; Frankfurt. The pattern has held precisely the same at the moment. Your men engage us in a borderline-psychotic fashion that I'm presuming is an imitation of the common Corsair battlecry, and our comparatively disciplined forces put yours down as gently and mercifully as possible.

And yet, I need to know your secret. In light of statements such as this gem from the Mission Logs today...

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...How do you keep Unioner morale so stratospherically high? Do your pilots run on perpetual Cardamine highs? Do you manage to hilariously over-exaggerate the successes and Pyrrhic victories of your raids and operations?

Pleasantries aside, I'd like to talk "business"; if I know anything about the Unioner Syndicate, it's that they react in a Pavlovian fashion to the word. Our arrangement until now has been very satisfactory for the Bundschuh; You hide under your rocks while we enact actual change and get to live with our consciences.

Until now, The Widerstandsarmee was actually willing to turn a blind eye to your Syndicate. So long as it knew where our territory was and didn't interfere in our own operations, we were more than willing to steer relatively clear of Hamburg in particular.

But now, it seems you've decided to "renegotiate" our "business arrangement" without our own feedback on the matter. So I feel it necessary to ask;

Are you going to provide an explanation for your acting-up as a Syndicate, or will you need to continue shelling out millions upon millions of credits on replacement Unioner-made craft that splatters itself on our bulwark?

I eagerly await your reply.

As a final note, tell your pilots that we are not "Commies"; that more aptly describes the Hessians on whose Blood Diamonds your smuggling economy seems to rely upon like pressurized Cardamine. But I can share with them your perception on their uncleanliness if you find it pertinent.

"Der Schakal",

The purpose of this transmission was to address the unprovoked hostilities that your men have repeatedly demonstrated towards ours, to the point of attempting to opportunistically aid invading Corsairs against us. I'm afraid that can't be tolerated, period.

I appreciate your attempting to deflect the matter at hand to simple ad-hominems, though. On the matter of my "ego", I'll spare you my life's story and simply state that I could have gratified that ego far more prominently if I'd only kept my mouth shut on the matter of the Federal Regime's authoritarian tyranny. I was genuinely wealthier beforehand.

Additionally, it's unwise to conceal or censor data or information from the Bundschuh. It so happens that I recognize the logs you've sent me, and fittingly, yours don't quite tell the entire story.

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Erich didn't shoot first, Schakal. But as it turns out, your "business" resume doesn't quite check out or meet our standards. Far too many blank spaces.

I feel you've made your choice, Schakal. Stay out of Frankfurt, Munich, Dresden, and our partitions of Neu Berlin, and we'll have little reason to hunt your men down.

I may not have shot first, but I promise you, the Widerstandsarmee will be the one shooting last.