Below are the subjects of discussion:

Terms of debate Wrote:- Maintaining the operational readiness of separatist forces.

- Securing the future of our relationship after a representative of the Lane Hackers accused Union operatives of crises-mongering.

- Shipyard allocation and use.

- The adequate movement of supplies, be they relevant to the war effort or smuggled commerce, between the Bering Gap and Ontario.

- Joint operational assistance and the lack thereof between Lane Hacker operations in western Liberty and Unioner operations in the cosmic east.

- Co-ordination between parties of unidentified diplomatic status operating in the region (Maltese, Commune, Liberty Rogues) and our own elements.

- Third party concerns such as the Hellfire Legion and their accompanying subordinates, including the Auxesian movement.

- The development of sub-spatial tunnelling technologies to bypass the New York and Virginia controlled zones to minimise transport attrition for both Seperatist and Unioner suppliers alike.

- Common future planning and operational future proofing to ensure the survival of an uninfected armed separatist resistance.

I am not Armin. Mass communications are not Armin’s sphere. When we speak together, we’re speaking with one mouth, but many minds. Armin is just a man in suit, I am the head of the Chort's Forge cell.

Nobody is “afraid” of anything from Liberty. Being sidelined? Please. Don’t project. We are concerned that you intend to use Harmony as a proxy, at the expense of their mission statement. You haven’t done anything yet to prove that you’re hunting for more than a vassal. That’s where we come in. We’re the counterweight.

Your movement has done its part, saved lives, kept the fires. Harmony has a second bastion and domestic allies. You have the means to check Liberty Navy asset movements, which will keep Harmony alive for the future. You are saints.

You cannot feed them, arm them, repair them, maintain them, provide them with ships of the same lines, re-core warships. We can. We do. We will. We are shipbuilders of the highest calibre, you are software technicians. Together we can accomplish more than we can alone.

I’ll bring you up to date. We are maintaining two of Harmony’s cruiser assets using scavenged technology from the Bering battlefields. The war between the Rhein and Liberty have strewn Tanner with a graveyard of prime military hardware - enough to enable the Battlegroup indefinitely without sacrificing technological purity. You can maintain them - we can grow their numbers. We intend to monetise the mining of this zone - pre-procedures are in place already. Rheinlandic hardware we bend to use against the Hesse. Libertonian? We will redress Knight’s airwing with it.

We support Harmony, and you, because we recognise the Federal system as utterly corrupt. We protest infection because we, ourselves, are vulnerable to its spread through the artefact trade. We have a duty to clean up.

I am ready to join with your so called “Southern Alliance” - if the name is revised. From a Rheinlander’s perspective, Liberty is to the cosmic North. As for a lockdown - the majority of our Imperial relics are occupied with the defence of Koeln, but I can request a limited force to be prepositioned for future operations in Texas - if respect is honoured by all sides. This is not a petty dispute, but one of pragmatism. Do you believe a Unioner would participate in anything viewed as Libertycentric?

Take care not to talk down to your equals and I will indeed will behave beneficially, in terms of friendship alone.

Correct us if we are misinformed, Professiorship. An organisation the size of the Lane Hackers has the resources to make a technology trade at the same time as scrutinizing political details. Unless your capabilities are far inferior to what you had lead us to believe.
I would encourage yourself, and your confederates, to stop with the veiled knifes. They don’t win you favour. They don’t put yourself on any perceived higher ground or plateau. If anything they disincentive to work with you and sabotage Harmony’s own objectives, who are dependent upon us collaborating. Any barb you make will fall upon your own back, for we have alternatives to you, including in the offered technological trade and as smuggling and strategic partners in the Liberty theatre. You have no alternatives to us in the Rheinlandic artefact trade – the Junkers are apathetic, the Rogues disorganised, the Hessians are narcissistic. You have a friend in us. Treat us with the same high respect we reserve for you.

From our perspective, the Liberty Navy abandoning operational wherewithal in Texas is extremely advantageous. Do not forget, our prime incentive for entering Liberty is to engage Synth Foods assets passing to Rheinland, and to discourage ALG from doing business in Rheinlandic space. Preventing the infection from spreading to the Rhein is a co-mutual objective, but it doesn’t pay bills or motivate an insurgency. Shock and awe, works. None of us can hope to engage the Liberty Navy on common ground, and we will not squander our few Imperial warships in attempting to break the blockade, especially in the light of impending aggression by the Gas Miners Guild.

Which brings us on a second topic. We cannot hope to destroy the navy. Such assumption is palty – it is also a defilation of Harmony’s own purpose. We can, however, starve the Navy of fuel.

Liberty is entirely dependent upon H-fuel imports. I’m sure you follow our line of reasoning. Any political consequences on the Sigma front will result in an inevitable impact to the Navy’s operational effectiveness in history. Supply and demand – we smugglers are familiar with the calculus. This is beyond the Lane Hacker’s operational range, however, you do have an extensive network of freelance affiliates, do you not? We have the means to turn whatever politically data the Hackers possess upon the GMG, keen corporatist allies of Interspace commerce, Agiera, and Synth, over to the public sphere. Together, we can undermine the Liberty Navy far more effectively than operations in just Texas alone could allow. In return, we would happily permit the Lane Hackers to place observers aboard Unioner craft already in operation in the region, should your interests move that far.

As for the treaty itself, the Arbeitsdirektor suggests that Harmony itself should be the ones to draft its terms, as Harmony has the most common ground of the three of us, and is the prime motivator for our collaboration.








I trust you will find our offer satisfactory.

Armin has as much power as a potted plant. He's a representative for what Garen wants others to think - essentially a puppet that can take bullets on his behalf. It's a matter of precaution. Since Arbeitsdirektor Abendroth was assassinated by the Rogues on the Hesse's behalf, a mere six years ago, it's been the custom to operate through intermediaries. Arbeitsdirektor Boyle made the same mistake - his resignation was essential after the Hessian conflict started to escalate. To be clear, Garen wishes to engender firm ties with the Lane Hackers. However, he is bound by a certain amount of institutional paranoia. It is difficult to keep any entity as antiquated as the Union stable, let alone politically unified.


I'm prepared to de-escalate my rhetoric. Thank you for your accommodating our concerns. Our fears were that the Hackers had an agenda beyond that outlined - now that this has been proven false, I will normalise my conduct.

The Alster Union presents itself as the signatory to a tripartite treaty between the Lane Hackers, The Liberty Seperatists, and the Unioners.