"Gentlemen."


"I come here to ask your sons and daughters to die, so that many more may live."

"Solidarity forever."

"Professor Yoshida, I respect your reputation and your movement, but Particularism is for peacetime and, with respect, we has neither neither have peace, nor time. Ideology didn't stop the Separatists from allying with the Xenos primary supplier. I invoke their political leanings in the context of their militarism and their company alone. We Unioners might be Syndicalist, but we are anti-revolutionary, and encourage political difference. We are pro-individualistic, and regularly encourage debate as part of who we are. Our loyalty is to survival, not proving who has the longest tongue. Bear in mind, anti-corporatism does not mean anti-capitalism. We are no enemy of Kruger. Remember, we all share, to some degree, pro-environmentalist, anti-monopolist, anti-poverty, pro-advocacy, and anti-oligarchic views."

"One day, I will happily exchange ideological discourse, with all of us. That day is not this one. I ask that you focus on that which unites us whilst we share the same threat. "

"Fortune go with us all."

"Good. We are in accord."


"We will see one another in a matter of hours. I will be tending the meeting personally in solidarity with those still stranded on Pacifica itself, in company of a full mixed airwing of Hamburg and Pacifica cell fighter and bomber craft, selected from what resources we have available. Rendevous grid sectors will be given in space. I will be aboard the Lied Der Seele, a Democritus yacht in provisional use as Union One. It is depressing in its ostentatiousness, but the cells will hardly consent to me climbing into the cockpit of an Arbeiter. We will sortie no heavy assets to avoid draining resources from the relief project."

"You know our history, Mister Weisen. It has always been the Union's belief that Arbeitsdirektors are expendable, the Union is not. If our meeting has been compromised and I am killed, and no other Unioners survive to offer Pacifica a debrief, broadcast Neuralnet Relay Code Five, Anton, Six, Foxtrot, Nine, Golf, to Neuralnet address 'Bluefield.' I urge you to do this. The target audience will know what that means. "

"Godspeed."

"The treaty as decided upon is a front.

The Lane Hackers have been attempting to orchestrate a treaty with the BDM. Our suspicions, first raised during the administration of Arbeitsdirektor Weiss when a BDM agent transparently contacted Unioner and Harmony operatives to discuss the possibility of employing the Seperatists to persue an illegitimate extra-govermental conflict against Liberty, drawing Rheinland into yet another destructive interhouse war during the progress of another, bankrupting Rheinland's economy.

The Lane Hackers then revealed within the last twenty four hours meeting with "One of the most powerful men in Rheinland", who apparently offered them information more compelling than the current treaty. We have known for a signficant period that the Lane Hackers wishes to preserve the presence of the Seperatists and have been lobbying for their survival. We thought that this was for them to be employed against the Legion as co-equal partners in a united front against the Commonwealth of House Liberty.


Instead, it appears that the Hackers are tolerating their relationship with the Legion in persuit of another goal; a renewed interhouse bloodbath. This would, combined with Sirius's present conflcts, wrap the sector in a state of total war in excess of that of the Nomad Conflict. Rheinland and Liberty would be pitted against one another, employing the Separatists as a Cassius beli. The Gaians and the Unioner relief efforts are effectively being hijacked to pursue this objective.

We also open this transmission up to the Natio Octavarium so they may see the nature of this current conflict.


We are all in danger. We cannot in good conscience request that the Natio Octavarium or the Gaian Guard send us any further supplies in the light of the extreme threat placed against Pacifica. Thank you for everything that you have done."


"....I.... I had prayed that after our conference that the desire for peace and comradeship was not yet lost in the Sector of today. Now I see that it is abandoned. It is dependent upon we few men who stand against conspiracy to remain true to ourselves."


"The Union will be strong. We will survive - for this is now larger than any of us."

"Once again, I find myself beholden to you, Kane. You're a comforting voice in a system where even the negotiators are gaming their own agenda."


"The Lane Hackers are privately acting rudely without offering direct statements. I've been referred to as an old man, which is accurate, and a drunkard, which is difficult to prove from several lightyears away. We're interpreting this as a positive sign, as hackers usually demean sentiments they wish to debate the merits of. I've given them a ten hour timeframe, with no demands except for disclosure, before the Unioners no longer ratify a treaty discussed by the Gaians, Hackers, and ourselves, on Bering's border. They appear to be diplomatically stalling long enough for an informed statement. Good. Diplomacy is not dead in the Tanner Belt."


"The Union is decomposed by your revelations, Mister Kane, and the evidence to support them. They are irrefutable. I will need time to hold council before I can offer judgement. We have not widly publiscised the following, but significant numbers of unknowable voidborne.... organisms... of extreme dimensions have been spotted within the Belt by our patrol pilots. Their audiovisual hallucinations bear close synergies with those heard, and seen, by pilots of green squadron in the Munich System, one year ago, and reports of eldrich phenomena involved in the destruction of a Unioner salvage brigade within the Thuringia system, but a month ago. I will be providing the direct testimony of the pilots in this channel."

"Solidarity go with us all. I truly mean all of us."