"Of course I remember you, Arbeiter Wolff. You kept the long watch to protect our people. Your debriefs show exemplar promise. Vorarbeiter Riehl reports that you’re the highest performing rookie pilot in the Pacifica air group.

I’ll summarise briefly. I was appointed as Arbeitsdirektor by will of the one hundred and twenty five Hammer Unions to attain security for our people in Bering.

The causes for the conflict are manifold, but can be simply distilled. The cruiser is but a public cassius beli distributed by the Separatists. The true cause of the war exists in the tensions between the Separatists and the Unioners since the inexplicable change of relations between the Unioners and the Hellfire Legion introduced by the ascension of Lord Commander Locklear to the podium within the Commonwealth of House Liberty’s armed services. He entertains a revisionist view of history, that considers us a threat to Legion interests. He has convincingly promoted the idea to the Separatists that the Legion is more useful to the Separatists than we are, and that one must be sacrificed for the other.


This is combined by the actions of Former Pacifica direktor Schilder, a dark mind within the Union’s history. Schilder is a traitor to our people who valued personal glory and the prospect of the conquest of the Marshall fleetyards over the protection of Pacifica’s people. He is largely responsible for implementing the sanctions which lead the Separatists to believe, erroneously, that a betrayal by the Union was not only worthy of speculation, but should be pre-empted.


The Lane Hackers have since swooped in to position themselves in the role of cosmic paternalists, deftly manipulating all hands concerned. We believe their interests to be those of the Rheinland government due to evidence of attempted contact between themselves and the intelligence agencies of the Rheinland Federal Republic, and have thus abandoned that avenue to peace as a potentially greater threat to Unioner lives than the war itself.


We’re in the process of attempting back-channel communications with the separatists. Outside of Lane Hacker supervision. Both the Seperatists and the Unioners have a vested interest in seeing the conflict resolved, and Schilder brought to the table.

The alternative is nuclear fire. It would win us the war, but at the cost of our souls. We would be the victors of only ash. "

"That is the pragmatist's context, devoid of politics."

"The lack of communications is a necessary artifact of war, arbeiter. It is a hypocrisy of our beliefs of freedom of exchange, that must be tampered with to promote the lives of Pacifica's civilians. It is in Schilder's interest to see the Union enbroiled in a rolling war, and he may have confidants. I will not subject my brothers to persecution, nor should they be persecuted for the choices of their hearts. For this motivation alone, we must be tacit. This includes this exchange here, brother."

"Reflect upon the binds of Unionisation. No man may persecute another. No man is beholden to another except by his own choice, yet each individual carries the responsibility for the whole. The Union is more than that which we build with our hands. It's that which we build of ourselves, that define us."

"We choose to produce peace. It is the most sacred of all men's creations."