Bonjour Fédéralistes,

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. We could see the old Kingdom of Gallia emblem on the back of the chair as it was not facing the screen. Suddenly, the chair turned in a fast move towards the luminous screen showing up a determined Vaillant holding a glass of wine in his left hand.


Let me introduce myself. I am the Commandant Pierre Vaillant of the Marine Nationale Gauloise. I shall represent the Gallic Confederate Navy during our talks.

Let me get this straight, Gallia has a great concern regarding the current events in Rheinland and especially Cologne. It appears the system fell into the hands of criminals called Red Hessians. This unexpected situation has lead to a quick response from our forces, as the Battlegroup La Fierte has been deployed in Zurich to safeguard our borders and especially the EFL infrastructures.

Despite being a Rheinland system, we cannot let such threat to our doors, and the fall of Cologne represents a blow to the Gallic investments in Rheinland. On the other hand, our long range telescope have detected a battleship and its cohort moving into Zurich just before the fall of Cologne. Our recon vessels reported it was the Battleship Karlsruhe belonging to the Federalists Forces.

While La Fierte is watching with a GREAT intention the Karlsruhe, we were actually wondering if the Fédéralistes forces, with your isolated battlegroup in Zurich, would be ready to help the Gallic forces to push the Hessians back and take back Cologne.

This is the actual question that needs a clear answer. I'll be waiting for it.

Sincèrement


Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.


Marine Nationale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Monsieur Kappmann, Commandant von Meyer

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. This time he wasn't wearing a cup of wine. Instead he had a beautiful model of a Valor. This model was certainly 10 centimeters long. Vaillant put the model on his desk. When the holographic image has reached its maximum size, new details could be seen. The Valor was indeed surrounding with several models of smaller Gallic ships, what seemed to be a small model of the Karlsruhe...

While I had never spoken with Monsieur Kappmann, I perfectly recall our little talks Commandant von Meyer. Good thing that you are still alive with all these troubles I guess.

We understand your stand regarding the Hessians, yet we hope this is only provisional. I am going to emphasize the following point. Gallia does not seek to be involved in your civil war, this isn't our concern. However the recent events forced us to react quickly. Our only matter is the safety of our Gallic citizens doing business through Rheinland and we wish to re-establish the trading connections with Rheinland as soon as possible. Nevertheless, it appears the Hessians and Gallia aren't on the same wavelenght.

We still hope to resume the situation before to jump on the guns too quickly. In regards to the Karlsruhe matter now. Not everyone in the Gallic Navy has appreciated this incursion within Zurich and it appears this Battlegroup is not going to depart from there imediately.

I am coming with a proposal for you. The Gallic Navy has valuable logistics assets, such as the Division du Train. We propose to supply the Karlsruhe with repair materials and vital supplies thanks to our transports. Obviously comes a condition for that. In return we ask the Karlsruhe to stay to its current location till the Cologne crisis is over. I am sure you understand our concern in this matter.

Do not be worried by these little models of Gallic and Rheinland ships on my desk. Or rather you don't have to worry as long as you play carefully.


Sincèrement


Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.


Marine Nationale Gauloise, Commandant Pierre Vaillant.

Video-feed opens up with Miroslav de Gobineau in all his splendor comparable to a very humble and gentle bear is seen sitting in a small and cramped dimly lit office. There's several holographic screens on his side. There's also cup of hot coffee and ashtray on a table nearby. There also was a small picture frame on other side of a table. Several officers, one of whom was Miroslav himself. But those were not Royal officers. Miroslav is calm but somewhat tired as it seems he was working a lot recently.

Bonsoir, mesdemoiselles et messieurs.

Name's Miroslav de Gobineau and I am current Acting Head Of Division du Train, I will deal with general question of logistics. My pleasure.

So let's start from the beginning. Oui, it's totally possible to conduct field emergency repairs. Non, we can't just tow battleship to our drydocks and do proper maintanance there. That would result in political fallout and PR nightmare. But dull jokes aside.

I need to get fullest damage report or in case if there's no possibility for that - conduct inspection myself. Structural damage of outer hull is not that hard to fix - we will be able to patch plating with few repair tugs and some ablative material but delicate avionics such as weapon system controls or navigational systems are much harder to fix right away. Hardware is absolutely different and I doubt it is compatible. If you have experienced pioneers or engineers amongst crew we can provide you needed materials for these kinds of repairs.

Logistics are straight-forward but might be a little bit tricky. It's easy task to supply you in ideal conditions as Picardy have absolutely everything needed. Problem is that for some reason beyond my comprehension there's L'Enclave activity in Zurich. We are still making tactical report on that activity but there's several problems with their presence. First - they shoot our transports, easy as that. Second - if they get an idea what we are doing they can relay information to Imperial forces and this, again, can hurt our neutrality. If we are going to supply you and help you with maintanence, we must be swift.

But this is only one side of our affair. We also need to supply you some relief commodities. I need to get CASREP so I can organize supply list for medicals. Also, general amount of crew can be helpful aswell so you we can provide you plentiful of food, water and wine.

Basically and briefly, let's decide, do I need to be there personally or do you have all needed information already. Let's deal with it quickly and efficiently.

Sincèrement

Division du Train de La Marine Nationale Gauloise, Enseigne de Vaisseau Miroslav de Gobineau.

Video-feed opens up with Miroslav de Gobineau in all his splendor comparable to a very humble and gentle bear is seen sitting in a small and cramped dimly lit office. There's several holographic screens on his side. There's also cup of hot chocolate and ashtray full of cigarette butts on a table nearby. There also was a small picture frame on other side of a table. Several officers, one of whom was Miroslav himself. But those were not Royal officers. Miroslav looks like he is invigorated and full of positive energy.

Bonsoir, mademoissele von Meyer et tous les autres.

I have received your message. Preparations for logistical operation named "Fallen Eagle" are almost finished. We are currently in process of final preparations for convoy organization and we are finishing printing insignias.

I excluded complicated electronics and machinery from supply list and decided to focus on more 'basic' supplies. Namely - hull panels, platings, alloys, food, water, medical supplies and all kind of practical stuff - toilet paper, utensils, fresh clothes and so on. Whatever. We will start convoy runs tomorrow or in two days, depends how soon we will get repair tugs from conservation. I will keep you updated and you will get report as soon as our first convoy reaches destination.

Sincèrement

Division du Train de La Marine Nationale Gauloise, Enseigne de Vaisseau Miroslav de Gobineau.

Minna Dietlinde-Vilke

A large holographic image of Vaillant sitting on his command chair appeared. We could see the old Kingdom of Gallia emblem on the back of the chair as it was not facing the screen. Suddenly, the chair turned in a fast move towards the luminous screen showing up a determined Vaillant holding a glass of wine in his right hand.

Again a new person in charge for the Karlsruhe matter. I wish you the bonjour. I must say it been some time since I personally dealed with this. I had charged the Commandant de Gobineau to continue the operations.

As promised the Division du Train brought the vital supplies it needed to remain operational. We are glad that you warned us about the future extraction of this battleship, you are obviously aware of the very tedious situation we are currently facing.

In order to guarantee the success of your operation and avoid any incidents, a squadron from La Fierte battlegroup will be dispatched and we'll be ready to assist if necessary.


Sincèrement

Vaillant greeted with a gesture of the head while the holographic image was disappearing.

Marine Nationale Gauloise, Amiral Pierre Vaillant.