To: Francois Rousse. [Encrypted - Unioner Intranet]

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---------------Welcome, Arbeiter ---------------

Terms of use

This message is highly encrypted using syndicliga proprietary encryption cryptography through intranet-publicneralink drops and are functionally untracable if no sender address is given. Abuse of Intranet functionality commands community service punishments as listed in regulation five three seven gamma six. security is assumed. Any deliberate or otherwise location triangulation method successfully employed against anonymous transmissions will receive either a one billion credit reward or immediate incarceration dependent upon disclosure and motive. The revanchist council requests that Arbeiters do not squander valuable neuralnet bandwith on the consumption of CNS articles, adult content, or gambling, and advise that the relevant arbeiters employ public terminals for such use, rather than the secure line. Communal enforcement may differ between Reichsarbeitergesellschaft der Alsterian and Landwirtrechbewegung cells. Consult your admin for technical support or contact your resident Neural Technology Help Specialist at www.totallypacifica@notAHacker.net. The Union reminds Arbeiters that "trolling" is not an acceptable standard of political debate, unless aimed at capitalists, fascists, militarists, etc, who lack the neurological prerequisites to engage in such discourse. Southern Unioners are encouraged to remember that the average Unioner's literary age is roughly analogous to a twelve year old on PCP, and are encouraged to avoid engaging in difficult subjects, and are suggested to stick to familiar subjects, such as the market value of cardamine, bundschuh-based footwear puns, and the general terrible quality of life aboard wedel mining station.

Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.

GEIST Special Operations Liason Luisa Kazuli

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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy

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To: Arbeiter Rousse of the GRI.
From: L.K, Location undisclosed.
Subject: Into the fold.

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"Arbeiter Rousse. At ease."







"I’m Vorarbeiter Kazuli of the General Exingency for Informed Strategic Tactics. Geist, for short. Ghost, in German.

We’re what you are.

Your file reads that you’re borderline, Rousse. Gallic Royal Intelligence’s stance towards the Unioners has ranged from co-operative to guns blazing. We are aware you’re still a representative of your people and that you’re embedded within our organisation primarily to gather intel on us, not make friends. That’s pretty incontrovertible. You’re a monarchist to the core and your general loathing for Sirians slips out at the bar.

The reason why the Direktorate is willing to accept the risk you represent, is because you’ve shown genuine curiosity in what we are, beyond the level that would be acceptable for espionage alone. You’ve bonded with your fellow Unioners and been an acceptable flight operative of the Liga. You havn’t let your Nation’s objectives interfere with the insurgency. If that’s because they synergise with ours, isn’t for me to call. Anyman can be part of the syndicate – that’s the working theory, if he pulls his own load. Ultimately it doesn’t matter if you’re a spy, if you’re also an Arbeiter first. It is my duty to turn you into one. Your kill count against the Separatists proves you’ve got that potential. We’re going to stroke it.


Because of that, we’re acting to secure additional supplies of fuel additives, once the tanks on your Lynx run out. You’ll be able to fly your own spacecraft on your own terms, since you havn’t taken to Sirian technology. Under conventional circumstances we’d have trained you in use of an eagle, Arbeiter or Sichel by now, but all of Pacifica’s flight training instructors are moonlighting as fighter aces against the Separatists, so we’re stuck with what you have.



In [redacted] hours, flight Arbeiter Riehl and any elements of the airwing we can spare, will climb you into the cockpit of your Lynx and go through some basic manoeuvres on our side of the Bering control Line. Nothing out of the ordinary; we want to see how you fly in your own spaceframe. Vulkan’s down in hangar three spoofing your transponder with an IFF masking chip. Your ship will read as any other Unioner fighter unless they get into active scanning range. Once that goes down, you’re going to have to talk your way out. Riehl’s wing will keep top cover.


We’ll be disabling your guns for the duration of the exercise – we’ve got zero confidence that the Lynx won’t blow up in our faces if we tamper with the loadout. Keep your mines and disruptors hot and trust in your escorts; it’s all you’re going to get out there.


Your name, Arbeiter. It might sound inconsequential, but we can’t keep you on our intranet with the known Pseudonym of a GRI agent. Rousse you can keep – there’s a few hundred thousand Rheinlanders with the same surname. The Union doesn’t discriminate over race, ethnicity, or nationality, but you’re going to raise questions if we keep calling you ‘Francois’ on public comms, or if the Lane Hackers backdoor our servers. You don’t sound nearly Quebecois enough. Pick a first name, German or English, Frank, Franz, Falke, something beginning with F so it stays memorable and you learn it fast, anything that has plausible desirability. We’ll update your fighter by the time we fly."



Mk IX - 'Coldchain' Identification Friend or Foe spoofer unit. Syndicliga special operations command.

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L.K.
Ghost.

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