► Source:Planet New Berlin ► Encryption:port RM-HC-R5C-RU4T-MD ► Submitter:Fliegerin Traudel Habermeyer ► Recipient: Rheinwehr Leitstelle, New Berlin ► Subject:Bundschuh Presence, 11.09.829
Guten Abend Officers,
After returning from Oder Shipyard to get my flight recorder replaced, Flieger Hans Klein and me went on patrol.
We combed the Aachenfeld for any unwanted activity - but found nothing that would warrant direct involvement. A system wide broadcast caught our attention, as it aimed to slander Rheinland's great name. While i was about to quickly shut it down, Flieger Klein was more inclined to let it unfold and even turn it around.
Narrowing the source of the broadcast down to Bonn Stations immediate surroundings, Flieger Klein and me altered course and found a member of the Bundschuh waiting for us.
We encountered an unaffiliated pilot at the scene as well, according to own statements merely there to listen.
Considering my wingman at that time was one of the longest-serving veterans known to me, i left the majority of talking to him and kept watch.
[12.09.2022 02:28:20] Greenwing: Would any of the good citizens of New Berlin like to hear about the corruption of the government?
[12.09.2022 02:28:48] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: ... by the Kaiser.
[12.09.2022 02:30:13] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Cease your prattling!
[12.09.2022 02:30:38] Greenwing: Come now, is freedom of speech truly so dangerous to you, Imperialist?
[12.09.2022 02:32:11] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I'm genuinely curious about what this... person has to say, just for my own amusement.
[12.09.2022 02:32:29] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Me too, I'm hearing them out.
[12.09.2022 02:32:39] Greenwing: To you, Imperialist? I have little to say.
[12.09.2022 02:33:19] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: "Imperialist"? That's a big word of accusation you threw at me little fly, without even knowing me personally.
[12.09.2022 02:33:50] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I will have you know i served Rheinland's interests under several regimes.
[12.09.2022 02:34:20] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Which is why i'm curious about your little rant, so do tell. Amuse me with the little you may know.
[12.09.2022 02:34:50] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: There are the Rheinlanders. Military too!
[12.09.2022 02:34:59] Greenwing: I was wondering when they would appear.
[12.09.2022 02:35:13] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Well we are here.
[12.09.2022 02:35:19] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: So, go on. Amuse me.
[12.09.2022 02:35:21] Greenwing: So, tell me, how does it feel to be a scion of corruption and imperial power?
[12.09.2022 02:35:26] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: ... eagerly listening.
[12.09.2022 02:36:08] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Excuse you, i'm not a scion of anybody personally. I live for Rheinland not for a "handful" of people.
[12.09.2022 02:36:33] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: My past experiences have shown me everything i need to know.
[12.09.2022 02:36:37] Greenwing: You live for a house which brutally oppresses miners and common folk, with barely any pay to boot?
[12.09.2022 02:36:48] Greenwing: One which does not stand for the people, but for the privileged few?
[12.09.2022 02:36:57] Greenwing: You are just as bad as Liberty, surely any reasonable mind could see
[12.09.2022 02:37:04] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Sounds like what I hear in Liberty.
[12.09.2022 02:37:23] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Do you see me oppressing anybody?
[12.09.2022 02:37:39] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I mean, *he chuckles* you are still talking before me.
[12.09.2022 02:37:41] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Are you not?
[12.09.2022 02:37:45] Greenwing: Not right now, but by all means, if you are so reasonable, open diplomatic talks with the Hessians
[12.09.2022 02:37:48] Greenwing: hear their concerns out
[12.09.2022 02:37:58] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: This useless propaganda does not work here, boy.
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[12.09.2022 02:38:11] Greenwing: This "useless propaganda" will not go anywhere of its own free will.
[12.09.2022 02:38:22] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Just to clarify, I'm not with him. Just curious, so I'm sticking around.
[12.09.2022 02:38:35] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Wise declaration...
[12.09.2022 02:38:36] Greenwing: Indeed. I have just met this pilot, there is no affiliation here.
[12.09.2022 02:39:04] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I can see your point, i really do. But i'm in no position to make diplomacy with the likes of Hessians.
[12.09.2022 02:39:21] Greenwing: Well, that's further than I usually get with you military types, I'll give you that much
[12.09.2022 02:39:50] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Surprises can be found in any corner of the sector.
[12.09.2022 02:39:58] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Better than shooting the shit out of eachother, so I'll both of you that.
[12.09.2022 02:40:08] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Let's just say, i've been through a lot of changed in Rheinland and i'm trying to break a certain cycle of hatred.
[12.09.2022 02:40:14] Greenwing: Tell me, again, if the government is truly so reasonable, why were the Bundschuh denied amnesty after the Nomad War?
[12.09.2022 02:41:30] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I think it would be safe to assume it was because of their ties to The Order.
[12.09.2022 02:41:39] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Who also had ties with Liberty.
[12.09.2022 02:41:52] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: And the connections lead in a single direction.
[12.09.2022 02:42:07] Greenwing: Well that's funny, because I seem to recall that Liberty still disavows the order and their armed forces shoot their operatives
[12.09.2022 02:42:08] Greenwing: on sight
[12.09.2022 02:42:12] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Don't be foolish to believe otherwise.
[12.09.2022 02:42:21] Greenwing: so what did The Order ever do to Rheinland? Beyond assist in saving it, of course.
[12.09.2022 02:42:31] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Really? Have you been to Liberty lately?
[12.09.2022 02:42:40] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Do you know something we don't perhaps?
[12.09.2022 02:42:41] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: I fly through there frequently.
[12.09.2022 02:42:55] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Interesting.
[12.09.2022 02:43:08] Greenwing: I cannot say I leave Rheinland overly often, the grapevine moves somewhat slowly when it comes to certain information if
[12.09.2022 02:43:10] Greenwing: something has changed
[12.09.2022 02:43:18] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: First an LSF comes visit Rheinland, now this.
[12.09.2022 02:43:24] Greenwing: If there were to be a change however, it would have had to have been within the last couple months.
[12.09.2022 02:43:36] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Captivating times, one could say...
[12.09.2022 02:43:38] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Do you understand now, my dear colleague?
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[12.09.2022 02:43:40] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Security Force out here?
[12.09.2022 02:44:13] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Indeed, i was just as surprised as you when i got told the news.
[12.09.2022 02:44:23] Greenwing: Do tell, what news?
[12.09.2022 02:44:37] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Doesn't quite matter. I'm happy your guns are still cold. Good to see this happening.
[12.09.2022 02:44:43] Greenwing: For now.
[12.09.2022 02:45:16] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Let's not drift away from what we were talking before, maybe after, if the situation allows it to, we will get back to the-
[12.09.2022 02:45:23] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: "encounter".
[12.09.2022 02:46:00] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Well, I trust you guys can continue to keep it civil? I'll take my leave.
[12.09.2022 02:46:21] Greenwing: Very well. Even if Liberty is no longer hostile to The Order, they were for the last thirty years. It does not answer why the
[12.09.2022 02:46:25] Greenwing: Bundschuh would be denied amnesty
[12.09.2022 02:46:35] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: We'll be as a gentle as a lamb, be assured.
[12.09.2022 02:46:43] Greenwing: We'll see about that.
[12.09.2022 02:46:48] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: As a lamb? Okay then.
[12.09.2022 02:46:56] '\S/'Pulsar: Halpert: Godspeed.
[12.09.2022 02:46:59] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: It all depends on your attitude, herr.
[12.09.2022 02:47:02] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Safe skies.
[12.09.2022 02:47:04] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: That it does.
[12.09.2022 02:47:21] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: We can be civil, but we can be also be mean.
[12.09.2022 02:47:24] Greenwing: Well, my attitude remains that you are in service of a corrupt government that does not serve the people.
[12.09.2022 02:47:31] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: *Switches comms channel for a moment.*
[12.09.2022 02:47:36] Greenwing: That will be somewhat difficult to change.
[12.09.2022 02:47:37] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I stand to correct you.
[12.09.2022 02:47:51] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: "I do not intend to give this scum anything about what i discovered, Herr Klein."
[12.09.2022 02:47:51] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I serve the people, not the people that emplyed me.
[12.09.2022 02:48:05] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: *Switches back.* ... quite the difference, nein?
[12.09.2022 02:48:15] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: "Then don't. We will keep it at that.
[12.09.2022 02:48:17] Greenwing: So, if you were given a direct order to shoot me right now for simply stating my views, you would refuse it?
[12.09.2022 02:48:18] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: "
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[12.09.2022 02:49:04] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Ja. As a war veteran i believe i can make the difference between a threat and an angry civilian.
[12.09.2022 02:49:41] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Which is why i snapped at you, when you called me an imperialist without knowing me personally.
[12.09.2022 02:49:54] Greenwing: So, you would disobey a direct order from a higher up simply because you believed it was wrong, no matter the consequence?
[12.09.2022 02:49:56] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: So, amnesty.
[12.09.2022 02:50:40] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Ja. Because my weapons do not kill people who come only to discuss matters they may not understand. That is not what
[12.09.2022 02:50:47] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: The Military as i know it stands for.
[12.09.2022 02:51:18] Greenwing: Well, the military as you know it allowed the Hessians to form out of exactly those kinds of misunderstandings.
[12.09.2022 02:51:28] Greenwing: And, indeed, the Bundschuh
[12.09.2022 02:51:30] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Do certain people take it in the wrong direction? Perhaps, but that doe not mean i will follow like a lamb.
[12.09.2022 02:52:08] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: This thought experiment is based upon an order that would not be given anyway. Not for 'simply stating views', that is.
[12.09.2022 02:52:34] Greenwing: Ja, well, spreading an opinion can easily be misconstrued as terrorist propaganda.
[12.09.2022 02:53:43] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: In that case i may as well be declared as a propagandist for the simple fact i let my experience do the talking.
[12.09.2022 02:53:51] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: As always it is not just what you say - but how you say it. Nein?
[12.09.2022 02:54:21] Greenwing: Perhaps, but I prefer to subscribe to the school of thought that stating things as they are is most conducive to effective
[12.09.2022 02:54:22] Greenwing: communication
[12.09.2022 02:54:28] Greenwing: I do not enjoy dancing with wordplay.
[12.09.2022 02:54:49] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: I hardly noticed...
[12.09.2022 02:55:31] Greenwing: Granted, it is perhaps the reason I'm usually being shot at by this point in the conversation.
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[12.09.2022 02:55:40] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Do not test your luck with me, i'm merely expressing myself due to the fact i lived long enough to see Rheinland become -
[12.09.2022 02:55:48] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: something i don't truly undestand.
[12.09.2022 02:56:13] Greenwing: Do you not think that by itself is an issue? If you, who experienced it all first hand, cannot fathom it, how do you expect the
[12.09.2022 02:56:24] Greenwing: average civilian to feel comfortable with the Imperialist regime?
[12.09.2022 02:57:40] Greenwing: I would know, for I was once an average civilian myself. A miner, if you will, turned Hessian, turned Bundschuh, and my own
[12.09.2022 02:57:45] Greenwing: experience has shown me a very ugly side of Rheinland.
[12.09.2022 02:58:02] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: We both know where this is headed.
[12.09.2022 02:58:17] Greenwing: Where this is headed depends on your attitude, herr.
[12.09.2022 02:58:49] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Corporatists and corporations milking the sense of righteousness using the Military force.
[12.09.2022 02:58:59] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: In the end this is an endless cycle.
[12.09.2022 02:59:13] Greenwing: Only if we stand idly by and let it continue
[12.09.2022 03:00:05] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: What can we do, other than offering people different approaches on these sensitive matters, like i do?
[12.09.2022 03:00:10] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Stagnation is the end of all things. Smashing it ... does not fix it.
[12.09.2022 03:00:11] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Nothing.
[12.09.2022 03:00:22] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: We would just create more chaos within Rheinland.
[12.09.2022 03:00:29] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: And Rheinland had enough chaos.
[12.09.2022 03:00:38] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Do you, average civilian need more chaos in your home?
[12.09.2022 03:00:41] Greenwing: Well, join the Bundschuh, if its numbers swell enough, the government would be forced to listen and, just maybe, change.
[12.09.2022 03:00:57] Greenwing: We do not prefer to use hostile force, as you can tell
[12.09.2022 03:01:02] Greenwing: Words are valued over weapons.
[12.09.2022 03:01:17] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Yet you dislike wordplay.
[12.09.2022 03:01:22] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: It will never be enough, and i refuse to join those who's bosses have ties to Liberty, and not perhapes every other government-
[12.09.2022 03:01:24] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Wield words as a weapon.
[12.09.2022 03:01:27] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Except for ours.
[12.09.2022 03:01:42] Greenwing: I dislike semantics, stating how things are is still a method of communication.
[12.09.2022 03:01:47] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I will keep trying to break this cycle from where i'm at.
[12.09.2022 03:02:03] Greenwing: We do not serve Liberty, herr. The very suggestion makes my skin crawl.
[12.09.2022 03:02:10] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Mhm, i'll grant you that.
[12.09.2022 03:02:31] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Well, the past experiences showed me otherwise herr. Let me tell you why.
[12.09.2022 03:03:03] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: You, perhaps may not be directly serving them. But your higher ups directly responds to them one way or another.
[12.09.2022 03:03:26] Greenwing: Do not test my temper, that is a blatant falsehood.
[12.09.2022 03:03:45] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: And personally, as someone who has fought against Liberty, i could see how far the liberty Government could stretch.
[12.09.2022 03:03:50] Greenwing: Liberty is the very pinnacle of corruption, precisely what we, the Bundschuh, stand against
[12.09.2022 03:03:51] Greenwing: against
[12.09.2022 03:04:18] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Easy now... stating how things are is, after all, still a method of communication. No?
[12.09.2022 03:04:41] Greenwing: Not when you state obvious lies.
[12.09.2022 03:04:45] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Semantics.
[12.09.2022 03:04:58] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: You don't wanna take my word for it? It's really up to you. I'm merely trying to teach you how to connect the dots.
[12.09.2022 03:05:13] Greenwing: I do not think I am the one who needs teaching of that particular skill, here
[12.09.2022 03:06:02] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Oh but you certainly do. You just told me, an actual war veteran, that i am lying about something that i have seen with my own
[12.09.2022 03:06:04] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: eyes.
[12.09.2022 03:06:39] Greenwing: You may not be outright Imperialist, but you certainly have no shame in making excuses and shifting blame
[12.09.2022 03:07:22] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: I'm not shifting the blame at all.
[12.09.2022 03:07:41] Greenwing: If you say so. Now you can either shoot me, or I'm going home for a drink, I don't think we're getting any further here.
[12.09.2022 03:08:15] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: You're free to do so, i have no interest in taking another Rheinlander's life.
[12.09.2022 03:08:26] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: Criminals are a different story.
[12.09.2022 03:08:27] [RM]Fl.Traud.Habermeyer: Communication isn't a one way trade lane. This goes both ways. Running wont change it. But ... enjoy your drink.
[12.09.2022 03:08:39] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: You're just someone who lost it's faith in everything.
[12.09.2022 03:08:48] Greenwing: Criminal is a very subjective term, herr.
[12.09.2022 03:09:23] [RM]Fl.Hans.Klein: There are times even i can't make the difference between them, herr, keep that in mind.
Für den Kaiser! Für das Volk! Für Rheinland!
Hochachtungsvoll,
Traudel Habermeyer
Fliegerin der Kaiserlichen Rheinwehr