TO: Erich Klugmann | FROM: Dr. Aspen Harlow

[LunaticOnTheGrass]

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[New Dawn Communication Stream]

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Sender: Erich Klugmann, New Dawn
Origin: Freeport 14, Inverness
Encryption: High


Recipient: Dr. Aspen Harlow; (CC Request - Siara Solatra, Kimiko Hawkins, New Dawn et al; "Civil Servant")
Subject: RE: Gloaming Flotilla

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Doctor Harlow,

A pleasure to formally meet you, and my apologies for the delay in response. Before addressing your message in earnest, I had wanted to suggest opening up this particular one to a few of my compatriots; Siara Solatra and Kimiko Hawkins of the New Dawn, as well as the individual who I will grudgingly continue to address as "Civil Servant". This is intended, of course, to condense some of the planning and scheming regarding our monumental task at hand into more manageable chunks - And to coordinate them ever-so-slightly more effectively.

You need only Accept the CC Request attached to this missive and they'll be given an exception to the Encryption. I would strongly advise the formation of some form of unified "Front", as it were, along that topic, in the interim. While I and the Zoners are presumably alike in their relative distaste for the Centralization of authorities, we will at least require some form of quasi-centralized assembly of interested, "Resisting" groups and co-belligerents in opposition towards the Republic's governmental policies.

No matter how distasteful some of them may be.


I've indeed confirmed that Pinnacle Station is not accepting outsiders not belonging to a probable "Approved Docking Permits" list, one that New Dawn is not party to; but both the general Consumer Goods as well as Unlicensed Munitions are readily available from Rheinland's Black market, Something we're still very familiar and connected with. To that end I'll be instructing the crew of the medium transport Formorian to make its way to the general Liberty-Rheinland independent worlds area from its prior assignment up and down The Barrier.


The ideologue in me is still somehow uncomfortable with the term "Propaganda" as a pragmatic, objective term instead of a disparaging slur towards a persuasive argument or viewpoint - But I digress. While the lived and personal experiences many residents of Erie are experiencing are the most powerful form of propaganda available, I believe that tailoring and analyzing it to the situation at hand necessitates the Front from before. That is to say, The Zoners - And more specifically Erie and Pennsylvania - Need to come together and decide by some clear and digestible means what it is they want. It could be to restore the status quo ante bellum as a semi-independent territory within Liberty, or it could be the complete Ouster of Liberty from their space, or even a counter-invasion into Liberty if by some means such a thing were possible. The crux is that deciding this is a first, necessary step.

Thank you for bearing with me; I'll be analyzing what information I find regarding the broader situation and "Theatre of (Guerilla) War", and using The Council's ultimately tepid victory in the Second Gallic War - Specifically its Marne Rebellion - As a point of comparison.

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