The Enclave

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A deadly encounter

Hessel had arrived at Omega 11, and when going to the hole to Omega 55 he and Wolfstorm had their first meeting. The battle was fierce, with no result, and the two sides retreating. The Wolfstorm entered the hole to Omega 55, heavily damaged, and Hessel docked at Solarius station for repairs, returning full armed.
But as he crossed the hole, the Wild jumped at him in packs, and his ship was blowed up to pieces. The Wolfstorm was still engaging the Wild, and when it had cleaned the sector, it tracked down the military escape pod.
Hessel was brought into custody to Freital base, and then proceded to interrogation.
Schuler: So, will you tell us what you are doing so far from home?
Hessel: I have nothing to say to you.
Schuler: You have to say if you want live.
Hessel: Im not scared at you.
Schuler: Then you will have to die.
Friedrich get Hessel by his hair and drown him on the water. Hessel sufocates, the feeling is horrible, desperation takes over his mind. He try to get rid of the hessian hands, holding him firmly against the water. Friedrich rises him up again.
Schuler: So? Is the military planning some invasion on our backwater system, like the executives of Kruger minerals usually calls Omega 11?
Hessel: I havenothingto sayyou can kill me, if you want.
Friedrich drown Hessel again, until he is half-conscious.
Schuler looks to Friedrich: Do you think the military is going after the first fleet ship?
Hessel awakens from his torpor as he listens Schuler. He rises up and looks to him: First fleet?
Friedrich smiles, then quick the chair, and Hessel falls down. He takes his pistol, ready to shoot at the military.
Hessel: Wait! II have some information
Friedrich gives a sadic smile: Say.
Hessel rises from the ground, and trembles in fear for his life: My unclehis wasin the Orderhe was a memberof the first fleet.
Schuler gives a severe look to Hessel.
Schuler: What do you known about it?
Hessel: Little.
Friedrich rises the chair: Sit.
Schuler: So you uncle was from the Order, huh?
Hessel sits back: They are hidinga lot of things from me.
Schuler: As they do everytime.
Friedrich smiles: Bunch of hypocrites.
Schuler laughs: First we want to known if you are not alone. Your name - he looks to the military uniform Hessel huh?
Hessel: Heinrich Hessel. My uncle was Karl Hessel, he died after the 185th fleet expedition on the edge worlds, but his body was never retrieved as he was in the Order. The military have information about him, but I cant access as I not part of the club.
Schuler: Not part of the club? And this uniform, what is?
Hessel: I mean, the officer club. Nor Richter is.
Friedrich: And who is Richter?
Hessel: Our fleet admiral. He rebelled against the admiralty to put his expedition in order. Nobody likes him.
Friedrich: Good news, division inside the military, everything we want.
Schuler: May the ubers die with their personal vendettas.
Friedrich: I endorse it.
Schuler laughs again.
Hessel: I retrieved information in Altenburg about the Wild, and I think my uncle was infected and brought to them.
Schuler: When this expedition happened?
Hessel: Five years ago.
Schuler: Interesting. So you think the lost fleet is in Omega 55 and was integrated with the Wild, and state to us theres a division in the military and you cant have any information about your uncle. Nice trainment boy. Friedrich, kill him.
Hessel: No! Im not lying! Thats true! They really have a officers club, with caviars and parties. I hear a rumour they comemorated the death of the son of a colonel in the 185th, with champagne and everything, in one of the most expensive restaurants in New Berlin! And this guy was one of the best pilots in the 185th. He was murdered in the street, nobody knows who did that. My uncle, he leaved the military to join the Order, because he always thought the rheinland government was utterly corrupt. When he departed to Toledo, he was hunted down by the unioners because they hated him
Schuler: Unioners?
Friedrich: Scum.
Schuler: Certainly your uncle did a good job against the unioners, but since he was in the military, he still shooted at hessians like you probably did. And he joined the Order, that is allied with the corsairs.
Friedrich: The worsest scum of Sirius.
Hessel: So why you are going after the first fleet?
Schuler: Its we who made questions, not you.
Hessel screams: I demand to known, as I will die anyway! Do you want to shoot me, shoot me now then!
Friedrich takes the gun again and shot at Hessels right leg. The military falls to the ground in horrible pain.
Schuler: That was stupid, Friedrich. Since when you have to obey orders from a military? Are you out of your mind?
Friedrich: Well, hmmyou said to kill him anyway. I just think he might have some value.
Schuler: Yeah, sure. Lets contact the military and see how many they will pay for this pilot. For now, the doctors will treat his wounds.
Later on, Schuler contacts the rheinland government through a encoded, high secure, transmission. A fat man appears in the screen.
Schuler: Heeeythere you are, fat f**k. Do you want to save some life, fat f**k? So you can save one of your pilots today. Do I want the military to catch me? Maybe I do, maybe I dont. Fat f**k!
Rheilander: III will pass this transmission to another officer.
Another guy arrives, he seems to be a homosexual by his looks, and talks in a very snobish manner:
Schuler: Ok, I have one of your pilots here, from the 185th. If you want him alive, send us
Rheilander: You said 185th? You can kill him. We are going to a party today, in a uber restaurant here on New Berlin. The 185th have such bad tastes, you known that? Always eating at cheap, simple restaurants. That guy, Richter, he lives like a spartan. So its better that you turn this thing off, or we will send some outcast privateers armed with nomad cannons after you, as we are already picking the origin of the signal.
Schuler turn the communications off: Stupid mongrel. He cant even came heremoron
Some hours passes, and Hessel is healed by the advanced medicine of Sirius.
Friedrich gets Hessel to the deck.
Hessel: So, I will never known what happened to my uncle since those stupid snobs dont let me access the filesnice, was my faulty after all to fall into your handsbetter to have died in space, like a true ace. Do you known what, hessian? I wish the entire rheinland military blow themselves up, including the 185th as they never took any action against the general opinion held against them
Friedrich: Shut up!
Hessel turns to him, his hands fettered.
Friedrich: By the back. I shoot by the back.
Hessel: Well, how dishonourable.
Friedrich: What did you say? Dishonourable? Your little piece of sh*t! Was you already outnumbered? I was. Most of the time I am, and I have to fight dirty if I want to survive! How can you demand honour from me if you, the so-called upholders of the law, cant have honour with your own people? How can you speak about honour and dignity, when you thrown unemployed people by the airlock, like you do in Lepzig? You f**king a**hole!
Hessel: I dont known what you are talking about.
Friedrich: Certainly not. the gun touches Hessels back of the neck You only obey orders, dont is lapdog? Never question the authorities, never look to the state of the people, never look to what happens to the unemployedthrown by the airlock! You thrown human beings by the airlock! You sh*t! You f**king sh*t!
Friedrich gives a punch on Hessel with the weapon, in such way that the military falls to the ground: I will not just kill you with a bullet. This must have some torture, so that you feel what I feel inside me.
Hessel looks around, the rudeness on their faces, the dirty on their clothes, the look on their eyesand for a moment, he feels paralyzed by them. However, in the next moment, a explosion is heard. A deck officer screams: corsairs!
The alarm is raised. Someone screens: They are bringing marines! Transport on scanners!
Friedrich looks around, then looks to Hessel: I will take care of you later.
Friedrich runs to the Wolfstorm, in a deck full of stilletos and sabres. Hessel rises up and runs. He needs to get rid of the shackles. He enters into a small depot and find some miners tools. Theres a laser cannon for mining there. Hessel have some difficult to handle it as it is by his back, and he have to hide behind the iron door as hessian pilots passes by in the corridor. He finally put the laser cannon above a box, point it upwards, and then turns it on. The laser breaches the shackles and he finds himself free. Hessel also finds some deck personel clothes. He dress them, put a hat in his head and pass by the hessians until he reach the deck. Now it happens that he knowns two of the codes used by the hessians to activate their ships. The first dont works, but the second have its effect, and the ship rises from the ground.