The hospitality of the Hessians on Ronneburg was remarkable, due to the fact that they knew that the Coalitionists entrusted hostages of utmost importance to their watch. As the years passed, the two Kuznetsovs became to be treated as Hessians themselves by their keepers, Michael even maintained a relationship with a higher ranking female Hessian officer, who became attracted to him due to the interesting family background he possessed. This relationship is rumored to have caused the birth of Imran Kuznetsov and a twenty years long delay of the Coalition agents' return after finding out that the installations named by Michael did not exist.
However, the family's guardian, the Hessian officer died to a fight in the Omega-5 frontlines, so they were no longer backed against the Coalition agents demanding their captives back. A few days following the Hessian officer's death, a gunboat with the Coalition insignias on its side landed on Ronneburg. A diplomatic committee boarded the base, but they asked for the Kuznetsov family's members whereabouts aswell. Their arrival however, was noticed beforehand by the elderly Michael, who tried evacuating his son, Imran with the assistance of a Hessian pilot and friend of the family, Hans Berger.
Berger and Imran Kuznetsov escaped to the Ronneburg hangars, from which they commandeered a Dromedary freighter loaded with Hessian-manufactured sidearms. The freighter managed to get to a jumphole leading to Omega-11, a heavily radioactive system monitored only by Daumann miners. As the Dromedary was not equipped with any codes pointing to Hessian affiliations, the plan of Berger was to load Imran off at Stuttgart or Baden Baden. However, Berger was hinted by a Hessian comrade of his that the Coalitionists know of his departure and they already captured Michael and Irina, so their plans were changed, their new destination became Planet New Berlin, the heart of Rheinland.