To: The Unioner Syndicliga ϟ From: Maximillian Largo, LH~

[The Syndicate Leagues]

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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.

Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei

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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy

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To: Professor Provocateur Goro Yoshida, Lane Hacker Inner Circle.
From: Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei, on behalf of the Free Workers of Rheinland.
Subject: Surviving.

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"Professor Provocateur."


"We are in possession of technology that we consider to be yours. Given our common operations in Kansas, we would be willing to provide you with renewed technical schematics, at no cost."

"I believe you know what I speak of."

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You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Elect-lead of the Alster Union survivors.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Yoshida]

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That's interesting.

After consulting our Archives, I have found no references of LH technology being leased or sold to the Unioners, which is unsurprising since no side has made any effort to bridge the major incompatibilities that exist and cause major efficiency loses. Thus, you are probably referring to technological solutions we are selling on the black market and are 100% compatible with your systems.

So what do you need Mr Frei? Did a Waran break down and you want me to send a technician to help you out?

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"There are those who lack ambition. Who lack ability. But if you possess both then it is your role to reign over this world."

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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.

Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei

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To: Professor Provocateur Goro Yoshida, Lane Hacker Inner Circle.
From: Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei, on behalf of the Free Workers of Rheinland.
Subject: Surviving.

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*sighs*


"Yoshida, do you have a specific agenda? We're offering you technology. The hackers never attempt anything without deliberation. Therefore, you have some personal benefit from being combative."

"I can accept blows to myself. If you're trying to provoke a diplomatic incident, this communication is at an end. We have other worries without having to be concerned about the objectives of the Professor Provocateur."

"You don't have any obvious benefit to continuing this diatribe when I've repeatedly offered you a fig leaf, and we're not going to believe that you are acting out of ego. We are not going to spar with our allies. If you want to debate with me, I will happily do so in person. This is a formal channel. Feel free to make debates about my administration - we believe in freedom of speech and print - just do not do them on official communications. It makes it difficult to gauge the intentions of your broadcasts; not for me, but for the cells that who are going to provide men and ships towards Kansas."

"So there are only two potential possibilities and neither of them are productive. Are we going to put this behind us, right now? Kansas is far more worthy of our time."

"We have a common enemy. We will enfeeble one another if we do not show strength together."

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You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Elect-lead of the Alster Union survivors.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Yoshida]

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Forgive me, Mr Frei.

Sometimes despite our unique intelligence it is very hard for us to understand what you mean. So miscommunications can happen, please don't take this as nothing more than that. I believe you have seen that if I have a problem with you, I will say it directly to your face.

So, from what I understand you are in possession of "LH technology" which you assume we know exactly to what you are referring to. And you are offering to sell this LH technology to the Lane Hackers for free.

Is that correct?

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"There are those who lack ambition. Who lack ability. But if you possess both then it is your role to reign over this world."

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

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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.

Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei

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To: Professor Provocateur Goro Yoshida, Lane Hacker Inner Circle.
From: Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei, on behalf of the Free Workers of Rheinland.
Subject: Surviving.

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The director nods. He, at least, respects the Provocateur's restraint. They were both playing a part.


"Thank you, Goro. You're right."

"We see the origins as your own, although you might not see it as belonging to you anymore. About three years ago an MND unit discovered a vessel that appeared, structurally, to have been retrofitted from the Spyglass Mark One clones that your organisation manufactured before the Spyglass device was refined. The MND was going to attempt to break the vessel down. For some reason, they lost interest. Tensions had just started to rise with between Rheinland and the GMG. Given our own analysis of the hull, it is suspected that the fact that the ship had no spyglass array aboard and simply shared a spyglass hull, made the vessel unattractive for anything other than scrap value. What the vessel was responsible for was spewing a large amount of electronic noise - a crude imitation of the Spyglass battleship's original e-war array."


"As far as our records go - and there are few, we only know as much as we do through our old contacts with the Neo-Terrans and the Legion, long turned sour now - the vessel shared enough similarities to the Ragnarok to risk a diplomatic incident should the hulk be discovered by anyone - right down to drive coil elements and some of the less impressive experimental systems - which are simply run-of-the-mill by modern design standards, or otherwise rejected concepts. Internally it was practically junked together. We remain uncertain if the Neo-Terrans were the original owners of the hull, or if it was an early Hellfire Legion project that was, for whatever reason, lost. What we do know is that the vessel is not the Metropolis, and is not an Arbiter refit, for it lacks the Arbiter's naval ram and the various jammers and sensor spikes the Legion clad their modern battleships with, but shares the Arbiters port and starboard rearward hangars."

"As the vessel sat rotting in the naval reserve, information as to the vessel's existence was leaked to us. You may recall we requested spyglass wavelength traces at the time, back under the Garen administration, from Professor Hunter. We had our suspicions about the ship after running into a renewed NTF presence within the Rheinland interior - even as far as Cologne."

"The Hulk had significant reactor reserves and had been running ambivalently for a long period of time. Its... volatile... electronic noise made it stand out prominently from the background radiation. Usually the ship would be written off as useless, but the Unioners were, and are, short on battleships that are under a century old. After about a year of superstitious garbage concerning 'ghost ships', the Unioners eventually deduced the source of the emissives and made a play for it. It was quite probably the most successful heist we've made in the last five years in terms of bulk dry mass obtained at once, even if the total value didn't add together."

"One advantage... perhaps the sole advantage... of a battleship that seemingly was put together in the independent worlds by a cluster of separate parties is that it has been relatively easy to modify with whatever components we have to hand. The ship has won the affectionate nickname 'Siren', due to how impossible she is to hide on the sensor grid, and requires passage through the Puerto Rican rift for her to slip in and out of Rheinland properly, without detection. This reduces her use at home, anywhere other than Cologne, which is filled with natural interference."


"She is, however, very well armed. We've armed her even more formidably than an Arbiter, whilst maintaining the same speed and agility. She was recomissioned to fight superior numbers of Jormungands in adverse conditions; she will perform just as well against her Hellfire Legion sisterships. She has also been clad in technology which is distinctly Unioner in vintage. We have replaced the engines, added secondary thrusters to balance out the additional mass, and an experimental cryocooler under the stern, ballancing the power grid. She is a terrible vessel in every capacity except that as a warship. In Kansas, where there will be nowhere to hide anyway and the Legion will have to meet her on her terms, she will be the vanguard of the distraction force."

"Due to the vast amount of electrical noise she emits, she will be very distracting indeed. Imagine a foghorn in a library."


"The ship, by now, has been so heavily modified and chopped around that it is the last of the spyglass battleships only in its basic shape. There remains a large number of internal systems aboard the Siren that have otherwise been cut out, left alone, or bypassed, which are arcane to us. Like you say, Professor, there are limits to the compatibility of foreign technologies. Much of this hardware dates back to the Vespucci Triurmivate. There may be data, or hardware, left aboard the ship that might be of value to the Hackers in the coming strike. For all we know there could be code-backdoors within old Legion facilities and assets on the table."


"We would be willing to transfer all of the Siren's vestigial avionics, computer systems, and VI cores to the Lane Hackers. You will likely be able to make better use of them than we can."

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You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Elect-lead of the Alster Union survivors.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Elektra King]

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Mr. Frei,

Apologies for the abrupt change of face, but Professor Yoshida has requested I take over this communication for the time being – you may consider me your Professor pro tem, if you will. As one of the only remaining active Lane Hackers that had intimate access to the original Spyglass, and indeed one that was present when it was decommissioned, I’m sure you’ll agree I am more than qualified to handle the matter.

If what you claim to have found truly is a retrofitted Spyglass Mark One, then consider me intrigued. The presence of such a hulk as far afield as Cologne is highly suspicious however, and I am eager to see what information about the vessel's history can be extracted from its hardware that the Unioners have not yet decrypted.

We will of course share any relevant findings with you once the internal systems have been thoroughly investigated.

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[Elektra King]

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[The Syndicate Leagues]

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

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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.

Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei

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To: Elektra King, Lane Hacker Inner Circle.
From: Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei, on behalf of the Free Workers of Rheinland.
Subject: Surviving.

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"It's excellent to hear from an expert, miss King. We had feared there weren't many of you that were not dead, missing, or in the halls of the Commonwealth."

"We would be willing to show you the vessel personally, including providing you boarding access. A sets of eyes, in person, and a healthy look at the vessel's logs, are always the best proof of reality. She is being moved to Fortaleza, Kansas, at the end of the week. We plan to use the rogue stations in the area as a staging ground till more permanent assets can be moved from Kansas."

"As for how the vessel reached cologne, we have our theories. There is a star system, known as Mackenzie, in the independent worlds. It is a cold asteroid disk, much alike Bering, but containing significantly denser rock material and a star of greater lumen. The Unioners used to have our major staging grounds in Mackenzie, till we abandoned the system when stellar drift increasingly disaligned the entry and exit jump anomalies. Mackenzie lead directly between Hudson and Cologne. We know that the Legion was aware of Mackenzie due the nature of our alliance, over twelve years ago now. That explanation, of course, raises more questions than it answers, but for now, it serves. "

Gun Camera footage - Mackenzie System. Date: 817 AS.

"Inform Yoshida that we are presently working with the Rogues to stage a combined raid in Kansas around the same time-frame. Not a major commitment yet, but enough to tax their defences here. The distraction may prove useful to the Hackers, along with any other parties you have in reserve, to simultaneous operations elsewhere."


"The Unioners are preparing for a strike on America freeport. We have NEMP weaponry in reserve, and will deploy them as soon as the Hamburg Minefield has been deployed. The plan is to move from a minor nuisance to an aggressive front before the Legion have time to adapt to the strategic realities. The Commonwealth may claim that America is a noncombatant-focused facility, but, as with all things, the station serves as the rally point for the legion in the system. Incapacitating the outpost will force the Commonwealth to stage from Arbiter and Spyglass dreadnoughts, which is exactly what we desire. We have the bomber forces to confront them. "

"My people will have what is owed to them. As will yours."

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You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Elect-lead of the Alster Union survivors.

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"Though the past is scarred and the future untold"
" Be the boot heavy, the vacuum cold."
"I of the Liga,  do not fold"
"For suits or saints or beggar's gold.
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[Elektra King]

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This is a generous offer, Mr. Frei.

I would relish the opportunity to inspect the vessel first hand. Undoubtedly my fellow colleagues among the old guard, Professors Yoshida and Clay, would also like to see the ship – we do not take this sort of discovery lightly.

We accept your offer. You may contact me at your convenience to arrange the meeting.

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