To: The Lane Hackers. The Atacama Group. Subject: Carthage Must Be Destroyed

[TheSauron]

From: Fleet Captain Leonard Harrington, Atacama Cohort
Subject: This mess
Source: Vespucci
Encryption: High
Priority: High

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Right.

I'm not even going to bother addressing any of the 'evidence' provided, because calling it 'worthless' would be a god damn understatement. So. Are you lot done pouting at each other, or are we all kissing this deal goodbye?

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One MD Admiral

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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: All.
From: Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg.
Subject: Clausula.

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"I see that our Union of equals was better made when we were trading equipment and strategic impetus rather than schemes. I see now that the same truth, the same data, will be coloured by the prism of agenda, no matter if all eyes are bathed in the same light. "


"We're tired - we all are."

"The Union is going to end this conflict. I am in the process of risking my own life to do so, just as my kin have. It will not be under the terms of any party except those who have fought and died, the Unioners, and the Seperatists. No outlay will be given, no update offered, till what must be done has been followed through."


"To the Atacama group, two hundred million credits will be made available to whichever account you request to pay for your efforts protecting the lives of those aboard Pacifica To the Gaians - your movement contains thousands of our brother LWB, not to mention that your ecological expertise will be most essential for ensuring the salvation of Nuremburg's remaining megafauna. We look forward to the prospect of emancipating the Pirashark and the Gimeni worm for extinction, together, whilst your Vidar cruiser would find the aid of our technicians most liberating."

"The Natio, we will continue our negotiations elsewhere. We have shared interests in the Liberty borderworlds and the Taus which transcend the Union's domestic concerns, and are very much of your court - of your history. We have a future together, and we are drawing together plans to recognise this future in due course. You have done much for us - soon, our peoples are to combine."


"As for the Lane Hackers, it's for you to decide what future you endorse for the people of Rheinland - but know that your endorsement will not change history, nor does it have power here. We supported your treaty as the proposal of comrades lending resources to a co-mutual struggle. Now you have nothing to offer to the people of Bering, Separatist or Unioner. I understand that you have long fostered the atmosphere of infallibility. The Union understands that all are human - and will forgive these transgressions in due time. Our alliance is old and it has weathered much. However you must view us as more than useful idiots, more than pawns on a chestboard. Conviction, professor, is worthy of a thousand lies. I do not expect you to respond in kind, aloof as you are. You know it in your hearts. That much is unspoken."

"But it is for the Union to put these days behind us. Carthage must be destroyed, as must all empire. The mercenaries the Separatists have sent after us burn. Their blockade is smashed, they just do not know it yet. Whilst you have been talking about the Union's peril, we have been winning the strategic war, by ourselves, without any military assistance."

"No man can control an independent world. Corsairs, Rogues, Outcasts, Men of the Union from as far afield as Munich, even Landwirtrechbewegung, who have no stake in the fight, have fought the Separatists back, at our sides. Even independent Junkers have banded together to render the belt free."

"Yet still we try for peace. A noble treaty is far finer than the greatest victory in the field of battle. It is self-evidently so."

"We have mobilised. It has taken us three months to do so, but we have mobilised. There are more of us than the Seperatists, better supplied, better maintained, with quantities of logistics and qualities of equipment in excess of the militarised rust that is enfeebling soldiers without an industry. Guns without oil. The Unioners control the airspace around Freeport Two uncontested. We are encircling them. Yet we still desire peace, not destruction - it will be a peace on our own terms, without the consultation of Weimar."



For it is not the physical city of Carthage that must be destroyed, but the idea of Carthage. The concept that an Independent world can be host to house power. I opened this channel in the search of unity, only for my people to discover it within themselves."

"The need for eagles, dies. The land, survives. Solidarity outlives even iron flags, as has been demonstrated time before and time again, as it was during the Nomad War. This conflict in my people's cradle is but a microcosm of the wider war. The war for what kind of men we choose to be."



"Your organisations will hear no more from the Union on the Bering scenario. Hackers, spread disinformation and sedition campaigns if you desire; my support base is concrete and it will continue to regard you as allies once the hammer of the Union restores peace to the belt. I do not expect you to know that he who burns Ucagleon's house can only expect the same in return. We all learn. It's human to think otherwise, whilst it's wisdom to know better."

"A good brother forgives the sins of the prodigal. The best of luck to us all - may we all remain the masters of our own fate."

"For the Unioners valiantly are."

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You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Comrade Arbeiter of the Cologne system.

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Identification: Taskmaster Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Fourth Fleet

To: Present Parties

Subject: RE: Clausula
Encryption: Quite.
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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Well then. That was not the outcome the Natio was hoping for. Nevertheless, we have the following offers and proclamations to make:

Atacama Cohort: Your efforts in Vespucci are valiant and the Guard's greater causes are similarly aligned to some of our own. We hope to work further with you and your parent organization in the future.

Lane Hackers: Just as there was a bright past between our two organizations, there can yet be a bright future. Apart from a few missteps, I believe we have made good progress towards that in the past month. I personally would love to see it continue in that direction, and my government unanimously supports this. We look forward to hearing from you.

Unioners: Our doors are always open for humanitarian efforts, and while the reaches of Bering and Rheinland herself are outside of the Fourth Octavarium Fleet's military capacity, there are always other operations we can conduct.

Regards,
Taskmaster Harold Kane
Fourth Octavarium Fleet

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[TheSauron]

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From: Fleet Captain Leonard Harrington
To: Everyone
Encryption: Pretty good
Subject: Compensation

Mister Frei.

The Cohort will respect your wish to handle this on your own. If you need anything else, contact Warden Collins for logistical support. As for the money, keep it. We'll call in a favour in due time.

Mister Kane.

The hope is mutual. I believe the Watchers have already reached out to you as of now. I'll leave it in their hands.

That's all,
Fleet Captain Leonard Harrington, Atacama Cohort

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[Yoshida]

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Corin Frei.

You have lost old man.

You spouted despicable lies about the Lane Hackers and we called your bluff. Eventually you run out of cards and revealed you had nothing of substance to show us.

You are indeed tired and you need to retire. Only a fool would believe he could best the Lane Hackers in a mind game. I am not sure if you have realized it by now but we had offered you in the beginning an honorable way out, a way to save face. Instead you threw this generous offer back to our face.

We spent time and energy to secure peace for the Unioners while you and the Atacama Warband were only designing battle plans and didn't even consider that peace was possible. We were so close but you decided to blow everything up. Now go to Marshall and beg for peace like the good dog you are.

But you are right for one thing Corin. The Lane Hackers will continue their dealings with the Unioners. Just not with you. Don't contact us ever again and don't show your lizard face on our doorstep or I will personally sponsor your retirement plan.

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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: All.
From: Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg.
Subject: Clausula.

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"We always believed peace was possible. We still do."

"The Arbeitsdirektorate is determined by popular support for the mission. We are not a cult of personality. We're determined by a vote from the hundred and twenty seven cells that contribute the most assets to common objectives. It is, by essence, an emergency power process determined by crises. I am a servant, not a master."

"This is not about me. This is not about what you think the Union is, or isn't. It's not about politics, or houses. It's not about the strategic field or about destroying the government of Liberty, or foreign intelligence services, It's about people."

"I made this communication to ask what assistance you were willing to help us with. The mistake you made is was assuming that it was volenteerist act to place ourselves on a chessboard. No. There are no winners and losers. Not with lives."

" The Union is headed to Vespucci to bomb Hykarsis. We'll negotiate peace here in Bering, or we won't. You can put as many holes in the trade lane as you desire, doing Locklear's bidding for him in a fool's errand to maintain an illusion of face, sabotaging your own objectives like vindicative animals, or you can get out of the way, it will not change events. It will not even impact events. You are a breath in a hurricane."


"Sirius is coming apart at the seams. Bretonia hangs in the balance. Rheinland is intertwined with the Gallic economy and the intelligence services have captured the government. Kusari marches in the Sigmas. The Corsairs and the Hessians run rampant through my home. Sirius is as violent as it was during the closing days of the nomad war, and all you think about is winners, and losers. A child playing chess."

"We choose closure instead of war. Even if we must go it alone."


"That is the true loss, demagogue. You can't fabricate reality to suit what you wish it to be. I hope that one day you learn the definition of honesty."

The airspace around Marshal Station.



"For you can't shoot honesty. We rise above."

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You cannot cut off the tongue, of a man who speaks through his acts.
C.Frei.
Comrade Arbeiter of the Cologne system.

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" 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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