No. You know what, I've been here long enough to earn the right not to turn my tongue into a circus routine, sorry. Don't mind me if I just call you Captain, okay? I er... Can't really say as to the bases. That would depend on what exactly it is you're flying and how long your operation's going to take. It's nothing against you personally, but we're not really in a position to support large vessels for long, and that's without even talking about the sort of attention that'll bring us.
Are these operations likely to end with anyone getting shot? Ideally, I'd prefer to avoid putting any more holes in Zwickau right now than strictly necessary. There's a fine line between functional installation and impressionist swiss cheese, and I'd like to see our bases stay as far away from the latter end of that scale as possible.
The weapons'd be interesting, sure. I'll get in touch with Freya, she usually handles things with you guys. She'll probably be able to give you a proper answer.
Take it easy, Captain. We'll be in touch soon.
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"This is really sort of a personal project of mine."
- James Arland, on single-handedly engaging an enemy regiment.
Incoming transmission... Source:------Unknown Comm ID:-----Tovarisch Kapitan Katyusha Encryption:--Krasny Octyabr Topic:-------Interesting items Recipient:------VWA Signal strength:100% Data integrity:-100%
Handshake protocol completed...
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Zdravstvujtye, Tovarisch McFarlen.
Due to operational secrecy requirements, i cannot reveal much about ongoing operations. But the unclassifed minimum i can reveal.
1 vessel, of gunboat size, is currently assigned to operations in rheinland. These are not direct combat operations, so any danger to your personnel and bases from these operations would be minimal.
Any more information required may only be disclosed to the head of VWA organization.
Don't know how to break it to you, but you're talking to her. One of her, anyway. Erich's been a bit under the weather lately, so Freya and I are running things. Just so we know where we all stand on this.
Freya'll probably want to talk to you on operations, but I can cover off on the supply side. Are you going to be hauling your own fuel, food, and all that? If we need to provide it, where are you going to be? It doesn't do me much good to send a transport to Hamburg loaded with fuel, only to have you show up in Dresden on empty. Sorry, but that's just the way it goes. It's not that I care tremendously about your secrets, but I can't do much to support a ship if I don't know what it needs and where it can collect if from.
And I don't recall telling you that name, Captain.
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"This is really sort of a personal project of mine."
- James Arland, on single-handedly engaging an enemy regiment.
Incoming transmission... Source:------Unknown Comm ID:-----Tovarisch Kapitan Katyusha Encryption:--Krasny Octyabr Topic:-------Interesting items Recipient:------VWA Signal strength:100% Data integrity:-100%
Handshake protocol completed...
Opening message...
Zdravstvujtye, Tovarisch.
The vessel in question, a modified Storm class Reconnaissance gunboat, has sufficient stores for long term missions and supply replenishment is handled by coalition logistics assets. All that is required from the VWA is docking permissions.
Upon this Freya making their presence known in this channel, i shall inform them of operational information.
as for your last statement, Razvedka company is very skilled in the art of acquiring information. I shall see about 'liberating' some more weapons from the rheinland military.
To get straight to the point, yes we definitely can work out a deal. However, what I get from these communications so far is that the only thing you really tell us is what you need from us. I want to know what this operation of yours is, what it means for us and how this will be beneficial to the Widerstand, either through the details of this operation by itself or through an offer more concrete than "some more weapons".
That said, do note that I am highly in favor of cooperation between our organisations, so long as I know what it is what we're helping you with.
I look forward to your response.
Do svidanya,
Freya Eistochter
Kommandant of the Vereinigte Widerstandsarmee