I will start this communication by introducing mysef. I am Chloé Henriette, a former member of the Office of the Confederal Intelligence. In recent times, following the return of the return of the Royal Enclave into power, many officers of the Confederal Intelligence, myself included, have decided to abandon our old ways and join your organization, with the hope that one day, Gallia will be once more a House that seeks peace and with its people united under one banner.
With that matter clarified, I will get to the reason I contact you for. I have started, under a false identity, an infiltration operation of the Security Bureau. Despite the mutual hate we have towards them, if succesful, this operation will give the Maquis important knowledge of the future plans of the Bureau.
I will be working under the callsign of "Abellio" in the Bureau. If possible, avoiding direct confrontation with other Maquis units and/or pilots under your direct command is prefered and it will be of mutual interest to us if your pilots get informed as well. All of the gained information will be forwarded onto this channel, along with any visual data.
My hope is that this will give our organization the edge over the Bureau and aid us in the fight to overthrow them from power. An answer confirming this transmission has been received will be awaited.
I am Boucher, lead of The Front's extremist arm and I will be your contact in The Front.
Maquis have been known for succesful infiltrations in the past, I appreciate that some of the more "conventional" non-original Maquisards are willing to follow our tradition. Now, I will not hide my disdain to your origins as part of the OCI - I am sure you will understand after Mazagran.
However the way I see it - I have little to lose here. You will get your chance to prove yourself and if you really stand against the war criminals and the genocidal maniacs that lead the oppressive military state we seek to liberate Gallia from. Serve us well and you will be rewarded. Should your cover be blown you can always seek refuge in out Military arm, with people you are likely to find familiar.
As your first assignment I would like you to gauge and relay the information flow in the GNI and Gallic Navy in regards to Lorrane and planet Metz. We have been working hard on de-stabilising Lorraine and erode the trust in the Union. A massive strike will follow sometime the following months that will aim to give the locals chance to fight for autonomy - we need to know if they are readying for it.
It is truly peculiar that so many people have ended up working for an organization such as the Maquis. Yet I strongly believe that we can set past differences aside and focus on our main task. I am well aware of the Mazagran Massacre, it was unavoidable and many of the former Council-men sought a faster and easier solution to the station and its... residents.
With that out of the way, I'll get to the matter you've mentioned. Boucher, as a former member of the Confederal Intelligence, I can assure you that the system of Lorraine is not well defended. Despite the change in leadership and the invasion by Kusari, the Navy and Intelligence function in the same way they did during the Confederacy when it comes to space operations - border-systems only have token defences at best. Aside from the battlegroup lead by the Venissieux, Lorraine is at large, not well protected. Pilots and even small warships may be able to freely bypass it as the patrols are stretched thin and do not cover anything other than the lane junctions and the planet itself. Nevertheless, I will do my best to complete the request you've put forth. Expect frequent updates on the situation.
Before ending the transmission, I would also like to attach the recent broadcast from the Gallic Seigneurs to the citizens. The broadcast is a direct response to the alliance made my Bretonia, Kusari and the Crayter Republic, focused on making the Union pay for the crimes they have commited during the reign of the Monarchy. You will find it below.
The Gallic Union Address from the Seigneurs Chamber
People of Gallia,
It has been only a short time since treacherous Sirians attacked our House unprovoked, and wounded our Nation, while the supposedly moral ones were watching and did nothing. Our pleas for aid have fallen on deaf ears. You have followed their rules, and complied with their requests, only to get stabbed in the back.
Now they gather at our borders under the guise of a so called 'Defensive Pact' against Gallia. They preach that this pact is for the safety of the region -- for their own safety, I am sure, but little do they care about Gallia and its prosperity. They use this pact to further their demands on our Nation, and sanction us when we do not bow. Do you want to pay for the upkeep of their crumbling spatial infrastructure? Do you want to pay them so they can rebuild the vessels they used to invade our House?
Difficult times lie ahead of us. They will try to divide us and manipulate us against each other. They will want to exploit our own resources and economy to mend their failing states.
For this very reason, we must stand united for the good of Gallia. Soldiers and civilians, nobles and commoners -- side by side, working together to safeguard our Nation. We must put aside our differences and redouble our efforts. We welcome those who will come to our aid and reject those who work against us. Our ancestors worked hard to turn Gallia into a powerful House, and we must continue their legacy, no matter the setbacks we had suffered, and will suffer.
Only the strong and confident GALLIC NATION will have a prosperous future in this otherwise hostile sector.
End of Address
This is - without a doubt - an attempt to bolster the already-large Navy and it represents, to say the least, concerning to us as we've seen the remnants of the Republique fleet scrapped in the dockyards of Chalons-En-Champagne whilst new warships are build around the clock.
I will also attach a file from the the Confederal Intelligence Archive that lists the many crimes commited by the very people who lead the Bureau, and at large, Gallia itself. We should have no remorse for these people, yet for the time being and for the sake of assuring our edge over them when the time is right, I will work side by side with some of their agents.
Code:
List detailing the crimes of the Royal Enclave and the Security Bureau
- Breach of Freedom of Speech;
- Breach of Freedom of Action;
- Breach of Freedom from Persecution;
- Manipulation of the media;
- Wrongful accusation;
- Wrongful imprisonment;
- Imprisonment without trial;
- Subverting the judicial system;
- Physical and mental torture;
- Unlawful execution;
- Provoking war with other Houses;
- Using the Royal Navy against its own citizens;
- Entering into alliances with outlawed organizations allowing their depredations to continue;
- Treason against the legitimate government of the Confederacy of Gallia; and,
- Usurping executive power away from the democratically elected representative government.
While it certainly seems like a long list, we have kept many more logs of such similar incidents. At any rate, make use of the information I have sent thus far, it will aid you in the future.
You are preaching to the Choir here. The Union is a Xenophobic oppressive military state. You can simply go to their direct death penalty for any so called terrorist, i.e. anyone who disagrees with their doctrine, to see that sooner or later the people of Gallia will open their eyes to their brutality and overthrow the Union with our help. The crimes of those they accepted back are just adding to the list.
The question is not if the Gallic Union's reign will come to and end, it is about when and how much damage they will do to the people of Gallia and Sirius before it does. It is our job to speed up the process for the greater good however. The broadcast you kindly shared only reinforces our view that they are going the way of the genocidal xenophobic dictatorships that sullied the history of human kind and Gallia alike. The only reason why we are not seeing concentration camps being built en masse just yet is the direct murder and execution doctrine against anyone who "works against them"
Step one is Lorraine now. Our strike shall come in the following months. It is your task to investigate Venissieux itself, and if there will be a possibility of temporarily disabling the vessel when the Lorraine strike by us and our allies comes. All we would need is getting a few maquisards on board when the time comes. We will contact you near the date of the strike to see if anything can be arranged.
Good luck, and do not get yourself caught. I will refrain from informing all Maquisards about your identity for now - it would be too great of a risk, and let's face it - some of our more, zelaous, heroes are not exactly the pinnacle or reliability. Just stay out of our way for now.
I'm afraid I cannot share the same sentiment you hold for the people of Gallia. While some have certainly risen up against the dictatorship and, in the past, the Monarchy, most of the citizens have little, if any, care for who leads them. I cannot confirm that they will fight if given the chance either - during my time in the OCI, and whilst Kusari fleets were besieging Quillan and many other worlds and stations, the citizens whom you have so much faith in have simply stood aside without taking any measures.
It would be foolish to be so reliant on the regular citizenry for our current and future military operations. I hope that clarifies what I, and my fellow colleagues, believe.
Seeing as you are so focused on the Lorraine region, I will relocate onto Planet Metz to have a closer "view" on the scale of operations conducted there. When the main Maquis attack takes place, inform me, and I shall assist.
It took over a hundred years since the putain tried to eradicate the Mouvement de Liberation Gaulois before we and the people have toppled the old regime. It is not surprising a military regime that runs on racism and fear can hold Gallia in check right now after war with the shifty KNF merdes has just ended. But these sentiments will continue subsiding as people realize what it actually means for them in the long run.
We are enjoying luxuries our predecessors didn't have when they started. Royalist Gallia was much more powerful than the Union is right now back then. Our predecessors were in a much weaker position asset-wise and didn't have Sirius pressuring their enemies and supporting them. Yet the movement eventually toppled the King anyways, with eventual massive support of many worlds that saw them as fringe dreamers at first.
With determination we might not have to hope our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will finish the job once we are gone and actually see at last a permanently free Gallia in our lifetimes.
Lorraine will be one of the first stepping stones on the long journey.
Several weeks have passed since our last talks... and much has happened since then. As a summary, a significant part of the Bureau has been reformed under the banner of a new organization, the Gallic Defense Authority. The newly-formed GDA maintains the Bureau and the majority of the Navy under its direct control, much alike the times of the Enclave, which I believe you are more than familiar with.
Despite these changes, I've remained in the National Intelligence and my mission will continue as intended.
With that clarified, I will have one, final, request for the time being. What is the exact situation in Lorraine and most importantly, have the Maquisards suffered many losses?
Union reforms
Bottom line this for me - what impact does this even have on us. It is the same people in yet again a different packaging. One we have seen many times before, flying the same flag the Enclave have. We don't care how many times they try to change their name - it is the same people that betrayed Gallia, Commited war crimes and went into bed with the almost equally guilty Confederacy.
Only change I can see, correct me if I am wrong, is that many of the blind Sirians who somehow ate up the so called "reformed" former Royalists and Enclave might recognise the "proud" return to their roots and be a bit more ready to act.
Lorraine
Our propaganda arm was extremely succesful. So succesful in fact that almost the entire Gallic Union armada has descended upon Lorraine.
Which allowed us to easily complete our real objective - we have departed at the height of the lost battle and have completed our Champagne mission with little resistance.
There was nobody to stop us in the already under defended system the Union cares little about.
What is the situation in Lorraine you ask? The Union is once againt in complete control of Metz and the space outside of the Debris fields we still control. The Metz famine has been eradicated by both Sirian haulers we have mandated and the Union haulers that the massive armada they have sent to control Lorraine made space for. Status Quo has returned, and the system is firmer under the Union than it has ever been since the Kusari war. People of Lorraine always have been and more than ever are our enemies, and our strategy will be war of attrition and focus of our "explosive" Maquisard attacks once again.
When we have departed many Maquisards were left alone against impossible odds, but this is not the first or last time - their sacrifices will be remembered and celebrated.
Future
We shall lay low for a while and regroup - bring us any an all information on the Union forces' movements but we will be consolidating our forces for several months to come. Our Military arm will have gained great boost with the half taken apart husks of the Redemption sister ships we have captured with no opposition in Champagne once we crudely patch them together.
There might be a time where we will be forced to recall you for we are severely lacking commanders for our acquired conventional miliary boost. Until then, keep sending reports, and make sure you are not discovered.