Encryption: High Recipients: Associated Parties in Channel Document Subject: Resurfacing
From: Dr. James Erzie
General Heinrich,
It's been some time since we last spoke, and I must inform you of the coming risk I mentioned in our last meeting. I'll be resurfacing today, which will likely bring the rats out of hiding. There are many risks that come along with it, but you have my word that our previous arrangement will be maintained, in life or death. I'll be coming to Wolfsburg to personally inspect progress, and see whether we are ready to launch, and aid in the last few steps to get us there if there are still things to accomplish.
Dr. James Erzie
PhD, Theoretical physics, Thermodynamics
University of Cambridge
Sender: Generalmajor Annabelle Heinrich Recipient: Doctor Erzie Source: [ᚲᛚᚨᛋᛋᛁᚠᛁᛖᛞ]
Subject: Agurvandal
Priority:High Encryption: ᚢᚾᛒᚱᛖᚨᚴᚨᛒᛚᛖ
Doctor,
The immediate area surrounding Wolfsberg along with the rest of the Jötunheimr system are under watch by my guard. No one will try anything once you've entered the system. Proceed, and oversee the final preparations. I've some other business I need to attend to in Omega-49.
Signed, Generalmajor
A. Heinrich
Rote Hessen Armee
Encryption: High Recipients: Associated Parties in Channel Document Subject: Betrayal
From: Dr. James Erzie
General Heinrich,
While traveling between Kepler and Galileo, we stumbled into a Unioner convoy that proceeded into Shikoku, and while they didn't show any aggression, there's something you should know. The Unioners, in effort to coerce some Outcasts, divulged evidence of a plan I have not yet heard about. Given I have yet to hear of this, I'd say that this was not intended to be public information. Though I'm personally interested in allocating the Angurvadal to the plot against the Corsairs in Dresden as a test of the tempering of the vessel, this particular incident would appear to any normal person to be out of bounds.
While this is critical data, surely you understand that the Unioners can not know where it was found. Keep them guessing. This is all we have to report.
[11.09.2018 22:08:16] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "We no longer provide material military assistance to the Corsair empire and have signed a pact with the Hessians in...
[11.09.2018 22:08:19] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Assertion of that right."
[11.09.2018 22:08:49] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Interesting to know.
[11.09.2018 22:09:32] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "The Union is its own. *she pauses.*"
[11.09.2018 22:09:47] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "The Corsairs viewed us as vassals. We are not servants to any cause or people."
[11.09.2018 22:09:48] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Cloaker in the vicinity.
[11.09.2018 22:10:00] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "Roger, we hear it too. It's not one of ours."
[11.09.2018 22:10:01] L\-'Barrage': Si.
[11.09.2018 22:10:04] UN|Warhawk.2: Isnt our
[11.09.2018 22:10:21] Lia.Verratti.: Do you have any disruptors?
[11.09.2018 22:10:30] IRG|Itherael: V: There's no need for that.
[11.09.2018 22:10:32] Cloaking device off
[11.09.2018 22:10:51] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "Negative, the Union does not posses the hardware for cloak disruption technology" *a passable lie."
[11.09.2018 22:11:01] NC-Falcata: Just for protocol, I can't rightly condone anything that would qualify as harassment of the unioners.
[11.09.2018 22:11:13] IRG|Itherael: V: I'm particularly interested to see this particular piece of tech to catalogue it.
[11.09.2018 22:11:14] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "We've heard of such devices, but it's mostly academic at this point.... be advised, missile launch recieved."
[11.09.2018 22:11:16] UN|Warhawk.2: *sigh* damage at firing controls
[11.09.2018 22:11:28] UN|Warhawk.2: this old cranky thing should find a rest
[11.09.2018 22:11:29] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "Confirmed. Your systems might have been damaged in the jump."
[11.09.2018 22:11:32] UN|Warhawk.2: asap
[11.09.2018 22:11:33] L\-Eliza.Valdez: And now an IRG.
[11.09.2018 22:11:39] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "We'll check the vessel out at the nearest freeport, when available."
[11.09.2018 22:11:54] Lia.Verratti.: Freeports can't moor such ships.
[11.09.2018 22:12:04] IRG|Itherael: V: It's part of our policy not to.
[11.09.2018 22:12:08] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "They can move bombers, however."
[11.09.2018 22:12:19] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "It is the bomber with the firing system fault."
[11.09.2018 22:12:48] L\-Eliza.Valdez: That ship though, looks way too far from anything Rheinlandish.
[11.09.2018 22:12:52] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Not even a taint of green.
[11.09.2018 22:12:59] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: *Brusque, yet well-tempered* "Outcast vessels. We intend to accelerate to cruise velocities. We are content...
[11.09.2018 22:13:03] UN|Mecklenburg: Hunter: Yes, because a color defines a house, does it?
[11.09.2018 22:13:08] L\-'Barrage': Because it's Hellfiire.
[11.09.2018 22:13:14] L\-Eliza.Valdez: The Arbeiter, the Wraith, the Odin, all green.
[11.09.2018 22:13:16] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: to continue with the exchange, although we would prefer to do so at a greater speed."
[11.09.2018 22:13:25] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Oh and the Sichel or whatever.
[11.09.2018 22:13:47] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "The origins of the Vessel are unknown to us."
[11.09.2018 22:14:03] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "It has been the subject of a three year investigation to identify such missing links."
[11.09.2018 22:14:26] L\-'Barrage': It looks like an Arbiter, it walks like an Arbiter, it quacks like an Arbiter.
[11.09.2018 22:14:31] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "Best estimate, gathered through data exchange with the Natio Octavarium, Neo Terrans, amongst others, is that the...
[11.09.2018 22:14:32] L\-'Barrage': Si?
[11.09.2018 22:14:55] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Vessel was assembled by a group known as the Vespucci Triumvirate. *pauses.* The Lane Hackers, the prototypical...
[11.09.2018 22:15:07] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Hellfire Legion, and the Vagrant Raiders."
[11.09.2018 22:15:23] L\-'Barrage': A relic then.
[11.09.2018 22:15:30] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Mhm. So a Hellfire Legion ship got in the hands of the Unioners that are now in Shikoku system.
[11.09.2018 22:15:38] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "Exact records are imprecise. *the voice smoothens out* Precisely. And a very antiquated one at that."
[11.09.2018 22:15:38] L\-Eliza.Valdez: This is all so out of place.
[11.09.2018 22:15:54] L\-Eliza.Valdez: So again, the reason we shouldn't shoot you lot?
[11.09.2018 22:16:17] UN|Leuchte: E: Diplomacy, we are neutral to Malta
[11.09.2018 22:16:22] L\-Eliza.Valdez: In what possible way could you be useful to us?
[11.09.2018 22:16:23] UN|Leuchte: E: Or at least me
[11.09.2018 22:16:34] L\-Eliza.Valdez: That Zoner back in Galileo was neutral to Malta too.
[11.09.2018 22:16:40] L\-Eliza.Valdez: It didn't ugh stop us.
[11.09.2018 22:16:45] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "The Unioners construct large numbers of spacecraft for our partner parties. We are in search of...
[11.09.2018 22:17:02] UN|Leuchte: E: No, seriously, we made multiple convoys of materials for you
[11.09.2018 22:17:05] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "A fresh set of colleagues since the Corsairs turned their heels to our people."
[11.09.2018 22:17:12] Lia.Verratti.: Do you construct ships for Hessians?
[11.09.2018 22:17:13] AD|Zannone.: What do you construct for the Maltese nation?
[11.09.2018 22:17:21] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Can you build me a Togo?
[11.09.2018 22:17:23] UN|Leuchte: E: We carried to you the Mil salvage
[11.09.2018 22:17:38] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "There are significant documentation of the Union hauling Military Salvage to Outcast shipyards, comrades."
[11.09.2018 22:17:44] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: *there is.
[11.09.2018 22:18:11] UN|Leuchte: E: and also the commerce of cryo organism and cardamine in out territory
[11.09.2018 22:18:12] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "Outcasts of the Thirteenth Fleet navy were instrumental in assisting the Union with vital wartime intelligence against
[11.09.2018 22:18:15] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: the separatists."
[11.09.2018 22:18:18] AD|Zannone.: The same can be said of so many others, it paints you out to be no different than junkers.
[11.09.2018 22:18:22] L\-Eliza.Valdez: The Thirteenth is gone.
[11.09.2018 22:18:28] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Whatever you've seen isn't them.
[11.09.2018 22:18:28] AD|Zannone.: Peddling on shipments to maintain a decent neutral status.
[11.09.2018 22:18:38] AD|Zannone.: In other words, peddling for your own profit.
[11.09.2018 22:18:39] UN|Leuchte: E: Gone? A pilot visit us every week
[11.09.2018 22:18:40] AD|Zannone.: And skin.
[11.09.2018 22:18:48] L\-Eliza.Valdez: He's flying false colors.
[11.09.2018 22:18:56] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: *Bluntly* "Maltese, if you intend to shoot us, have out with it."
[11.09.2018 22:19:00] UN|Leuchte: E: But still a Maltese citizen
[11.09.2018 22:19:09] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schutzky: "If you do not, make your aims clear."
[11.09.2018 22:19:47] AD|Zannone.: Maybe I'm just too hip to shoot right now, but lying wont help.
[11.09.2018 22:19:57] L\-Eliza.Valdez: So in what way would the Unioners be helpful to us against the Imperio del Corsario?
[11.09.2018 22:20:17] UN|Leuchte: E: If we carry materials to you...
[11.09.2018 22:20:19] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: *bluntly* "If I inform you of the following, do you guarantee not to spread it across the Neural net?"
[11.09.2018 22:20:23] UN|Leuchte: E: To build your ships
[11.09.2018 22:20:33] L\-Eliza.Valdez: The Junkers carry materials to us, the Zoners do, some Liberty Rogues even do it as well.
[11.09.2018 22:20:36] AD|Zannone.: I do.
[11.09.2018 22:20:39] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schutltzky: "As the following is more vital than any mere battleship, or my own life."
[11.09.2018 22:20:40] AD|Zannone.: But not my superiors.
[11.09.2018 22:20:44] L\-Eliza.Valdez: That doesn't make you in any way more special than a freelance trader looking for some money.
[11.09.2018 22:21:02] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Vital information? Hmm.
[11.09.2018 22:21:07] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Now that sounds interesting.
[11.09.2018 22:21:23] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Go at it, maybe if it's worthwhile I'll let you be.
[11.09.2018 22:21:24] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: "Good. *slowly, precisely.* The Red Hessians, Sirius Coalition, and Bundschuh are arming themselves...
[11.09.2018 22:21:53] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "For a total, dedicated raid against the Corsair positions within Dresden."
[11.09.2018 22:22:15] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Dresden? I thought the Hessians owned the place.
[11.09.2018 22:22:21] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "The Corsairs have disseminated themselves through the Rhein. They are unwelcome to all and spread only blight where they go."
[11.09.2018 22:22:29] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "I'm afraid not."
[11.09.2018 22:22:49] L\-Eliza.Valdez: So your predecessors invite the Corsairs in, they get in Rhein and ruin the place and now it's big regrets time?
[11.09.2018 22:23:02] L\-Eliza.Valdez: How dramatic.
[11.09.2018 22:23:12] Lia.Verratti.: So you switch allegiance left and right just like that? Why would anyone trust you with anything?
[11.09.2018 22:23:39] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "We have always worked towards of the survival of our people. We have several times attempted to enlist the aid...
[11.09.2018 22:23:44] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: of the national Council, to no response."
[11.09.2018 22:23:50] L\-Eliza.Valdez: So if you're no longer with the Imperio, are you also part of that plan to drive the Corsairs out of Dresden?
[11.09.2018 22:24:05] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: Marza: "That's... above my access. Sir?"
[11.09.2018 22:24:15] Lia.Verratti.: Sounds like it.
[11.09.2018 22:24:21] AD|Zannone.: I don't think you need to ask, Valdez.
[11.09.2018 22:24:35] Lia.Verratti.: That doesn't make you valuable to us, it makes you untrustworthy.
[11.09.2018 22:24:37] L\-Eliza.Valdez: Maybe they only supply the Hessians with materials for ships.
[11.09.2018 22:24:47] Lia.Verratti.: What assurance we have you're not gonna swap to Corsair allegiance tomorrow?
[11.09.2018 22:24:48] L\-Eliza.Valdez: You know the same level of allegiance as they have to us.
[11.09.2018 22:24:50] Lia.Verratti.: And betray us.
[11.09.2018 22:26:10] L\-Eliza.Valdez: And now they've gone quiet.
[11.09.2018 22:26:20] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: "We would be prepared to initiate formalized communications upon vessel security."
[11.09.2018 22:27:07] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: "This is dependent upon if you are truly interested in a partnership. *level-headedly* The Union has been
[11.09.2018 22:27:17] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: manipulated and abused repeatedly by the edge world powers."
[11.09.2018 22:27:49] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: "Our shipbuilding competencies are exceptional. They are our core strengths. We have the ability to augment your shipyards...
[11.09.2018 22:27:50] Lia.Verratti.: We are, but we don't trust you. Your history proves you betray people left and right.
[11.09.2018 22:27:53] AD|Zannone.: Spoiling plans might do just that, and what if one day you see us as mistreating.
[11.09.2018 22:28:22] L\-Eliza.Valdez: I'd love to believe your sincerity if it wasn't for the fact you're bargaining for your lives.
[11.09.2018 22:28:27] AD|Zannone.: Who would be willing to commit to a business partner who cannot hold to his word.
[11.09.2018 22:28:44] L\-Eliza.Valdez: And as senora Verratti has said - you've already betrayed the Rheinlanders and Corsairs at least once.
[11.09.2018 22:28:45] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: "Then let us paint a new history. Outcast, I myself was not with the Union under the banner of Garen."
[11.09.2018 22:29:12] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: "If you wish to blow my ship apart, Outcasts, take your best shot. Marza, lower the shields."
[11.09.2018 22:29:16] AD|Zannone.: And what garuntee do we have that it will remain
[11.09.2018 22:29:20] AD|Zannone.: "Your" banner.
[11.09.2018 22:29:25] UN|GEIST-KKS-Sirene: ADM Schultzky: "It is ultimately their choice."
Dr. James Erzie
PhD, Theoretical physics, Thermodynamics
University of Cambridge
Sender: Generalmajor Annabelle Heinrich Recipient: Doctor Erzie Source: [ᚲᛚᚨᛋᛋᛁᚠᛁᛖᛞ]
Subject: Plan
Priority:High Encryption: ᚢᚾᛒᚱᛖᚨᚴᚨᛒᛚᛖ
*the transmission flips on, revealing a red faced blue eyed Heinrich, slightly pissed from the looks*
These fucking idiots wonder why my first instinct was to execute them, and their families.
Diplomacy aside, I'll humor you with a reward for bringing me this information. I can only assume now this has hit the net in exchange for some money anyways. The plan excluded multiple non-diplomatic aligned parties with the Federal assets in the system hanging over our heads. Involving say, you, would leave you with more than bounty hunters on your tail.
None the less this'll require some extra muscle it seems, and the Union will have to meet some disciplinary action anyways so perhaps there will be a portion where you fit in. But if I include you, I need not remind you that you are putting risking quite a bit more than your diplomatic status.
Signed, Generalmajor
A. Heinrich
Rote Hessen Armee
Encryption: High Recipients: Associated Parties in Channel Document Subject: Strategy
From: Dr. James Erzie
General Heinrich,
While the Union requires direct action, you know as well as I do that for my own diplomatic standings, I cannot do something of that sort. However, on the front of the Corsairs, perhaps my crew can relieve a wing of fighters so that you may execute your actions more personally. Food for thought.
We'll have the Angurvadal in position as soon as we are able. In the meantime, the Itherael will move into Rheinland to hold a post until we receive further instruction. We have no other objectives at this time, so we will support your efforts while we can.
Dr. James Erzie
PhD, Theoretical physics, Thermodynamics
University of Cambridge