My name is Caroline Ross, and I am contacting you today on behalf of Warden Collins. One of my agents has received surprising information regarding the political situation in Bering. They've learned that you are supposedly in open conflict with Battlegroup Harmony. We would like to know, is that true? What events led to such a development?
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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Vorarbeiter Gunda Riehl
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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: The Gaians. From:Thuringia System, location classified. Subject:Manic Panic.
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“You ever been railed real, genuine enjoyable sex, right, then your guy thinks he can batter you into strawberry jam just 'cause you showed his lizard a good time? 'course you have - you're a woman on this side of the law. I feel for you, girl."
"Fittin' physical metaphor for us and the Hellfire Legion, when you think about it real scuzzy like. Suppository some NOX then you'll get the idea. We used to give the bastards our shipyard and mutual raidin' logistics for our joint piratical privilage, kiss me sideways, during the Liberty war. They take what they want then jog on. Same's been happening with the Seppies', 'cept reversed right around. They shot the Seppies during the escape from New Hampshire - whilst we charged in on our gleaming white stallions and trampled their blade preadolescent switchblades into the curb where they came from. It's been real sore after that."
-she lights a cigarette, slumping down.-
"So we helped the Harmonics build fortifications all over the shop in Beringia. Figured it'd be a common ground to stand on against the Navy. We'd had hopes that the system could become a refuge from house corruption - y'know, somewhere for anybody to lay low. Then the Harmonistas got a little antsy when we started shooting down Legionaries in view of their stations. This was after the Legion buzzed the tower - figuratively knockin' antennae off Pacifica's conn spire with their great ponderous battleships like they were trying to sharpen them or something."
"It had the desired effect. Y'all know what the Legion's like with information campaigns, considerin' the grapevine's spilling the white and strong about how you've hoovered up a whole bunch of ex-Legion dissolutes. I reckon most of those oldschool legionaries still remember when the Unioners and the Legion were allies. Heck, we went so far back we've even got a few Legionary fighters lazing about the place. They'd shoot at us until we defended ourselves then used evidence of said self-defence as proof before Harmony's allseeing eye that we were an undisciplined rabble not worthy the time. Simultaneously, we rebuilt the Harmony from fracking scraps. Call that for credit."
"The Star finally went and expanded when Oberst Arbeiter Max Schilder took over Pacifica cell. Harmony requestioned the Union to start building them cruisers - they can't replace any of their warships themselves which the previous honcho agreed with. Schilder held the order up in return for a renegotiation of Harmony's laws regarding self-defence in the Freeport 2 area; the Seppies were actin' like a bonafide police force in our own backyard, even selling our salvage off without consultation. There wasn't any intent to go violent with it. 'Cept Knight had made the calculus in her mind that she was willing to go tap-dance with the Legion and that we were the party she was willing to swap out in order to fufill our strategic objectives. She was going to pump our logistics for everything we had, then string us up with our own ropes."
"Knight's fricking oh-so proportionate response was to try to take the cruiser by force. Unfortunately for the strike team she'd sent to secure the ship, when Unioner's build ships, we build them underbudget and ahead of schedule, baby. Since Harmony had the element of surprise, Pacifica didn't really have any time to initiate defensive planning other than, in Irony thick enough that a Pirasharq couldn't swim in it, re-pressurized the cruiser, jumped a skeleton crew in it, fired up the reactor, and engaged the siege cruiser with Harmony's own requisition. You can threaten a Unioner's life, but you threaten our shipyard? You'd better believe in heaven, because you're going to get disincorporated. The entire Harmony strike force got dusted out by Hel and a gaggle of alert fighters. Soldiers don't like getting their nuts ripped off by paras."
"Knight's miscalculation didn't sit well with her own ego, and she fired up the NEMPs like a good little junta-ite. I don't know anything more from then on, 'cept high command has weirdly put out a huge requisition for medical supplies (I don't even want to know what that's for), and, freakishly, plastic. A lot of plastic."
"It's... disgusting. I'm shellshocked out of my fracking mind. It's always the soldiers. Always the kids in uniform, with a gun in their hands. They kicked my great great great grandfather into an orbital prison for protestin' after the eighty years war, and now they're gunning for Pacifica. Why? It might be the sillicate painting my greymatter greyer from all the rocks I've lived in, but it's some nasty crap. I had friends in the Seperatist movement - some of the closest, furious bastards I've ever fought and drunk with. Captain Rodriguez. Where the frack are you now, Amanda? Bombing kiddies?"
"I... got out. I can't take it up there. The whole situation is bogus. We're looking at ways to expand our supply chain into Vespucchi so we can hit the traitorous bastards who started all of this in the gizzard, but apart from that, the outlook's grim. We're direly undersupported out here and any resources that the Gaians can ship up to us will save souls. It's speed, numbers. containment, prayer."
Till the rounds come round, came round for me.
Gunda Riehl.
Vorarbeiter, Thuringia.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)
This is a very problematic revelation, given our past involvement with the Battlegroup. We have not even suspected the use of NEMP warheads has alread taken place... The Guard will have to gather information from multiple points of view before we commit to any action.
And speaking of that, you have mentioned an active exchange of information between the Battlegroup and the Legion. Are they working together now? It was known to us that the Legion has sabotaged their initial call for aid, as it witnessed by one of our operatives firsthand. It is surprising to hear of any sort of cooperation at all.
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.
Vorarbeiter Gunda Riehl
Incoming Transmission
Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: The Gaians. From:Thuringia System, location classified. Subject:Manic Panic.
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"Don't get me wrong, there's a minute chance that the Legion just happened to be loitering in Pacifica's AO whilst the Nuke went off. You want to bet that it's a coincidence 'cuz you'll be a rich woman if you win these odds."
"Whatever story y'all here, please, wire it back to us. Understanding why it's come to this helps us resolve it. We're not gunning to salt the wound."
Till the rounds come round, came round for me.
Gunda Riehl.
Vorarbeiter, Thuringia.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)
From: Major Thomas Wallace, Atacama Cohort Subject: Bering Source: Vespucci Encryption:High Priority:High
Good evening.
Quote:It appears that the Union regret that they lend support to the Navy. When we constructed the Marshall complex within the area they would supply us with materials. I have to assume that they would know full well what it means to construct what is a military installation in the Tanner belt.
We do not tolerate combat against unsactioned targets within our policed area. Something the Union in their desire to create an anarchistic pirate haven did not appreciate.
They would lead us on with a ship order, consuming resources and ship capacities. Only to go back on something so simple as the delivery of an agreed vessel.
This is the story we have been presented with, as per your request. As per Matriarch Ross' request, you should know that the Guard halted any material exchanges with the Battlegroup untill the situation is normalized, and their partnership with Locklear's loyalists terminated.
In any case. I am Thomas Wallace of the Atacama Cohort. Ma'am Ross made us aware that you wish to expand into Vespucci, and Fleet Captain Harrington has expressed interest in that prospect. From now on, I will be your line of communication with the Cohort, if your eagerness is still there. As far as our intelligence data goes, there is much to be done before your organisation can deploy its forces in Vespucci itself. I suggest we get started immediately.
I need a rundown of resources the Union is willing and able to dedicate to this prospect, so that I know what we're working with.More detailed information on what supplies are needed on Pacifica would also be appreciated. The sooner we receive it, the sooner we will be able to provide what we have access to.
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.
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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
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UPSA stellarcon.
United Syndicliga.
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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. Information-Recruitment-Message Dump-Feedback
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.
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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: ............... From:Unknown User, Pacifica Base, Bering. Subject:................
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……….Glad someone out there can <static>ear us on our side, Major Wallace, we’d…. <static>…lost hope there was anyone in the Legion who honours our alliance anymore.
The nuke took out the…. <static> primary comms array and only internal channels are functional. Shipyard is…. <static> functional and the strategic reserves are intact. We…. <fizzle> Placed the station in a lateral spin when the Nukes got through the defence screen and the rock soaked up most of the neutron burst…. <static> ….Habitation breached by…. <crackle> Bolide debris… <static> lacking medical supplies… <static>
We need water for electrolysis without our recycling plant, or we’re going to suffocate in fourteen days. Before that we need medical supplies, antiradiation drugs, bandages <crackle>…coagulants, or between thirty five and seventy more Unioners aren’t going to make it. <static> Reinforcements needed ASAP, CAP and Recon sorties report heavy Separatist activity in the area. <Crackle> The fricking Seppies caught us in the jugular, Major, whilst all our defence forces were sortied down to the Omega line. We're down to <static> the Harmony Hel and whatever reserve fighters we can scrape together. We can repair Pacifica, but not if they vaporize us before the Rest of the Union can get here, and that's going to take the better part <static> month. Outlook grim.
<static> ...I've got a repair team to manage <crackle> the array <static> we're going to try to get a message out and see if we can contact the League, the Hackers, anybody. The sooner you get here Major, the more will <static> survive.
For those that have died here, who are still dying. Put a bullet through Locklear's brain for us.
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"I of the Liga, do not fold" "For suits or saints or beggar's gold. Information-Recruitment-Message Dump-Feedback
From: Major Thomas Wallace, Atacama Cohort Subject: Aid Source: Vespucci Encryption:High Priority:High
To whoever's listening.
Bering system is too remote for us to offer any meaningful military assistance. I am working on procuring medical supplies to treat your wounded, which should be ready and arrive within the next three days. Afterwards, we will look into providing you with a supply of water, which our outposts all have plenty of.
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.
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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: ............... From:Unknown User, Pacifica Base, Bering. Subject:................
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<static> Confirmed - Pacifica thanks you. <static>....Directorate will wire hazard credits as the shipments arrive.
Be advised <static> Harmony patrols <crackle> aggressively target independent smugglers, part of the reason this whole <static>.... If <static> they think you're carrying relief shipments, they'll <crackle> treat you as combat targets.
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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. Information-Recruitment-Message Dump-Feedback
From: Major Thomas Wallace, Atacama Cohort Subject: Aid Source: Vespucci Encryption:High Priority:High
To whoever's listening.
Our initial delivery of four thousands units of med-stasis bands has been a success, even in spite of the Separatist blockade. The Battlegroup attempted to use lethal force against the relief transports, but they have managed to arrive unscathed. Shipping manifests are attached to this message.