The Custodi are formally requesting a detailed explanation of why our civilians aboard the Krefeld and Leipheim bases are failing to answer communications and why our smuggling crews aboard the Leipheim station have failed to report in after arrival.
Communications may break down for periods of time, naturally we can not always account for the various anomalies of space. However, this has been a period of weeks now. We are beginning to suspect foul play is involved.
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Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: The The Corsair Empire. From:Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg. Subject:Justice.
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"It is the regret of the Union that the Red Hessians staged a suprise assault against Krefeld. The garrison, under-manned due to the requirements of the Pacifica conflict, and not expecting an assault, surrendered under my authorisation to prevent Krefeld from becoming a permenant base of the Red Hessian Army that would have granted them them striking range into Hamburg and North Rheinland itself. Krefeld contains a drydock capable of berthing cruisers - fighting the Hessians to defend it would have been tantamount to handing the Hessians another shipyard."
"I further regret to inform the empire that thirty two Corsair traders aboard Krefeld are dead. It appears someone within the Empire - likely the Apostatas - informed the Red Hessians that there are Corsair traders aboard Krefeld base - and systematically hunted them down. We've done everything we can to conceal this fact from the Hessians, both for the safety of ourselves and for your merchants, so we can assume that the Hessians had the aid of tip-offs within the Corsair Empire. Whilst they are aware that we ship Corsair artifacts, we have always done so through our own transports, crewed by Unioners. We had no indication that this was their objective."
"The Unioners are distracted partly due to trying to fight one war to the north, which we are making gains in, whilst preventing another to the south. There's only a certain number of Unioners who can speak for the entire organisation when we're as decentralised as we are."
"Approximately a month ago, a large Hessian contingent boarded Krefeld base and began selectively picking off those who were marketing their wears at the trade post, accompanied by Hessian SOA assaults on Unioner patrols in the southern Rheinlandic region. My men are being engaged by the Red Hessians as we speak. We are as of yet uncertain if these are harassment attacks or a component of something wider."
"No losses were sustained on Leipheim, nor did the Hessians board there - even if they did, we would have had time to effect a full evacuation to Xi as we would have detected the force movements. Any communications outage is due to the ongoing conflict in the Sigmas and our need to avoid attracting attention. "
"The Unioner intention has to forever avoid becoming trampled under the wars of others. Our aims are focused upon improving our own quality of life and that of Rheinland's working class - re-housing them in spaceborne habitats where possible. Our southern outposts are trade stations and repair depots, not fortresses. We have drained our southern warfighting capacity so we can fight the Legion within Liberty, which is a direct existential threat to us."
"The Hessians are trying to juggle us into their court. The Krefeld assault was a statement of intent. I was forced to attend a meeting within the Coalition home system - a nation I neither agree with nor support - at Heinrich's behest. I can brief the empire on its contents, as I didn't attend to collaborate, I attended to educate. I recorded it."
"The Hessians are attempting to coalesce Bundschuh, Apostatas, and Coalition resources for a united strike against Corsair positions inside Dresden, then Omega Fifty Five. They seek to drive you out - then they seek to drive the Union out. The Krefeld attack was the first stage of what Heinrich sees as an opportunity to wage a counter-offensive against the Corsairs. The Union has mannaged to jockey ourselves into a position where we are actively monitoring every supply shipment the Hessians are sending in - and we intend to offer full composition data to the Corsairs in due course if Heinrich persists in applying brute violence to those who are tired of her harassment."
"I need to now now, before I make a choice in this matter. My only objective is to exfiltrate the Union from the Omega war. It is gutting my people. We despise the Hessians and hope you achieve victory in the Omegas, yet we do not have the resources to fight them ourselves. Not with our own, core interests threatened in Bering. All I can do is support you from the shadows wherever my people can. We will continue to offer you economic and logistical support wherever we can, including supplying your people with food, of which we have plentiful supplies."
"I am prepared to pay compensation for every corsair life lost aboard Krefeld. But we cannot involve ourselves in this war any further. Krefeld could not have defended itself even if we did fight them at the airlocks - besides, if we did, we would have simply given the Hessians a foothold to turn Cologne into a second Dresden. We are not a hispanic power with warships to share - we fought for the Empire for a full year in Dresden and Frankfurt, and our men there are expended."
"Allow us to be useful in the specialisations that the Unioners have. Salvage, trade, vessel construction and high technology procurement. Black marketeering. Contesting control of the underworld supply routes. I was able to get onto Moscow and get the Union an ear to Heinrich's closest held strategic schemes by appearing to be a minor player in the theatre."
"I want to help the empire gain justice for what has occurred aboard my station. It is insulting that a Unioner outpost should be turned into a site for atrocity by another organisation at gunpoint, nor should my pilots should not have to live under harassment by the overconfident Hessians. I just don't have the guns to land the killing blow myself. "
"We're open to suggestions of both an appropriate compensation fee to the Empire for the lives lost, as for methods through which the Union can be of use to the Corsairs, factoring the resources we have available."
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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You permitted a massacre of innocents to happen. You failed to reach out to us, to inform. You claim you were caught off guard, yet apparently the shock of such an offense was such that it sealed your lips until the absence was queried. You spout off an immense amount of words, all of which are summed up in that you claim to have had no choice but to allow a massacre to be carried out.
You make sweeping statements about your strength, and shadow wars. You reference a nobody named Heinrich, seemingly believing that mere names will explain your complicity in these proceedings. You admit to meeting with yet more enemies of the Empire, and then try to consign the blame on the exiles that you have willingly sheltered of your own accord.
At this rate, I'd not be surprised to find that Unioners had murdered the Dorians aboard and are merely attempting to use the Hessians as a scapegoat. But I can not lay judgment without first attempting to discover the truth. Pray to what ever powers you hold dear that the investigatory team being sent to Krefeld as we speak finds you innocent.
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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei
Incoming Transmission
Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: The The Corsair Empire. From:Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg. Subject:Justice.
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"Do you know who I hear when I listen to you? Heinrich. Another wardog, pushing for zero-sum games."
"We're not going to be forced into the diplomatic positions edge world powers would have us occupy to comprise a neat, tidy universe. I'll talk to the Brotherhood."
"If you don't want to listen to words, you won't get them. I am extremely bored of other organisations using human tragedy to annex space stations from the Union. How do I know that you didn't deliberately leak the information to the Hessians in order to divide the Union up? The disclosure came from your camp, not ours. What makes you think you have any kind of moral high ground here?"
"Say what you really mean, edge-worlder. We offered reparations to the families of the dead and you ignored and deflected the subject matter."
"We're done here."
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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How quickly does the Unioner mind change from reparations and alliance to threats. Speak with the Elders, send them my regards that when we wished to discern the truth you railed against it. I still do not know who this Heinrich you speak of is, and by the amount of influence they seem to hold you under, I can only speculate.
And still, I am directed to show mercy. You now have the choice. The investigation team or an investigatory fleet.
What happens next is the result of your actions Unioner. Remember that.
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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei
Incoming Transmission
Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: The Corsair Empire. From:Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg. Subject:Justice.
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"I've sent the same broadcast to the Brotherhood. We will consent to an investigation. We will not consent to an inquisition, which is exactly what the Hessians committed against us, to the detriments of both of our peoples and was the cause of this same tragedy. "
"I'm unsettled that you are emulating the behaviour, near exactly, of a group that you have been at war with for over a hundred years, Custodi. We will consent to a joint Unioner-Custodi investigation team. We also request access to interview Corsair captains in operation within the Rheinland theatre during the spring theatre to ascertain who could have leaked the presence of Corsairs aboard Unioner space stations to the Red Hessians."
"Again. You immediately leaped towards vitriol and attack. This does not cause me to trust you as a non-partisan authority rather than another warmongering hack prepared to abuse the dead of your own people to shoot the messenger and the victim, rather than catch the perpetrator. Considering that we provided witnesses for the Cordoba trial, your kangaroo courtship is laughable."
"The Custodi and the Unioners have a long relationship of shared operations in Frankfurt and Munich. Get over yourself or put someone else on the line. This exchange goes no further until you adopt a reasonable tone."
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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You seem to misunderstand. Your own words have caused this. I made contact out of concern for our Dorian brothers. My role as ambassador to the Archon and the Council of Elders necessitates my involvement with all aspects of Custodi, and slowly, Dorian life. When stations fail to respond, suspicions rise. When statements such as the following are said.
(09-20-2018, 12:07 PM)The Syndicate Leagues Wrote: "It is the regret of the Union that the Red Hessians staged a suprise assault against Krefeld. The garrison, under-manned due to the requirements of the Pacifica conflict, and not expecting an assault, surrendered under my authorisation to prevent Krefeld from becoming a permenant base of the Red Hessian Army that would have granted them them striking range into Hamburg and North Rheinland itself. Krefeld contains a drydock capable of berthing cruisers - fighting the Hessians to defend it would have been tantamount to handing the Hessians another shipyard."
(09-20-2018, 12:07 PM)The Syndicate Leagues Wrote: "I further regret to inform the empire that thirty two Corsair traders aboard Krefeld are dead. It appears someone within the Empire - likely the Apostatas - informed the Red Hessians that there are Corsair traders aboard Krefeld base - and systematically hunted them down. We've done everything we can to conceal this fact from the Hessians, both for the safety of ourselves and for your merchants, so we can assume that the Hessians had the aid of tip-offs within the Corsair Empire. Whilst they are aware that we ship Corsair artifacts, we have always done so through our own transports, crewed by Unioners. We had no indication that this was their objective."
(09-20-2018, 12:07 PM)The Syndicate Leagues Wrote: "The Hessians are trying to juggle us into their court. The Krefeld assault was a statement of intent. I was forced to attend a meeting within the Coalition home system - a nation I neither agree with nor support - at Heinrich's behest. I can brief the empire on its contents, as I didn't attend to collaborate, I attended to educate. I recorded it."
(09-20-2018, 12:07 PM)The Syndicate Leagues Wrote: "The Krefeld attack was the first stage of what Heinrich sees as an opportunity to wage a counter-offensive against the Corsairs. The Union has mannaged to jockey ourselves into a position where we are actively monitoring every supply shipment the Hessians are sending in - and we intend to offer full composition data to the Corsairs in due course if Heinrich persists in applying brute violence to those who are tired of her harassment."
(09-20-2018, 12:07 PM)The Syndicate Leagues Wrote: "I am prepared to pay compensation for every corsair life lost aboard Krefeld. But we cannot involve ourselves in this war any further. Krefeld could not have defended itself even if we did fight them at the airlocks - besides, if we did, we would have simply given the Hessians a foothold to turn Cologne into a second Dresden. We are not a hispanic power with warships to share - we fought for the Empire for a full year in Dresden and Frankfurt, and our men there are expended."
The sheer... depth... of knowledge of Hessian plans, the constant references to an unknown person. The directly accusatory finger pointed at exiles which you appear to have been sheltering by your words, the fact that the events of this tragedy transpired two weeks ago and this is the first you speak of it, and the further fact that your tone has varied so greatly from sentence to sentence leads me to be unable to believe you.
In one moment you speak how you had no choice, in the next you claim it was a surprise to even you. Then you speak of a joint investigation team, citing that we have cooperated for lengthy periods of time, forgetting that the last time we had the misfortune of crossing paths with your pilots, they were smuggling for our greatest enemies.
The Custodi will investigate alone. There will be no need to interrogate Dorian pilots, as their innocence in this trial is absolute. You have already laid the blame of the revelation of our people at the feet of the Apostatas.
Call me what you will, but I am not the one who hid the massacre of civilians until questioned, and then attempted to disguise it with good intentions after the fact.
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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei
Incoming Transmission
Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy
To: The Corsair Empire. From:Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg. Subject:Justice.
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"A far more reasonable approach, the Union thanks you."
"I accept full responsibility for the decision to surrender Krefeld, and I am prepared to personally answer to investigators for my motivations behind this act and the circumstances surrounding the occupation of the station."
"Anna Heinrich is the head of the Red Hessian Army, a disciplined, if cult-like, militarised force that has split itself from the main body of the Red Hessians, who are primarily disorganised pirates as are most unlawful organisations."
"I am aware of Hessian plans, and are revealing them to you in confidence, because the Hessians attempted to secure Unioner logistical assistance for a strike on your holdings in the Dresden system, just as any organisation may approach the Unioners for logistical assistance. We made no commitment to supply weaponry or other warfighting equipment. The only reason why I reveal this information is to make it very clear that the Union is not a puppet. "
"I didn't blame the Apostatas, I claimed that they were likely responsible. There are other options, such as an unidentified defector within the empire, or a Unioner who is not sympathetic to the directorate. What concerns me is why you might believe that the Union itself would be involved in an elaborate conspiracy to undermine the Empire. Why? What would we stand to gain? How would that be even remotely in-line with our stated policies and our record? It would only harm our people to oppose your efforts. Note that we do not contest Corsair operations in Rheinland or your support of the GMG in the Sigma war, despite possible infractions to our own objectives. We've largely realised that give-and-take is an ideal position to take concerning our relationship with Crete."
"I did not hide the massacre of civilians, I assumed the Corsairs were aware. I responded immediately, when questioned. Between now and then, there has been a nuclear strike on the primary spaceborne Unioner population centre. Nearly a thousand Unioners are dead. One tragedy can never eclipse another, but it is reasonable to assume that I have been pre-occupied with trying to save my people's lives in every theatre I can, including Cologne."
"In fact, I am surprised you were not informed by our camp. The individual responsible for the management of human crew and independent commerce aboard Krefeld station was a Mary Annalise Dross, of the Cologne cell, of which I was a member myself before my position upon the Arbeitsdirektorate. She has recently dispersed from Rheinlandic space entirely."
"If your suspicions are correct - that a Unioner is responsible, then let it be found out by the investigation team. If a Corsair is responsible, then they will discover the same. Would we not rather discover the truth, than limit the scope of the investigation?"
"I am not politically point scoring, just asking what our end objective is here; do we wish to find who is responsible, or nominate a scapegoat? What will the agenda of the team be?"
"Either recourse must be followed by precautions to ensure the same event never repeats itself."
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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