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Ghoul
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To: Blackwings. From:An old wingmate. Longtime. Subject:Decisions .
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"Give me some slack for the delay in getting back through to you, black. I was waiting on test data.
I know what charged we need – I’ve lit off a few neutron candles in my time of cellular movement, you feel me? The problem with explosives is that yer’ effectively compromising the integrity of each pressure vessel subdivision by merging it with the vessel adjoining. Problem is, most machine rooms have anti-tamper systems that run beyond just the doors. Best way to get in without smashing everything of value is to have a man inside the machine spaces already. Doesn’t have to be a man. Just has to be something that can insert a keycard into a critical terminal at a critical moment.
I’ve got a Krazna-Five-Three service droid. It’s a dumb Rheinland relabelling of an outmoded Kishiro inport robot from well before the Nomad War. The beauty of it is that a little Unioner tinkering for parts replacements. It’s near-entirely carbon composite and ceramics so it doesn’t show up particularly well on detector grids, ‘cept for the brain and a coupla-control wires. It can also be flatpacked into a space the size of a small pizza box – narrow enough to jam it into an intercompartmental packing space from an outer corridor. See, battleship armour doesn’t extend around the whole engine section, it’s got expansion and flex points so it can take direct thermal shocks or blasts above its structural load without crushing the reactor systems inside. A boarding team with a couple of cutting torches and a minute to spare could slip this droid inside the intercompartmental spaces and it’d get down to the business of stripping security wires like a baby with a tit.”
“The other great equaliser is a much-notorious aerosol distribution system we’ve used for all kinds of unscrupulous barbarity that you don’t even want to begin overthinking. Back in the boondock days it scored us the Alster Attack in our pit of shame, for whatever unconscionable combo you think that’s worth. ‘Sentially life support filters are toxin-resistant, but they’re not puncture resistant. Anywhere that has room for an air duct that won’t suffocate the ship has room for a near-thousand-sided rollerball with a spike charge hollowed out as pipe, right down the middle. Throw them into a military filter system and you’ll have compromised gas containment anywhere you want them in the ship. Any crew that don’t get into space suits within two minutes of the battleship being boarded are going to start suffocating on whichever aerosol gas decide to pump into the vessel’s tubes.”
“Lift and intermediate access codes. Yann, you’ve saved two hundred Unioners from answering for their crimes as God would want. Scheisse. You’ve almost got me pegging you for a good soul. Changes the survival math, as it does the chances for operational firebranding.”
“Here’s the blood bill. We’ll be using two divisions of boarding marines – about a thousand men – a massive force commitment. I use the term marines loosely - they’re Unioner volenteers with espatier experience. All have at least boarded a transport in their lifetimes and have some basic training with Libertonian systems interaction. They’ll be armed with low-charge fragmentations grenades that’ll fill a compartment with shrapnel but won’t go deep enough to cause systems damage – called slappers, and whatever Daumann firearms in carbine and assault shotgun class we can razzle up at short notice. Not mentionin’ the ubiquitous boarding hammers, of course. Even with all prep, we’re not going to get better than a one-to-one kill to casualty ratio, and that’s if everything goes right. Which it won’t.”
“Before I sign to this, you need to be aware. A lot of people, Unioners and Navy, are going to die just doing their jobs to get you this battleship. There might be internal damage to the battleship which we’ll then have to patch, depending on how much sabotage happens, how much resistance the navy gives out, and how much Havok the day will demand. That’s not including the space battle. The worst part of all of this is that it’s going to have to be frickin’ repeatable; you’re not the only boarding-butcher looking after the Union’s graces”
“Oh, yea’. We tested your Incapacitator theory and the data matched up like a sweet charm. I’m attaching file data. Use it. We will.”
You have the point Gunda. It is true that the utilization of explosives could compromise certain sections within the ship.
As for your robot, I find the idea excellent. However we don’t have the right to the error. If it fails, then the entire operation will be compromised. We will have to be ready to take control of the ship by force and despite all the risks.
Regarding you aerosols ... I would not comment on that subject. However the effectiveness of this barbarism tactic is certainly very effective. Nevertheless, this operation hasn’t as aim to provoke a general genocide of the ship's crew. The hundred armed men who will fight us must be our targets. We will be ten times more numerous than them. The rest of the crew will probably surrender and some of them may want to join my cause ... But let's focus on the capture. The rest will come after.
Just about that, we will actually need a shipyard for the repairs. The damage will probably be very important. This obviously poses a major problem. Time is against us. If the damages are too serious the vessel may no longer be able to reach a shipyard. Puerto Rico seems to be too risky as this would involve a significant division of our forces to protect the battleship. Pacifica seems to be more secured. We’ll have most likely to use specific methods to reach Pacifica.
I am also aware that many Unioners will die to get me that ship. I agree to carry this burden on my own conscience, and I would like to participate in the boarding operation. If I die, at least it will have served something for the Union. But to refuse to participate and send thousand men instead and watch them to do the job and die; is just a disgrace.
I am glad to learn that the tests realized on electromagnetic weapons are a real success. If you allow me, I want to keep these results for myself...
I'm heading for Pacifica ...Prepare yourself for my arrival.
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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
G.Riehl
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To: Yann and the Gang. From: G.Riehl Subject:Breach.
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“Barbarism. Hell, alright. We’ll call it Barbarism.
War is not two children slapping each other with foam swords, it’s not pistols at noon and there’s no honour in painting a roundel over your aeorta to guide the bullets in. You fight dirty, fight mean, save lives, kill your enemy. You need to realise that you’re not in the military anymore, Yann. We fight up a hill with inferior resources – we’re worst off. Out of any of this, we’re the worst off.
I didn’t say we had to pump in aerotoxin, just that the distribution method was fast. Knockout gas isn’t gonna’ have the same chaos value, but if it soothes yer’ ego we can debilitate the crew with nothin’ more than a slight risk of strokes and respiratory faults. The downslant is that we’re going to take more bullets; do my men have to buy themselves a ferryman ride ‘cause your conscience isn’t wired up for taking the ship faster, easier, and cleaner?
It’s up to you. Your ship, your mission, your consequences.
I’m sending in men to die here for a machine that the Union won’t be able to finagle for itself. I ‘precciate you gesticulating to go in with the first wave, but you’re not going to do anyone anything more than an injury if you gat yourself clambering inside. There will be no cover. You’ll be fighting compartment to compartment in the worst CQB conditions there are. Leave it to the people who do this for a living; you’re better off in the rear-line radioing in guidance to the boarding teams. You know the ship, they know the business. “
“Sure. You’re free to keep any data you think might bail you out. Mission process will play out as follows:”
“Bombers will move in to incapacitate shields and surface subsystems, disrupt cruise drives, prevent outbound signal traffic. Espatiers move in, clamp to the outer hull. We board the ship, en-masse, screw over anyone in the way, aiming for auxiliary life support systems, munitions bunkers, power and propulsion. Only after that, we converge on the primary CIC. Once we have all four stations we’ll have functional operations control of the vessel. At that point, we haul her to ‘Cifica and drink to the dead.”
"Transport ships out in three days. Make an inventory of whatever you need and send it to Pacifica's quartermaster. It's the last boat into Hampshire, 'Wings. Make it matter."
The birdclock croaked when it saw the sun, tethered to a spring.
G.Riehl.
Esprit wings.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)
It's been a while since I understood that the war is not a simple game of foam swords and pistol that shoot bubbles with an iridescent surface ... Since many years to tell you the truth. You don’t teach me anything more Gunda, though I realize that some choices have to be made according to the situation in which we are. It's the Union. Not me.
Of course I made choices too, otherwise I certainly wouldn’t be talking to you now but I would have been following the orders of my beloved superiors. Being a soldier also involves deciding the fate of the orders that reach us. I don’t teach you anything more, I think. But it's something fundamental; otherwise I wouldn’t have made the decision to leave perhaps the only home I have ever had.
I see you coming on this point. It is my decision to cooperate with the Union and it also includes accepting or turning a blind eye on topics that would make the equation impossible. That's why I let you the choice of the methods you want to use. Be aware that each of them has its moral concerns and once again, choices are made according to what we want most. It is philosophical and since it is, the answer to this question is not unique.
My crew is me are ready. As it seems you prefer that I play the role of the radio, it does not bother me. This will probably be more reasonable, more efficient and faster.
I think the separatist ships will have other things to do, but it will only be a matter of time before they discover the presence of the battleship at Pacifica. So we'll need a backup solution ... and a strong escort force to bring the ship safely to the base.
I think everything is ready now. Don’t forget to bring your robot. And if you have one, a group jump drive system will be more than necessary if things went wrong.
It's up to us to see if the Death likes us or no, my dear Gunda. In the worst case, we will meet again in hell.
We finally did it! Hell I just believed we would never capture that damn ship! Our ships did an excellent work by destroying the main enemy defense. Also the Incapacitadors torpedoes showed their impressive utility.
And without that ridiculous robot, all the marines and I would be dead right now. Thanks to I don't know who, we have captured it. For now the LNS-Ontario is in security within Pacifica drydock. Once the engineers of Pacifica would have done a first report of the damage, we will process to the repairs. I don't have a complete report of the operation, but we have some glorious Unioners marines who gave their life today. Also, it appears that on 600 crews, 450 died and ther others are prisoners. I want to take a serious time to talk with them. My current crew won't be able to fly a battleship with a so reduced number.
We need hands in that difficult task. But as well, we need to overhaul the ships's capacities. I have a total trust in your engineers for that. But I will contact some organizations as the Junkers to help us.
If I look in my Harmony experience, I remember that an organization named IRG could provide us a help. If you have any ideas or recomandations. you can share them with me.
I'll never forget what the Union did for me this day!
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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
Date: 12/08/741 A.G.S
Sender: Franz Rousse
Location: Pacifica Base
Topic: Status of your ship
Transmission Type: Textual
Bonjour Yann,
It is quite good to hear that our operation was a full sucess. While I could not participate physically, I heard two men of my squadron did an excellent job at carrying out this mission, alongside quite a force of other vessels.
As you say, the Ontario is currently hidden in one of Pacificas drydocks. That is fine and good for now, but we also have our own vessels to take care of that are fighting in the Bering conflict. Our priority right now should be to reboot the engine systems of that Dreadnought and make it stable to a point where we can move it. That does not include systems like weaponry or additional equipment that the Liberty Navy had put on it, which we do not know about.
We'll need a few things for that from you, and here's the list:
Commodities
Needed
Delivered
Basic Alloy
10.000
0/10.000
Super Alloy
10.000
0/10.000
Ablative Armor Plating
5.000
0/5.000
Ship Hull Panels
4.000
0/4.000
High Temperature Alloy
5.000
0/5.000
High Performance Alloy
5.000
0/5000
Aluminium
4.000
0/4.000
Nanocapacitors
10.000
0/10.000
Superconductors
1.000
0/1.000
Manifolds
3.500
0/3.500
Engine Components
4.000
0/4.000
Once these are in, I can let some contacts play around for metals to increase the shiphull even further by reenforcing and infusing the outer structure of the ship with said metals. For that, however, I want something in return. Once your ship is running entirely and was tested to be a sucess, I want detailed scans of an Overlords systems and your own thoughts about the ship's capabilities.
If you accept those conditions then I can immediatly get to work.
Franz Rousse
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Last words are for fools who have not yet said enough.
Indeed this operation was very risky. But to tell you, I had no doubts about the brave Unioners marines who participated at the operation. They were awesome and their determination, I have to say, surprised me.
Pacifica is a well defended fortress, Monsieur Rousse. I feel myself responsible of the NEMP attack on the shipyard, already few months ago. Even if the only people to blame are in reality the Hellfire Legion. They hate you. They hate the Union. They only want the hell and the fire. The NEMP attack wasn't an Harmony decision. Before the Harmony-Union starts, Harmony decided to build better relations with the Legion in order to fight Liberty Navy more effectively. Once the war become a sad reality, the Hellfire imediately decided to NEMP your base.
If I am talking about the Legion is that because they are the major threat for our captured battleship. As you said, the Union is able to defend Pacifica against the Harmony forces, but a combined armada or Legion and Harmony warships would completely break the defense. I guess if they didn't do it yet, the Legion is certainly occupied on another front.
I completely agree with you. We need to repair the engines, fast and well. Harmony scouts will discover our project it is only a matter of time. Especially if they learn about my presence aboard that ship, they won't hesitate to call the Legion and will do everything in my opinion to have my head.
Since the capture I took a certain time to talk with the prisoners. On the hundred women and men captured, 20 decided to join me. That wasn't easy to convince them. But most of them were poorly paid in the Navy and thought they couldn't have any future within the fleet.
I am ready to pay all the transport and the repairs. I think the Unioners transport can help us? If you have some useful contacts, do so. Obviously I accept the terms of the deal. I don't really care if you need informations for any organizations. I am not interested in that anymore.