To: Procurator, Arbeiter Sorka Duclonov. Subject: The whispers of distant stars.

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To: The listed recipients.
From: Corin Frei, The Hans Böckler memorial, Hamburg.
Subject: Cologne and the Runner.

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Unioner Planetary Survey Chart- Cologne high solar orbit:

"“Your operation against the exotic technologies smuggler known as the midnight runner have earned you significant acclaim, Francoise. I hear you were able to rally a task force together from the Cologne cell faster than I could have if I were in your stead. Excellent. You’re maintaining my faith in you. It is benign that we’ve found an application for your ruthlessness beyond hunting down families, agent.”


I want you to keep the Sirene in the system for as long as operationally possible. We’ll be sending down fuel supplies and food, on the happenstance that the Tizheruk cannot, or is unwilling, to share its reserves. You’ll be deploying air wings on sortie patrols through target sites of interest away from our conventional smugglers’ routes. The Volkehoven nebula, the Weisskugelfeld, the Wildspitzefeld. There is a reason that whatever party contracted the runner chose to traverse our space – and the political equation does not align. Besides, it will provide the Krefeld engineers an opportunity to study the Sirene’s battle-damage. Even blast-marks may reveal the true nature of ordinance.”

I believe that the vessel may represent more than unknown underworld interests attempting to muscle into our family, Procurator. If the Runner had entered from the Omega belt, she would have been detected by the Black Forest long before. No interception took place; the logs speak for themselves. It is possible that the various technologies aboard the Runner made such an interdiction impossible through cloaking and sensor-masking systems. Certainly the liner, if it can even be called that after its extensive modifications, carried a sophisticated weapons array, along with armour composites beyond the mass effectiveness of anything we've ever seen before."

Unioner Planetary Survey Chart- Cologne high solar orbit:

I want you to co-operate with Sorka Duclonov, an Arbeiter of the Hamburg outfit. An expatriate, in fact; much alike yourself. A Coalition national of the Muscovite stock who realised that the arms of socialism gave a man with long fingers and softer gloves much more freedom in the remains of the Rheinland empire than in a Coalition Gulag. He’s a remarkably shrewd man with a tenacity for finding the nuances of the black market. If there’s a jump hole out there with a foreign party behind it interfering with our operations, he has the resourcefulness to find them. Before the subject comes up, no, Francoise. No, you may not recruit them into the Ghosts. Sometimes it is helpful to have a capable man in a position of transparency. Duclonov knows what he is. Let us keep him that way.”

“Vulkan is turning over the data records from the Runner. Even the ship’s debris is laden with technological marvels – how did a group of independents manage to miniaturise the reactor of a current-generation heavy battleship, technology known only to the internal workings of Sirius’s most Machiavellian military industrial complexes – into a liner? How did they control the heat residue from such massive railguns? We will need to remain cautious, agent Rousse.”


“Identifying the source of the Runner will remain our operational maximal priority until further notice. I doubt the invasion of Kansas will occur quite as soon as the Lane Hackers suggest. Regardless, we must be disciplined. Choose whichever agents you need, and I’ll position our syndicflotte rear-guard forces on alert as surreptitiously as possible.”

“If you need support, you’ll have it. If you find anything, and I mean anything, you’ll have a wide range of operational options.”

“Scour every cubic sector of unmarked space in Cologne, Rousse, before news of the Runner’s treasures spread. The Union is nothing if it does not honest, sometimes to a fault, and there weren’t only GEIST agents in your wing that day.”

“In other news, Vulkan has cleared the Artisan gunboat model for generalised operations. Most of the completed frames are bound for Pacifica, of course, but I am sure that I can arrange for some of the prototypes to go conveniently missing for GEIST operational action. They are remarkably more able than the Oder.”

"Sorka my friend, meet the Procurator. Yes, he is a Gaul. You're to network with him over the aquisition of additional jumphole routes from Cologne onwards. I would advise against blowing his cover to the rest of the Union - there's no profit in it and Rousse is known to be thorough. To inter-generational exactitude."

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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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Date: 11/20/741 A.G.S

Sender: Franz Rousse
Location: Sirene
Topic: Surveys
Transmission Type: Textual

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Bonjour Monsieur Frei,

It's been a little since I've heard of you! I almost thought that you had forgotten about me, but I am sure that would and will not be the case for a while.
Indeed, the Cologne Operation was a Sucess. The Midnight Runner was nothing that I have ever seen before, and I doubt that an organisation would send out such an expensive prototype carelessly without any escorts. I'll assign a few of my Operatives from GEIST- as well as Unionisten from every cell that can spare a few men.

The Sirene is currently being prepared to depart, we'll be there soon so we can start our surveys. I'm not intending to move the ship around alone, though. Do we have a Vessel within our fleet that is capable of surveying systems for unknown objects? That would make a great addition to our current fleet.

Arbeiter Vodka,
I used to shoot your kind before, but I still hope that both of us can get over the past and work together on this one. I'll call you Vodka, by the way, so feel free to call me whatever you like, so long as it is not Sirian.

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Franz Rousse

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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.

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Arbeitsdirektor Corin Frei

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To: Francoise Rousse
From: Unionised Peoples of Syndicalist Advocacy.
Subject: Discovery.

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"Mister Rousse, I've received a report that one of your operatives has discovered, right in the middle of Unioner patrolled territory, an intrasector jump hole of such enormous range that it should be theoretically impossible. Moreover, it's stable enough for large ships. It may be the source of the Runner."

"It could lead anywhere in the universe."

"I'm forwarding the exact positioning by Courier. You'll get it as soon as you come out of your sleep cycle. We need to immediately assert control over the anomaly before every treasure hunter in the colonies comes after it. This is priority number one. You'll get every resource you need. "

"Take the Sirene's sensor arrays into the system, clear the particle cloud that's been reported on the far side, and run every invasive scan and record every signal from that star system. I'm attaching the gun camera footage taken by callsign Valkyrie."

"I need your professional debrief on the images below. You're one of the only men in the Union with experience outside of the Sirius Sector. The odds are infinitesimal, of course, but I can't take the chance that know where this star system is and not brief you accordingly."

"I expect all of the above to be complete within twenty four hours, Francoise. We've all got work to do today."

Unknown System recon

Unknown System Recon- Main Sequence Yellow Giant Star.:

Unknown System Recon- Methane Gas Giant and two large moons.:

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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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Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.

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Date: 11/23/741 A.G.S

Sender: Franz Rousse
Location: Sirene
Topic: Surveys
Transmission Type: Textual

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Frei,

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This is home, Monsieur. If this doesn't stay a secret then I'll have to take action to make it a secret again.
GEIST- Will claim control over Zurich, please make as little fuss about this as possible. I hope you understand me and my reasoning. The Sirene will defend the Zurich Jump-Hole, as long as I will not need backup to do so, please do not notify other Unionisten.

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Franz Rousse

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