Yesterday, I launched early to meet up with the Unioners outside Pacifica, in order for myself to get aquainted with whoever we Hackers had to talk with. I met Arbeitsdirektor Frei along with his escorts - the Oder-class gunboat UN|KKS-Stheno.Invective and UN|Mecklenburg, one of the Pacifica Wing Arbeiter-class crafts. While chatting, the Arbeitsdirektor shared some pieces of information about Harmony we might find quite useful. See the log excerpt for yourselves.
Oh, I was almost about to forget: one Rapier-class Maltese fighter - which showed neutral to my scanners - callsign [13th]Shadowwalker, happily shared me via this channel the intel he acquired regarding a joint Separatist venture in the Omicrons - of course, he was well rewarded for that.
The fact that Harmony isn't hostile to the Gallic Royalists, but instead works alongside them is a clear sign of their multi-faceted treacherous backstabbing nature - and it shouldn't be surprising that the idiotic, dim-witted reprobate weasel known as Johnathan Kalh does go along so well with the Separatists. But I digress.
We were interrupted by two vessels - callsigns [tCS]Decay, Sabre and [tCS]Wurger, Roc - apparently members of the Cobra Squad, a band of mercenaries, that tried to collect the bounty on the Arbeitsdirektor. A 2-vs-5 scenario erupted, and the Roc bomber was quickly dispatched by the Ritter's batteries, while the Sabre was routed away successfully, seemingly towards Marshall - which led me to believe that these Cobra Sauad mercs are on Harmony's bounty paycheck.
The Unioners were represented by Arbeitsdirektor Frei, on the Democritus-class yacht UN|SLZ-Lied.der.Seele, which was escorted by two Union crafts, the aforementioned Arbeiter-class very heavy fighter UN|Mecklenburg and the Solidaridat-class bomber UN|Kommerikut. The Gaians' Atacama Cohort representative was located onboard the Inqusitor-class Legion gunboat GG-A-Spearhead, accompanied by the two snubcrafts GG-A-Quintus, Prosecutor-class Legion very heavy fighter, and GG-A-Equilibrium, Falchion-class Borderworld very heavy fighter. Professor Yoshida, of course, joined me as soon as he could. Instead of spending countless words describing the meeting itself, I'll let the log excerpt speak for himself.
During the meeting, a Nephilim-class Zoner Colony Ship, callsign IRG|Itherael, just appeared out of nowhere, literally speaking; myself and Professor Yoshida rushed to intercept him, but escaped our grasp by using a jump drive almost instantly.