_Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky._Rainer Marie Wilke. Earth.
My brothers, my children, my fathers, my sisters, my friends. We toil and we churn under the boots of monsters who wear the hides of men. Those who'd grind a man under the gears of his own machines.
We throw ourselves into the wheels, willingly, for they break on the bone of their inventors. There is the old dawn coming. Resurgent in the west. Fermenting in the streets of Hamburg and in the hearts of honest men.
We will rise above. We forgotten children of the homeland, will claim our place in the sun./
Hold the Hammer High. For Alster, For Beringia, for you.
The Alster Unions have changed in the dark ashes of the Red Betrayal. They have weathered the storm.
The Unions have grown. The Unions have changed. The Unions have grown younger, bolder, and more ambitious. The ties that bound the disparate underground syndicates together beyond the law and the contrition of the red Hessians became welded into one whole under the third way of the direktorate. The desire for autonomy in the underworld, long fought for, had been achieved.
The Unioners run their own markets, now. Carry their own goods, provide services to Unionerkind and ununionised alike. Unioners stooped in ancestral memory talk of the records of the early cells, in the years immediately following, and before, the outlaw of the Unionists in the birth of the Rheinland Republic. A road to a future beckons the celestial cells - a community of feeling that has driven the Unions into a resurgence unseen since the years of direktor Garen. As peace returns to Sirius, infighting and discord within the Unions have fallen back into a distant memory. The Unions are strong - and they seem willing to prove it.
The so-called 'Young Blood' of the Alster cells, buoyed up by an influx of fresh supporters from Hamburg, have the clamour of rebellion in their ears. Dissatisfaction with the established order in the wake of the Kusari war has steadily transformed from a two hundred year resignation under the Rheinland Republic to a clamour for reform. The Unioners, working quietly behind the scenes, Unioner Direktors, hopeful of redemption, have made contact with the remnants of the Rheinland Imperial Family. Contacts in the Military and the corporations sit alongside their fanatically pro-Republican superiors. Where the Hessians aim for flags, blood, and Conquest, the Unioners, in their own indelicate advocacy, fight for recognition, for employment, for the brothers at their sides. The spread of Klugmannism intermeshed with a flood of Gallic refugees and neo-Citizenites from the home planets have drawn the Unioners' aspirations higher, for the first time in a century. A genuine shot at a new order. A system of hope, balancing the popular revolution's vision with the protection of the old, planned economy of the Rheinland Empire. The only groups that arn't prospering are Unioner publicans: Alcoholism rates have dropped across the board.
Rheinland is entering a new era. This time, the Unioners are at the head of the curve.
There is a conviction uniting the Unioners, no matter where they come from. Their will be a time when Rheinland will call its craftsmen home. Defend their habitats, build their infrastructure, join iron to the fight, and the future is theirs.
Unioners, across the house, are producing ships as fast as they can maintain production rates. The true storm has yet to rise.
Rollcall for Winter 2019 to Spring 2020. The purpose of this rollcall is to trim the fat in chats and public access environments. Please answer this rollcall if you have continued interest in playing Unioner OFL. You do not need to state your character names. You must also answer honestly the following:
* Would you log a Unioner character of your own initiative? Do you?
* Do you enjoy playing Unioner characters?
* Does Unioner forum roleplay interest you?
* What would you like the faction to do differently?
* Do you consent to leaving alerts on in the Unioner E-Skype chat and Unioner Discord?
* Do you promise to log Unioners for at least two hours a week?
* What are the best times for you in UTC? (If unsure, google your time conversion to UTC, or check the server clock).
* Give a brief idea for an event, be it standalone, or long-running. Only needs to be two sentences.
Please state your Discord name.
Those who do not answer the rollcall will be removed from the Unioner Discord, including HC members and liasons from other factions. Active members within the next few weeks will be rapidly promoted.
"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
Kalle Niska reporting . . . * Would you log a Unioner character of your own initiative? Do you?
Yes. - Thought admitably, in recent times, not as much as I should have or would have liked.
* Do you enjoy playing Unioner characters?
Damn straight I do.
* Does Unioner forum roleplay interest you?
Yes, however I feel that I am unable to contribute sufficient time and dedication to such.
* What would you like the faction to do differently?
I cannot think of anything at this moment in time. (I will edit this or offer feedback in our Discord if anything comes to mind)
* Do you consent to leaving alerts on in the Unioner E-Skype chat and Unioner Discord?
Yes, why else be there right?
* Do you promise to log Unioners for at least two hours a week?
Yes. I can do that.
* What are the best times for you in UTC? (If unsure, google your time conversion to UTC, or check the server clock).
On average; 18:00 UTC
* Give a brief idea for an event, be it standalone, or long-running. Only needs to be two sentences.
Daring salvage run into the Salzungegraben in Thuringia. We need ships and components to fuel our own war machine. Perhaps by co-ordinating with other groups such as the Junkers, we could put some of that age old scrap to use. - Or perhaps we'll get more than we bargained for, venturing into a place where very few return...
* Discord Name: викингмункй#0001
When contending with a monster, you'd be wise to give the devil his due.
Karl Stein reporting
* Would you register a Unioner character on your own?
Yes.
* Do you like playing Unioner characters? Whenever I can, yes.
* Does Unioner forum roleplay interest you?
I'm not very creative at this. I like to fly.
* What would you like the faction to do differently?
What I expected has already happened: Transporting things.
* Do you agree to leave alerts in Unioner E-Skype chat and Unioner discord?
Yes. I think some still use Skype.
* Do you promise to register Unioners for at least two hours a week? Whenever you can, yes.
* What are the best times for you at UTC? (If unsure, search Google for your time conversion to UTC or check the server clock.)
10-12 UTC
* Give a brief idea for an event, independent or long lasting. It only has to have two sentences.
We can do a key championship like football.
Only have classes defined as Snub, freighter, GB and Cruiser.
Discord: Hopewell#2432
* Would you log a Unioner character of your own initiative? Do you?
Time to time we log when can gather people
* Do you enjoy playing Unioner characters?
Mostly
* Does Unioner forum roleplay interest you?
Unsure, currently its just about too much forum what i should do
* What would you like the faction to do differently?
Shorter posts?) * Do you consent to leaving alerts on in the Unioner E-Skype chat and Unioner Discord?
Its still on. But with my TZ i rather sleep already when something happens in UN.
* Do you promise to log Unioners for at least two hours a week?
When we gather we log. When there something to pirate. Cant promise anything for next month tbh.
* What are the best times for you in UTC? (If unsure, google your time conversion to UTC, or check the server clock).
Something around 16-18 UTC i guess.
* Give a brief idea for an event, be it standalone, or long-running. Only needs to be two sentences.
No events at all. Too much already. Need think about how encourage generic activity.
* Would you log a Unioner character of your own initiative? Do you?
Time to time we log when can gather people
* Do you enjoy playing Unioner characters?
Yes
* Does Unioner forum roleplay interest you?
Currently I am full of Coalition RP. If I have time - sure
* What would you like the faction to do differently?
More Imperial RP * Do you consent to leaving alerts on in the Unioner E-Skype chat and Unioner Discord?
Sure
* Do you promise to log Unioners for at least two hours a week?
If I have enough time
* What are the best times for you in UTC? (If unsure, google your time conversion to UTC, or check the server clock).
Depends on day
* Give a brief idea for an event, be it standalone, or long-running. Only needs to be two sentences.
just a common rp and fly