To: Josie Hemlocke. From:Pacifica base, Bering system Subject:Past time
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You showing me something that i already know about it, you treat Unioners with destruction and manage to damage they ships, but this will not go unpunished.
Kim Wolff
Procurator, Pacifica base.
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Sender: Gunda Riehl Tacname: Hellion Positional group: Volenteer Flight Arbeiter, Union Raiders and recovery Location: Vierlande Prison Branchgroup: Unioners
One. You killed a Unioner who entered texas without your say-so. Good. He broke the rules and got hit. That's the consequences.
Two. We have no interest in operating anywhere in Liberty right now without the permission of the rogues. We've already said this.
Three. I already answered within your damned 24-hour statement you masterminded to get your little rogue downstairs all tough and firm. We don't operate in Liberty without the permission of the rogues, the same way that we'd blow you up in Rheinland if you came here without knocking.
Four. Someone's finally been able to figure out that your red-on-red font was hiding metadata. Look, that statement was valid at the time, but it's not valid any longer. I'm genuinely irritated that it's still honking around on the Neuralnet after two long years.
We put it out as a puff-piece to irritate the Lane Hackers and the Xenos, who at the time, were part of the 'Battle of Bering'. It's the reason why the Insurgency exist nowadays, instead of the Hellfire Legion and the Liberty Seperatists. They, independently from the Navy, were pushing into Bering as hard as they could, so we orchestrated something of a counter-push. A lot of it was just propaganda to keep them on their toes.
We have the capability to delve deep into the northern independent systems, but do we have the will? No, we don't. The mission doesn't require it. Right now, we're focused on doing whatever good we can, closer to home.
Five. We're allies. Cool your jets.
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)