Hi Spartan, thanks for applying. We're going to discuss your Wrath fighter up at headquarters. We have an approved ship list and that one isn't on it, BUT it makes sense we might have a single one of them by means of defection. We're trying to carefully balance our ship classes and origins so please bear with us while we hash it out in PMs. I'm initially going to give the Wrath a "no" but will be open to argument through PM. RHA has a good spread of fighters available so I'm not too keen on anyone using one from the Rheinland Military. We'll get back to you through PMs, thanks.
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
(i've moved this information into the first post in this thread)
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
' Wrote:David Wayland, of the Wrath-class space craft "Dysons Avanger", reporting for duty.
Pilot Wayland, RHA command has given you permission to dock at Vogtland. Your ship will be impounded until you've been checked out. Any discrepancies will result in your termination as a spy. If your Wrath fighter becomes a maintenance problem you may end up being ordered to scrap it in favor of a ship more easily maintained by our (or allied) shipyards.
A tentative "welcome aboard" to you; please PM me if you have any questions. Feel free to use your name, a calllsign, or the name of your fighter for identification.
(OOC: your single Wrath is allowed in RHA. I think the RP-heavies will understand the idea of a defector flying his Wrath to Vogtland... heck a couple of Migs have come to the USA by defectors in the past:)... this will be the only Rheinland military figher allowed in the faction.)
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
Due to a temporary drop in my gaming time, and the need for more beta testers on the beta server, I won't be logged into the Disco RP server much in the next week or two.
If you need something specific such as starting cash or help with your rep, please try to set something up via PMs with me or Dragan or another RHA member in advance.
Thanks for your patience!
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
From: Elmkin, the Ice Wind To: Red Hessian Army Members Date: 22-Oct-815 AS
Subject: Joining request
MESSAGE CONTENT:
Greetings, fellow Red Hessians! My name is Elmkin, also known as "The Ice Wind". I'm a mere 22 years old man who always worked, his entire life, for the Kruger Minerals. I was the perfect successor of my father, who also worked for them since he was about my age. We never earned so much from them, but enough to make a life without poverty and hungry until last year, when my father had accidentally discovered a corruption scheme between Kruger and the Government.
We were immediately fired from the company, and for the past few months he tried to contact the Rheinland communication corporations to try to make public this corruption scheme, but all of them were submitted to the Government or to Kruger so his attempts failed. After many months of frustrated trials to try to prove that he was a victim of a cruel and dishonest act, his heart finally surrendered and he died in frustration.
I've never realized that the Government and its companies could be so coward and cruel. I will not let this episode to pass in vain. If you are going to create a new nation to give the Rheinland people a new way of life, far away from all this corruption and submission, you can count me in! If you need a new recruit, of course! The time has come to give new paths to Rheinland... and to make the people aware of everything that is happening. I didn't believe in your cause, I thought they were false accusations, as most of Rheinland people, until I was victim of everything that I thought it would not be true.
You have my most sincere wishes to be part of the construction of an alternative nation, with power enough to not be submitted to money and capitalism. Please let me help you for this dream to come true and give a new life to all the Rheinland people.
I have no money now, as it was all spent in the frustrated efforts to make public the corruption act that led to me and my father's unemployment and, indirectly, to his death. So, any ship and equipment you give me will be welcome. A Crow would already fit.
Best regards,
Elmkin
***END OF TRANSMISSION***
OOC:
I have so far 2 chars:
- Arthad, from Kusari Naval Forces
- Smith, an Independent Pirate
I will not let any membership in [RHA] interfere with my other chars. I have a very good RP lvl and I know how to not mix what happens IC with OOC.
I wish to join RHA because it seems to have a purpose more than just pirating and becoming rich with drug money. It has its ideals, which is to build a new state far away from the corruption of the Rheinland Government and their big corporations and it fits perfectly the RP of my new character.
Your tale, while unique to you, is a familiar one to members of the Red Hessian Army. The waste and corruption your family has endured is a common symptom of the sickness which infests the Fatherland. Your eyes have finally been opened, unfortunately in a most disagreeable way for you, but we are fortunate as a movement that Kruger and their ilk drive willing recruits such as yourself to our doors.
Welcome to RHA as a probationary member while your story is verified and arrangements made to escort you from Kruezberg, the Junkers base in New Berlin, to the RHA headquarters in Dresden. Once at Vogtland you'll be issued your fighter craft, ranked as a raw Rekrut, and given instruction where needed. If everything goes well, in short order you will be granted the rank of Leutnant and become a permanent member of the RHA.
- Fleet Kapitan Moritz
- Executive Officer, RHA
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
From: fmr Lord Solar Admiral of the Helghast Karol Olsav
To: Red Hessian Army High Command
Date: 23-Oct-815 AS
Subject: Recruitment
MESSAGE CONTENT:
Hello my comrades in arms. I am here to pledge my support and life to the cause of the Red Hessians. The once mighty Helghast are no more, but in our final days I relied on the support of you my Hessian brothers for supplies and bases from which to launch the attacks upon the corrupt and exploitive House Corporations and Military. Yet in the end defection and casualties caused the Helghast to fade, I have that in the end the only thing that I can do is to join your cause. I have many friends within your ranks from pilots that fought beside me, their honour and skill impressed me to no end, so i find myself alone and asking you if I may join ad become but one pilot in your fleet helping bring about the culmination of our political goals.
I will bring my Wrath to Vogtland so i may converse with you more personally.
With great regard;
Karol Olsav
fmr LSA Helghast
fmr Cpt SCRA
***END OF TRANSMISSION***
RAHF.Lt.Karol.Olsav
fmr Lord Solar Admiral of the Helghast, fmr.RAHF-Olsav-[Cpt], fmr. {Helghast}(LSA-vhf)~Olsav, fmr.{Helghast}(LSA)~Olsav, aboard HCS. Kesselring
From: pub_M_Mortiz
To: LSA_Helghast
Date: 23-Oct-815 AS
Subject: RE: Recruitment
MESSAGE CONTENT:
Admiral Olsav,
Your name and reputation arrive in advance of your communication, and the RHA is honored by your request to join. A common cause and a willingness to place ship and life in harms way has brought many a skilled pilot to our ranks, but none your better.
Please dock at Vogtland at your earliest convenience and we'll make arrangements for your enlistment and orientation.
- Fleet Kapitan Moritz
- Executive Officer, RHA
END MESSAGE
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."
Message to: pu_M_Mortiz
Comm ID: Conrad "Rimfire" Egon
Location: Rochester Base, New York
Hopeful friends, would-be comrades, I am sending this message because I think you are my last chance. Oh, the times I and my family have fallen upon . . . I had a well-paying job with Daumann Industries. They are scum, but they put bread on the table, and my family is more important to me than anything else. However . . . a co-worker lost an arm in an industrial accident, and my troubles began.
It was a preventable accident, and should never have happened. The plastic guardrail that should have covered the machine's heavy cogs had long since collapsed, and funds never arrived to replace it. They wouldn't even put a piece of timber there! And so my friend, a transfer from another factory, did not know that the guardrail was not there when he put his hand down to lean against the machine.
There was no emergency stop button, so I had to run and contact the foreman while my friend's arm was destroyed.
And to top it all off, he was fired after that! Fired! The company would not pay for his hefty hospital bills, prosthetic limb replacement, or anything. When I discovered what had happened, I lost my temper. I made the mistake of confronting the site boss, threatening to go to the press with this man's story. I was fired on the spot.
Nonetheless, I had some money still in savings, and used it to purchase a small civilian fighter to fly to New Berlin and protest directly to the government. But as you no doubt already knew, Daumann has powerful friends; my words fell upon deaf ears, and I began to receive anonymous warnings to back off. For the good of my continued health, they assured me. Right.
Fearing for my life and for the well-being of my family, I gathered my family and as many of our belongings as would fit in my Starflyer's hold, and we fled to Liberty. Thanks to a recruitment center on Newark Station, my wife was able to find a job as a secretary on Freistadt base in Sigma-7. Our two children are staying there with her. A friend we made in Liberty helps her, as well, because we made a decision.
Together, my wife and I decided that we had to do something about these, these monsters. I knew immediately that I had but one chance to do that: find a way to contact and join the Red Hessians, with whom I have long sympathized but been unable to join due to the need to support my family. I still need to support my family, but I would rather do it fighting our mutual enemies than any other way.
My wife and children support me in this, and so it is that I have - thanks to the Junkers - finally found a way to contact you, and offer you my services. I have only a poorly-armed Starflyer, but I am a decent pilot, and I assure you that I am highly motivated. I will fly whatever you need me to fly, be it a fighter, bomber, or commerce raider. I think I would take special pleasure in raiding, but if you will accept my offer of service, I will do whatever you ask of me in the name of the Fatherland and our people.
P.S.: I created the callsign "Rimfire" for myself after a type of ammunition my father and I used when he would take me hunting in my teenage years. Little sense, I know, but I have good memories of those times.
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(OOC: I've always been a total sucker for idealism - which is why I love flying Gaian, and fully expect to enjoy flying as a Hessian =P Also, www.behindthename.com is a lifesaver - Conrad means "bold counsel", and Egon comes from medieval German, roughly meaning "edge of a sword". I thought it would be appropriate. =D )