#### Incoming Flash Transmission ####
#### Signal Source: Rheinland ####
I am a citizen.
A concerned citizen of Rheinland.
I have eyes and can see what is going on now.
It's not hard to see the poor state our great country is in.
Our nation has been fighting a war with Liberty, Corsair incursions into our great house, pirates galore and upset, disgruntled brethren that have taken up arms against their own country.
Liberty a powerful nation, with a vast economy.
Liberty supports and protects their corporations, which in turn provide financial backing for their war efforts.
One of these ways that we know of, is through DSE shipping being supplied by IMG miners with silver and cobalt in the Omega systems.
We have chased these DSE Mastadon ships which run and dock on IMG bases for their protection.
Liberty also has enough resources to employ some of the best mercenaries found in any of the house systems.
Another front that our nation fights is against some of our own brethren, the Hessians that are based in the Omega's.
They have vast resources at their disposal as well.
They have advanced ships and even recently obtained capital ships.
Where do these ships come from, and how are they financed.
On top of their own fighters, they too employ some of the best mercenaries found in the systems.
Some of those mercenaries are the very same ones that Liberty employs.
Does this guild finance the Hessians, harder to prove, but I would say yes and so would others.
Two war fronts.
Two different enemies, using the same mercenaries and also being financed through some of the same corporations. Possibly, but not proven.
Our nation lacks the financial resources that our enemies seem to have.
Our nation doesn't support it's corporations. Why do I say this?
Where is the support they provide to their companies, they have called back their ships that were "loaned" to them for their defense.
Why recall these important ships and equipment that have proven so valuable in the defense of it's supporters?
Are these important ships going to the front lines somewhere? If so, why pull them from the "front" they are currently in defense of?
Are they going to provide the support in the form of our own mercenary units to protect us or to push the war into our enemies homeland?
Mean while our nations enemies and all these mercenaries slaughter the workers supporting the economy.
They slaughter our brave soldiers defending our borders that are more and more being encroached on more daily.
They turn a blind eye as this parasitic guild IMG has been negotiating for so called "peace" in the omega's.
This peace protects the various companies involved from attacking each other, but not from all the mercenaries slaughtering our brave miners and transport ships.
It protects "the guilds" interests the most and stops our nations expansion, creating "bounderies" for our people to work in. Bounderies some would say for our great nation.
Who is this guild to tell our great nation of Rheinland where it can and can't go?
The military turns a blind eye to this insult on our people.
They are too busy fighting all the mercenaries from Liberty to support it's very own workers.
Has the government been corrupted?
Some of our upset brethren who have taken up arms are proclaiming this, is it true?
Is it true? It can't be, but it's harder and harder to tell as we are restricted more and more, without the support of our government.
Have our leaders been compromised by this guilds interests or subverted by enemy espionage agents from Liberty or elsewhere?
There has even been rumors of military units breaking off from the high command of the RM and attacking OUR enemies on their OWN, without the help of the RM.
I tip my hat to this rumored group.. umm, the 51st I think they are called.
There is no proof of this elite group, they have protected themselves from our own government maybe by erasing their own files.
Maybe they can put a dent in our enemies resources and supply chains as our enemies have done to us.
Attack their own shipping and merchants in their own house space.. make their fighters leave the fronts to defend their own core systems.
Maybe put such a drain on their economy they can no longer afford these elite mercenary units.
It is proven our own military is confined to protecting it's borders and not in reclaiming or gaining ground.
This is something I want the citizens of Rheinland to think over.
I am a citizen of Rheinland.
I am a concerned citizen.
There are many other citizens or Rheinland and they should be concerned too.
I am a loyal citizen, don't question that. I will fight and die for my nation if pressed to.
Mean while our enemies protect their resources and military might by employing hordes of mercenaries on every front to fight us.
The same mercenaries fighting for different people? Or are they possibly the same people, just under the disguise of different people?....
What can we do?
We are at the command of our Kanzler, we do as he tells.
We do our jobs with out question and without hesitation in the hope that he will lead us to victory and not let our nation fail.
Reviewing local reports, the system wide broadcast piped over the open frequencies and bandwidth.
He thought this was another call to arms against the Kanzler as so many had done in the past. Perhaps just another political spout of how they were right and all else were the problem.
Yet the voice was steady, calm, poignant and drawing. The connection between Deep Space Engineering, and his former friends at the IMG.
Placing the data pad down he listened to every word intently, looking to hear signs of misdirect, impunity, or some ramble that would make the speaker divulge the hidden intention of his real message. There was none.
He himself felt the Rheinland companies, left to virtually fend for themselves brought each to a breaking point in one way or another. Uniting them in some goal, some unified drive, rang in his mind over and over.
Yet more and more the drive of the message came back to one group.
He thought to himself how it all sounded familiar, like something he heard once before.
The messaged ended as he waited for some banner of Rheinland or some new 'way' symbol to appear, but nothing.
He sat there for a few moments considering the message, how it rang true to the unity of Rheinland, a call he himself took into his own hands.
Yet through it all, he couldn't help how the message left him feeling, uneasy.
Sometimes, when all you want is to gain your freedom, you must be willing to risk it all.
it was late at the bridge-deck of the Symphonica, Flagship of MÃRSK.
Captain Schultz staring at the charts to look for possible routes through
Sirius and Gallic space,
Captain, said his communications officer and showed printed version
of the communique, for the last time he said captain.
Schultz calm as usual looked up from his charts and took the print and sat down in his captains chair and started reading.
when he finished reading he ordered to the First Officer to have a meeting with all officers, and so 10 minutes later they all where at the bridge-deck. Schultz started talking,
'und jetz' another concerned citizen who will be gone, either underground
or in prison, in my opinion it needs to be evacuated from Rheinland before they have him or her.
But captain, we should not risk our own ship and think of the crew the first officer said. then the second officer said; maybe we should get this message broadcasted again. yes lets do that said the captain, but do it as anonymously as possible.
from our spare tranciever
Boston Black a hard working miner returns to Freistadt Base after spending the day mining.
His Hegemon mining craft is well worn and battered from both asteroid collisions and the well placed shots of pirates.
He is thinking he should trade his Hegemon in for one of those new Annapurnas when suddenly his thoughts are interrupted by an incoming transmission.
After listening carefully he thinks:
"This guy thinks of the IMG like we are a spider on a web controlling the workings of multiple Houses. Man I wish that were true, then I wouldnt have to put up with constant harassment from all the pirates and those volatile Kruger miners. In fact if we had so much power and influence why would we work so hard to establish peaceful relations here in Omega 7, we would just take over the system.
And it would be nice to have peace at least with the other mining groups, as then we could focus what defensive capabilities we do have on protecting us from the myriad pirates in these parts.
And whats this about creating a boundary for Rheinland? As if. I have yet to see a "boundary" that a couple of "Turtles" couldnt smash. Boundaries, ha. All I want is an area I can mine without being pushed out by a bunch of other hostile miners. But I suppose not everyone wants peaceful mining.
Yeah, a spider on a web controlling the houses with a tug here and a pull there. Sure would be nice.
I guess Sirius is full of conspiracy theorists. And what was I thinking, me and OreCruncher have been through so much, I could never trade her in."
I represent glorious glory of glorious revolution. My red blood flows like red city in red sunshine. It is revolutionary blood.
With this blood I will lead you all. I will raise der Vaterland to Land-land and perhaps even Space-land! Rheinland will be a land amongst lands once again!
Together we will crush der Libertonians, crush der Bretonians, crush der IMGertonians, and hold hands with our Kameraden in the Hessonians and Coalonians to fly to victory!
Is it not GLORIOUS?!
What a privilege it is to be a Rheinlander! To thoughtlessly act with conviction 48 hours a day for the Kanzler!
Kanzler?
NO MORE!
We shall thoughtlessly act with conviction for 48 hours a day for yours truly, the leader of all true Greenbacks in the great universality of space.
But first, before this magnificent magnificence of such magnitude be accomplished, I will send the greatest pilot in the REICHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Who's that, you ask?
Me. Who else?
AWAIT MY SIGNAL, and we shall sally forth to glorious days and even more glorious nights.
A pair of legs could be seen underneath the reactor of a newly developed Rheinland fighter.
A floating repair drone can be seen above the individual monitoring coolant levels.
Upon turning slightly, we barely see the insignia of the Marinenachrichtendiens. The man is an intelligence officer; he is attempting to bypass the secondary coupling to boost the flow toward the inter-mix chamber.
His left hand gropes around for the right tool. When he can't reach it, he slides out from underneath the chamber to grab it.
He wipes his hands before he continues with the repairs.
Just as he is about to slide back under the chamber, something is heard squeaking inside the cock-pit.
"Computer, are we being hailed?", asks the officer.
"Negative.", responds the computer VIA the drone.
"Identify the source..."
"Signal is a general call over the entire quadrant."
"Distance?,"
"Signal is being relayed 43 parsecs away, in the Gungenheim sector."
"Relay into Engineering."
The computer did as it was commanded. Within seconds the message could be heard in the engineering section.
'I am a citizen. A concerned citizen of Rheinland. I have eyes and can see what is going on now. It's not hard to see the poor state our great country is in. Our nation has been fighting a war with.......'
The captain sat there, eyes wandering in thought, listening to this individual's message. He raised an eyebrow....it has been countless times that he has heard such pleas - cries for help - both from prisoners, and protesters alike.
He slid under the chamber to continue the modifications, all the while listening to this man's message.
'.........we do our jobs with out question and without hesitation in the hope that he will lead us to victory and not let our nation fail.'
*switch to camera shot above the officer but underneath the chamber*
We see an expression of dismay, though a crack in his lips suggests a smile. If only he knew what was truly happening, he thought.
He sighed and continued his work. "Computer, let me know if you encounter the signal again. And set course at half impulse. Engage stealth mode. Continue to monitor remote communications."
"Affirmative. Powering down primary systems."
*camera zooms out of ship to exterior. Ship can be seen above an unknown planet near it's northern magnetic pole.*