Das Wilde

Das Wilde
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Profile
Date of founding	800 AS A.S.
Founder(s)	Florian Gustav Niemann
Base of operations	unknown
Primary role
Returning Rheinland to the control of the Slomon K'Hara
Secondary role
Destruction of the Rheinhardt regime, driving out of foreigners from Rheinland

Das Wilde (translating in English to The Wild) is an umbrella term referring to the various infested individuals of national origin or affiliation with the Federal Republic of Rheinland. They are most commonly former Rheinwehr officers from the Nomad War of 800-803 AS. It is a common misconception that Das Wilde is a term for any infested human, but while infestation exists in all areas of Sirius, only the successors to the infested forces within the Niemann administration can lay claim to the Germanic title of Das Wilde.

The leadership of Das Wilde is a complete mystery. Their last known leader, former Grossadmiral Ernst von Scheck of the Nordkriegsmarine (670-800/804 AS) was killed in the Battle of New Berlin, 804 AS by the last remnants of the Kriegsmarine fleet and several minor and major criminal groups such as the Bundschuh, the Red Hessians and the Landwirtrechtbewegung, though in a captured array a single blurry, shadowy image was found of an unidentified humanoid figure who may be a figurehead or even the actual leader of Das Wilde.

Organisation

Wilde could loosely be divided into four groups. Those of patrollers, hunters, civils and militants.

Patrollers

Patrollers are the most common kind of Wilde, flying modified N9-ARKM-90 Wrath class fighters and having been the subject of several Rheinland documentary films, among them "Die versteckte Drohung" (The Hidden Menace) by Fritz Bretschenider, famous for mixing actual combat footage from a former Rheinwehr officer with that of Kirche des grünen Adlers saint and composer Ralph Becker's "Weg des Adlers" (Path of the Eagle). They, like the song backing their appearance in the film, come swiftly, fiercely ravaging Rheinland ships with blue bolts of alien energy, mixed with old yet potent Kriegsmarine weaponry, decimating their foes unafraid of death.

Hunters

Hunters, unlike their patroller counterparts, tend to avoid direct contact with the enemy until they believe the time is absolutely right to strike, and venture autonomously from Wilde patrols to attack Rheinland targets, well illustrated via the Frankfurt campaign of 815. It is possible that they serve a special forces or commander role within the Wilde 'hierarchy', though this, like most xenopolitical studies, is almost total conjecture. Very sketchy reports indicate at least two instances of large, unknown craft being involved in Wilde attacks, but officially, the Rheinwehr denies these rumours.

Die Höflichen

"Die Höflichen" (the civil ones) is a slang term used among Büro der Marineintelligenz agents for the Wild who pose as agents and members of the Rheinland civil government, particularly for those involved in the Purge of 811, where over 120 infested library staff in the Kirche des Grünen Adlers faced off against a BDM raid. This term can also, albeit loosely, be applied to the infested corporate personnel implicated in the scandal that led to Republican Express Shippings formation, though as a slang term the phrase itself has not yet acquired definition among any of the 3 major dictionary cartels that monopolize Rheinland's lingua franca. By their very nature, the civils are unknown, and little common behavior has been found among the diverse array of infestation in Rheinland's history.

Militaristen

Militaristen (militarists) are an older, more recognized term for the Wild who actively impersonate members of the Rheinwehr or it's adjunct agencies, such as the Büro der Marineintelligenz, which is partly tasked with the elimination of Wild infestation. This term is used to help distinguish between active Wild agents, covert Wild agents and the Nomad War era Wild, who are considered a seperate category entirely. Militaristen, like civil, are covert by nature and difficult to identify, though certain Rheinwehr installations are rumored to be developing scanners to detect infestation through thermal and genetic testing.

It is unknown where the Wild are based. The furthest sighting of them ever reported was by Bretonian shipping major Terry Bates, who was attacked by a squadron of Wild on the edge of the Rheinland border. Speculations on their location abound among analysts and conspiracy theorists alike, from a nest near Liberty to above the standard plane to one of the uncharted systems in the Sigmas. Regardless of their base, however, Wild remain a deadly threat, both seen and unseen, to the safety and security of the Federal Republic of House Rheinland.