Unioners

This is an NPC faction. For the affiliated player faction, see Unioners (player faction). For the rules for this particular faction, see Unioners ID.

Unioners
Origin	Federal Republic of Rheinland
Alignment	Unlawful
Profile
Date of founding	512 A.S.
Founder(s)	unknown
Base of operations	Pacifica Base, Bering
Primary role
Undermining Republican Shipping
Secondary role
Attacking foreign and domestic shipping, removing Xenos from Bering and Hudson

Synopsis

The Unioners is an umbrella term for a collective of large, loosely-organised group of terrorists, smugglers and gangsters composed of dispossessed Rheinland shipyard workers who engage in brutal reprisals chiefly against Republican Shipping, the GMG, and other neoliberal enterprises, although they prefer foreign targets. Blending Syndicalist ideology with a keen sense of historical nationalism, the Unioners are one of the few remaining unlawful powers in Rheinland that views the memory of the pre-democratic Imperial Rheinland even remotely favourably. The Unioners are keen allies of LWB, ideological rivals of the Hessians and the Bundschuh, and are known to control most of Rheinland's smuggling blackmarket. They are the second largest criminal group to operate primarily in Rheinland, next to the Red Hessians, and the largest unlawful power operating in the Liberty-Rheinland borderworlds. It is rumoured that the Unioners have a certain amount of lawful backing amongst Rheinlandic conservatives, although nothing is proven yet.

Despite heavy trading ties with the Corsairs, the Unioners have long refused to intervene in the hispanic civil war, maintaining ties with both malta and crete wherever possible.

Diplomacy

Faction	Relationship
Xenos	At War
Bounty Hunters Guild	At War
Rheinland Military	Unfriendly
Rheinland Federal Police	Unfriendly
MND	Unfriendly
ALG	Unfriendly
Red Hessians	Hostile
Bundschuh	At War
GMG	At War
Republican Shipping	At War

Unioner Ships

The Unioners-shipline are mix of Rheinland eighty years war shipbuilding prowess and civilian ship technology, and are known to operate off Thorium MOX fuel imported from the Corsairs, as opposed to the standard MOX mix found in most Rheinland vessels. The Hel is part of the Rheinland unlawful shared line, with both the Hessians, LWB and Unioners having access to the blueprints - the original design of the vessel lost to history with both the Unioners and the Hessians claiming to possess the original design. The Unioners are known to sell these vessels for export as a subsidiary income, constructing their own Hel models at Pacifica Base, Bering system. Unioner fighters and bombers tend to be significantly larger than is normal for their weightclass, trading expansive surface area for massive powergrids and concerningly able weapons grids.

Arbeiter Very Havy Fighter Solidaritat Bomber Rheinland Pirate Cruiser Hel Cruiser

Known Bases

• Pacifica Base, Bering
• Wedel Mining Facility, Hamburg
• Leipheim Base, Munich