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| | A [[Bundschuh]] base located in the system of [[Frankfurt]], close to the [[Luneburg]] [[Jump Hole|jump hole]], the [[Sigma-13]] jump hole and the [[Planet Holstein]]. | | A [[Bundschuh]] base located in the system of [[Frankfurt]], close to the [[Luneburg]] [[Jump Hole|jump hole]], the [[Sigma-13]] jump hole and the [[Planet Holstein]]. |
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| − | Believed to be founded by a group of New Berlin University students in 679 [[A.S.]], the movement had much support among the liberal elite of [[New Berlin]], tired of the corrupt practices of the government that had led them to financial ruin near the end of the 80-Years War. During the [[Dresden]] rebellion of 700 A.S., the [[Bundschuh]] found their first official cause -- shipping supplies "liberated" from [[Frankfurt]] to the [[Kruger]] and [[Daumann]] rebels. Three months after that, sympathetic maintenance workers started sabotaging Daumann manufacturing operations in New Berlin. The industrial heart of Rheinland stopped beating, and the Popular Revolution had begun.
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| − | Five years later the Emperor was overthrown, and a new coalition government was established in its place. While the [[Bundschuh]] initially pushed for a full investigation into the activities of companies such as [[Kruger Minerals]] and [[Daumann Heavy Construction]], more pragmatic elements within the government decided that for the newly formed Rheinland Republic to succeed, its needed the support of the aristocrats who controlled those and other major companies. Both [[Kruger]] and Daumann were eventually required to pay substantial reparations intended to "improve the [[Rheinland]] Republic for the good of all people," and all Rheinland companies were forced to comply with a newly ratified Workers'Rights Convention.
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| − | By 715 A.S. business in [[Dresden]] had more or less resumed as usual. The [[Bundschuh]] were driven underground, an impractical brand of idealism ill-suited to building a consensus among the many different government factions and the aristocrats who controlled the purse strings. The Bundschuh took the idealogical high route, attracting the purists dedicated to overthrowing the corrupt Rheinland regime represented by government, [[Daumann]], and the [[Republican Shipping|Rebublican]]. The [[Red Hessians]] adapted the more pragmatic approach of stealing and plundering in the guise of fighting the powers that be. As a result, the Red Hessians ranks swelled, and the [[Bundschuh]] dwindled.
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| − | The [[Bundschuh]] have always looked to the [[Unioners]], [[LWB]], [[Red Hessians]], and disgruntled [[Republican Shipping|Republican]], Daumann and [[Kruger]] workers for possible recruits. So they maintain a distinct note of neutrality towards the criminal groups, although they find the [[Red Hessians]] practice of indiscrimate piracy distasteful. They prefer to focus on Daumann, [[Republican Shipping|Republican]], and military bases, although they do raid a ship in occasion for supplies, preferably [[Samura]] or [[Kishiro Technologies|Kishiro]], as they have no more love for [[Kusari]] than the rest of the Rheinland.
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