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Alster Union
- This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Unioners
| Unioners | |
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| Origin |  Rheinland
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| 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
History
PROLOGUE
Ancient Unioners are today known as an old outlaw group composed of dispossessed Rheinland shipyard workers who engaged in brutal reprisals, chiefly against Republican Shipping. According to the researches conducted for the modern history of Rheinland, expansion into the Independent Worlds changed the agenda of most Unioners from terrorism to piracy and dismantled the already feeble chain of organization with every individual spreading around the universe in quest of his personal passion.
Depressed with the disappointing results of their former alliance with the Corsairs and trying to maintain neutral relations with the entire outlaw organizations of Rheinland, the Unioners are one of the few pirate factions, which refused to pick a side in the Hispanic conflict taking place between the Outcasts and Corsairs.
Born over 120 years ago in the Hamburg system, subsequent to the Eighty Years War, the Unioner movement was created from dispossessed Alster shipyard workers, formerly members of the infamous Alster Union, formed in 521 A.S due to a catastrophic accident aboard the aforesaid shipyard that cost the lives of several hundred shipyard workers. Imperial Shipping, Republican Shipping's direct ancestor and the shipyard's owner, concerned itself little with such trifling details as worker health and safety, rationalizing that the occasional life pension or widow's compensation was nothing compared to the sum to be made from constant productivity.
The Alster Union was formed to improve working conditions for the Hamburgers aboard Alster and later on neighboring station Altona. The skills required to work aboard either station were highly specialized and quite esoteric at the time, and so the Union rapidly established dominance over its employers with benefits and bonuses pouring in, while Hamburg's industry began to change.
Diplomacy
| Allies |
| None |
| Enemies |
| Republican Shipping |
| Rheinland Federal Police |
| Rheinland Military |
| Bounty Hunters Guild |
| Xenos |
