- This is an NPC faction. For the affiliated player faction, see Unioners (player faction). For the rules for this particular faction, see Unioners ID.
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| Origin
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 Federal Republic of Rheinland
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| Alignment
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Unlawful
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| Profile
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| Date of founding
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512 A.S.
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| Founder(s)
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unknown
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| Base of operations
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Pacifica Base, Bering
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| Primary role
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| Return Rheinland to its pre-80 Years War social conditions, bankrupt Republican Shipping.
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| Secondary role
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| Attacking foreign and domestic shipping, removing Xenos from Bering and Hudson, maintain control of the Rheinland underworld.
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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. Once the lawful apparatus of Imperial Rheinland's crown-funded trade Unions, the Unioners of the present day largely fulfil the same role they did under the crown - preserving the social rights of Rheinland's blue collar workforce, albeit through considerably more violent means. 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.
History
13 AS = Establishment of the first formal bill of blue-collar labour rights within the protogenic Rheinland colony by ranking officers of the Bundesmarine. The first protogenic trade union is created to both enforce and protect the rights enshrined within the bill.
512 AS = (Centralisation of the Unions under Emperor Valentin).
589 AS = (Unions granted wartime guaranteed employment contracts under Empress Leicht).
668 AS = (Emergency contracts receded unlawfully as part of the Yanagi Accord. Start of armed revolt).
Diplomacy
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.
80 Years War Ships
These ships are restricted to the Unioner Offical Faction ID.
Occasionally, the most powerful Unioner cells have been known to deploy even larger and more able vessels than their usual (already impressive) fare, including cobbled together retrofits of military craft, dating from the Eighty Year War and the fall of the shipbuilding unions into exile. Whilst internally antiquated, they are functionally inseperable to their sisterships still in service with the Rheinland navy.
Known Bases
Federal Republic of Rheinland
