Do you know who orchestrated demands at the end of a gun barrel, Kommodore? Republican Shipping. Daumann Heavy Construction. The Federal Government.

Our patrol craft in the Tanusfeld was ambushed by five craft, two of them from organisations regarded as neutral to the Unioners and fellow aspects of the popular revolution. Our pilot was “stepped on”, as you put it - by five unknown - we'll call them that, for your health - agitants attempting to detain her against her will, against her mandate. She fought admirably to defend herself and is now recovering from severe combat injuries after downing two of the wilderstand fighters which had attempted to unlawfully detain her. These are the situational facts. They are beyond dispute. You were one of the hostiles, after all.


Pilots die every day.


So let me ask you this:


Are you prepared to let the agenda of the Wilderstand obstruct that of the popular revolt?

We are not.

We have our political distinctions, Hessian, but there is one aim we share. We are oppose the narrative that democracy is the curative. Democracy is a lie. Democracy is an antiquated, byzantine precept that promotes mob rule. Democracy, like all things the Libertonians peddle, must be stamped out. That is what the Hessians fight for. It is what we die for.

You may be a communist and I a nationalist, Hessian, but we both believe in a unified, centralised government. The man tithe the power to pull the strings. The Bund’, well. They do not. They believe in the so-called free market, in globalisation, in immigration. In impurity.

I’m not asking you to choose sides. I wouldn’t dream of it. Our cause is biased around giving individuals the licence to make their own choices, to forge their own destiny. Instead, I will provide you some advice.


If you reconsider your attitude to what was a very minor skirmish between already hostile entities in the Sigma systems, far from the Omegas of which you are concerned, you will find Pacifica base at your disposal. There will be a crack repair crew there, ever-attentive for the Jotenheim. The Unioners are the greatest shipwrights Sirius has ever seen, Reimann. If you, or your ship, have a need, we will cater to it. Our drinks are available and our tables full. You will go about your business as you are, and we can look forward to a beautiful neutrality together.


Choose the other path, and we will roll over you. It matters not. You do not represent the Hessians as an entity - an entity we have had centuries of unbroken accord with - a people who we helped nurture in their youth. You will not demean the Hessians by undermining the cause.

Simply put, if you backstab the Hessian movement by attempting to undermine our working relationship because you make the extraordinary claim that three Wilderstand vessels jumping down the throat of an unassuming scout miraculously forms a sign of Unioner aggression to the Hessian movement, then Rheinland truly has no need for you.


I advise you forget, forgive, move on, accept. Our relations with the Wilderstand are not your concern - on that matter, you may be assured. But our relations with you?

Do not presume to play Judas with us. Let me make this very clear: Unioners do not run. If you expect us to respond to VWA coercion with anything other than gunfire, then you are wrong.

Don't pick sides when you have no hand to play, Hessian.