To: BDM| ; RM| CC: All affiliates and businesss partners

[Weiss Shipping]

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Ladies and Gentleman, Guten Tag

This is Hermann Weiss, representing Weiss Shipping.

With the recent loss of our main trading fleet in the system of Tau-44 we are hence rendered unable to further move in scale within the Sirius sector.
All the trained personnel, friends and family members, lost, slaughtered or dying in the fires and explosions of the ship reactors before imploding on them in the vacuum of space.
We only were able to find the remains of the lost trade fleet due to an independent researcher listening to the call sign of "Nihein" that spotted the remains of a Bulwark Heavy Explorer drifting within the Sumatra Cloud within the system. It took us a while to send the few members of our corporate group to get there and reclaim the remains of the space hulks along the few intact corpses we found.
A heavy damaged blackbox within the Bulwark tagged with the number "IND-BRI00013-J834 Abendrot" revealed the cause being an encounter with Outcasts not far from the Jumphole connecting Tau-44 with Tau-29.

Signing death certificates all day long along with conveying to those who lost their loved ones left us no choice, we liquidated the remaining company assets to pay for every funeral and to further help and ensure the live of the families who lost their members.
We apologise to all who lost their friends and family, it was our responsibility to ensure survival of the man and woman on each deck.

Only less than a handful of captains were on break hence escaping this tragedy. Those will be granted independent status as Weiss] Shipping will cease trade across Sirius stations and planets. The remaining personnel such as maintenance crews, office workers, public officials and so on will go planetside with me, settling on the Planet New Berlin and thus living on the surface. We were ambitious, quickly expanding yet the ikarian tale did catch up to us in the end.

Within our short span of existing as a company we realised that the Sirius Sector is inherently hostile, unreasonable and violent.
We don't wish to be the reason of more sacrifices, we don't want to see more unnecessary death.

Thus a genuine Thank you to all who had genuine business relations to us.

Auf Wiedersehen.

Hermann Weiss
former Chairman and CEO of Weiss Shipping

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[Nodoka Hanamura]

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SENDER: Major Setsuna Kobayashi, Battlegroup Ouroboros RECIPIENT: Hermann Weiss ; Weiss Shipping SUBJECT: Tragedy Sehr geehrte Herr Weiss, Weiss Shipping Employees. I am Major Setsuna Kobayashi, Battlegroup Ouroboros. Our forces have had limited but surprisingly amicable communication in space with your personnel, and we're shocked to hear of the tragedy of your convoy at the hands of the Maltese. The Alpha Run is one we dare undertake under cloak of Maltese night and small groups, but a whole convoy unless tightly coordinated and rapidly run can result in... tragic consequences. That being said, our ranks are open to those of Weiss who may find difficulty with lawful employment, as our Hakugyokrou Logistics Company is looking for qualified ship and arms technicians and engineers - as well as logistics crews. Irregardless of the path you and your employees undertake, we wish them the best of luck, and offer our condolences to the deceased. Setsuna Kobayashi Mizurashi Diplomatic Section Battlegroup Ouroboros

[Eternal.Journey]

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Inbound Transmission

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FROM: Grootegeluk Depot, All Personnel.

RECEIVER: Hermann Weiss

SUBJECT: Weiss

ENCRYPTION: HIGH

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My friend Hermann..

Although this message comes addressed from me direct, It is a message that resonates through all of us aboard the Depot. Your news weighs heavy in the hearts of all the crew of Grootegeluk, and in extension, The Core. In the short time we met and communicated, there was many swift steps towards a bright future as business partners. Through hardship, extreme goals were completed. Your losses, though indirect, are also our losses. We had the audio play over our station broadcast line. Several moments of silence of respect to you, your people and those that were killed in action... Your decision to disband, while a heavy loss to I expect many across Sirius, is a decision we respect.

If you would be willing to send us any information on specific ship identifiers that were involved in the aggression, we can use this to issue out contracts on said vessels to see to their destruction. It will not bring those killed in the conflict back, nor will it undo the damage done to you and your people. It would only help to direct the burning anger that wells up inside and provide vengeance in memory of the fallen, of those who gave their lives...

So long, Weiss. You and your people will not be forgotten...

--J.Turner

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[Arnold]

► Source: Militärkomplex, Planet Stuttgart
► Encryption: port RM-MAS-1NTS-GKR-BLG
► Submitter: Admiral Gunter Kunrad
► Recipient: Hermann Weiss, Weiss Shipping
► Subject: Closing

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Herr Weiss,


On behalf of the Rheinwehr we want to share our condolences with your loss. Sirius can be a merciless place. We want to thank you and your colleagues for the good trade relations. Perhaps you will find more suitable business opportunities on the New Berlin grounds, should you wish to do so.

Abmeldung,
Gunter Kunrad
Admiral der Kaiserlichen Rheinwehr

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[Izoh]

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Transmission detected...Bypassing...
Redirecting Signal...Now connected to: Weiss Server Network v██.█████████
UID: ████...
translating... calling terminal: Konstrukteur Grimwald...
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Displaying Feed

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Guten Tag Ladies and Gentleman.

My name is Grimwald. I am re-instating this signal as Weiss Shipping is now under a new CEO namely Herr Franz Zimmer.
Henceforth the Company known as Weiss is available again. We're working on the data recovery and transfer regarding all past communications under it's old CEO Herr Weiss.

My line is open for questions of any nature. Our affiliates of the Kuroneko Shin-Arthouse Collective on Tanegashima Station will also inform us/me in case of a pending message being left there.

Mit verbindlichen Grüßen,
Konstrukteur Grimwald.

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Weiss; Was muss, dass muss
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