SENDER ID: KEYGEN
RECEPIENT ID: I honest to God have no clue
SUBJECT: Hello Chat
Greetings, y'all.
So, about our deal. I can get a transport ready with some assorted avionic components, but primarily Hel and other Cruiser-class firmware and various other hardware components; including but not limited to CK-BB5 class low velocity gyro capacitors, BML5 delay-free damage and fire sensors, emergency power capacitors and Class-3 transistors, some nifty high-speed polycarbonate wiring to dispatch emergency signals to keep your boat as secure and contained as possible from fire or radiation leaks, among many other nifty gadgets to ensure your survival while in a pinch.
Let me know when and where you want to get your stuff delivered to.
Good to hear from you and so fast I am Impressed and you brought a list that makes even my old engineer’s heart skip a beat.
Your manifest sounds like salvation wrapped in copper. Those CK-BB5 gyros, fire sensors, and capacitor arrays will fit nicely into the other project sitting cold on our drydock. She's not the Projekt this one's a heavier frame, old Imperial bones with a Unioner’s soul grafted in. We’re tearing out the bureaucrat wiring and putting in real Rheinland steel, one relay at a time.
You can bring the shipment through Bering, same encrypted corridor as before. Keep your transponder dark until you’re inside the Tanner Belt you’ll catch a coded ping once the static clears. No patrols. No eyes. Just dust, distance, and our signal.
We will wait for you there just tell us when to be there.
Consider it a fair exchange between working men who still believe machines should serve the builder not the boardroom.
The lads at the Werft could use a proper toast to ships that still work and people that still care.
With highest regards :
Otto Krämer
Schiffswerftsmeister
...Übertragung endet...
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Transmitting Officer: Otto Krämer Dienstgrad: Schiffswerftmeister Sector: Bering Pacifica Relay-257
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GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI-'HELLION'
TO: Sleepy-eyed and respectably nonchalant. Sploosh. FROM: V.A.N.T. (Vorausaufklärungsnetzteam) GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI, ACTUAL SUBJECT:Hello chat
UN-VF81 'ARBEITER' ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ DESIGNATION: UN-VF81 'ARBEITER'│ │ CLASS: UNIONER VERY HEAVY FIGHTER │ │ HULL INTEGRITY: ██████████ 100% │ │ SHIELDS: ██████████ 90% │ │ POWER CORE: THORIUM MOX REACTOR │ │ ARMAMENT: 7/1x Hardpoints // 2x Missile Mount // 1x CD/T Countermeasure │ │ CREW: 1 PILOT // AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: ACTIVE│ │ CURRENT LOCATION: REDACTED│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
The Arbeiter is a highly modular very heavy fighter platform built entirely with domestic Rheinland technology.
Publicly, it stands as the cornerstone of the Union’s drive for independence from foreign spacecraft suppliers.
Implicitly, the Arbeiter represents a bold attempt to leapfrog both Hessian and Gas Miners Guild fighter programs.
Drawing from decades of accumulated shipbuilding talent and mechanical improvisation, the Unioners have produced a space superiority platform that reflects their unrelenting pragmatism — combining performance, molecularity, and survivability under hostile conditions.
Howdy. Operational security here.
Heya' Girl, how's Cardi's street price on the ass-end of the Barrier? Must be cheaper than a Xeno's ancillary ride.
Bering Relay 257?
Call me Hellion, while we've still got neural connection.
...See, baggage is a bitch, yeah? I come with it. You've gone and got me tracking down your Two Hundred and Fifty Seventh neural relay, Laner. An Infintesimal glint in a solar-scale field? Yeah, even bar your typical and atypical trickbag of spoofers and phase blockers, you've hidden it well. Credit to your outfit that you're giving experience, audacity and determined <expletive> teamwork a run for my revenue.
... Given that I'm trying to run down that beacon relay of yours, Laner, I'd say that makes us equals. So, from sniffing expert to another? Respect.
Shit, this buoy chase has got me buoyant - I'm waxing nostalgic in a pressure suit. Take a peek at the attachment, if you dare. Don't worry - I'm not so broken in the head I'd try to databomb a Lane Hacker. But as far as context comes in - I'd call that a strong first impression. For you've got a hag reminiscing for when she scoured the whole Tanner Belt for a dummy outpost the Professorship went and inflated in high solar orbit. Yeah - blow-up modules. Put it on a surface and you could've bounced, bar shattering a few shins.
Right. Don't let me me get away from the point here.
I'll be running sec'log - that's security and logistics - for this ol' thunder-run. Consider me the pragmatist to Krämer's gift basket bedecked with Hessian Tears. He's the organizer, I'm your on-call bagman. Bagwoman.
Keeping it sweet; I'll be your backup from the edge of Texas, straight to the Rock herself.
Let's hammer home the point here. Our rendezvous? That'd be the Pennsylvania Texas Jumphole - on the wrong side of that spigot. I know, the full dazzling gamut of the radiation spectra ain't any more enlivening for quantum picocircuitry than it is for Human Organs. We're going to run through our yearly vitamin-D quotient in a few minutes. Consider it a chance to get an authentic tan through raised shield. But it'll give neither of us the home advantage, scrambling E-War and Sig-war alike. It'll also keep the law, and the competition, off our collective ass.
A meetin' in the metaphorical middle, since we're making this deal in the spirit of mutual aid. At the circumflex of your stomping skies and mine. In my biz', that's a handshake. In Gallia, it'd be a smooch.
See, we unionists believe in level power relationships - tends to create the space for inter-organizational relationships. Ergo, a Union. It's in the name, n'all.
From there, we'll escort you down to Waypoint End. Once at The Rock, if the load masters' satisfied with quality-checking your goods, you'll get a bonus slice of turkey. We work on a 'each good turn deserves another' kinda' deal, if we wanna' play in universal cliche.
Alright, now, let's talk composition. I venture that we should both make a point of showing what we're good at. Show up in our stunning finery. In the spirit of cooperation, then, lemmie' be first to spill intel.
Yeah; logistics, industrial capacity, that's our strength. One of 'em. In this case, it's relevant. We'll bring in escorts and backup bulk movers, lest one of yours runs into a highly explicable rad misshap'. Unloading and accounting your goods? That'll be our burden to bear. Hey - when you're running contraband from unserialized ass of Detroit munitions to the underbelly of the Gallic sector on the reg', you get a wiry coupla' tendons when handling black freight in bulk.
Pick a time window when you're gonna' pull off the run. We'll be there.
SENDER ID: KEYGEN
RECEPIENT ID: Basically, you people
SUBJECT: :thumbs_up:
[The young woman's gaze appears exhausted. Her face betrays a glint of dissatisfaction, and perhaps irritation, a look that simply can't remain hidden through a quick glance to her feed, behind the crackling static and the cascade of visual jitters and stark quaking elements of signal interference, flickering like puddles under a monsoon of water.]
Ah, shit. I totally missed out on this new notification. My bad.
Well, nuts. Let's get to it. I've got a grand total of one hundred and forty assorted components sitting here in our Bison. I'm making my way to your suggested RV point as we speak. I'd like to get this done soonish, actually. Because I'd like to maybe return home eventually. I left my fridge's door open.
✶✶✶ UNIONER ENCRYPTED UPLINK – UN-VF81 "ARBEITER" VERY HEAVY FIGHTER ✶✶✶
CALLSIGN: HELLION
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GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI-'HELLION'
TO: Lovelace FROM: V.A.N.T. (Vorausaufklärungsnetzteam) GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI, ACTUAL SUBJECT:You delivered. Shall we step it up?
UN-VF81 'ARBEITER' ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ DESIGNATION: UN-VF81 'ARBEITER'│ │ CLASS: UNIONER VERY HEAVY FIGHTER │ │ HULL INTEGRITY: ██████████ 100% │ │ SHIELDS: ██████████ 90% │ │ POWER CORE: THORIUM MOX REACTOR │ │ ARMAMENT: 7/1x Hardpoints // 2x Missile Mount // 1x CD/T Countermeasure │ │ CREW: 1 PILOT // AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: ACTIVE│ │ CURRENT LOCATION: REDACTED│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
The Arbeiter is a highly modular very heavy fighter platform built entirely with domestic Rheinland technology.
Publicly, it stands as the cornerstone of the Union’s drive for independence from foreign spacecraft suppliers.
Implicitly, the Arbeiter represents a bold attempt to leapfrog both Hessian and Gas Miners Guild fighter programs.
Drawing from decades of accumulated shipbuilding talent and mechanical improvisation, the Unioners have produced a space superiority platform that reflects their unrelenting pragmatism — combining performance, molecularity, and survivability under hostile conditions.
Riehl here, confirming you're for real.
Well ain't you running high interest on your uncle's legacy?
You're past the airlock now.
Don't doubt yer'self, for ya' unhallowedly competent - a Tear in the Rough. Sure, you're gem in need of a lapidarist, got unrefined regolith clinging to you. Yeah - you're not a natural at running outsize payload; so what?
It's no sweat. We didn't hire you to lay down tracks we already know the footwork for. Smuggling en-masse is our game. Software on the sly? That's yours, and there's nobody better. Look...
We cashed your delivery, your cargo didn't get interdicted, and no matter how meticulous our scrapers get, they can't find a whiff of spyware. Can't tell if that's trustworthy or just impressive. Nevertheless, we're happy; nixed all pain points. These Avi'con packages are Primo' open source integrated circuitry. It's top-rate, up their with our own gear, albeit, 'cording to our Artificers, you've gone and found architectural workarounds for Syst'Control that'll set our flight-techs sleepless. That's high praise, coming from Shiptweakers with sixteen generations of pride blazing a plume behind 'em.
Look, Canny work lies south of the Tanner Divide for those with dark fingers and a seamless codebase.
We promised more to come if you came through - which ya' did.
The Union trusts you, Circles. At least, to the point where we're willing to stick our own necks out. You've proven you're a match for the drudgin' basics.
How about we raise the hammer, hm?
For we've got another commission for you. This one's more up your trade lane than the last.
It concerns one of your enemies - the middle finger of the Big Three - and an itch you can't scratch, but we can. We can't get our claws out without a set of nerves to guide our hand, though. That's where you'll be coming in.
We'll be upping the ante - there's no credits on offer this time. Credits aren't how we Syndics take care of our own. No, the Unions' all solidarity and starships. Call it a cargo cult, call it the generational inheritance of the Alster yard, but, to us, credits are for paying off disposables. We value the real bis' in tons of hull mass and mega-tonnes of reactor output. You feel me?
Ergo, your payment, this time, will come in ships. We'll give you steel, in exchange for actionable data.
We can't discuss the specifics until we know if you're willing to consider the offer on its merits. Sorry, OPSEC.
Oh, uh, people are gonna' die this time. Fair warning. If you're not up for that, let us know.
✶✶✶ UNIONER ENCRYPTED UPLINK – UN-VF81 "ARBEITER" VERY HEAVY FIGHTER ✶✶✶
CALLSIGN: HELLION
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>>>VERBINDUNG HERGESTELLT<<<
GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI-'HELLION'
TO: Lovelace FROM: V.A.N.T. (Vorausaufklärungsnetzteam) GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI, ACTUAL SUBJECT:YOU LEFT ME ON READ
UN-VF81 'ARBEITER' ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ DESIGNATION: UN-VF81 'ARBEITER'│ │ CLASS: UNIONER VERY HEAVY FIGHTER │ │ HULL INTEGRITY: ██████████ 100% │ │ SHIELDS: ██████████ 90% │ │ POWER CORE: THORIUM MOX REACTOR │ │ ARMAMENT: 7/1x Hardpoints // 2x Missile Mount // 1x CD/T Countermeasure │ │ CREW: 1 PILOT // AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: ACTIVE│ │ CURRENT LOCATION: REDACTED│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
The Arbeiter is a highly modular very heavy fighter platform built entirely with domestic Rheinland technology.
Publicly, it stands as the cornerstone of the Union’s drive for independence from foreign spacecraft suppliers.
Implicitly, the Arbeiter represents a bold attempt to leapfrog both Hessian and Gas Miners Guild fighter programs.
Drawing from decades of accumulated shipbuilding talent and mechanical improvisation, the Unioners have produced a space superiority platform that reflects their unrelenting pragmatism — combining performance, molecularity, and survivability under hostile conditions.
Stupid-ass comm unit...
Yo, did I forget to hit send?
✶✶✶ UNIONER ENCRYPTED UPLINK – UN-VF81 "ARBEITER" VERY HEAVY FIGHTER ✶✶✶
CALLSIGN: HELLION
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GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI-'HELLION'
TO: Lovelace FROM: V.A.N.T. (Vorausaufklärungsnetzteam) GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI, ACTUAL SUBJECT:YOU LEFT ME ON READ
UN-VF81 'ARBEITER' ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ DESIGNATION: UN-VF81 'ARBEITER'│ │ CLASS: UNIONER VERY HEAVY FIGHTER │ │ HULL INTEGRITY: ██████████ 100% │ │ SHIELDS: ██████████ 90% │ │ POWER CORE: THORIUM MOX REACTOR │ │ ARMAMENT: 7/1x Hardpoints // 2x Missile Mount // 1x CD/T Countermeasure │ │ CREW: 1 PILOT // AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: ACTIVE│ │ CURRENT LOCATION: REDACTED│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
The Arbeiter is a highly modular very heavy fighter platform built entirely with domestic Rheinland technology.
Publicly, it stands as the cornerstone of the Union’s drive for independence from foreign spacecraft suppliers.
Implicitly, the Arbeiter represents a bold attempt to leapfrog both Hessian and Gas Miners Guild fighter programs.
Drawing from decades of accumulated shipbuilding talent and mechanical improvisation, the Unioners have produced a space superiority platform that reflects their unrelenting pragmatism — combining performance, molecularity, and survivability under hostile conditions.
I'm about to attach a 90 hour cockpit flatulence compilation video to this net-thread
Are the Lanehackers seriously leaving us on read?
Wassuh wassuuh, Chloe here! Taking over comms after Ashie had a catastrophic manicure malfunction. Girl's been outta comission for a hot mo', even forgot to bounce this back to me. Sooo oops, tehe, sorry we left ya on read, our b~
So, steel for steel ya were saying yea? Well I'm listenin', lay down dem 'pecifics. We talking systems or full, what scale, etc etc
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GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI-'HELLION'
TO: Lovelace FROM: V.A.N.T. (Vorausaufklärungsnetzteam) GAMMA-ONE-THREE-PHI, ACTUAL SUBJECT:The Greatest Dataheist of the Decade
UN-VF81 'ARBEITER' ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ │ DESIGNATION: UN-VF81 'ARBEITER'│ │ CLASS: UNIONER VERY HEAVY FIGHTER │ │ HULL INTEGRITY: ██████████ 100% │ │ SHIELDS: ██████████ 90% │ │ POWER CORE: THORIUM MOX REACTOR │ │ ARMAMENT: 7/1x Hardpoints // 2x Missile Mount // 1x CD/T Countermeasure │ │ CREW: 1 PILOT // AUTOMATED SYSTEMS: ACTIVE│ │ CURRENT LOCATION: REDACTED│ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
The Arbeiter is a highly modular very heavy fighter platform built entirely with domestic Rheinland technology.
Publicly, it stands as the cornerstone of the Union’s drive for independence from foreign spacecraft suppliers.
Implicitly, the Arbeiter represents a bold attempt to leapfrog both Hessian and Gas Miners Guild fighter programs.
Drawing from decades of accumulated shipbuilding talent and mechanical improvisation, the Unioners have produced a space superiority platform that reflects their unrelenting pragmatism — combining performance, molecularity, and survivability under hostile conditions.
▌ Message body x1▐
Alright, I'm here.
Sorry; it was my turn to smack the bolide.
Sympathetic tardiness aside...
▌ Gun camera roll▐
IMG: BERING-HAMBURG JUMP GATE CONSTRUCTION SITE
▌ Message body x2▐
Some so-called construction site. The worksite's been this side of functional for a decade, but Deep Space Engineering won't stop fiddling with the fit-checks. Till now, at least.
This isn't a Tau-23 situation; there's no family feud between Goliath and a Demogorgon to tie up project completion. Or, at least, there wasn't. Bear with me, Bering.
No, they're slow-walking the Bering-Hamburg gate's hand-off. It's Weird. Capital W.
Our best projections? Well, we don't have 'em. So the best you're gonna' get is an infotainment guesswork fed through a forecasting server (it's a machine''s spit-take, yeah, reliable as a ice bulkhead), suggests they're gonna' tear away the fit-test modules in the coming weeks.
So here we are, running with our worst projections:
Projection one:
DSE's milking this cost-plus contract for all it's worth, and taking their sweet infinity to release custody of the gate, 'cause they get double billing for maintaining the gate while it's technically a worksite. Never mind the quintillion tonnes of traffic passing through it every lunar cycle.
Projection two:
DSE's keeping the construction facility up, because there's something <expletive>cking wrong.
Call us conspiracy theorists, if you want to. We've all heard our share of Blackout hysterics by now, yeah?
But strange happenings are afoot, and we're living in them. We're up to our necks.
...Ageira isn't telling Sirius anything about what really happened during the Jump Gate Blackout. But we've got our contacts at Heisenburg. They've got their own riddling theories in-play.
But, see, there's no way of validating any of 'em without access to a gate's inner workings.
Usually, that'd be impossible. You'd need an active gate, and active gates have anti-tamper solutions that make any kind of hardware hack fringing on suicidal.
Well, that is to say, most active gates.
This one's got an entire manual test architecture, replete with access points, strapped to the side.
Best of all? It's vulnerable. Because it's in the wrong place, getting ogled by the right people. That gate is the only gate with an Access Platform attached in the overlap between our respective operations zones.
We're the best hardware hackers on this side of the law. After all, we're Unioners. We build ships for a living out of what others throw away. But at software, we're only good. That's not good enough for this heist.
This is where the Lane Hackers come in. You're by far and away the best blackhat code 'cryptors the Neuralnet ever produced. Besides, Ageira's your nemesis. We figure that you might want to have your name on the op'. Besides, we can't do it without you. We've got the guns, the tooling, but we don't have the hackers.
...Now, you might be wondering, what's the Union's angle? Why do we care?
Simple.
Gate disasters are associated with Dark Matter innundations, right?
Guess what consumed Munich?
There's about four hundred and eighty six million Munich refugees spread around Rheinland, who deserve an ransom, not an explanation. But we can start with an explaination. Getting them answers for -why- their lives are in pieces is a least the beginning of revenge.
Add to the top of that - something's up with those gates. When the Blackout happened, a lot of ships, a lotta' lives, civilian lives, mostly, but also a good few hundred Unioners, in transit, between Hamburg and Hudson, vanished.
It was as if the void winked. All those lives, gone. You want to know the worst part? Since then, the disappearances haven't stopped. Ships, still, sometimes, vanish, on Hamburg ingress.
Some think we're getting swallowed by our own Jump gates.
Plus, look, to be honest here?
If we can help Lovelace pull off what, to Liberty's Creditors, will be most catastrophic data-breech of the last ten years, it'll -really- devalue Liberty's stranglehold over the Hudson War Debt.
See, the Kaiser's yes-men are trying to justify a pension age hike - and they're using Rheinland's national debt to justify it.
Boarding that gate will take the wind out of that argument. It'll devalue Liberty's buy-in over the Bormann treaty. It'll be like personally punching former President Powell square between the eyes. Over and over again. Poof, there goes that bastard's legacy.
If Ageira and DSE; two of the big three, gets served an injunction, right as the trading floor opens on Bonn Station?
Ooh-girl. We're talking CNS headlines. The Major Leagues.
▌ Mission Proposal▐
The Unioner movement is ideating an operation to board, seize, and capture the Hamburg Jump Gate Construction Site.
The target of the heist is the jump gate's operational records and audit logs.
Upon retrieval of the data, the boarding force will attempt to evacuate, before an overwhelming response force arrives.
This would effectively be the most significant data breach of Ageira's proprietary information within the last ten years.
The task is impossible without the aid of the Lane Hackers, who are the premier experts in waging cyberware against Ageira's intranet.
The Unioners offer the muscle, firepower, and numerical strength required to hold the gate for long enough for the boarding to take effect. The Lane Hackers would provide the on-site cyber-warfare capacity required to access the construction site's operational data.
We expect to be able to carve out a 25 minute boarding window, +/- 9 minutes, depending on Libertonian and Rheinlandic response times.
Any data recovered will be turned over to the Lane Hackers. The Unioners will take no part of the data - our interest is in the resulting headlines. Leak it to the neuralnet, if need be.
All points, and specific strategies, are subject to revision by the Lane Hackers.
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