Red Hessian Army wants you!

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COMM ID: Leutnant Carl von Manstein
TARGET ID: RHA Oberkommando
SUBJECT: Surrender
ENCRYPTION: Standard

Oberkommando, I believe you know who I am. My name is Carl von Manstein, Leutnant of the Rheinwehr.

I was once proud to be part of the Militär of our Vaterland, willing to sacrifice my life at any time to protect the Rheinland Volk. However as I climbed up the ranks I saw with my own eyes the corruption and decay that lie within. At first I tried to ignore it, a childish action as I thought it would go away. Eventually I requested to be transferred to a bureaucratic post. This proved to be an even worse decision as I witnessed first-hand the disastrous orders of my superiors or their incompetence. Admiral Winters is a particularly good example of what I mentioned before.

I had lost all purpose and that was when I realized that your pilots had mentioned the same things multiple times over the past few years. Of course I had simply ignored them as we were indocrinated to not listen to anything except the official line. That it was when I realized Rheinland's enemy is not an outsider but her own corrupt and cancerous body.

So I am sending you this message while en-route to Dresden system on my Stargazer to inform you that I surrender to the Red Hessian Army. Do whatever you want with me. My personal wish is to allow me to fight for Rheinland through your ranks and thus I submit my past history. I admit, however, that I have not yet embraced your socialist agenda.

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Born at 793 A.S. in Planet New Berlin, I had been a receiver of several honors during my service in the Rheinwehr. I have been awarded the Liberty Warfare, Vaterland Defense, Military Service and Reconnaissance Ribbons as well as received several Campaign Medals.

Some of the campaigns and events that I had been part of, are the following:
✙ Participated as the Kanzler's honor guard which met the Kusarian Emperor in Planet Kyushu.
✙ In Rheinwehr's Expedition in Sigma-17 system which ended with the destruction of the Corsair fleet.
✙ Participated in the attack against Bretonia's Armed Forces in Omega-3 system and after BAF's defeat in the short invasion in Cambridge system that followed. This also led to the subsequent skirmishes that took place for roughly one month in Omega-7 system against the IMG, BAF, RHA and Coalition forces.
✙ Participated in several raids in Texas system and personally commanded independent bomber squadrons against Liberty Navy's capital fleet.

Finally, prior to my enlistment in the Militär, I worked as an escort for Republican Shipping convoys.