War hero

[Major Harkonnen]

Then some years passed.

Augsburg exploded, Munich became a haven for Bretonian refugees and worst of all, the war with Liberty ended.

Harkonnen was raging at that point.

"They betrayed us.... Rheinhardt was a true leader for our Nation but then....first that incompetent Schulte came, then that woman took office and sold us out. Ausländer refugees. Communists everywhere. Capitalists exploiting the last of our resources. Treason has a name, it is called Luisa Neumann" - he shouted as he angrily threw stuff around his Munich office.

As most of the Rheinwehr - including the Hauptflotte - was devastated, anarchy soon broke loose in Rheinland and marauder attacks, looting, piracy became much more of a commonplace than before. The Rheinland law was shorthanded and Harkonnen was sent back to active service in the main fleet's Rheinland-wide patrols, but at that point, the Major became so obsessed with the Bundestag betraying him, that he did little more than harassing traders, whom he deemed the true lords of the corrupt Neumann-led Bundestag.

The Rheinwehr quickly chose to dismiss the Major, who was but a shade of his former self, devoid of all the heroism and positive characteristics he possessed during the war, instead retaining all of his uselessly overdone patriotism and xenophobia.

A tight-knit band of ex-military mercenaries, called the Valkyrie Freikorps took him in, who were basically keeping clean heavily pirate-infested regions, such as the Omegas or the Sigmas, where the Rheinwehr's hand wouldn't reach.