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[The Syndicate Leagues]

No datapads, no electronic devices. Like braving the scanners at a public spaceport, Alise would have to rely upon memory for this one.

GEIST Intelligence Briefing for operative 2716.

Welcome, Arbeiter. By receiving this brief, you have volunteered yourself for an assignment of the General Exigency for Informed Tactical Survival wing of the conjoined Direktorate. Directives assigned under this division come from no mandated sanction from the Chain of Comrades within the KSF or any active Unioner social arbitration organisation, activist collective, or institution outside of the Direktorate C of C. You are therefore exempted from the normative bill of rights mandated within the Syndic Charter and Rheinlandic declaration of Colonisation, 3 AS, along with any and all additional component amendments of the ILU. This measure is taken to ensure the institutional survival of the Unioners and the preserved strategic integrity of the RISD, RAGDA, LWB, IPR, along with your comrade brethren, to insure minimal impairment of institutional stability upon the occasion of your capture.


Long live the Direktor and the Many Cells.

Brief:

Your mission is to make diplomatic contact with former political figurehead of the Outlawed Partei, Bundschuh activist, and war criminal under the Rheinlandic Colonisation Declaration, 003 AS, Nika Haupt, who has re-emerged into the underworld.


Haupt is a known collaborator with the Order, Gas Miner’s Guild, and possible recipient of laundered money from ALG corporate accounts. She is, amongst a number of interlinked institutional factors, responsible for the termination of relations between the Unioners and the Red Hessians that initiated the Second Volksrevolution Civil War. She is the originator of the present Outlawed Party agitprop narrative that the Unioners are covertly supporting federal military totalitarianism.

Personality biography:

Haupt is known to be intelligent, charismatic, self-assured, stubborn. However, she is not arrogant – her conviction is institutional first, personal second. Despite this, she is observed to have a messianic view of her own ideological convictions, if not necessarily herself. She will come to the table assured that her view of how the Bundschuh is the inherent future of the organisation and all other paths will result in the repeat of the same mistakes over and over. This is textbook populist narcissism and can be exploited. Bear in mind Haupt is as skilled an interrogator, terrorist, and guerrilla warfare expert as she is a partisan.


Haupt is a keen manipulator who prefers to use others as force leverage. She is not above acts of direct terror intermeshed with detailed propaganda campaigns. Her true ideology is uniquely Bundschuh, however, Haupt appears less obsessed with imitating the Libertonian corporatist oligarchy of the Republic of Liberty than her cousins within the White Rose.

Her attitude is pragmatic and she has likely filled the bar with subordinates, paid gunmen, or boobytraps. Avoid hostility. If the Union deems assassination the preferable alternative, you will not be the one to carry it out.

Objectives of the meeting:


- Discover commonalities of interest between the present Unioner administration and Haupt.
- Promote the idea (subtly), that the Unioners can, by free will, or manipulation, be convinced into siding with Haupt’s Spring Guard over the present Bundschuh White Rose administration.
- Attempt to gain from Haupt what Haupt’s true opinions are in her intention to “Destroy the Republic”. Can this sentiment be compatible with the restoration of the old Imperial worker’s rights charter?
- Focus on common interests (the destruction of corrupt political systems, preventing a Federal military coup, preventing a needless war with the house of Liberty). Ignore points of separation, except for your heritage. Her response will provide valuable character information.



Notes:


- We have taken the precaution to inject you with unobtrusive nanites during your pre-briefing medical examination. The nanites emit a harmless radiological trace to aid recovery in the event of your capture. Should you be detained longer than a week the nanites will dissolve into an instantaneous, painless, neurotoxin, saving you from any possibility of torture. The nanites will be removed before post-mission debrief.

- The Junkers have long been in our pocket, however, this is Berlin, and the Bundschuh presence upon the station will be elevated.

- GEIST initial analysis suspects the barkeeper is compromised. Do not consume or order beverages or other consumables during the meeting.

- There is a discreet nonferric panic button stitched into the lining of your trousers. Should your limbs be amputated preventing access, clack your teeth seven times in five seconds.

- Three ILU enforcers have been stationed in the compartment directly above, posted the inter-compartmental crawlspace. Response time no shorter than seven seconds, insufficient for a gunfight. Do not rely on them.

- The waitress with the blue watch, the Junker with the synthetic eye at the table to your left, and the blond geriatric woman with the large German Shepard (also with an artificial eye), are all on our payroll.

- The beer mug on table five contains a compact tachyon pistol. Reaching for it will not be discreet. Inadvisable in a firefight.

- Assume you are wearing a wire, we will not brief you on the location of said wires other than that a near-surgical cavity-search in an MRI scanner couldn’t reveal them to an interrogator.

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