The Unioners - Faction information

[The Syndicate Leagues]

Frequently Asked Questions

(also known as FAQs, also known as 'what the heck are you guys doing, it's confusing'. This is your two minute guide).

Who are the Unioners?


The Unioners were a massive collection of trade Unions that ran every aspect of Rheinland's manufacturing industries from Rheinland's origins through to the end of the 80 years war, nearly 200 years ago from the setting of Discovery. Rheinland's military defeat in the 80 years war bankrupted the shipbuilding market and caused economic chaos as many of the Unionists were unemployed. As riots ensued throughout the house, Rheinland outlawed all trade Unionist activities, a ban that remains in effect in the present setting of the mod.

Many of the trade Unionists and their descendants have spent the last two centuries looking after their outlawed comrades, forming into a sprawling underground syndicalist criminal organisation that has links to much of Rheinland's counterculture in the Hamburg system and Rheinland's bordering independent worlds. Unioners are rough around the edges, but technically smart, putting much of their historical engineering and manufacturing talents to petty crime.

So are you guys Revolutionaries, or Pirates, or just plain old terrorists?



The Unioners that players will run into raiding tradelanes are there to conduct piracy, targeted specifically at big corporations the Unioners feel compete with Unioner aligned industries. Unioners avoid pirating Freelancers and certain companies they view as economically ethical. They like to imagine think they're robin hoods for the workers, but they are 100% pirates.

Unioners may also engage in smuggling. Most unioners engaging in generalised crime are the Rheinland version of Liberty Rogues, with just a touch more technical know-how.

So are the Unioners trying to replace the government?


Unlike every other Rheinland underworld faction, the Unioners don't care who is in power so much as how the economy is run. Whilst the Bundschuh, Hessians, and Coalition all want to replace the Rheinland goverment, the Unioners would prefer that the existing Republic, or some variant of the old Rheinland empire, legalised strike action and trade Union organisation.

What is the Unioners main goal?


Unioners ideologically want to get their jobs back and work with the state to fix economic inequality and employment deficits. Pragmatically, the Unions have been outlawed longer than any other Rheinland group, and want to accumulate wealth whilst they're on the far side of the law, just like their old lawful trade Unionist ancestors. This often leads them into theft, violence, corruption, and smuggling, often for themselves, but occasionally on behalf of Rheinland corporations.


How do the Unioners earn their money?


In terms of ingame activity, mining, smuggling, and credit piracy. Unioners do not pirate cargo if given the option. Unioners also build ships for other factions.

What's the Unioner style guide?


Unioners blend cyberpunk and grimepunk asthetics with 1920s inspired working class iconography. Imperial Guard imagery from Warhammer 40k would also work due to the green uniforms aesthetics and generally grimy appearance of 40k fanart.


Are you guys Nationalists or Communists?



People sometimes get confused on this one. Unioners are Hegelian Syndicalists. They believe that trade Unions made of the working class are the best way to administrate the economy from market collapse. They're not revolutionary, and can co-exist with domestic corporations.

Unioners don't care about national pride as much as national jobs. Ultimately the Unioners want Rheinland's economy to grow, and for job numbers to increase. This means that the Unioners may be more apologetic towards the Military industrial complex than the Bundschuh, for example - however, the Unioners still oppose totalitarianism and what they see as wealth monopolisation by CEOs.

What do Unioners have against foreign houses (Kusari, Liberty, etc)?


Unioners have nothing against foreigners as characters. Unioners themselves tend to be quite ethnically and culturally diverse compared to most Rheinlanders due to their extensive underworld trade connections. Unlike the Xenos, they don't blame foreigners for Rheinland's economic troubles, but they do consider corporations operating in Rheinland without their headquarters based in Rhineland to be choice piracy targets. They also have a significant historical feud with Republican Shipping, due to Republican (once Imperial) being the primary employer of Unionists back during the days of their first outlaw.

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