Communication Zone: Maquis Front de Libération de Gallia

[Lionel Bourcher]

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From:Lionel Boucher
Subject:Roussillon and Military expansion

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The time has come - we have to think about eventually being able to face The navy head to head. We are in the process of formally appointing the head of our Military arm. Now if you ask me - those fresh new Ex-Council commanders sometimes don't sit right with me. They speak all merde polished and such. They do congratulate you when you come back from a heroic collaborator family burning, but they seem to lack the sheer enthusiasm for those heroic feets like us lifetime Maquisards possess.

Nevertheless, they do have my respect for joining us and putting their lives on the line for our cause - better late than never as they say. So as we integrate with them, it's time to think how we can enable our Military arm.

The plan is laid out as follows:

Roussillon
I won't beat around the bush. Solely relying on Verdun for everything relating our capital ships, from production, repair to maintenance is haphazard, even for us. There's no reason to hide anything in Roussillon, we can build there freely and kill anyone who opposes us. Caussade was kept a humble installation because it was deep in enemy terriroty and any larger scale logistics would risk it's discovery. That is no longer case.

We will carefully select third parties to help expand the base with a battleship capable dry-dock. Balian Remi heads the project and plans are already well underway to make it happen.

Recovering damaged Council tech
In a join operation with The Brigands, Unione Corse and The Junkers we have been focusing on recovering parts and pieces of military salvage and old Council technology, primarily from the battle areas - currently we are focusing on Languedoc that is ripe with Council debrie.

The usable parts are shipped to Roussillon to ready materials for the drydock, to replace damaged Pamiers technology and ready for the next phase of our plan

Acquiring intact Council ships
One of our Ex-Council military commanders has very detailed intel and knowledge of The Champagne system. This is where The Union sends intact and fully operational Council technology for repairs and replacement/deconstruction. Getting it directly will require careful planning as we are talking about advanced infiltration and/or direct assault (or my favourite - using the latter as a decoy for the former).

We will nonetheless attempt just that. One of our bold plans is to even capture another Council battleship to bolster our fleet. We don't expect to drag it all the way out to Roussillon without damage if we succeed - it is absolutely vital the Caussade battleship repair capable drydock is operational by the time we attempt such a feet. We also need to have sufficient technology, armaments, materials stockpiled for repairs and retrofits ready.

Leftover Military Salvage
There is a lot of damaged technology even the Junkers can't process, and a lot of Kusarian tech that is incompatible with ours. We have found buyers in several places. One of them are Freelancers in Sigma-13

We have gone on just such a run with Brigitte on her [FLG]NT-L'Ami-du-Peuple today and succesfully traded the unusable junk for various...things, including the all important side arms.


If anything this has shown me that I should stick to what I know - wholesome killing of those that rightfully deserve it, and let other people in The Front lead our logistics. As I accidentally dropped all my cargo and would lose all those damn things if Brigitte didn't point that out and we went back all the way to get it.


These are exciting times for The Front - frankly, it is hard for me to keep up with it all being the old single minded passionate Maquisard I am. Us hardened old schoolers need to get with the time, and start to give responsibility and delegate to people we previously did not, nor had to, understand. The Council did this for us, but they betrayed us and are long gone, However uncomfortable it might be we have to come to terms that conventional Military brains, logistics experts and even diplomacy oriented Maquisards are becoming vital part of our movement.

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Terminer l'émission,
Lionel Boucher

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