The Platform - Recruitment

[Lord Caedus]

Name: Guy Sajer

Age: 54, DOB 10-11-779 AS

Gender: Male

Do you have a cardamine dependency? If so, are you willing to use stabiline in the event of a local cardamine shortage?: I do not have a dependency.

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Personal History: I first started my career with the Rheinwehr many, many years ago. I finished my time at the University of Hamburg shortly after the end of of the Nomad War, and my older brother had fought and died in the conflict. Coming from a family of a military heritage, I was expected to take his place in the Rheinwehr, as the next oldest, and I completed my time at the academy a few years later. I entered service as a fighter pilot in 810 A.S. if my memory serves correctly, and I was deployed to about every front that we had conflict in, I fought the Hessians in Dresden, the Unioners in Hamburg, and even the Corsairs as they started to poke their noses into Frankfurt. I was eventually promoted and assigned as the executive officer of a gunboat, this would've been shortly before the start of hostilities with Liberty, and my ship and crew served with distinction in the fighting in both Bering and Hudson.

At about the time when the Rheinwehr sabotaged the Hudson and Bering Jump Gates, I was promoted again and assigned my own gunboat, we served on the periphery of the conflict from that point on, mostly keeping up patrols around Hamburg space to prevent any Libertonian incursions. Despite the growing threats in the rest of Rheinland, my ship was kept in the Hamburg system even after the formal end of the war with Liberty. The ship was by this point one of the older ones in the fleet, and she was sent to the breakers yard in 825 A.S. As one of the more experienced commanders left alive by this point, I was assigned to a training school for new officers being assigned as gunboat commanders, and I was serving in this role when the civil war started. I was quickly caught up and sent out in a reserve unit fighting for the Imperials, and I was lucky to not be involved in any major conflict at that time. The mere idea of having to attack and kill the very same commanders that I had only recently been teaching still bothers me to this day.

After the civil war ended, I was made the executive officer of a gunboat wing based in Frankfurt and assigned a new ship, we mostly worked in an anti-piracy capacity that was also sometimes sent to the Sigma systems. In late 829 A.S. my wing was dispatched to deal with a political demonstration on Hamburg, and upon arriving the Commanding Officer ordered us to fire on a group of unarmed transports in orbit over the planet. My crew pleaded with me to not carry out the order, and after a brief moment of reflection, I agreed with them. We refused the order, and when the wing commander's own ship moved to stop us from leaving, we opened fire on it, managing to disable it before making our escape as the rest of the wing fell into disarray. We fled back to Frankfurt, skirting around the edge of the system and sometimes heading into Sigma-15 to keep away from limitary patrols. This started right as the blackout happened, and the confusion of the event seems to have led to our ship being mostly forgotten by the Rheinwehr. Until only a few months ago we keep to the edges of the populated parts of Rheinland space, occasionally attacking Rheinwehr supply ships to keep ourselves space worthy. After hearing a recording of Herr Klugmann's rousing speech, the crew voted to join the Bundschuh and we made our way to Bruchsal to begin working from the station.

Skillset: I am an experienced gunboat commander, and can fly a bomber or fighter if need be, though I must admit my reflexes are not what they used to be.

Why would you like to join The Platform?: You have honorable goals, and I would like to help you further those goals to benefit the people of Rheinland.

In your own words, what is your understanding of the Platform's goals and structure?: From the conversations I was a part of with Herr Klugmann, I believe that the goal of the platform is to radically change the status quo for the average Rheinlander, giving them the freedoms that they don't even know they are missing due to the constant changing of affairs between the various powers within the house.

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Do you have any prior and/or current employment or affiliations? If so, do you expect retaliation for leaving these affiliations in favor of the Bundschuh?: None that will be of any concern, though I find it safe to say the Rheinwehr would not be pleased to see me.

Are you submitting this application on behalf of a larger ship? (i.e Gunship, Transport, etc) If so, we will relay this same application to other assenting crew: I am, yes, but my crew stand with me, though you can ascertain that for yourself at your prerogative.
Are you interested in joining an established Cell (i.e. Gloaming Flotilla, Damnatio Memoriae) or forming another? Partisan Independence is also allowed: I believe the place of myself and my ship would be best with the Flotilla, though that may change in the future.

Is there any other pertinent information you would like to add to this application?: No.

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