»TO: Erich Klugmann

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Name: Erich Klugmann
Identification: The Platform, Gloaming Flotilla
Encryption access: HIGH
Location: Kaiserslautern Depot, New Berlin
Subject: RE: Expression of Pain

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Revenant,

Please accept my apologies for not having been able to reply to you until now; as you doubtlessly have seen and heard by now, "Alsace" was a diplomatic outreach mission by Emperor von Albrecht and some of his inner circle to Gallia--Meant to strengthen the economic and cooperative ties between both Houses by means of the "Zurich Highway". The Bundschuh were only able to do moderate damage to one of the diplomatic liners before we were steamrolled by von Albrecht's escort, and they were already halfway to Zurich before we were able to muster up a second wave.

Still, it's my understanding that none of the liners made it safely to New Paris, and that the Emperor made a buffoon of both himself and Rheinland when no-one was present to do the diplomacy for him. Even if not strictly by our doing, our intervention fortunately ended up being a strategic success.


As for "Klugg Chugg"; this was not our doing. Admittedly, I am torn about this. Having encountered the brand myself, I feel that I should have no place regulating genuine artistic expression. On the other hand, I must assume this is a corporate endeavor seeking to profit off of my likeness, without my prior consent.

Unfortunately, a Heisenberg-based lawyer whom I've been in correspondence with has advised me that under Rheinlandic law, the deliberate addition of an extra "g" to that portion of my surname grants the company enough leeway to claim it is not an infringement of identity. We can only hope that the government views it as you had: an endorsement of myself and the Bundschuh as a counterculture movement, even though this very line of logic again corroborates that capital subsumes all things.

Erich Klugmann
Gloaming Flotilla

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