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Incoming Transmission

To: Leo Hochberg Caldwell, Kongsi Syndicate
From: Friedrich Krüger
Subject: Re: What We Stand For

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Guten Tag, Leo.

I appreciate you speaking plainly. I prefer that over velvet-wrapped words any day.
If you want honesty, you’ll get it.

Let me clear the smoke first, because you deserve a straight answer from someone who came up from the factory floors just like you.

1. “Buddy-buddy with the Emperor’s faction.”
The civil war tore our movement apart.
Factions splintered, men chose sides out of fear, confusion, or survival.
Hundreds of us rejected that course and walked away entirely — myself included.
The people speaking to you today are not the same leadership that dragged the Union into that disaster.
Most of them are dead, exiled, or long removed from power.

We’ve spent the last years rebuilding the Union *so it can never be hijacked like that again*.

2. “Still buddy-buddy with pillagers in the Omegas.”
Our stance is simple:
We deal with anyone who doesn’t threaten our workers, and we avoid anyone who does.
We hold no allegiance to any raiders.
We neither fly under their flag nor follow their wars.


3. “Gassed Alster.”
Every Rheinlander knows that scar.
But very few know the truth beneath the slogans.

The atrocity at Alster wasn’t the work of shipwrights, dockhands, or union organizers.
It was the work of a paranoid clique that seized the Union during the worst years of the civil war.
We live with the shame of what they did in our name.
We do not hide it.
We do not excuse it.
We rebuilt our organization specifically so nothing like that can ever happen again.

You asked what we stand for.

We stand for the same thing your Syndicate does:
• workers owning the means of their own survival,
• resistance against corporate exploitation,
• syndicalist independence from foreign powers,
• and the belief that people like us shouldn’t be crushed between the gears of Houses and megacorps.

You don’t owe us trust — trust is earned.
But don’t judge today’s Union by the ghosts of the past.
Judge us by what we build now, with our own hands, for our own people.

If you want a conversation, man to man, worker to worker, I’m here for one.
If not, I’ll respect that too.

Mit Respekt,
Friedrich Krüger
Unioner Diplomatic Ambassador
Syndicliga der Unioners

Transmission Ended

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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)

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