An Offering of Friendship

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**Pacifica Base, Bering System**

"About time."

Eyeing the blinking light, Herr Metzger ceased pacing the command center's unforgiving metal floor, reached for his keyboard, and entered the code that would project the message onto a waiting screen. Depositing his ponderous bulk in the adjacent moth-eaten swivel chair, Herr Metzger began to read..

Herr Metzger grunted, satisfied, sat up from his slouch, and conjured up the keyboard once more. As tensed and alert as it's possible to be for a man of Stefan Metzger's size to be, the Unioner scanned Johann Steinlaufer's message once more before he struck the first key.

Transmission Streaming....
Origin: Pacifica Command Center
Subject: Took you long enough..
To: Kreuzberg Depot

"Herr Steinlaufer. Delighted. It's about time you found the Pacifica line.

Confused? The man that tipped you off aboard Yanagi; Herr Lutz? Remember? I do hope he wasn't too obvious; he's quite the Eagle pilot, but not really suited to intrigue.

Come, now, don't be surprised; surely you didn't believe that only the LWB wanted to .. renegotiate our relationship? The Rheinland Union has attentively watched as the LWB came under new leadership.. we like what we see. Of course, we of all people shouldn't be talking; the Unioners have collectively suffered greatly over the past two decades. All I mean is that we believe you and your confederates, Herr Steinlaufer, to be men of reason and sense; we, too, believe the time is right to embrace the future, and we, too, wanted a meeting of this sort.

But I ramble; forgive me. We are of course overjoyed that you traced our secret line, we're glad to see a promising start to a hopefully promising new relationship, and we accept your offer with the greatest pleasure. I will be present and will be conducting our share of the talks; I will in all likelihood bring several of my best and brightest to ensure the Unioners are duly represented. As a show of faith, we'll disarm ourselves; we certainly hope something constructive will come of this meeting. Bring weapons as you please, Herr Steinlaufer; trust is unfortunately so often not mutual.

Pleasure to have spoken.. well, "spoken".. with you; between you and me, it's about time we settle our differences.

-Union Representative Stefan Metzger

Transmission Lost....

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