Junker's Union Disbandment

[Tenacity]

...Open Channel Broadcast...
Location: Bornholme Depot, Omega 15
Subject: Disbanding of the Junker's Union

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The Junker's Union was initially created as an organization out of Bornholme with the goal of bringing the area under secure junker control. Non junkers from all corners of Sirius were scouring the field, frequent collisions between salvage craft were reported due to wreckless behavior of those involved, and constant firefights between opposing groups within the field over salvage rights broke out.

The station was in a state of near critical failure when I arrived with the intent of starting an official salvage operation to fund various groups around Sirius. Myself, aboard the Firefly-Class transport Tenacity, along with several other junker-loyal volunteers and some measure of assistance from the Harvesters, went to work cleaning up the Bornholme Debris field of it's unwanted.

We destroyed hessians and corsairs alike, Rheinland Military, even liberty operatives in the area. We were forced to run out and in some situations destroy non junkers who attempted to salvage the field, and posed an imminent danger to the true scrap collectors of the station.

It took months of work to rebuild Bornholme, and that work still lies unfinished. Several of Bornholme's lower decks remain open to the vacuum of space, graveyard decks that remind us daily of the bloodied firefights between the hessians and corsairs in the area.

Eventually we were successful - we cleaned out the troublemakers and rallied the Junkers of omega 15 into a solid, organized force. Rules and Regulations were set in order to make salvage operations safer for Junkers of the Union. We openly denied contraband and piracy from the station and union members in an attempt to gain the trust of the Rheinland Military, so that we might spare ourselves from being vaporized if they chose to wipe us out.

But what's it all been for? The Congress sending their people out to wrest control, the local forces turning against us because we would no longer supply them with drugs to alleviate their pathetic lives? All out attacks from bounty hunter fleets, openly defying our position as a lawful entity?

Our success was, unfortunately, shortlived. It pains me to have to disband the Union and leave so many of it's members hanging with no work, no security, and no support from the Union guard. It isnt something I wish to do, but it must be done, or the conflicts that have sprung up onboard rheinland junker stations will cripple our presence there entirely.

I am splitting the profits of the Union between it's few remaining members. With my share, I plan to mount a salvage operation to recover my prior ship, the Tenacity, from the dark matter clouds of texas she was consumed by. The Union Guardship Midgard will be dismantled one the operation is complete, and it's parts used to rebuild the damaged systems of the Tenacity.

For now, I suggest that all union members look towards the Junker's Congress - however distasteful they may be - for a new family. I will be returning to freelance work for myself.

Signing out for the last time... Junker's Union Head Christopher Thorn.

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