To: Bundschuh Pilots

[LunaticOnTheGrass]

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Name: Erich Klugmann
Identification: The Platform, Gloaming Flotilla
Encryption access: HIGH
Location: Kaiserslautern Depot, New Berlin
Subject: "Alsace Passage" Briefing

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Attention, all volunteering Bundschuh pilots,

We are less than three short hours from the procession of Emperor Albrecht's convoy from New Berlin to New Paris. Your respective sect leaders should already have thoroughly reviewed the briefing for our mission with you, but for sake of clarity I'll offer a more succinct one here.

This is a mission of political assassination. Your primary targets are to be the three Diplomatic Corps liners, respectively carrying Rheinland's Minister of Trade and Industry; delegations from RGS, Daumann, and Kruger; and "elite trade negotiators". Emperor Albrecht himself will be aboard a likely doubly-armored Tirpitz-class battlecruiser, the RNC-Burghausen; this ship is to be considered a secondary target owing to the sheer degree of defenses likely to be arrayed around him. Any defenders are tertiary.

Report to Kaiserslautern if you are not already present there; you'll be assigned a GM 09 Thor Mk. 1 retrofit if you don't have a ship already prepared. Should the convoy make it to the Zurich corridor we'll have to withdraw; we aren't presently able to guarantee safe traversal of this system considering both governments and the Unioners will readily shoot Bundschuh pilots.

Also, bear in mind that Rheinland and Gallic forces will be on the highest possible alert; expect that if we aren't outnumbered at the outset, waves of reinforcements will likely continue, endlessly drawn from the government manpower pools until the delegation reaches its destination. Stick to our strengths, if possible. Get in, and get out.

Remember that this is our opportunity to extract justice for those upholding the regime that slaughtered most of the crews of Zwickau and Bautzen in Dresden; which upholds legally sanctioned slavery on Hammersee, and which continues to treat its own people as a product, a resource to be disposed of with the dispassionate gesture of an oligarch toward simpering, statist toadies.


Carry with you the same hope and love for humanity that Botzler and Von Claussen did, today. I'll see you outside Kaiserslautern.

Erich Klugmann
Gloaming Flotilla

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