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Late November, Unified Year 1926

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Nothing but ammo.

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Not nearly enough stuff for daily life.

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I was hoping for some socks, at least.

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We work directly for Strategic HQ,
and this is all we get.

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That tells you everything you need
to know about the Eastern Front.

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What an awful sky.

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This story is a work of fiction. People, organizations, locations, laws, names, etc. have no relation to any real-life counterparts.

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Sorry I'm late.

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It's rare for you to invite me
to go drinking, though.

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I actually found something interesting.

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Start it up.

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What a surprise.

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It reminds you of the days with
Regiment Commander Laudon.

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Brings you right back to
those days in hell, right?

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Yeah.

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I can feel my back soaking with sweat.

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It wasn't just used in place
of a wake-up trumpet.

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It was for food, baths, even the toilet.

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I don't know how I made it through.

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I never would have without you there.

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That goes for both of us.

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I was told they stopped making these.

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I found it at a flea market.

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They didn't let it go for cheap, though.

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It's a small price for a chance
to look back on those days.

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That's right.

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I'll leave it here.
Come listen any time you want.

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I think I'll do just that.

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Episode Two:
A Strange Friendship

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It's been over 30 years, huh?

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Time does fly, doesn't it?

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Sure does.

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But we don't have time to
reminisce upon the good old days.

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That's right.

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Zettour, you and I have
known each other for eons.

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As an old friend, I want you to
give me your honest opinion.

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Winter came too soon.

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Quickly eliminating the enemy's
field army is impossible now.

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We should rebuild our lines.

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So we have to be prepared for
insults from the incompetent, huh?

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The problem is what happens
when spring arrives.

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Are we assuming
we'll resume the offensive?

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It's the only way forward.

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The Empire is just barely managing
to keep itself supplied.

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And that's assuming
it uses every possible resource.

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Blood continues to flow, even now.

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And yet...

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Our future is not totally hopeless yet.

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Allied Kingdom Capital: Londinium

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Now, how's our new friend,
the devil, working?

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Ideally, they and the Empire
slaughter each other.

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The Federation is... struggling.

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They'll be bringing back the mages
that they purged, it seems,

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but they won't be able to take
advantage of numerical superiority.

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And so...

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Let's use that volunteer army.

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We'll be able to make it look like
we're working with the Federation,

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while getting the same intelligence
we would if we were spying on them.

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Federation Capital: Moskva

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Are you sure about this?

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Of course.

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Sending forces to the volunteer army
is just what we need.

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I'd rather have the Allied Kingdom

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working for us as an ally
than being our enemy.

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We'll need a propaganda
strategy from now on.

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Thankfully, we're at war with the Empire,
the collective enemy of the world.

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We need to show everyone that
the Federation are the good guys.

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So we'll pick someone
appropriate for the task.

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Yes. Someone loyal to the party,
and idealistic, should be in charge.

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And someone charismatic
should be the mage.

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Understood.

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Of course, right?

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That's the army that saw the fairy!

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Don't worry, I'll catch you soon!

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Jeez... the brass are pushing
dealing with their friends onto us.

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Multinational Volunteer Army Battalion Leader (Allied Kingdom Citizen)
Lt. Colonel William Douglas Drake

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I apologize for keeping you waiting.

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Federation Political Commissar Attached to the Multinational Volunteer Army
Lt. Liliya Ivanovna Tanechka

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I am Liliya Ivanovna Tanechka.

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This is Colonel Mikel, a Federation mage.

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Multinational Volunteer Army Federation Commanding Officer
Colonel Mikel

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I am a political commissar
and a lieutenant in the Federation Army.

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I'm just a flunky, you could say.

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I'll look up what "flunky" means
in Federation language later.

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I'm Lieutenant Colonel Drake,
with the Allied Kingdom's 42nd Aerial.

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We're glad to meet you,
Lieutenant Colonel Drake.

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On behalf of the party,

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I give my deepest thanks to
your unit's sacrifices and contributions.

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I'm sure my fallen comrades
will appreciate that.

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Um...

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Unified States Volunteer
Lt. Mary Sue

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Are you a Federation Political Officer?

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Lieutenant Sue?

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I'm Lieutenant Mary Sue.

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I've heard that political officers
give advice on aspects of military life.

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You see, our unit's fallen
are buried in this land...

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Lieutenant, we discussed this.

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But they need to rest in their homeland!

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Please, allow them to be
buried in their homelands.

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Everyone cares for their homeland.

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Right?

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I know exactly how you feel!

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If you'll let me, I'll help you
in any way I can!

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R-Really?

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Lieutenant Sue, may I call you Mary?

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Of course!

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Thank you.

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Call me Liliya, too.

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Would you please be my friend?

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Yes, I'd love to.

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I'll help you prepare the memorandum.

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Yes, please do.

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Your lieutenant friend works fast.

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I'm sure you've got it tough, Colonel.

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She's better than most, actually.

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She is? You're joking.

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It's impossible to believe she's one
of my country's political commissars.

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Well...

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I don't know what to say to that.

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But it's not good news.

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These harassment attacks
get worse by the day.

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Why do the Federation soldiers go along
with all these reckless attacks?

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What did the MP interrogators learn?

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The prisoners all said the same things.

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The sort of stuff you'd expect to hear
from any communist sympathizer.

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I guess that's Commies for you.

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It looks like their
"noble ideals" have spread

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throughout every inch of their territory.

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You really do hate communists, don't you?

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I've been like that since my past life.

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Um...

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I read the reports too.

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They all seem so identical,
and filled with prejudice.

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What do you mean?

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I interviewed several of them myself.

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This is the report.

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Come to think of it,

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the lieutenant's family fled
the Federation during the revolution.

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It's good to have a living speaker
of Federation language.

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All of them except the political officers

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expressed a sentiment of
estrangement from communism?

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Yes.

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More specifically, a lack of support
for their superior officers.

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And it seemed like those voices
were absent from the final reports...

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Officer, can I get a smoke?

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I'm an aerial mage.
Regulations say I can't smoke.

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Tobacco ruins the lungs.

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No lighter then, either?

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Correct. My apologies.

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Major Weiss is an old hand at this.

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Tell me... Why do you people—no.

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Why do you fight?

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Why do we fight? We fight
for ourselves, of course.

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We're fighting for a better future.

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A better future?

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If we beat you, our society
will get a little better, right?

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Let me ask a different question.

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Why do you believe that fighting us
will make your society better?

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Because you believe in communism?

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I believe in it about as much as you do.

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A very witty answer.

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Listen, you're an idiot, right?

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Is there anyone who doesn't
love their homeland?

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Unconditionally.

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Am I wrong?

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Let me confirm. So you're fighting
for your homeland, then?

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I heard that imperial soldiers were smart.

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But you're no better than
the political commissars.

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Listen, you...

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We fight for our homeland.

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Do you need a reason beyond that?

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And if we can win
some glory for ourselves,

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those fuckers in the party will
actually listen to us for once.

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"Is there anyone who doesn't
love their homeland?"

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That's what he said, right?

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Yes. Exactly those words.

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Fuck it all.

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That explains why their morale's
so goddamn high...

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Lieutenant Colonel?

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Don't you get it?

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We thought we were fighting communists,

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but we've been fighting nationalists!

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If anything, the way we're doing
things now is making them stronger!

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Imperial Strategic HQ

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I'll put this in simple terms, sir.

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We've killed too many of them.

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I'm surprised to hear you say that.

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I had thought a war like this one

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would be decided by who built
the bigger pile of corpses.

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You're correct.

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But if we can defeat the enemy
with words, not bullets...

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Words are far cheaper.

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But that's gotten us nowhere.

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We have saboteurs in the field conducting
anti-communist propaganda efforts.

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And it's gotten us nowhere.

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Let's change our methods, then.

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Please throw ideological attacks
into the garbage can.

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Excuse me?

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Logic isn't what we need.

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Sir, what's important is
the emotions of the masses.

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Our propaganda efforts must
not demoralize the enemy.

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Instead, we must work
to split them apart.

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Our enemies aren't fighting
out of loyalty to the party.

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They take up arms and
fight for their homeland.

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Oh, the results of our
interrogations are here.

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Our MPs came into this with
too many preconceived ideas.

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I hate the damn Commies myself,

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so I let myself be blinded, too.

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It's not ideology that keeps our enemies
in the fight, but nationalism.

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Which means we have to split the
communists apart from everyone else.

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So we should "divide and conquer" in
regard to the Federation's nationalism?

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No, "conquer" is something our military
no longer has the strength to do.

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What we need is someone
we can outsource the work to.

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A friend in need.

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An interesting proposal.

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But at my age, it's not easy
to make new friends.

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But there's a famous diplomatic phrase.

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"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

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Are you saying you have an idea
as to who this friend could be?

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Of course.

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National councils in the occupied
regions on the Eastern front are ideal.

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If we work with them, we should be able

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to decrease the number of guerrilla
attacks on the Eastern front.

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Sir, it's possible for us
to make friends!

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We lost another supply truck?

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Yeah, it got attacked.

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We'll have to drink water
to fill our bellies.

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I heard someone on one of the patrols
died a suspicious death.

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And a story about the well
being poisoned, too...

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Help yourself.

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What's wrong? What happened?

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N-Nothing...

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I'll say this just in case.

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You are to strictly obey international
law when dealing with the locals.

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Even if something happens,
deal with it appropriately.

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E-Even now, we have to treat them
like we do when stationed back home?

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I'll be honest. We're at our limit.

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I understand how you feel, to a degree.

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But soon, you'll have
nothing to worry about.

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Federation Territory Imperial Occupation Area

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Now, on behalf of the Empire,

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I, Lieutenant General Hans von Zettour,
will give a speech.

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I say to all of you listening to this...

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that we, the Empire, want one thing.

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Peace.

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I want peace for my homeland,
just as do you all.

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Peace, peace, peace.

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If it weren't for those
accursed communists,

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would we have taken up arms?
Would you have?

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We have simply taken up the sword
to defend our homeland.

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We promise that when peace is achieved,

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we will lay down our arms and
return to our beloved homeland.

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00:17:50,340 --> 00:17:55,080
We have no intention of
absorbing territories we occupy.

255
00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:59,580
Our greatest desire is to co-exist
with independent peoples

256
00:17:59,580 --> 00:18:02,430
who have their own territories
and governments!

257
00:18:03,230 --> 00:18:06,840
Is there anyone who doesn't
love their homeland?

258
00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:10,240
Is there anyone who
doesn't love their home?

259
00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,860
We beg you...

260
00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,350
As good friends,

261
00:18:16,090 --> 00:18:19,080
like Horatius at the Bridge,

262
00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,530
please allow us to walk alongside you!

263
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,240
Truly, a wonderful person
as an individual,

264
00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,770
and a monster as part of an organization.

265
00:18:30,410 --> 00:18:35,430
On behalf of the Empire,
I announce today...

266
00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:46,250
that we will turn our military-controlled
areas over to civilian rule!

267
00:18:53,290 --> 00:18:58,230
May light shine on
the future of the Reich,

268
00:18:58,530 --> 00:19:00,700
and its good friends!

269
00:19:02,340 --> 00:19:05,740
What a con artist.

270
00:19:06,140 --> 00:19:11,410
I'm sure he's got a special room
waiting for him in hell.

271
00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:14,200
Allied Kingdom Embassy in Moskva

272
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,040
To new friends!

273
00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,140
To glorious cooperation
between our two armies!

274
00:19:20,140 --> 00:19:22,730
We'd love to open a second front,

275
00:19:22,730 --> 00:19:25,220
so that we can show the Empire
what good friends we are!

276
00:19:25,220 --> 00:19:30,470
Of course. But our homeland is in
the midst of a vast air war...

277
00:19:31,580 --> 00:19:34,980
Comrade Secretary, we have a problem!

278
00:19:34,980 --> 00:19:37,600
The Empire... has joined forces!

279
00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,980
They've joined forces with
the ethno-nationalists!

280
00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:45,080
They've started the process of
creating temporary governments

281
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:47,970
and transferring power
within their territories!

282
00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,240
The enemy of the world...

283
00:19:51,240 --> 00:19:54,590
The Empire... has made friends!

284
00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:05,090
Thanks to him, the Empire
may live to see another day.

285
00:20:10,580 --> 00:20:14,900
Now, if only we had a friend who was
more useful at ending the war...

286
00:20:14,900 --> 00:20:16,340
Oh, Lieutenant Colonel!

287
00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:19,440
There was coffee on the resupply list!

288
00:20:19,980 --> 00:20:21,690
What? Really?

289
00:20:21,690 --> 00:20:24,350
Yes. The lowest grade
of the stuff, though.

290
00:20:24,350 --> 00:20:26,690
I won't ask for much in
these circumstances!

291
00:20:26,950 --> 00:20:29,200
Caffeine!

292
00:20:30,510 --> 00:20:32,630
Mehr Licht, as they say.

293
00:20:32,630 --> 00:20:35,080
Allow me to prepare you some coffee...

294
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,300
Black as the devil,
hot as hell, pure as an angel,

295
00:20:38,300 --> 00:20:41,390
and sweet as love!

296
00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:45,220
Thanks.

297
00:20:48,970 --> 00:20:53,400
Thinking back, this was all thanks
to my talented second officer.

298
00:20:53,630 --> 00:20:56,380
I've known her since
the battles of the Rhine,

299
00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:59,400
but it feels presumptuous to
even call her a mere friend now.

300
00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,570
Who else have I known that long?

301
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,010
Not you! Fuck you!

302
00:21:09,010 --> 00:21:12,010
Lieutenant, what is that
damn doll doing here?

303
00:21:12,010 --> 00:21:14,330
It was in a home we occupied.

304
00:21:14,330 --> 00:21:15,790
I thought it was cute.

305
00:21:15,790 --> 00:21:16,620
Throw it out!

306
00:21:16,620 --> 00:21:18,930
Throw it out this instant!

307
00:21:20,130 --> 00:21:23,130
Ildoa Kingdom Army Command

308
00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:27,130
They've set up national councils for
self-rule in Federation territory?

309
00:21:27,130 --> 00:21:31,140
Our allies are big believers
in Raison d'État, I see.

310
00:21:31,430 --> 00:21:37,440
I hope they're as willing to listen to us,
since we're their friends as well.

311
00:23:11,620 --> 00:23:16,350
Um, why don't you attend
the prisoners' interrogations, too?

312
00:23:16,350 --> 00:23:17,930
I'm surprised.

313
00:23:17,930 --> 00:23:19,750
As long as you've been here,
you're still saying that?

314
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:21,940
Look at me.

315
00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:25,050
Look at me!

316
00:23:25,050 --> 00:23:27,140
They'll think I'm just a little kid!

317
00:23:27,140 --> 00:23:29,400
Am I supposed to look up at them
during the whole interrogation?

318
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,700
It'll look like I'm a lost kid
at the police station!

319
00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:33,470
A-Apologies!

320
00:23:33,470 --> 00:23:35,630
I'll get a kid's high chair, then!

321
00:23:35,630 --> 00:23:35,640
No!

322
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:40,090
Next Time
Well-Intentioned Mediator