From:Fleet Admiral Roy Sanders, LNS Durango, New York System Subject:A Proposition Encryption:Maximum Priority:Medium
Good evening or whenever you're listening to this Chief, Deputies. I've been mulling over this idea for some time now and since I'm now in a position to try it, I figured I'd ask.
It's no secret that short of top foreign military leaders and the infested, Liberty's most feared and ruthless enemies are transferred to Attica Supermax. Legionnaires, Coalition, that sort of thing.
It is also no secret that the Navy is short on seasoned pilots and Liberty in general short on prison space and tax dollars to support them, and right now I have more Guardians than I have people to fly them.
What I'm proposing is that we set up a system for your inmates to apply to fight for Liberty in exchange for their freedom, should they so please. Whether they'll actually be freed or thrown back into Attica once the war is over we can figure out later, but for now they'd be given Guardians fitted with self destruct mechanisms which would detonate if they left the range of their COs in the field or turned traitor.
Overall I get more pilots, your prisons are freed up at least for the time being, and we give Gallia pilots of a slightly different caliber to contend with.
I look forward to hearing your opinion, and if you find the idea agreeable your inmates will be free to apply over the regular Navy recruitment channel.
INCOMING TRANSMISSION, NN NO. #0342111 Sender: Deputy Chief Colin Sinclair, on behalf of Liberty Police, Inc. Location: Red Deer II, Alberta Subject:Re: A proposition
Hmh. Well. While we do get paid on a per-prisoner basis, I must admit that we (the LP, Inc.) do not exactly make a net profit from the inhabitants of the Attica Supermax prison complex. That's a bit difficult when these prisoners usually are of the type that you'd prefer to stay a system or so away from, which is exactly what we have Attica for. It's not a place where you get released early for good behavior. In fact, it is not realistically a place that you get released from at all.
Which is why I must say that I find you even mentioning "release" somewhat amusing. I'm sure the inmates will find it just as amusing; they know they're in there for good. I personally do not consider release to be an option for any of Attica's current inmates in the foreseeable future. They wouldn't have been there in the first place if that was the case.
Anyhow. In spite of this, I am willing to consider your proposal. Why? Well. In the best case, Liberty would have a few enemies less to deal with on our own. In the worst case, Liberty would have a few more maximum-security cells to spare. On the face of it, I'd almost call it a win/win-situation for us both.
Or, well. Not quite. In the actual worst case, we'd have a few mass-murderers and other... undesirables on the run, and full media coverage of exactly how these state-sponsored "escapes" happened.
Which is why I have one rather "simple" condition for you to agree to if a deal like this is to take place between the LP, Inc. and the Liberty Navy: Please ensure that no details of this ever leak out to the public, particularly in the off case that anything should go terribly wrong. I have my doubts that the public, and particularly the victims of the prisoners in question, would be pleasantly surprised by this deal. Which again means that my shareholders would not be very pleasantly surprised. Which again would, at the very least, lead to a lot of explaining to do for us both. While I don't know how this would work out for you, I'd personally rather like to keep my job for a while longer.
How you decide to do this is almost entirely up to you; I can probably get your "pilots" out "safely" if they do decide to apply to your program, but after that point they will be entirely your responsibility, with all that that implies. I'd suggest (at least) triple-checking all measures that you put in place to keep your "assets" from escaping.
And don't say that I didn't warn you in advance. Those quotation marks are all there for a reason. Or, quite a few good reasons, to be entirely honest with you.
Signed,
Colin Sinclair, Deputy Chief of the Liberty Police, Inc.