From: General Joseph Garcia
To: The [HW] CC: [RHA]
Priority: HIGH
[Message Begins]
Be it so noted that as of this moment the Sirius Coalition and its Revolutionary Army is in a state of WAR against the group that identifies themselves as the [HW].
This comes after your group massacred a civilian mining station belonging to Volgograd Industrial and by extension, murdering civilians of the Sirius Coalition. This was a costly mistake for you, but one that you could of recovered from as you may not of known it was our base.
Unfortunately for you, when we sent the CPW-Che Guevara to discuss the matter with you, your forces opened fire. This was a deliberate attack on a vessel that was clearly a part of the Sirius Coalition and there was no way you could have mistaken it for something else.
We take pride in our alliance with the Red Hessians, however your group has violated that alliance. We have no choice but to destroy you and any who help you against us. It should be noted that we still consider ourselves allies to all Red Hessians, with the exception of the [HW].
What transpired today is regretful.
A total miscommunication on our part and we sincerely apologize for the loss of the civilians.
Although an apology is but mere words for what we consider to be a huge tragedy. [HW] hopes that with this apology, reparations, negotiations and our long standing alliance that in time we can repair this damage and be at the level of trust we once were.
I was first at the scene of the newly constructed base.
The main problem and confusion of this whole incident stems from the fact that even though we are allies, we are "red" to each other.
What this means is as your base grows and defenses are constructed, it will attack us every time we come out of Omega 54, our home system.
We ask that you put yourself in our shoes for a minute here.
Building a base directly in front of our front door in a system that is strictly controlled by us without permission or even asking is not acceptable.
Yes we are allies and have been for a long time.
But part of that friendship is respecting each others territories.
It seems this could of been avoided long before this conflict even started.
Why you as our allies are red to us I do not understand, yet. You should be 'green' to us..
And if there was some communication before building the base we would of seen this difference of reputation and agreed but asked we would of asked you to build it a distance away from the Omega 54 jump hole.
So here is our proposal of peace:
1. Accept our apology for the loss of the base and civilians.
2. In the future we ask that you, our allies, ask permission before placing bases in [HW] systems and we will do the same. We can't think of a reason we would say no but knowledge of the new base would solve a LOT of problems before anything like this happens again.
3. Build your bases away from entrances until we can fix our reputations.
4. Accept reparations from us for the loss of your base. You decide what is acceptable costs.
[SCRA]. Friends. Allies. The enemy is NOT each other.
The enemy is the corporations that enslave our people.
The enemy is Rhineland authority.
The path to our continued alliance is the defeat of those who shed tears and cheer when they see us spill our brothers own blood.
Please accept our apology and let us fight our true enemies together as we have for a long, long time.
From: General Joseph Garcia
To: [HW], CC: [RHA]
Priority: HIGH
[Message Begins]
I am pleased to receive your message. It is indeed a tragic and unfortunate event but we can learn to forgive. We can see your point of view and can agree that it is a reasonable one.
Your offer to assist us in reparations has also gone a long way to calming the calls for blood on the home-front.
Is there any way we can contact you via S.K.Y.P.3 so we may discuss reparations in further detail?
Our membership is located worldwide so we have different play times.
I will post in our skype to get the maximum leadership online to make those decisions.
My guess would be from what I have been noticing, around 19-22 hours from now tomorrow.
Please allow me 24 hours to get this meeting arranged with the proper leadership of [HW].
Thank you for your quick response.
I am asking for a complete stand down for up to 48 hours for the members of [HW].
We ask that any hostilities between us be taken with a grain of salt until all members of both our factions get the message of this stand down. It will be on our Skype asap.
From: General Joseph Garcia
To: [HW]
Priority: HIGH
[Message Begins]
The Revolutionary Army has already been ordered to stand down. Please inform me if any of our forces engage yours.
As for negotiating with your leadership, I have things to attend to as well so allow me to summarize what the Sirius Coalition is looking for.
Your assistance in rebuilding the mining station and even co-operating further in its development. It is, however a civilian installation so I do not foresee its viability as a military staging area.
Indeed, from the ashes of this incident we can grow our relations even stronger than they were before.