“Unforthently in the assault on the supply barge its main impulse drive was irreparably damaged and it began a rather ungraceful decent into Manhattan atmosphere. Causing 40 deaths and 5 million in property damage. Per standard protocol the crew ditched the craft and purged the bays. The cargo was then stolen by the mercenary that attacked the barge. My forces where quick to respond and we tracked the cargo to Rochester base where it was transferred to a smugglers vessel. The cargo vessel was tailed to texes, while the mercenary’s vessel was reduced to ash by are cannons. The smugglers vessel was tracked to a RV point where it met with a vessel under the ownership of the hellfire legion. Are strike teams engaged the smuggler vessel and boarded her. The HF vessel escaped. The majority of the items where recovered. The crew of the vessel was executed, their bodies crucified in odd positions with sharp objects and their heads placed in the cargo hold of the vessel stacked in a neat little pyramid the vessel was then sent back to Rochester.. The mercs head was separated from his body and sent back to the hellfire legion in a nice blue box with a pink bowtie on top of it. As per are SOP, why do you ask?”
“What troubles me is the information we extracted from the merc. He stated he was contracted specifically by the hellfire legion to assault are barge and steal are equipment. Also bounties are placed on all are heads by the hellfire legion. In my opinion this is a form of retaliation for completely wiping out the liberty rouges at the battle of Huston and at the battle west point last month. It could also be preparations to soften us up for a major offensive by this so called resistance. “
“As for the southern alliance I don’t see a reason why they shouldn’t fear us. We have a navel force that at least matches theirs. For a independent secuty company we have a military arm that is as powerful as a house navy but as their is no call for them are battleships remain in dry-dock until liberty enters war. Never the less the Bahamut and the mojilner have caused extensive damage to pirate forces and have on countless occasions provided disparate need of force for battered LSF operatives. I say if the SA fears that we are doing their job then it speaks volumes of the quality of their service to the citizens of liberty. In the short time we have been operational we have stopped numeras pirate and terrest assaults cold, Sometimes alone. We have enhanced the liberty patrol radius, and we allow the SA and LSF to concentrate their efforts on NY and the corsairs, while we deal with the rabble that try’s to take advantage of the situation that the SA and LSF are handling.”
“Pride is a good thing to have but I have seen it cause the defeat of many an army. Do we have the ability to pose as a substantial threat to any house nation? Yes. Will we ever betray them no. what bothers me is that if they continue down the path that they are on they may force the vary actions that they fear. In the end though with the SA causing trouble for us it is time we consider alternative work. As stated before we are not mercenaries. We are a privet security company that defends stuff for stuff. But given that the houses are not interested in are services. And traders are too cheep to pay for escort, we may need to rethink are mercenary stance. Now I am in agreement with the rest of you hear. We will not tolerate are name being associated with piracy and smuggling. But I am perfectly willing to fight alongside unlawfuls if it means the death of other unlawfuls. Given are standing with the order and the corsairs. We may want to contact the outcasts about joining in their fight against are already established foeS.”
“We obviously can’t count on the SA or any other law representative to be behind us. And we need to find allies soon or the corsairs and there allies will devourer us. This is merely a possible avenue.
But other standings of ico are still the same as before. We will deal with smugglers as local law defense and all whitniced acts of piracy while be dealt with by deadly force. However we should not shut out potential allies just by there unsavory backgrounds. Might I also recommend to hell with the SA and we continue to deal with liberty as we always have. After all if their established methods worked then their would be no need for ICO to exist.”
“As for patrolling the borders this is a blatant insult. Tacitly it is sound but given the….”
Beowulf struggled to find the words.
“Energetic, nature of are solders this would do more harm then good. Besides think of the poor lane hackers. After all who wants to look out their window in the morning and see 3 battleships 2 cursers, 3 destroyers 5 gunboats and a small legion of fighters and bombers. waiting for him to go to come out and go to work.”
If I die bury me with a rocket luancher, and a shotgun. I am going to have some house cleaning to do.
