Well here I am again... typing on this... memoir of mine.... Barnes says that it helps me get my balls straight... not that its crooked or anything... Well you get the point...
We were headed out to an escort mission of the [LN]-LLS-Clearwater commanded by none other than newly promoted Lieutenant Commander, Jane Hartman. Well, it -was- suppose to be an escort mission... but Lieutenant Reginald Lewis was already there....
With nothing to do... I prodded the scanners for anything unusual... then Jane and Lewis suddenly speak of a person claiming to be my brother... The odd part there is that the callsign resembled something Eva told me sometime ago. Noblesse Oblige. It was Gallic for "Nobility Obliges". Something stopping short of saying that with wealth, power and prestige come responsibilities. One other thing, this person has a very weird accent... almost of Gallia-origin.
I would like to know if this person truly is my brother... if so... that would mean I have Gallic blood... or atleast one of my relatives has...
During my momentous lapse, I have received a distress call from a trader between the lane from BS Rio Grande-Kepler JG, it seems some Xenos wanted to "raid" some transports. I couldn't let that heppen so I went there to investigate. Lewis was just finishing up the escort of the Clearwater; so, he too could join in. I waited for him at BS Rio Grande.
We found a lone Xeno at the Kepler JG, Kepler-side. It ran towards the dark matter clouds so we decided to let it go. He spat countless messages... I'll let the messages speak for themselves:
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Quote:[08.08.2012 19:12:58] Frank.Allerton: Good day pigs.
[08.08.2012 19:13:08] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: Guessing surrender won't be your choice.
[08.08.2012 19:13:14] Frank.Allerton: Not to fascists.
[08.08.2012 19:13:20] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Fascits?
[08.08.2012 19:13:23] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: *laughs* Fascists? Hardly.
[08.08.2012 19:13:31] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: *Fascists
[08.08.2012 19:13:33] Frank.Allerton: 'Deed, Liberty's governments are pirates.
[08.08.2012 19:13:43] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: You are as well.
[08.08.2012 19:13:44] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Pirates to whom?
[08.08.2012 19:13:52] Frank.Allerton: 'Nay, I am a man with a purpose.
[08.08.2012 19:13:58] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: So say they all.
[08.08.2012 19:14:04] Frank.Allerton: Liberty used to be good.
[08.08.2012 19:14:13] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: Still is. You're just stuck in your ways.
[08.08.2012 19:14:16] Frank.Allerton: Now, the lower class is shunned and stuck in depravity.
[08.08.2012 19:14:42] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: So I'd take it you are part of the lower class?
[08.08.2012 19:14:43] Frank.Allerton: Trade corporations made us Xenos, LN and LPI reinforced them for a paycheck.
[08.08.2012 19:14:51] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: I was born on Denver, kid. Been hearing that for years.
[08.08.2012 19:15:07] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: Bah, dark matter.
[08.08.2012 19:15:11] Frank.Allerton: I am poor because trade corporations would rather hrie foreigners and robots to put us out of work.
[08.08.2012 19:15:16] Frank.Allerton: Liberty is no longer for Libertonians.
[08.08.2012 19:15:28] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Maybe its no longer for the likes of you...
[08.08.2012 19:15:35] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Anyways...
[08.08.2012 19:15:47] Frank.Allerton: And 'ow would you be better than corporations or corrupt politicians?
[08.08.2012 19:15:53] Frank.Allerton: 'Cause you got fancy equipment?
[08.08.2012 19:16:00] Frank.Allerton: I think not, pirate.
[08.08.2012 19:16:16] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: We fight for the right causes... and not for those politicians.
[08.08.2012 19:16:19] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Corrupt.
[08.08.2012 19:16:24] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: We fight for the people...
[08.08.2012 19:16:26] Frank.Allerton: Leave Liberty to the Libertonians, not the foreigners that have slowly screwed this Liberty into somethign different.
[08.08.2012 19:16:27] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: It's pointless, Commander.
[08.08.2012 19:16:31] [LN]-Reginald.Lewis: Let him be.
[08.08.2012 19:16:33] Frank.Allerton: As do I, LNS.
[08.08.2012 19:16:52] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: You have a point but your way is wrong... therefore, your cause is wrong...
He wasn't going to let me have the last say... so he decided to continue the story...
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Quote:[08.08.2012 19:20:52] Frank.Allerton: Liberty's power holders are too corrupt to realize the amount of laziness and investment into foreign trade that corporation's have made, if you think we are doing this wrong, you do better.
[08.08.2012 19:21:29] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Isn't this good for Liberty?
[08.08.2012 19:21:32] Frank.Allerton: Nobody is fighting for us, so we fight for ourselves. If we need to turn to extremist methods, we will do so.
[08.08.2012 19:21:36] Frank.Allerton: Negative.
[08.08.2012 19:21:50] Frank.Allerton: D'you know what happened when corporations started makign trade lanes and jump gates?
[08.08.2012 19:21:56] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: If you ran out of jobs... planetside... why not take up jobs space...
[08.08.2012 19:22:20] Frank.Allerton: Just answer my question, nobody knows the truth, I'm assuming you don't either.
[08.08.2012 19:22:53] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: When Ageira started to make those Tradelanes and jump technology... Liberty's economy flourished...
[08.08.2012 19:22:58] Frank.Allerton: Companies like Ageira decided it would be best to simply import parts from foreign companies because it was cheaper due to foreign labor, and Libertonian companies suffered because of it. Eventually our mining operations all but shut down, and tons were out of jobs. LPI brutalized us and forced us out of public places because we were not a pleasantry due to being homeless for weeks. We were forced off of the planet and to dark matter and asteroid cloudsTook us many years but we gained a foothold to fight for what is right and accomplish it, whatever it takes.
[08.08.2012 19:24:33] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Heh, that may be... what thats pretty much impossible.
[08.08.2012 19:24:35] Frank.Allerton: Foreign vessels going boom, that is an acceptable loss. They do not belong in Liberty, we can be self sufficient. Instead of importing the blueprints and purchasing rights for trade lanes, we shipped our jobs to foreigners.
[08.08.2012 19:24:46] Frank.Allerton: We were self sufficient and thriving.
[08.08.2012 19:25:01] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: All I care about is the lives of the transports you are destroying.
[08.08.2012 19:25:11] Frank.Allerton: They are not Libertonian citizens
[08.08.2012 19:25:19] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: But they are under the law... unlike you.
[08.08.2012 19:25:38] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You forfeited your rights as a Libertonian citizen... when you became a pirate.
[08.08.2012 19:25:49] Frank.Allerton: Nay sir, I forfeited my rights when I lost my job.Nobody cares about the poor or homeless. Also, pirate? What am I, a rogue?
[08.08.2012 19:26:14] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You could've petition for violation of human rights.
[08.08.2012 19:26:16] Frank.Allerton: I fight not for gain, I am still poor.
[08.08.2012 19:26:22] Frank.Allerton: You don't think countless did?
[08.08.2012 19:26:33] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You are a pirate for attacking lawful transports.
[08.08.2012 19:26:35] Frank.Allerton: You don't think the government knows what happened to those employed?
[08.08.2012 19:26:47] Frank.Allerton: I am a terrorist, scaring off foreigners from our lands. As you should be doing, to protect your next generation.
[08.08.2012 19:26:54] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Blame the politician....
[08.08.2012 19:27:06] Frank.Allerton: I do, and I blame you and all of the navy and LPI for following them blindly.
[08.08.2012 19:27:15] Frank.Allerton: You are like a bunny with a carrot and a stick.
[08.08.2012 19:27:29] Frank.Allerton: I'll let you in on a hint, that carrot they're dangling above you isn't a carrot. It's just the stick.
[08.08.2012 19:27:36] Frank.Allerton: They took the carrot for themselves.
[08.08.2012 19:27:46] Frank.Allerton: And they are laughing at you, munching on it noisily.
[08.08.2012 19:27:55] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: If we were following them blindly... we'd just lose this war already...
[08.08.2012 19:28:13] Frank.Allerton: Feh.
[08.08.2012 19:28:16] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: And now with the Gallic invasion... it became worst.
[08.08.2012 19:28:31] Frank.Allerton: There would not be a war if we kept to ourselves.
[08.08.2012 19:28:50] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: This is not a matter of being isolated...
[08.08.2012 19:28:58] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: It's a matter of national security.
[08.08.2012 19:29:05] Frank.Allerton: National security..
[08.08.2012 19:29:05] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Even the whole of Sirius!
[08.08.2012 19:29:17] Frank.Allerton: Gallia, I suppose.
[08.08.2012 19:29:25] Frank.Allerton: Rheinland, no.
[08.08.2012 19:29:32] Frank.Allerton: Just give 'em some beer and they'll be fine.
[08.08.2012 19:29:32] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: I might... but it's been too long...
[08.08.2012 19:29:37] Frank.Allerton: Jokes aside.
[08.08.2012 19:29:56] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: If you fight for the right cause, then you should be on the frontlines.
[08.08.2012 19:30:01] Frank.Allerton: It is possible to cooperate with foreigners without screwing your nation over from the inside out. You are thinking of only the small picture.
[08.08.2012 19:30:23] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Yeah... yeah... bowing down to a king! Giving up independence...
[08.08.2012 19:30:48] Frank.Allerton: There are foreign affairs and internal affairs. At the moment, liberty is merely focused on foreign.
[08.08.2012 19:31:01] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: We'd be like the bunny you described!
[08.08.2012 19:31:29] Frank.Allerton: Xeno's are viewed as scum, same as we were when we were homeless. Only difference now is that we have power.
[08.08.2012 19:31:32] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Honestly... I don't know what to call our relationship...
[08.08.2012 19:31:53] Frank.Allerton: It is possible for Liberty to co-operate with foreigners to drive Gallia out
[08.08.2012 19:32:08] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You think we aren't trying to do that?
[08.08.2012 19:32:10] Frank.Allerton: I'm not against foreign nations, I'm against Libertonian jobs and resources going to them.
[08.08.2012 19:32:35] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Then become a corporate leader!
[08.08.2012 19:32:42] Frank.Allerton: Feh.
[08.08.2012 19:32:45] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Reverse the things that they did...
[08.08.2012 19:32:48] Frank.Allerton: Me and what money?
[08.08.2012 19:32:55] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: No... thats not what I meant.
[08.08.2012 19:33:08] Frank.Allerton: I'm not a son of a wealthy man.
[08.08.2012 19:33:13] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Become a corporate leader... then you can make influential changes and further your goals.
[08.08.2012 19:33:26] Frank.Allerton: Leading a corporation would require money.
[08.08.2012 19:33:36] Frank.Allerton: A lot of it.
[08.08.2012 19:33:48] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: First you have to change your colours.
[08.08.2012 19:33:50] Frank.Allerton: I 'ave about 1,000 credits to my name.
[08.08.2012 19:34:19] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Or better yet... why not become a politician..
[08.08.2012 19:34:21] Frank.Allerton: There are no colours to change
[08.08.2012 19:34:40] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Influence the decision to gov't policies.
[08.08.2012 19:34:58] Frank.Allerton: Yeah, a former Xeno as a politician.
[08.08.2012 19:35:09] Frank.Allerton: I would be lynched by corporate heads within a few days.
[08.08.2012 19:35:16] Frank.Allerton: Or have a mysterious bounty placed on me.
[08.08.2012 19:35:30] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Then those corporate head.... are breaking the law... and they are subject to punishment.
[08.08.2012 19:35:40] Frank.Allerton: Or might just breathe in some funky kind of gas because I don't share the higher-ups interests and choke to death.
[08.08.2012 19:35:51] Frank.Allerton: Corporate heads are above the law. They make the law. Not the government. Bribery is in human nature, as well as the instinct to hoard as much money as you can and step over everyone else to get it. It would take an already recognized figure of power to change our foreign policies.
[08.08.2012 19:37:19] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Bribery?? I'd go nuts if somebody tried to bribe me.
[08.08.2012 19:37:31] Frank.Allerton: That's because they offer you small change, heh.
[08.08.2012 19:38:22] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Small change means nothing.... or money even...
[08.08.2012 19:38:37] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: If I wanted the big bucks... I'd be a business man.
[08.08.2012 19:38:47] Frank.Allerton: Everyone wants money.
[08.08.2012 19:38:48] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: But here I am... still in the Navy...
[08.08.2012 19:38:55] Frank.Allerton: Whether they're honest with themselves or not is a different story.
[08.08.2012 19:39:27] Frank.Allerton: I'm dedicated to my cause, and I would shove off if someone gave me a million credits.
[08.08.2012 19:40:57] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Million credits?
[08.08.2012 19:41:03] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You'd shove off?
[08.08.2012 19:41:09] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: What about your brothers?
[08.08.2012 19:41:35] Frank.Allerton: I'd give 'em my lucky SNAC.
[08.08.2012 19:41:54] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Then you are no better...
[08.08.2012 19:42:07] Frank.Allerton: How so?
[08.08.2012 19:42:16] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You mentioned bribery earlier...
[08.08.2012 19:42:28] Frank.Allerton: 'Deed?
[08.08.2012 19:42:50] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Isn't that the same thing if somebody gave a million credits and you'd shove off?
[08.08.2012 19:43:28] Frank.Allerton: Mm.. I'd accept it, can't say I'd honor it though. 'Pendin' on who it's comin' from.
[08.08.2012 19:44:06] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: But you are right... Mister Allerton... you are different from a pirate...
[08.08.2012 19:44:10] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Terrorist even.
[08.08.2012 19:44:16] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: You have ideals...
[08.08.2012 19:44:22] Frank.Allerton: Took ya this long to come to that conclusion?
[08.08.2012 19:44:29] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Of course...
[08.08.2012 19:44:43] Frank.Allerton: I don't pirate, I destroy foreign vessels or destroy their cargo. 'Pends on how I'm feeling.
[08.08.2012 19:45:10] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: I see in you the chance to lead the Xenos into a new era...
[08.08.2012 19:45:20] Frank.Allerton: I happily leave ships intact if they drop their cargo and go back from where they came.
[08.08.2012 19:45:44] Frank.Allerton: New era?
[08.08.2012 19:45:47] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: *long silence*
[08.08.2012 19:45:59] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Yes... but that is for another time...
[08.08.2012 19:46:13] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Unless you change your colors now...
[08.08.2012 19:46:25] Frank.Allerton: As I said, there is no color to change.
[08.08.2012 19:46:35] [LN]-LNS-MacArthur: Remus: Then good bye, Mister Allerton...
[08.08.2012 19:46:50] Frank.Allerton: See ya.
I can't say too much of what he said... but it was certainly the words of a born-leader. He could have been a politician influencing the situation the people on Denver were facing... Of course had he accepted my proposal... I would have... financed his decision. But be it a matter of fate, that he refused it. Such a loss, really.
After this, Jane and I had a talk. This one of... a more personal note, she's been feeling uneasy taking up such a responsibility. The thought of leadership plus responsibility was a nightmare to her. But I assured her that everything will be alright... not that anything was wrong in the first place. I felt the need to give her some support, after all, it was my influence that made her change her stars.
Her medal was a symbol... of those men who died by her side... and those who fought with her... She thought it unfair for the brass to award her the medal... instead of her comrades.
I forced her to make a promise to me... to always hold on to that medal... she accepted but took the chance to return the favor. I'll be glad to hold on to that medal....