To Avery Reeves (Encrypted) From Nesrin Khan.

[Enkidu]

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Private_Terminal_User: N.Khan.
Sender_Neurashare_Terminus: Honshu System node.
Encryption: Vernam Cypher.

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Commander Reeves.

It’d be wise for us to have an unofficial line of communication detached from any direct diplomatic treatise. You have a career to preserve and I have a Curator to protect, so be advised any data exchanged here on my part not travel beyond my terminal. You're speaking to me, and me alone now.

It seems the cosmos has a plan for you; you’re the only contact Auxesia moderately trusts within the entirety of the Liberty Navy and Security Forces - congratulations. I know you'll act as nobly as I believe you to be; don't abuse the data chain that links us together. Even chains snap, Libertonian - nobody benefits from being adrift without friends. Even old, proud, grizzled wardogs like us.

As of the hour of sending, Auxesia has not received any formal declaration of interpolitical intent from the Constitutional Republic of Liberty, nor have we received any armistice missives from the Liberty Navy elements towards Battlegroup fleet actors. The productive light side of this dearth of diplomacy is that we have not encountered any armed interference from Liberty Navy Primary fleet elements during our operations in the infrequent instances where Auxesian and Lib’ Navy personnel have vectored through the same theatre.

Because of this lack of discourse, we are unaware of our current diplomatic situation with Liberty house - our attitude to the Republic and its civil servants is nominally accommodating, nothing has changed from our perspective, but the void of dialogue is more than slightly disturbing.

In what hue are your superiors painting us, Avery? Are we angels or fiends? Monsters or men?

Don't be tactful - your response bears no risk of disadvantaging the Republic. If it is war then we will swim to peace. If it is peace then we can advance together as friends. Such is the nature of Sirian democracy - history bends as the majority wills, and any observer will denote there's legions more soldiers wearing your stripes than mine.

You have the power here.

Not to delve into discussing the dross you hear on CNN, but you wouldn't have any information of interdisciplinary portent on the events unfolding within the Liberty Core Regions? I'm in Honshu presently and the local branch of North Star news seemed rather - confused as to the situation. I had assumed the reports of institutional fratricide were tabloid fabrication until the mainstream media started converging on New York with such eagerness you'd think they had a supernova tailgating them. I trust the issue is more than likely black data, but if the Republic's security situation is genuinely unravelling, the ramifications are unthinkable for those of us who wish to stymy the children of Marduk.

God go with you, Commander. If the Republic needs us, you know where I am.

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