To: Admiral Victoria Knight, Battlegroup Harmony

[Durandal]

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[Comm-ID]: Samuel Locklear, Lord Commander, Hellfire Legion
[Recipient-ID]: Victoria Knight, Admiral, Battlegroup Harmony
[Location]: Planet Guadalajara, Vespucci System, Commonwealth Space
[Subject]: Trust & other acts of courage

[Priority]: Maximum
[Encryption]: Heavy

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Admiral Knight, my name is Samuel Locklear. The rank is there in the comm info but grand titles are for small men, so if you could stick to Locklear I'd be grateful. Executive Commander Dalgaard has brought me up to speed on the current situation and things are deteriorating rapidly in the independent worlds. People have acted reprehensibly on both sides and because of their shortcomings a maelstrom of death is about to envelope us all. Certain things have been set in motion which cannot be undone, but I don't think its too late to stop good Libertonian men and women from shedding each other's blood in a fight which at the end of the day isn't really their own. The soldiers under my command signed on for building a better Liberty, and that's the exact opposite of what the path we're currently taking.

The truth of it is that we're at a crossroads, Admiral, and I don't like where we're headed. If people on your side or mine die fighting each other in what is ultimately a Rheinlander's war, then we'll both have failed in our taskings. I want to make sure that doesn't happen, and that's going to require the both of us to let our armor fall and talk eye to eye as people, not recorded transmissions on a dataslate from the comfort on our homes. I'd like the two of us to meet, and I'd like it to be soon, unevents are unfolding a little too quickly to afford us the luxury of time. If you're willing, I'll fly a Guardian out to Texas and we can talk about the future, instead of living in a past where the bitter are determined to keep fighting a war that ended three years ago.

Libera te ex Infernis,
Samuel Locklear
Hellfire Legion

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