To: The Golden Chrysanthemums | From: The National Council of Malta

[Foxglove]

It appears something has been lost in the recent days. Maybe next time, the better way for you to proceed would be to send individual communications, as seeing the Overwatch displayed first made us not read the latter part.

However, out of courtesy, I feel like you deserve some kind of answer, so I shall be brief. The Overwatch knew from the start of the fractured nature of our society. While I admit that seeing foreigners as anything but a coherent collective with a singular will might be difficult if there is a lack of acquainance with said collective, I personally am greatly off-put by the Overwatch's display of this kind of thinking. They know us since before the Nomad War. They know of our position right on the threshold of the deeper Nomad Worlds. There is no excuse for them behaving like the National Council is in any way responsible for the deeds of the outcroppings of Maltese society. We do not exercise governmental control over these families because we do not have the means to. You know best how a Maltese family feud unfolds, if you have heard of the Contari Lance and the 101st, that is.

Secondly, there is the issue of tone and manners. Golanski might be a military type, but I believe this man has a staff of advisors, and if any one of these advised him to talk to me as though I was one of his underlings, then I'm afraid this man should be immediately sent to their version of the Cardamine fields. No, I believe it is more likely that Golanski has never even consulted anyone else on how to approach the situation on his end. It is impulsive and unreliable, and there is frankly nothing that I loathe more than unreliable people.

The worst thing about all this is, frankly, that I was the one to propose this change in course to the National Council in the first place. Only with a marginal difference in votes did I manage to persuade the Council into agreeing to a truce with the Order in the first place, and those people now see their own view justified. I cannot fault them for thinking this way; I made the wrong decision here.

Does this satisfy you?