Xeno Alliance communications (iRP) (FO)

[Reeves]

to: <"xeno alliance communications">
reg: ""<suffering from success>""

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I don't really do speeches. But here's one anyway.

The movement has come a long way since the Alliance's founding, to say we haven't been instrumental in this would be an excessive level of humility. We've accomplished what the Xenos under a decentralized hierarchy could not do, and the existence of Fort Ramsey and the recent conquests is a testament to that fact.

But victory has its own complications. We've put the Junkers in a corner and forced their suppliers to take us seriously, to consider us as a potential alternative. We're dealing with people who don't care about politics and merely want to ensure a steady stream of money. They have agreed to ship Cardamine to us, and give us the means to cement our movement's authority over the elites that daydream on Manhattan. But there is a price.

They require me, as your leader, to become a user. And I am willing to make that sacrifice if it means that the movement can grow stronger and better preserve its independence from subversive entities such as the now defunct Commonwealth. The spokesman on Barrow all those years ago was right when he said Cardamine was the future. We've come this far, and mere moral compunction should not hold us back, especially not when we still have to claw our way back to the top.

The revenue represented by the drug trade will allow us to rapidly upgrade and better improve our ships, weapons and of course the efficiency of our revolt. But it will give rise to a new avenue of complicated politics that I will most assuredly bear the brunt of and learn to face. They underestimated us once already, perhaps they believe they can control us all now through me. They can believe what they want.

""we have a mission to accomplish""

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