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[Capt. Henry Morgan]

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From: Lt. Cmdr. Robert Thacker

Re: Ontario Patrol Report

Today's patrol run in the Ontario system was a fruitful one. I managed to clean out a number of Liberty Rogues and Lane Hackers, eighteen in total. (//NPCs, of course.) As I passed Toronto, I jettisoned the pods so that the local authorities could deal with them. Since then, the local navy and police units have been leaving me alone, if eyeing me with a bit of suspicion.

From there, I went down the trade lane, checking for pirates. I met a member of the Ontario Liberation Front, a Dan Vickers, on the lane. He was flashing a Xeno IFF, but flying a Rogue Bloodhound Light Fighter. He was attacking a Gateway convoy when I arrived. The following conversation ensued.

[25.05.2010 15:15:28] OLF-Dean.Vickers: The Revolutionary Army..?
[25.05.2010 15:15:28] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: There's no need to be troubling the civilians. I'd suggest stopping.
[25.05.2010 15:15:44] OLF-Dean.Vickers: Wha-? Ontario's not getting its freedom laying down!
[25.05.2010 15:16:29] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: And killing people that aren't part of your fight accomplishes nothing.
[25.05.2010 15:18:43] OLF-Dean.Vickers: We don't kill them if we have the chance, but shooting their ships out from under them gives their corporations a message
[25.05.2010 15:21:12] OLF-Dean.Vickers: The corporations here are as much a part of the government as the military; they're the ones with price controls
[25.05.2010 15:21:31] OLF-Dean.Vickers: We can't exactly take on the Liberty Navy, all we can do is give them something to think about
[25.05.2010 15:21:50] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: What message? They'll just tell the navy to roll in here, and then we'll get another massacre like last time.
[25.05.2010 15:22:25] OLF-Dean.Vickers: If all the Navy does is wantonly massacre Ontarians then does "peaceful resolution" make any sense?
[25.05.2010 15:22:30] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: I understand your frustration, but you've got to focus your anger. Killing civilians only alienates the people you need to support you.
[25.05.2010 15:23:01] OLF-Dean.Vickers: We've been "focusing our anger" for a year, it hasn't done anything.
[25.05.2010 15:23:06] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: The Ontario Democratic Party is working to change things, but you've got to give them a chance.
[25.05.2010 15:23:13] OLF-Dean.Vickers: The government set up here might be all nice and fancy but the 'real' authorities will just ignore them!
[25.05.2010 15:23:21] OLF-Dean.Vickers: Democracy's a hollow word when "massacres" is involved, you know it
[25.05.2010 15:25:05] OLF-Dean.Vickers: And what happens when the ODP doesn't pull through? Who takes up the reigns, you? You have your own battles.
[25.05.2010 15:25:35] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: We're here to help, and we sympathize with your cause, but senseless killing only causes more problems than it solves.
[25.05.2010 15:26:22] OLF-Dean.Vickers: I wouldn't call it senseless. At the very least it's fighting fire with fire! But still, what happens when the ODP doesn't work? What then?
[25.05.2010 15:26:23] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: And, Ontario is at the top of our list of priorties.
[25.05.2010 15:27:48] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: It will work. It has the backing of the people. They swept every election despite fierce opposition from the rest of Liberty.
[25.05.2010 15:28:42] OLF-Dean.Vickers: So they let the ballots be counted right. So what? 'Massacres'. You know what they're capable of.
[25.05.2010 15:29:06] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: That's why we're here.
[25.05.2010 15:29:07] OLF-Dean.Vickers: The government elected in here will have no power; if anything they let it be elected just to let off some steam, but they'l
[25.05.2010 15:29:17] OLF-Dean.Vickers: never let true reform take place, or let us be independent
[25.05.2010 15:30:05] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: The SCRA won't allow the will of Ontario's people to fail.
[25.05.2010 15:31:22] OLF-Dean.Vickers: Then what of the OLF? To be honest you're not Ontarians; what about those of us who want to fight if it comes to that?
[25.05.2010 15:32:55] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: Ask donations, make your cause known, but don't kill those who might sympathize with you.
[25.05.2010 15:33:25] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: Hit and run strikes aganst military targets are better.
[25.05.2010 15:33:45] OLF-Dean.Vickers: Wouldn't that draw them in all the same?
[25.05.2010 15:34:26] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: Perhaps, but not killing civilians gives you some respectability amongst the people.
[25.05.2010 15:35:20] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: I'm going to resume my patrols. Please, think on what I've said.
[25.05.2010 15:35:37] OLF-Dean.Vickers: Hm..
[25.05.2010 15:36:07] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: And, as a sign of good faith, send over those pilots. I'll see to it they get to saftey.
[25.05.2010 15:36:31] OLF-Dean.Vickers: *sighs* Actually we 'do' see that they're set down safely but..
[25.05.2010 15:37:01] Death: R2_Gun was killed by a hostile vessel.
[25.05.2010 15:37:07] SCRA|Robert.Thacker: Thank you, and good luck.
[25.05.2010 15:37:12] OLF-Dean.Vickers: Thank you..

Hopefully my words did some good, but I think that the Ontario Liberation Front bears watching. They could end up ruining everything we're working for if we can't get them under some measure of control.

I certify this report complete and accurate to the best of my knowledge.

Lieutenant Commander Robert Thacker

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