There seems to be some confusion as to what exactly has been happening on and above Gran Canaria lately, as well as OSI's involvement in these events. I intend to lay the information straight for all to see in this transmission.
Firstly, It seems that Both the Brotherhood and The Coalition have come to our Planet to remove a threat they have perceived from the other. All that has been accomplished thus far is heavy civilian casualties, and much general pandamonium. Prior to the events of the last few days, Gran Canaria existed in relative peace, and life was as good as it gets out in these regions of space.
On this planet, people from any origin or creed could come and start anew, free from the constraints of their past and heritage. This is how it has always been, and this is how it should remain. Brotherhood, Coalition, it mattered little where a person came from. So long as they could abide the rules and leave there troubles and prejudices at the docking ring, they would be welcome among the populace.
Now we have this... assault. An assault on Gran Canaria's very right to determine her own rules and populace. This assault cannot go unanswered. Today there was an altercation, between some of my companies security assets and a Corsair vessel. OSI security intervened, preventing that Corsair vessel from further orbital strikes against a defenseless planet. They engaged in a skirmish with two vessels, but rather than blindly destroy them both, the fighting was halted just as soon as the orbital bombardment was stopped.
I am told by my director of Security, Director Voncloud, that the skirmish was unavoidable in the context of protecting civilian lives. The damage done to the Corsair vessels is regrettable, but ultimately unavoidable.
Now the Corsair Brotherhood may find issues with these actions, they may label us enemies of the Empire. But I say this to all involved in this conflict.
Gran Canaria is no ones territory but the Zoner peoples. OSI will not tolerate further Orbital Strikes against any targets on the Planet. The Chances for civilian damage are simply too great. As per this attitude, OSI security forces are now ordered to interdict any craft pursuing Orbital Bombardment. Only the needed force to stop the bombardment will be applied.
The war between the SCRA and The Corsair Empire is not news to the Zoners, but no one here on Gran Canaria wants any part of it. We live and work here to create a society in which the prejudices of our fathers do not dictate a man, nor his principles.
To this end, OSI has the following proposition that is hoped to satisfy both warring parties.
Both the Brotherhood, and the Coalition Army will remove themselves from Gran Canaria and Gran Canaria Orbit. Temporarily, OSI security will take over the role of Peace keepers around the planet, while the local police forces will resume thier control of their respective districts. This Martial Law will be lifted, and both parties will leave Omega 49. What you do after that is your business. Feel free to go blast each other to dust in Omega 47 for all we care. Just take it away from the women, children and families that reside on this world.
Gentlemen, Your conflict is your own. The People Of Gran Canaria should not be included in it. This colony has thrived under the administration of Zoners, Please do us all the favor of leaving us to continue our lives and begin picking up the pieces.
Encryption: Low Priority: High Identification: Magister Yuri Orlov - NCC Foreign Relations Minister Source: Planet Gran Canaria - Omega 49 System Subject: Refugee camp
Good evening, citizens of Gran Canaria:
We use this communication channel to inform the civil population, that the NCC has already deployed its humanitarian personnel on the surface of the planet, and has set up a refugee camp on the outskirts of the capital. It has 50 tents with capacity for 12 people each, a field hospital, a Deux Faith chapel, and one portable decontamination room.
All those persons who need it, can come to our camp, where they will be given food, drink, medical treatment and religious support, if desired. Also, those who have lost their homes, can request temporary asylum in the tents until available seats are completed. You just have to come to our Administrative Tent, and sign up for registration with one of our administrative workers.
We'll not abandon our brothers. Deux be with you.
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*Transmission Incoming* ID:Skarsi Wyrdmake Location: Gran Canaria, Omega-49 Message Begins.......
Kallisti Citizens of Gran Canaria,
I am Skarsi Wyrdmake, Captain of the [TAZ]Iron-Blood.
The Iron-Blood has been deployed to Omega-49 to assist in peacekeeping efforts in the System.
To Magister Orlov,
Does the NCC mind if i deploy some crew to assist in helping the refugees?
To the SCRA and Corsair Empire,
The TAZ does not wish to cause any problems with either group, but the deaths and injuries caused to civilians is horiffic. We will work to try and secure a diplomatic solution to this crisis, and the Iron-Blood will only open fire in self-defense or defense of any zoner ships. Non-Violent means will be used to try to prevent any further bombadments of the surface.
Encryption: Low Priority: High Identification: Magister Yuri Orlov - NCC Foreign Relations Minister Source: Planet Gran Canaria - Omega 49 System Subject: Refugee camp
Captain Wyrdmake:
All help to assist our refugee brothers is welcomed, and we'll appreciate it very much. The victims are starting to come to our camp and are significantly more than we expected. We already have some cases of radioactive contamination, and many injured by burns.
These people need all the efforts we can offer, don't hesitate to deploy all personnel you can.
Deux be with you.
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*Transmission Incoming* ID:Skarsi Wyrdmake Location: Gran Canaria, Omega-49 Message Begins.......
Kallisti Magister Orlov,
Teams shall be deployed at once. As luck would have it, we have some specialist anti-radiation equipment and medicine on board in case of emergency, as much as can be spared will be sent with the teams.
Senores y Senoritas,
if that isn't the propaganda machinery of the Coalition in full flight! For me as a humble Corsario it is hard to counter argument against a regime that can only keep its head above the water by spreading lies, diffamation and terror to its own people as well as the outside.
Don't let the Coalitioners honeyed tongues smear your vision and perspective! The Coalition is the anathema to the lifestyle of any Zoner...you seek freedom? Ask a citizen of the Coalition about the freedom there if you find one that is not too scared to even speak! You want to trade free, conduct liberal research and go wherever it pleases? Again, you won't find these anywhere near the coalition. The coalition was the enemy of all Sirians, the reason why we had to leave all our ancestral homes - now they are here, a shadow from the past, haunting you, trying to once again install the oppressive regime that we all fled from a long time ago.
Ask yourself again- do you want them to decide what you work, what you eat, where you go and how you live? Do you want them to force your bebitos to learn their way of war and deception, brainwash them enough that they would get you, their padres executed for reading a free source neural net report? I doubt it.
Senores y senoritas...words can do only so much, and i have no army of psychologists to find the best such as others. Let the deeds speak.
Not one year ago as many of you remember the SCRA tried to blot out the beautiful skies of Gran Canaria with their warships, with threats of invasion and conquering.
The threat was dire enough to evacuate multiple settlements completly! Me, back in the day still being a simple soldato helped the local Zoners to process these evacuations and many many Corsarios did the same. But we didn't leave it at that either - the Corsair Empire knows that the Zoners are not trained for war and have no standing army ready to move....but the Corsairs do. And Gran Canaria is after all the Empires protectorate - we sent the troops to bolster and even surpass the ranks that the defenders of Gran Canaria could rally. Together we dorve the invaders off. Together!
And as soon as the task was finished, our fleets were gone, leaving you to your well earned and deserved freedom and self-regulation once again!
The Corsair Empire might lose teh propaganda war, still every honest hombre knows in his heart that the Empire is a benevolent one and only wishes the best for Gran Canaria - now think again if the Coalition would do the same! You know the answer...
Senores y Senoritas of Gran Canaria, there have been fights and there will be more fights. Teh Empire cannot accept the coalition attempting a genocide against the Corsair population and the Empire can't accept the independence and freedom of Gran Canaria wrested from your hands by the red hordes. Do not believe the lies and faked reports, think of our past deeds and how you would field a fight if your familias could be "civil casualities" as is the case for the Corsarios.
Fight the SCRA with us, fight for your independence!
===Incoming Transmission===
===Receiving ship telemetry....... ID: Event:Horizon, Aquilon class carrier===
===Comm ID: Adelaide Brooke===
===ATTN: Doc Holiday, Magister Yuri Orlov===
She gives a grim smile to Doc and the Magister
I wish I could open this with, "Good day", but I'm afraid that would be disingenuous. Gentlemen, the Horizon is here to lend assistance. We've cleared out our docking bays and ship storage to make room for refugees or wounded.
Also with us are the following:
800 tons of Pharmaceuticals
200 tons of Food
200 tons of Oxygen
200 tons of Water
100 tons of Basic Alloy for repairs
50 Medical Scientists
We would have brought more Medics, but we wanted to arrive quickly, so we sent out a quick general call and then set direct course for Omega-49.
Since we came into this blind, we do not want to get in your way or step on any existing protocols you currently have in place. We await instruction on where to offload and assist.
Encryption: Low Priority: High Identification: Magister Yuri Orlov - NCC Foreign Relations Minister Source: Planet Gran Canaria - Omega 49 System Subject: Refugee camp
Captain Brooke:
For my part, the only protocol that I have is to help as many residents of Gran Canaria as I can. Your contribution doesn't get in anyone's way, just the opposite, undoubtedly will save many lives.
In the refugee camp that our Church have raised we need 3 or 4 medical professionals, 50 oxygen bottles, and some more pharmas, until the NCC transports we have sent, can bring us more. If you were kind enough to provide some help we will be very grateful.
Anyway other factions certainly must have raised similar camps in other parts of the planet, perhaps they need more help than us, but I don't know. The situation is a bit confusing.
All the help you can offer will be infinitely grateful, Captain Brooke. Thank you.
Deux be with you.
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PEOPLE OF GRAN CANARIA AND OF THE OMEGA 49 SYSTEM,
few days ago, the ignoble Hispanic nation of Crete effectively declared war on you. Soon after this, this group of barbarian neer-do-wells, only good at shooting, completely uncapable at sowing the land, nuked portions of your planet, reducing entire regions to uninhabitated wastelands. Thousands, if not millions of your people already died, and, if something is not done, even more will be killed, till the planet's non-Cretan population will be either dead or enslaved.
Good people, good Zoners, you're risking a similar disaster to what happened to Erie, but without the "civilization" of Liberty. Nossirs, these Cretans, unlike the Libertonians, don't even pretend to be civilized and well-mannered. These people are real barbarians, and they're the incarnations of the worst qualities of men.
Good people, the Sirius Coalition took your defense, they're defending your freedom and your right to live, and we, the Shades of Sol, in our smallness, will help them, by fighting on their side, and on YOUR side, against these barbarians.
PEOPLE OF GRAN CANARIA AND OF THE OMEGA 49 SYSTEM, THE SHADES OF SOL AND EVERY REVOLUTIONARY FORCE IN SIRIUS ARE WITH YOU.
Any Coalition supporting insurgency wíll and is being exterminated on sight.
All civilians who witness questionable abnormal behavior are to report this at the nearest carabineri outpost.
Civilian life will not be interfered with as long as it does not interfere with military actions.
Military actions take place far away from most settlements, our advice to you is not to venture too far from home.
Brotherhood forces have no intention of leaving the area until their mission is complete.
For hombres like Señor Caputo I have only one advice .
I suggest you hide in a place faaar faar away compañero...
Because if we find you , you are going to get hurt really bad.