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>>>SOURCE:..........Battleship Mississippi, Texas System, Liberty Space
>>>TO:..................All Liberty Lawfuls [CC: Capt. Ian Thorne]
>>>FROM:..............Second Lieutenant Tyler Crowley [COMM ID: [LMC]2Lt.Crowley]
>>>SUBJECT:.........Bounties on Liberty
Good day sir,
While I understand the need for outside contracts to be posted on certain individuals and groups from time-to-time, I don't see the need to allow private mercenaries to enter our space and give them free reign to pick and choose they're targets. In response to your message, I never said anything about the Bounty Hunters Guild, I believe it goes against there own procedures to take unlawful bounties such as this.
Furthermore, Rheinland has become more brazen in there attacks of late, I do not wish to loose Hudson or Bering, or Heaven forbid Texas itself, due to a lack of personnel able to defend our own space. I understand that this will ultimately fall on the shoulders of the Primary Fleet to make a judgment on the matter on how we proceed through this, but just allowing assassins into Liberty is bad form, and I believe that if something isn't done soon, morale will hit some serious lows. Yesterday I observed a Navy Gunboat fighting with himself, he has a job to do, but he can't make it 2 systems away to conduct a patrol without getting a wing of mercenaries on his tail, and this was shortly after requisitioning another ship, if word gets out that this is happening to the scale that it is, we can say goodbye to our recruiting efforts, then we'll just have a bunch of merchs running around a no Navy, I shutter at the thought.
Sincerely,
Second Lieutenant Tyler Crowley
First Marine Expeditionary Force
Liberty Marine Corps >>>END TRANSMISSION