I was recently informed of a non-violent altercation outside of Barrier gate circling the apparent disappearance of the Battleship Razgriz, which was in fact in route to rendezvous with myself in Kansas. I was in contact with the Captain of the vessel up until he entered Magellan.
It's amusing that your pilots have the audacity to assume a position of power and attempt to interrogate our people.
Irregardless, after waiting days and needing to return to the fleet due to the Keeper being incapacitated in medical for reasons which you're well aware of, we have since been there. Due to the recent information of the vessel missing and accusations of lies, I took it upon myself to travel along the Razgriz's dedicated flight path, where I happened upon this. Similar design and making in the region we lost contact. We couldn't stay long enough to confirm, but we happened to recover the transponder box from the wreckage, and some audio records which might shed some light upon where your warship went.
[27.08.2016 12:50:55] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Picking up contacts. No IFF.
[27.08.2016 12:50:58] *LT#$D.Sm**ith: Smith: Got a contact.
[27.08.2016 12:51:12] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: This is the Battleship Alabama, Rear Admiral Karlo to incoming ships, identify yourselves.
[27.08.2016 12:51:21] *CMD#$S.Fit*zge*rald: Fitgerald: Stand by.
[27.08.2016 12:51:23] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: This is the Razgriz, all escorts, we've got Libertonian contacts inbound.
[27.08.2016 12:51:39] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Christ, Order contacts. Commander! Arm the escorts!
[27.08.2016 12:51:41] Mnevis: Yeah I got 'em on radar. Orders?
[27.08.2016 12:51:52] *CMD#$S.Fit*zge*rald: Fitzgerald: Escorts, on me.
[27.08.2016 12:51:59] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: Liberty Navy, confirmed... identifying the battleship as LNS-Alabama.
[27.08.2016 12:52:00] *LT#$N.Da**vis: Davis: Roger.
[27.08.2016 12:52:00] Alex.Greenwalde: Confirmed LNS Alabama in sight.
[27.08.2016 12:52:09] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: General quarters, all hands - man your stations! We've got an incoming warship! Fire for effect!
[27.08.2016 12:52:11] Alex.Greenwalde: Class: Monument.
[27.08.2016 12:52:24] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: Take up a defensive stance!
[27.08.2016 12:52:32] *CMD#$S.Fit*zge*rald: Fitzgerald: Draw away its ecorts.
[27.08.2016 12:52:32] Alex.Greenwalde: Confirmed two Guardian escorts.
[27.08.2016 12:52:33] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: All escorts, engage! Take out those fighters!
[27.08.2016 12:52:37] *LT#$D.Sm**ith: Smith: Weapons activated!
[27.08.2016 12:52:39] Alex.Greenwalde: Roger, engage!
[27.08.2016 12:52:42] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: All gunners, at arms!
[27.08.2016 12:52:45] *LT#$N.Da**vis: Weapons online.
[27.08.2016 12:52:47] Mnevis: Moving in to engage!
[27.08.2016 12:52:51] *LT#$N.Da**vis: Opening up!
[27.08.2016 12:53:05] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Broadside! Fire for effect!
[27.08.2016 12:53:17] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: Confirmed, heavy mortar near the reactor!
[27.08.2016 12:53:36] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: Heavy damage!
[27.08.2016 12:53:48] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: All crew, to the pods, reactor leak!
[27.08.2016 12:53:48] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Target is fleeing in to the field!
[27.08.2016 12:54:01] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Reading multiple detonations!
[27.08.2016 12:54:06] OCV-Razgriz: Tantalus: This is a code red! The ship is in critical conditi- *static*
[27.08.2016 12:54:54] Mnevis: This is too much! Im out!
[27.08.2016 12:55:50] *CMD#$S.Fit*zge*rald: Fitzgerald: One of them has been able to escape sir.
[27.08.2016 12:56:00] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Damn it. Don't let the other get away!
[27.08.2016 12:56:32] $L#NS-$@A**labama: Karlo: Tango down.
[27.08.2016 12:56:34] *LT#$N.Da**vis: Davis: Target down!
***LOG END***
The recovered data seems to point to an altercation between the Liberty Navy, the Razgriz and its escorts. It's likely it wandered in to the war zone and was picked up by the Navy, which proceeded to engage and - well, eradicate the vessel and escorts. We're unsure if there are any survivors.
Due to the loss of the vessel, I was forced to engage two Purifier-Class Nomads which were loitering in Kansas, as our data had initially suggested. The threat in that region will always persist, but the larger ones have so far been removed from the area.
You had contact up until Magellan...when a Battlegroup that has been defunct for years, apparently headed by a man whose buried on Manhattan, who should have been using some of the oldest ships in the entire Liberty Navy - rose from the dead and destroyed a fairy new Osiris and chased off their only two escorts. And you know nothing...and all you can offer me is a system that may or may not be Magellan and debris that may or may not be the Razgriz. I'll take this with a grain of salt, Curator - if the wreckage hasn't been picked clean by now, then give me the coordinates and I will scramble a flight to look over for verification. But until then...things just don't add up. At a glance, it looks like a battlegroup went through and engaged my ships, devastating them
The Razgriz was equipped with a cloak. Being caught at the edge of the Barrier Cloud, instead of immediately crossing to the Wendell Ice Cloud...going that far into the warzone...if the Razgriz was destroyed, no less by a ship that is confirmed derelict and which had been guarded by the most outdated fighters even Xenos can take out...only tell me that Tantalus was a poor officer with cowards for escorts, who couldn't even mount little more than pathetic, and who couldn't plot a course to avoid the Gallic Warfront whilst armed with a cloaking drive...
And to further prove the fact that blackbox is only damning evidence someone is lying, I sent my XO and stepsister, Aqua, to command the Tombstone into the Alabama System...and look what I found...verifying an old report from agents in the field years ago.
If the Razgriz succumbed to this vessel, the flagship of still-dead Saywer Karlo...a ship twenty years older than the Order's oldest vessel...and between the call to arms and the call to abandon ship...that still lies, covered in the graffiti and warcries of Xenos...Curator, I would say that even your aged Cincinnati was more useful to Auxesia then the Razgriz could ever have been.
But I have overseen the construction of many warships, from Hathors to my own Osiris. Our vessels are not so poorly constructed that an aged Dreadnought can so easily devastate it. Something is very, very wrong. Someone is lying, Curator, and I will find out. And when I do, justice shall be swift, merciless...and I will leave nothing but ash to those who have wronged the Order.
Oh, Two more things. One, It's amusing a ragtag group who are currently keeping a fifty year old outdated warship going, saying we have the audacity to question....wait, let me re-phrase this.
You claim to have a presence and operate in such systems as Coronado, Cortez, yet the moment we need information on lost vessels in areas where you claim influence, you both refuse to answer and know nothing, like some fat Rheinland prison guard...and claim we are audacious for trying to find out agents. Would you not come and demand information, if Ganes and the Cincinnati disappeared on their way to help us? Your amusement at our..."audacity" makes me question if you ever meant it, when you offered assistance.
Speaking of amusement...second thing.
[31.08.2016 20:16:30] A/)-Edge: You have no grounds to question us on stealing your ship Ms. "Aelita".
Coming from your colorful band of brothers, that is quite amusing...considering the Navy doesn't just hand out Monument-class dreadnoughts to any band of traitorous Core defectors. It's quite amusing you'd think you'd be overlooked in this - since you also posses a Monument. Guardians...the fact the vessel was going to meet you...if we did think you'd be audacious enough to commence the theft of an Osiris, we'd not sit in space, chat, shoot the bull. We'd make an LSF interrogation room look like Curacao's nicest suite. And that is a promise; I will find the truth. Whether that exonerates any involvement beyond requesting help, implicates the only other "missing" Monument class of Liberty, or points me in the direction of the people I swore to protect - time will only tell.
I just hope, Curator, you help me in finding the truth. I wouldn't want all our talks and civil conversations to be undone by posing as a dead man and killing my agents. But we have been civil - and while the many suspects of the Border Worlds are being looked at, I trust you to help me find the truth..
All data recovered has been provided. A secondary sweep of the area is optional, but it is likely the wreckage has since dispersed or been cleared. In addition, Royalist patrols have increased two-fold since my visit, likely due to the detection of a Liberty origin warship.
I won't comment on the Commanding officers choice to avoid utilizing his stealth equipment. It could've been malfunctioning, it could've been out of power, or he may have thought he'd of had a clear break. There was a recent conflict in the region with two Irras, in which the Amenhotep was damaged. Said Irras are now gone. Removed from the region, or retreated to Tau-117. The last known coordinates of the wreckage were roughly thirty kilometers from Freeport 4, several kilometers below the plane. By now that wreckage has dispersed in to all ends of space. I care not if you question my credibility. I could very well question your own, or that of your officers. It makes no difference between our organizations.
If Templar Yancy Ganes and the Arktos were to vanish upon heeding a call to aid, we'd assume it was lost in combat as we'd hear about it. We'd hear questions and accusations about not jumping to your rescue as we proclaim to do for others, as that seems to be the Order's method of things. Baseless accusations and clinging to history for dear life. If a warship were to disappear, we'd track its flight pattern, last transmission, escorts, contact and intended destination and departure location. We'd comb the area for a hint of clues. Magellan is - unfortunately - a war zone, and idling there is not something either of us can afford to do without irritating the Gallic Royal Navy.
It is likely that this may have been a subversion tactic put in use by the local Liberty forces, or the infectees. It's suspected - as we've discussed - that the Battlegroup Harmony may potentially be infected. Theoretically speaking, an Overlord could mask its transponder to replicate the Alabama's derelict signature and her three escorts. They may have been made aware of the Razgriz departing Coronado and intended to interdict her course. Only a theory, but not one I'd rule out just yet.
Lastly, we were recently contacted and approached by the Liberty Navy to discuss providing assistance during the rescue of your mother. I am currently awaiting contact of those who came by to discuss their intentions, but I note that one of your Osiris vessels interrupted their discussion and blurted out historical rhetoric's of past transgressions to dissuade and irritate the Admiral making contact. While I can understand the suspicion and hatred that stands between us, there is a fine line between showing it and having it interfere with the removal of a significant infestation threat. I care not about the idiocy of your captain, but if he speaks out of line and attempts to provoke the Keeper or any Auxesian with threats and insults to initiate a war, I will not hesitate to burn his vessel and his crew from the void it occupies.
I aim to keep the uneasy lack of violence between our people. If your people cannot hold their tongues, then I will have no problem cutting them from their heads.
Logs Wrote:[02.09.2016 18:54:08] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: The only thing I stole - is this pork chop from the kitchen.
[02.09.2016 18:54:11] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: Mmm-mmm-mmm.
[02.09.2016 18:54:14] [LN]-ESRD|LNS-Utah: ?: Commander Kalh, you will cease and desist immediately. [02.09.2016 18:54:19] |O|-Amenhotep: Kalh: yea im sure you did fatty.
[02.09.2016 18:54:24] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: *she picks up her cutlery, resuming her consumption*
[02.09.2016 18:54:26] 5th|LNS-Kansas: Sader: Starting off with the Cincinnati.
[02.09.2016 18:54:27] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: *coughs*
[02.09.2016 18:54:29] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: WHAT.
[02.09.2016 18:54:39] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: *she spits it out*
[02.09.2016 18:54:49] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: What did you just call me? [02.09.2016 18:55:02] |O|-Amenhotep: Kalh: watch yourself Aux, if you open fire on me it will declare War..
[02.09.2016 18:55:11] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: War my flamingo-jimbo.
[02.09.2016 18:55:13] [LN]-ESRD|LNS-Utah: ?: Commander Kalh.
[02.09.2016 18:55:17] [LN]-ESRD|LNS-Utah: ?: Desist at once.
[02.09.2016 18:55:19] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Raven: You keep your mouth shut, or I'll shut it for you.
...
Hm. Apologies. That last comment was a little dark, even for myself. Unusual.
Irregardless, the point stands. Hold your tongues or move upon your hatred, for we will not hold back against any further aggression - passive or otherwise.
Battlegroup Harmony is an enigma that we all feel is the root of the current destabilization of Liberty. That is one of the only things we can agree on.
But in your entire speech on how us not thinking known thieves are clearly innocent, which you are until proven otherwise - something I've asked you to help me do - you mention masking it's transponder...sure, I could mask my transponder to say the "LNS-Fluffybunny" but it won't mask the class. The "Alabama" was clearly called out as a Monument, so unless every bridge officer onboard the Razgriz suddenly forgot how to tell a Monument from an Overlord, and forgot how to run a simple scan to verify...well, if Tantalus miraculously survived he clearly is a useless officer...but digressing, Curator. The question to where this mysterious Monument class mysteriously appeared hangs in the air, and I hope you'll help find the truth. I don't like fifty year old ships bearing the name of decades lost ships roaming around.
In any case, speaking of my mother...plans are in motion, Curator. She is of my blood, and my burden.
And...In finality, Curator. You aim to keep our uneasy peace, but in the same breath threaten my men...you threaten to kill hundreds over the anger of one...Curator... Remember your place. You are a ragtag bunch of rejects in broken vessels, stealing what you can, desperately trying to be what the Order once was. You are insignificant to everyone in the region - you are nothing more than an annoyance. You continually have caused the Order problems - from the destruction of Starborn, to the assistance to the Core against us...the murder of our informants and allies...and now, you stand here and threaten my men, who have fired naught but words. Yes, you threaten to cut out their tongues...because your skin is so thin, you cannot take our hotheads' insults at those we of the Order see as nothing more than a club of traitors. Curator, you have grown too quickly, too brashly. You are the child who has had a string of good luck and thinks they are invincible, indomitable and the biggest child on the playground. You wish that you were the Order - the crusaders against the forces in the dark. You broke from the Core and could have been something. Instead, you have hacked at the gryphons who roosted in Mu, and when we bite back you ran to those you ran from. Now you stand here, making threats you will carry out - but I will now make an oath. If Auxesia makes another move, if you choose to engage my men, over mere words and feelings at not engagements, if you engage us and harm our operations - especially if they put at risk my family - then I will show you the true rage of the Order. I will hunt you down, drive you from Coronado, from Cortez and Magellan. I will chase you through Inverness and Baffin, and I will destroy everything you hold dear. I will avenge Starborn, I will avenge the men who died when you helped damage the Osiris, and I will avenge the Lane Hacker you killed.
Your "historical rhetoric" crap is you trying to run. But that is your problem. You wish to attack the history of my men, the Order. But when we bring up the very idea Auxesia has proven to just be the Core, only worse of a cult, you claim it is the past...that it needs to be forgotten. But, Curator...you are wrong. History is important. If you can't learn from it, you are destined to repeat it.
And if you choose to go forth and anger, then I will make sure you are history. And then, I shall gladly leave Auxesia as a footnote in the History Books - as nothing more than "historical rhetoric" that needs to be left behind, and forgotten
This is your final warning, Curator.
Stay out of our way. Or the gods of war shall sound their trumpets, and the wolves will descend upon you. Winter shall come, and when the frost has melted, and dawn rises, spring will give us new life - life watered and nurtured by the blood of Auxesia.
And I shall leave you with part of a poem...one you should take to heart, the day I raise banner against you.
All is fair in Love and War,
Beating Drums as Demons roar,
But Demons run, when they stand before,
The Good Man that goes to war.
Admiral Jeremy Hunter
OCV Oathkeeper
CO, 3rd Battlegroup - Gallant Dawn
Your poetry is a laughable excuse to justify supporting the idiocy of one who commands a warship freely. I don't care if he is but one, for your organization has frequently seen fit to paint us as being portrayed by the actions of one in the past. What makes this situation any different?
If you so much as even consider lifting a finger against my people - against all that we stand for, all that we have in common over your own organization's inability to release petty grudges and history for the betterment of our species - then I will laugh in the face of your wrath, and I will burn everything you could possibly throw at us. I will show you what this 'ragtag' group can do, and I guarantee that you will know fear. You will beg for mercy and cry as your forces are eradicated from the Independent worlds, one by one. I will show you how these 'rejects' and broken vessels have served their purpose, and you will know your place or perish.
For years the Order has wasted their efforts on trivial matters and territorial claims in the Omicrons, forcing your dogma upon others like it is law. Turning organizations in to proxies for your efforts. Using those you call friend in your place like the true selfish and insolent people you are. It's disgusting to think that you'd even consider yourselves above others in morality and cause. While what you preach may be just, it is only but a curtain to conceal the new nature and second rising of a new totalitarian force that stands between humanity and unity. Your Overwatch is full of bitterness about history which - despite intentions of repairing - have ended in continuous calls for blood of our leaders. The hypocrisy is astonishingly powerful, as is the blindness.
Know that I do not hate you, Jeremy. You are a man of conscience, much like I am. We stand on the precipice of conflict between two separate organizations that stand for the same cause and preach the same words. We fight the same foes and share the same enemies. Our methods don't differ very much. Our personalities do. You - a man of a large family - would do anything in your power to ensure their safety. Auxesia is my family, not just the name that houses it. You may call me thin-skinned, but when the actions of a warship officer stand in the way of our shared foe, repercussions will be had. These are those repercussions. I now care little about your missing warship, when I was greatly concerned for another rising threat in the region. It seems to me the rising threat stems from the boiling pot that we fight over.
I ask once rhetorically if matters would've been different had the hatred of the past been set aside. People die. We have lost people, and so have you. The scale may be different, but I believe in redemption without bloodshed. Forgiveness without sentence. While you may not, I will stand by my statement that I am a man of conviction, and I have only done what I believed to be right. I will defend my family to the end, and if you cannot stay your blade and hold your dog on a tighter leash, then it will be put down like the other mad dogs suffering from Harris syndrome. The inane stupidity and remarkable arrogance originating from an organization I once had respect for is beyond even the most advance levels of logical comprehension and the utter fallacies that fill your useless rhetoric's stem from actions that have since passed.
I once looked forward to cooperating, but if events proceed to bloodshed, then I will not hesitate to show you just how we've managed to survive so long.
We will not run.
We will not hide.
We will fight until you know the meaning of suffering.
...
You claim your men have fired only words, but the incident in Baffin speaks otherwise. Our intent at cooperation was met with gunfire. You sent assassins after the Keeper and the Eidolon during a meeting with friends in the Omicrons. You dared to attempt a cloak and dagger attack during tense diplomatic relations which I was comatose for. Both our organizations have wronged one another, and allowing this series of events to proceed is utterly pointless. You know it and so do I. The immaturity of a few who stand between us and completing the tasks we've vowed to is hindering progress in the greater light of our efforts. Not just Auxesia, but the Order's as well. I will not deny the few who have lashed out. Nor will you if you retain a modicum of sense.
I offer a chance to rectify both our past wrongs. I offer a chance to move forward in unison, without hate. I do not expect forgiveness overnight, nor do I expect you to take my statements lightly, or even seriously. You might see us as a joke, Admiral, but jokes tend to be funny. The destruction of your Osiris isn't. We are more than capable of fighting back at levels which you may not expect from such a small group, but understand that my words do not involve attempting to provoke further conflict, but acting upon rage is not something I do. I formally extend an invitation to meet and discuss an official declaration of ceasefire and establishment of a treaty to prevent hostilities in light of the Nomad threat and ensure non-contact co-existence between our people.
No more violence. No more aggression. No more hate. I extend this as an individual.
Curator, you again think you are bigger and badder than anything. You think I fight alone? No, those organizations you call proxies are the allies we have against the Nomads. We know we cannot fight alone, the tragedy that befell Toledo is a monument to all your sins. It is in the wake of one million dead, burned alive by molten magma, murdered by the Core in their attempts to surrender, eviscerated by orbital fire and incinerated by antimatter. I have watched as a flood of Irras, hundreds of Nomads flooded the system of Minor, eviscerating all in their path. I watched as Isis moved, firing, gutted by a single shot. I have watched hundreds of men and women I have served with die. I lost friends there.
So do not ever make the mistake that I will fear Auxesia. You are nothing to fear. No, the foe you claim we both fight is one to fear. Numbers, spies, Infectees and Spectres. No, these monsters are what I fear. Not you. I will never see you as terror, as anything more than a mosquito who needs to be swatted. And you continually show me why I have little to ever fear, nor care, in the direction of you. Thinking you can order us? You are an infant. We flew this space when Auxesia was a mere word on paper. We protected when the Core was nothing more than a conversation. When we had nothing more than the Osiris and a handful of fighters we cobbled together, we destroyed the Donau. When we had little allies, we assassinated an infected Admiral and bought time. When we began gathering allies, we moved faster. As we grew, as we made allies and as we fought, we grew. And now, we are not a single battleship and four wings of fighters. We are not a ragtag band of men and women, choosing to fight against the oncoming tide. No, you think I fear the ragtag - I don't. I know what it's like, to be afraid of what will happen. I know what it is like, to dive into the mouth of Hell itself, and further until I reach it's heart. While you were in school, I made sure you graduated. When you were doing whatever got you to know the inner workings of a Monument, I watched Toledo burn.
I know what the ragtag can do - and that is why I am wary...yet I do not fear you. Our place is everywhere, from the scrap fields of Pittsburgh to the open space of Omicron Lost. We are there in the asteroids of the Taus, the clouds of the Omegas, and the debris of Leeds. Our place is Sirius, because we are not only to operate in a few systems. The Nomads are everywhere, and so are we. To dare tell me to know my place or perish is laughable, Curator. We have been here for decades, and you mere months. You are nothing compared to what the Order is, and will again become. To say we wasted time on "trivial" matters is also insinuative to every single person who died. You wish to spit on the grave of everyone who died to keep the Core out of Toledo, who died to take Dabadoru and push those monsters called the Core from the Omicrons, inch by inch, to ensure they don't misuse Nomadic technology to cause harm? Trivial territorial claims?
You know nothing of our war with the Core - you only know of what Raven, the Guildmaster, says. A woman who fought and killed us, who laughed as we burned. Your view is tainted by Nodtviet's influence...your view is of one side of the coin. You have flipped heads, but you refuse to see what tails could have been. You stand there, judging the Order for wasted efforts...calling us totalitarian? We are a paramilitary - our fleet is led by an Admiral. I can say Auxesia is totalitarian, because Raven controls you. But like your Inner Phalanx, there is Overwatch. We come to balance out, to ensure the Order goes in the right direction. And to sit there and claim we are bogged down by bitterness and history - frankly, you merely have a problem with our leader, do you not? The Viking, the man who led us from the darkness of Toledo. A friend. He looks out for the Order, he knows the power of alliances. And that is where we draw our strength.
And if we were to set aside the hundreds murdered on Starborn, the dozens killed on the Osiris, the murder of our informant, and the causing of the Aoi to catch up and descend upon us, resulting in the crippling of my sister's Hathor, what would you set aside?
Us defending our home with all we have? Us, defending our allies, with all we have? Us, the Order, demanding redemption through actions, forgiveness through atonement. No, Curator, you do not get handed forgiveness on a silver platter - forgiveness is earned through atoning, and you continually claim you are beyond such trivial matters, that your word of "sorry" should suffice amongst the graves of my men! Forgiveness without sentence?! No, Curator, there always shall be consequences. You cannot escape that storm, you never will and I will never let you.
So stand and fight, do not run, and I promise you - your bodies will rot where they fall. Because the only suffering I shall face, is the guilt at oprhaning that child you and Raven have - if she had the guts to become a mother.
And I speak of the words of Amenhotep, yet you drag up Baffin. You, who refused to back off. You, who chased us down and caused naught but carnage. If you had stayed out of our way, then I would not be sitting here, politely informing you that I am tired of your interference. You claim space that is not yours to claim; We do not answer to you, we will never answer to you. And continually thinking we will, without ever trying to rectify the wrongdoings and continually causing more, is the reason the rest of Overwatch sees you as nothing. My voice is the one of peace, and the one of new alliances. But you continue to make my life harder, have put in danger my very blood over us passing through Coronado, refusing to tell you what we are doing - because you have no authority over us.
We all have lashed out - for our own reasons. This pointless conflict is a waste of resources, one that apparently your glorious leader thinks is actually going on. No, there is no conflict of people, but of ideals and stance. If Raven truly thinks we are "at war" then I'd have long ago orchestrated the return of the Cincinnati to the Navy - in pieces. But I have not.
I prefer chai.
Admiral Jeremy Hunter
OCV Oathkeeper
CO, 3rd Battlegroup - Gallant Dawn
You've made your choice, and you've neither accepted nor declined my invitation.
Either act upon your calls for vengeance and justice or sit yourselves down and simmer in your hypocrisy until you have the stones to stand and face what sits in front of you. I am calling you out to make us answer for that which you claim we should be punished for. Enact your wrath and see it wasted.
I care little for your history. I care little for your organization, and I care little for Toledo and the lives that were lost there. You cling to the past as if it's the only thing keeping you alive. Until your arrogant organization learns to look forward instead of back for eternity then you will forever be on a losing slope. You waste your time crying for the fallen rather than remembering them. You waste your time seeking vengeance instead of fighting the real enemy.
You waste your time in general, Admiral.
You claim our leader controls us, yet here I am as an individual making on offer not on her behalf or request. We are individuals and she is a guide to redemption. She is not an all-knowing entity as you would think or spew that we're brainwashed in your propaganda. She is but a woman. A mother. You claim to feel guilt if you were to orphan her child, yet I lost one of my sons to this fight, before he could open his eyes for the first time. I mourned him and I remember him, but I will not sit and cry for his loss, no matter how much it affects me personally, for my duty is above pity and sorrow of the fallen. We do not forget those we lose, but we do not cling to the memory of their loss, as it only holds us back, like it has you. You once asked if we had the guts to make the hard decisions, but even you seem to be incapable of letting go of the idea that people die.
It's pathetic.
Make your move or accept the invitation. Otherwise, shut up with your all-powerful claims and hypocrisy. Shut up with your calls for justice and vengeance. Do your jobs and we'll do ours. Learn that your fight and our fight is the same, and learn to let go of the small safety blanket that is your history.
I tried growing up. That landed me in cryostasis for a better part of my life.
And with all your bluster, self-righteous dribble I can only feel pity.
You who is above pity, now cannot comprehend compassion.
You, who is above holding sorrow for the fallen, now cannot sympathize with those who have loss.
You call me pathetic for never forgetting one million lives I could have saved? I, pathetic, for holding one million to my heart, working to ensure that, never again, will I be unable to save them? I pathetic, for choosing to be the very thing we fight to protect - humanity. I am human, and I will hold pity, compassion, rage, vengeance, justice, and peace. I will hold to my heart love, joy, patience, anger, sorrow, hate. I will hold all these to my heart, because that is what will forever set us apart from the monsters we fight. The moment you say you are above pity and sorrow for the loss, is the day you say you are above humanity. No man, no woman, no child is above emotions - and if you cannot live by your emotions as well as duty and logic, then you live a life that is not worth living. It is in our emotions we find strength; in our loss, we define what is important. In sorrow we find kinsmanship - in kindred spirits, we find brethren. Being above any emotion, for the sake of duty, will erode the very thing that sets us apart. To erode your very humanity to protect it...you are only inviting your own finality.
If Aelita were to die, I would mourn. I would cry and I would wail. I would be human. I would not shrug it off would she or my children die. I would cry. Because it is in tears we find a new strength - the strength to be us. And when my tears end and when my sorrow subsides to a dull ache, I will get up every day to live for them. My sorrow would be my drive; my vengeance would become part of my duty. Because, unlike you, those one million lives deserve justice - they deserve vengeance. You, who claim our vengeance should be set aside for the real enemy, clearly does not realize where our vengeance lies - the Nomads. It is they who orchestrated the destruction of Toledo, it is the Nomads who directed the terrible war that nearly destroyed us two decades ago. Our sight has never wavered from our true enemy. We fight for their final rest, so they may have died for a victory we all must have.
You do not forget, but you do not cling. How can you say to remember yet? You only remember them when you see their names, when you see what once was there? If you only remember them when reminded, then you have doomed everyone who has died for Auxesia to die. To finally, ultimately die. They will become the history you want us to forget - because if you do not cling to their memories, their final fate, then who will? If you do not, then who will remember those who have passed? You want me to forget one million, but I will not. To do so would to kill them. To reduce them to nothing. I still look over the list of the lost, I try and remember the one million names. Because if I do not, then who will.
If Auxesia were to die, and I kick you off like the dust off my shoes, who will remember you? If you show no pity for those suffering loss, who will care to remember? No, being above any emotion is your demise.
People die every day, some of them people you know, some you kill yourself. But the day you decide that sorrow and pity are something to leave behind, the day you decide emotions are something to leave behind, is the day you become the very thing you hope to destroy - heartless monsters. You would become evil to defeat a greater evil...and then you'd turn around and take the place.
And if you are such a stickler for such formal acceptances, then yes. I will humor you, Curator, But I'll take the path that avoids your "guide to redemption." I know where my redemption lies.
I don't need someone to hold my hand.
Admiral Jeremy Hunter
OCV Oathkeeper
CO, 3rd Battlegroup - Gallant Dawn
A board room on board Barrier Gate awaits your arrival. Neutral ground. Bring a minimum of one guard and maximum of two if it comforts you. No weapons will be permitted within the board room. Guards will wait outside.
Repeated attempts at avoiding conflict have been made. Repeated signs of aggression have been shown.
No more.
The Inner Phalanx has had enough of your idiocy and arrogance over the past months. Despite having sat down with you to discuss the root of the issue personally, it seems that what was said was ignored. Your vessel interfered with the retaliation efforts after the assault upon the Atlas, and there will be no further attempts made at avoiding conflict. Your forces will be met with the swift retaliation that their arrogance deserves. You provoked us to this point of war.
Don't poke the snake unless you expect it to bite back.
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