Name:Christopher V. Dalgaard Rank:Executive Commander Subject:Summons
'Cavalier', Sahega, and Smith,
Don't make this any more complicated than it needs to be, all of you are wanted for questioning and if found guilty for crimes during the unsanctioned and condemnable assault on Battlegroup Harmony, you'll be receiving fair trials. Do not give the Commonwealth a reason to presume you as guilty, please cooperate.
This might feel like you've just been blind-sided, but if you saw it coming then perhaps either your intentions are murky, or we weren't very subtle in the processing of this legal investigation. For the duration of the questioning, investigation and potentially the trials, you are considered to be under arrest and are innocent until proven guilty before a court of law.
If any of you spearheaded the assault out of some misguided intention of ensuring our superiority, I ask that you own up to it. I'm repeating myself again, simply prove yourself and cooperate, we aren't the Republic that Thastus was forced to flee from. If found innocent due to a mistake of fact or under misguided authority you won't have anything to be concerned about.
I'm sorry this comes so suddenly, but it is necessary.
First off I will, of course, comply if the Commonwealth orders me to face a trial for my actions that day.
I will arrive at Vespucci within the day and hand over my ship for the duration of the questioning.
Yet, you are right in thinking this feels like becoming a scapegoat for the failures of others. At the time I was not in the position to give orders, I recieved them and acted accordingly like any good soldier would and should.
I hope that the jury will come to the same conclusion and that I will not face a show trial. I know that I am not the most popular man in our government, yet I have to trust in it or all the blood we shed for freedom was in vain.
Name:Christopher V. Dalgaard Rank:Executive Commander Subject:Summons
Everyone with access,
I'm relaying the Commonwealth's final verdict on the matter here, Sahega has been officially declared deceased and named the primary instigator of the violence against Battlegroup Harmony. Given her position of authority over the other pilots during the time of the incident, she misled them into believing that assaulting Harmony was in fact part of standing orders, she actively manipulated information and never considered her condemnable actions as wrong or even questionable, to her, this was the best thing for the Commonwealth, at least according to her own misguided conclusions. Had she not been killed, I would have ordered for her execution and personally carried it out.
Cavalier and Smith, the judges presiding over the case made note of a particular maxim. Ignorantia facit excusat. Ignorance of fact is excusable. You were subordinates, taking orders from a superior in the midst of an active combat zone, you couldn't have known any better, you couldn't have known just how insidious her intentions actually were. As such you will not be receiving any form of penalisation for your actions, but instead a period of mandatory probation to ensure that you do truly know better now.
What Sahega did was an affront to everything the Legion stands for, she violated the very core of what we are and what shaped us. In our war against a Nation of despots, corruption and a broken system, let us never forget our roots and how closely Harmony resembles us in our formative years struggling for Justice. A Legionnaire never stoops to the same level as the Republic we've fought against, and when you consider all that we attempt to embody, you'll find that Sahega never personally did so, she was never fit for the title and she will not be remembered as a Legionnaire. She died the death of a venomous snake.
Let her betrayal serve as a lesson on where the line truly lays. There is no going back once you've crossed it. The People we're sworn to protect deserve better than what the Battlegroup had to endure, both at the hands of Sahega and the Republic. Never become what we fight against.
I am relieved that the court understood the circumstances that led to the situation we were in.
I have retuned to Hesperia waiting for further orders.
Though, with the knowledge of what Sahega did, I have to wonder if her death was related to this trial and if it was, how did she know she had to fear the Commonwealth, going so far to attack someone who is known as an affiliate at best.
It is just too suspicious to be a coincidence. I can only urge you to keep your eyes open for moles, Daalgard.