Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Alpine
To: George Hall
From: Admiral Edmund Steiner
Given the stay in your execution and subsequent release on parole, you have been assigned to my posting. I am somewhat incensed at this turn of events, considering it was my orders to report to the York which you refused that lead us into this mess in the first place!
You are reinstated to the rank of Captain, but not because you are innocent (which you are not) and not because the admiralty has shown some element of mercy (they haven't) and most certainly not because of your wealth and connections. No, your rank is being returned to you to boost moral. The Great Captain Hall on the York won't hurt our chances.
But hear me now sir, if you put a toe out of line, there won't be a trial, your body won't be found and the shrines of the dead won't ever bear your name.
I do hope I have made myself clear. Your addiction to cardimine won't be a problem, I will talk to someone about getting the legal amount delivered to you, but I will keep hold of the shipping manifests.