No, I'm not letting your Agents anywhere near where we operate when you still don't have absolute control over their actions. If you don't quite recall, there have been a few independent incidents of them deciding that we're the gravest threat to Liberty and thus require open engagement. You don't have enough authority for me to feel convinced that letting your Agents onboard, even if under strict conditions, is a particularly wise thing to do.
Those people the Lehigh moved in to quell and subject to justice? They're in full retreat, or will be very soon. I don't know the end destination, but I do know the Legion and a wide variety of colorful characters are involved. The traitors have enlisted our aid, and in the interests of full disclosure, I have allocated them a single assembly of fighters from our postings in Hudson. They've been instructed to keep themselves alive and let the Legion take the brunt of this, only fitting that we don't deny martyrs the purpose of their namesake.
It doesn't take much to presume that the Legion's involvement suggests a grander scheme is at play. And the Alliance is tired of being a junior partner to a regime that doesn't lift it's ass from the faraway throne in Vespucci. You can either back my bid to retake our thunder or watch me do it anyway.
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Acceleration
Cobra.
The timeline has moved forwards faster than I had hoped, and it's happening sooner than I expected. How the Xeno Alliance acts in the coming days is entirely up to you, but you know what is at stake.
Your information confirms what we were only speculating, and it will certainly save lives. I'll be forwarding the fact to the other forces, and make it abundantly clear to not over commit into the engagement that follows. You'll see your cruiser, though I cannot promise it immediately.
The Freeport is in our playbook as well. Whatever happens to fall off the back of a freighter or out of a supply module is not a concern for our forces once we make our move. We also have a stockpile of arms and equipment that could be left in a specific location for, say, a group looking to capitalize on the mayhem, and breach the station for a smash and grab when our own forces make their move.
That so called Freeport has been a thorn in our side for long enough. So I appreciate the offer of supplies and the chance to get even with the establishment before you either torch it or liberate it, though those are synonyms.
I'm in, I'll have the details relayed to some of the operatives we have stationed in the area for this kind of convenient occurrence. A shame I can't be there in person to see how surprised they all are when the consequences of disavowing neutrality are fired straight to their brains.
Would you have any potential use for evidence of the ALG conspiring with the Insurgency and maintaining not only positive relations with them but also apparently supplying them?
If you do, I'd be quite happy to share. I doubt your Government would consider it actionable, but it'd be something for your own viewing pleasure.
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Acceleration
Cobra.
I wish I could use every example of a brainless captain as an excuse to rain hell upon those outside of Liberty. It would make my job more liberating, at the very least.
I would like to see it regardless. It may be something Liberty can hold over what's left of the Republic of Rheinland while they continue to seek out allies.
As for your own gift, we're still securing it, but expect a present sometime this week, or early the next. A little too early for your birthday, but it will do.
Here is a recording of an Admiral South of the Insurgency:
(06-22-2020, 12:50 PM)South Wrote: I understand your unwillingness to work with entities from outside of Liberty, but at the time of our inception, beggars couldn't be choosers, we accepted help from wherever and whoever was offering at the time. ALG has often proven itself to be a more progressive corporation, one that shuns the idea of the exploitation of the labor market, something that many Libertonian corps could learn and model themselves on in a new Republic.
And here are shots of an ALG ship fleeing toward a separatist installation and given protection from my operative. Such an ugly ship too, I suppose dealing with so much garbage has made them more inclined with trash in general.
Oh, and I don't consider the ship a gift, that was a fair trade. You agreed with that exchange as well, information for a vessel. You don't get to turn around and tell me it was a gift now, no, that's much too cheap of you and let's not even pretend like you know when I was born.
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Senior Agent-in-Command 'Siren'
Promise
Cobra.
It's been a while, and while I don't generally make excuses, you can imagine the formation of the Insurgency, along with all of the noise in the Taus causing more than expected workload. But I do have your ship.
Within Bering, there is a siege cruiser formerly dubbed the Cleveland. It melted down one of its reactors when pursuing the combined Harmony and Hellfire forces within Bering, the captain a little too eager to fire the forward cannon. One engineering compartment is a radioactive hazard, so I would recommend shielded suits before moving in to clean it out. The primary reactor in question is useless, but the main drive core and the secondary reactor are both fully operational. Power conduits between the reactor and the forward gun have melted into uselessness, but the cannon itself is, according to the most recent diagnostics, operating at seventy-five percent efficiency. A little bit of a tune-up will be in order.
Bring a crew. You'll be surprised how intuitive the bridge and operation of a siege cruiser is, and any crew of yours that has been on a transport or a Defiant would not feel particularly out of place.
Follow the lane out from the gate, and cut off to your left early, about two rings. It'll be harder to get out with your prize if the Concord is alerted otherwise. Tune in to the same frequency as this channel, and you should pick up the pings being broadcast from the Cleveland. It will be in the shadow of one of the large asteroids, and your navigation should be able to lock on to its broadcasts within a couple of kilometers. Like I said before, do not enter the main engineering compartment unprepared for radiation.
While not capable of combat yet, it will fly under its own power, and get you to where it needs to go for further repairs. I would have done more for it, but it's hard enough to make a cruiser disappear.
I won't tell you what to do with your ship, but however you decide to get it fully operational, I can only ask you point the cannon at the right people afterwards.
I plan on using this ship, along with every bomb, every bullet and every weapon the Alliance possesses down to my own thirty two teeth to dismantle this apparent rebirth of the Legion, that calls itself the Insurgency.