You call yourselves privateers of the Queen.
What a pathetic travesty. You're pirates and buccaneers, unable to stand on either side of the law.
Cowards and weaklings, all of you.
You straddle the line between law and profit, doing it all in the name of your feeble queen you hold so dear.
You used to be the scourge of Kusari, weakening the commerce of the house, striking fear in their hearts.
You disappeared for a time, though, scuttling away to dark holes to wait out tempests that braver men would bear.
And now you've made an improbable return, back to the spaceways once more.
The storms are calm, and you're back to prey on the traders, sow chaos between your two houses, drawing the inevitable conflict out.
Keep up your work, my friends. Keep Kusari occupied, draw this war out with your state-sanctioned piracy.
Keep your mind off of the real threat, privateers.
I'll be waiting in the shadows as always.
Out of sight, out of mind.
INCOMING TRANSMISSION
COMM ID: Captain Jack Fraser
LOCATION: Tau-23 HMS Dagobaz
TARGET ID: Kithe
Kithe Salazar Kithe?
You are alive, and real?
Now what would a legend like yourself be doing concerning yourself with the likes of my merry little band?
I have tremendous respect for your battle prowess, and your power. Dont get me wrong, it would be foolish and unwise to underestimate a man such as yourself. Your reputation alone warrants due caution.
However, you have larger issues than us. I take your threat seriously, and I will be watching the shadows for you. But do not mistake caution for cowardice or submission. I will defend my own, sir. As you, surely, will seek to do us harm.
The only thing to fear in the night is the spectre of doubt. You, the legend, are terrifying, but you have shown yourself to be a man, and that dear boy was your mistake.
Captain Jack Fraser
Queen Carinas Most Diligent Interdiction Wing, (in Exile)
INCOMING TRANSMISSION
COMM ID: Captain Jack Fraser
LOCATION: Tau-23 HMS Dagobaz
TARGET ID: Kithe
I have done no such thing. I know you are not only a man. I know how long you have survived and the pain that has wrought upon you.
I was read the bed time tales of horror about the Umbra-Noctis that lurks like a phantom in the night. And I will admit to many a night lying awake and shaking when I was little.
Children grow up, Umbra-Noctis, and I learned to control my fears.
Children grow up, and they learn to face their fears, to embrace them. Fear is how we survive, fear is how we learn to thrive. Fear is nothing to fear.
As we have outgrown you, I wonder if it isnt time that you faded into the night? You must be so weary of the burden you have carried for so long. It is strange, it isnt fear I feel now, more I wonder at the man you were.
You were a hero once, possibly one of the greatest.
I wish I could have met that man.
Captain Jack Fraser
Queen Carinas Most Diligent Interdiction Wing, (in Exile)
INCOMING TRANSMISSION
COMM ID: Captain Jack Fraser
LOCATION: Tau-23 HMS Dagobaz
TARGET ID: Kithe
Umbra-Noctis, this may come as a surprise to you, but I like to think of myself as an honourable man.
As an honourable man, I want to apologize to you.
We let you down, we failed you. The rage that you feel, the rage that you have become You dont deserve that.
A great hero deserves more, better than that, he deserved the very best from us. We should have strove to match your example in the Sol war. But we are mere human beings, flawed in so many ways
We failed to match you, and in so doing, failed you.
I am truly sorry for that.
I will never be blind to that. I know you stalk us in the dark, I know what you can do. My men will stand shoulder to shoulder and defend themselves if needed to. But none of us will fall prey to folly by poking that which lurks in the darkness.
Captain Jack Fraser
Queen Carinas Most Diligent Interdiction Wing, (in Exile)
I did not send you pirates a declaration of war...
... nor I did not ask for your sadly misplaced sentiments.
I don't want your filthy apologies, nor do I need any of these.
You actions quite unintentionally have results that are not contrary to my goals.
Your piracy can be useful.
Stay out of my way and you will not be harmed, "Bretonians."
Get in my way and I will hunt you until your inevitable death,
As a shadow always looming over your mortality, always behind you. Inexorable.