| Fontana Freeport
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- If I were you, I wouldn't play cards with our Equipment dealer. He has a habit of winning. A lot.
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| Pinnacle Station
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- There's a memorial here called the Hall of Heroes, in a sub-deck off the main hangar. Half those lost weren't even twenty. Most died dirt-side, fighting on the ground. Squashed by Marines in armor we couldn't even scratch. We lost precious pilots and birds when the Carrier Pinnacle went down, too. A glorious stand against tyranny. They're all martyrs for the cause, and we'll carry those names forward to freedom.
- The Zoners who wanted to resist the occupation the "right way" -- meaning ineffectually -- tried appealing to the other Houses for help. That went about as well as you'd expect. All of the Houses play the same games, and none of them want the others meddling in their domestic business. The only way this is being put right is if we take up arms and do it ourselves.
- The Liberty Rogues aren't friends, just temporary associates. They spent decades raiding Zoner settlements on Erie and hitting shipments across Pennsylvania. Their piracy gave Liberty the excuse to send in the LPI, back in the 770s. They don't care if Erie is free or not, so long as they can profit off the chaos. Luckily, chaos is what we need right now.
- We borrow, scrape and steal for everything we need. Sometimes we run distractions for the Xenos in exchange for supplies. Or barter the cargo we've stolen with the Liberty Rogues or Junkers. Sometimes the Technocracy just gives us gear, and we’re grateful. Still, there's always strings attached -- what are they really getting out of this?
- After Vespucci, the Insurgency's survivors scattered. Some drunk themselves to death aboard Freeports, others went to the Xenos or Technocracy for refuge. I escaped into Magellan, sold my fighter to the Junkers in Inverness, then kept running. Ended up breaking rocks on Falkland for a few years to clear my head. Now I'm back to try and right some wrongs.
- When the annexation first happened, we thought it was a war we could fight and win. The Pinnacle was the biggest ship any of us had ever seen. How could we lose? This weren't a war though, for Liberty it was barely a skirmish. They called it Operation PESTICIDE -- vermin control. We learned an expensive lesson then. We can't fight Liberty head on, but we can hurt them in other ways. We're going to bleed them every day until they call it quits.
- Don’t count on the Bethlehem Zoners. They don’t want anything to do with us, Erie, or Liberty. When things got bad, they turned their backs on everyone as isolationists -- they've got theirs, right? Liberty won't be satisfied with what they've got though, one day the Marines will come knocking. Bethlehem trades with us on occasion, but nothing more. They're cowards, the lot of em.
- Liberty’s had internment camps on Erie for years. Allegedly they're for holding captives from the Insurgency, until their day in court. We know that ain't true though. The LSF has been going hard on the communities they think support us, and we know folk that have vanished in the night and wound up there. They're trying to break apart our supporters, ship off "malcontents" to the penal colonies in Texas.
- There's no worse scum in the universe than Zoners who've turned on their own. Some in Lake City say they've seen what way the wind's blowing, and have taken Liberty's silver. They'd turn us in for the bounty, or for Liberty citizenship, or to curry favor with a local LSF thug. When the day of liberation comes, they'll be up against the wall with the rest of the invaders.
- A lot of Militants have gone into the prisons of Texas, but they rarely leave as one. That's not rehabilitation -- no. Once you're between The Walls, you join a gang for protection. The Liberty Rogues or Xenos run the roost there. When you get into that life, it's hard to get out again, even if you've served your sentence and got loose. Debts and obligations, and those folk don't like getting short changed.
- Mike Davis thinks he's the governor of Erie. He's also the mastermind behind Liberty's assimilation plan -- the corporatization of Erie, the disappearance of outspoken Zoners, the mass importing of "undesirables" from Houston and Denver. Every day that passes, Erie becomes more like Liberty… and loses a little more of its soul. Davis is our number one target.
- Folks here got mixed feelings on the Liberty Insurgency. Some say it's the Insurgency's fault for bringing war to Pennsylvania and getting the system annexed. I don't believe that -- Liberty would always have had an excuse once their mind was made up. Some Insurgency survivors arrived recently to help out with pilot training. Whether that's out of guilt, or for revenge, who's to say?
- The Erie Militants are ferocious and willing, but they're desperately lacking in technique, bless them. I rounded up a few other ex-Insurgency veterans to set up a guerrilla warfare flight school here on Pinnacle. Our job is to whip them into shape before they try to take on the largest navy in Sirius with nothing more than bravado. They need to know what targets are worth hitting and which risks are worth taking.
- The Liberty Insurgency left a long shadow and many scars. After the Commonwealth was toppled and replaced by an autocratic military council, many of us had one foot out the door. Liberty's Invasion of Vespucci may have been what killed the Insurgency in a literal sense, but the dream of a better Liberty had died many months earlier.
- Liberty’s carrot-and-stick routine works on the weak-willed. The Zoners out in Erie's wilderness are reliable, but the cityfolk were always there because they wanted an easy life. Half of em weren't even real Zoners, just Liberty's dregs trying to skip house. Some of those so-called Zoners will try to sell us out to LPI. If you're doing business on Erie, watch your back.
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