Following an emergency assembly session wherein the Commander petitioned in the interest of granting you political asylum within the LFR, the assembly has seen fit to condone the same.

Respond in this channel for necessary arrangements to be made. Also be advised that any such offers put forward by the Houses will likely serve as a ploy to ensure your arrest given current extradition policies.

This channel will terminate automatically in 3 days.

"Be a beacon."

I fully expected to hear from you again. Just not under these circumstances. I'm guessing you took my advice to heart?

I'm also sure there's plenty of people trying to court you into seeking asylum with them instead, maybe even people lying through their teeth that all they care about is your well-being.

Let me be the first to give you proper respect through honesty. What I want in return for providing you the facility of asylum is any and all insight and knowledge you have regarding Liberty's tactics, inner workings, and arrangements. Everything from dull logistics reports to special operations conducted in recent history.

In return for providing these things, you'll be under our protection from now till the day you die. You won't be treated any differently than the rest of us, and if you have any family, or friends who wish to join you then I'll extend this agreement to cover their safety as well. The assembly will complain and say I've amended the scope of the asylum petition, but it also won't overrule me given your value to our cause. I'm also going to use this opportunity to point out that by coming with us, you'll still be in a position to do something for Erie. Running away is definitely safer than taking up refuge with me and mine, but it eliminates your potential to do anything of value.

And if we're going to found a nation that can stand the test of time and opposition from the Houses, we'll need people like you. So I'll help you, provided you're willing to help me help my people.

Consider everything I've said and let me know what you decide to do.

I will freely admit.

That I am a creature of spite and cunning, these are the ingredients of what I simply must be to live in the world I chose to occupy. Heh, almost ironic to think of it that way. Especially given that I spent precious decades pretending to be things I'm not. The LSF has a file on me, and in an instant you'd have all the pieces you'd need to understand my entire history and even a mostly accurate psych-profile. But you had a little too much integrity to be one of them.

I have a fascination, or maybe it's better to term it as an obsession. I like to strip away barriers, restraints, consequences, and even incentives. Leaving nothing but a man and an infinite series of pathways and choices to make. Pay attention, choices - not dilemmas. The latter only leads to problems while the former may yield solutions. But if you're wondering why, it's because when all things are removed, and with every construct absent, a man is left unafraid to be himself. The self he may otherwise pretend doesn't exist.

So now, I wouldn't impose a term so droll as an effective conscription. I'm playing a high stakes game for the soul of a country and the hopes of an entire people, that's not something anyone can be forced into, it would pervert the purpose. Whether you want to stand by me and help see that future be made manifest, that has to be of your own free will. The terms of your asylum will accord you protection till the day you die, or until you voluntarily relinquish our protection. I resent cages, and have no intention of shackling you to a cause if you don't believe in it.

My methods are crude, and violent. And my most reliable weapons are Liberty's own decadence, corruption, and ineffective bureaucracy. But these are still just weapons, things I only chose to pick up so that I could put them down again, or for the people who carry on this struggle in my name to have the satisfaction of doing. I want a blank slate for my people, the inheritors of what Liberty's culture group was meant to embody before reckless ambition, and a blinding hubris damned us all - myself included.

A world where we are left alone, unimpeded by invasive intelligence agencies, content to arm and fund terrorists like me. A Navy that illustriously casts itself into the service of a Congress that doesn't represent its people, content to be attack dogs for the rest of their days, lionizing themselves at the expense of hapless, and at times fabricated opponents. And last but not least, a police force that partakes in a form of slavery, arguably worse than what presently exists on Malta. Worse yet? The other Houses are all the same. Bound together in one cancerous cycle, fostering life only to then cannibalize it. To recite every group unworthy of trust would take too long. You would be wiser to ask me who you can trust, it's a much shorter and more concise list - with the first and foremost always being yourself.

You want to help the people of Erie. I will do nothing except ensure that you have the means to do so, as an agent of yourself and what you believe in. The fact of the matter is this, Hayes - I wouldn't have it any other way. I only ask that as a token of appreciation for this ability, and my own insight into the world I've seen from an uncensored vigil, that you help me secure a future less decrepit than this one.

Consider this my manifesto. And be mindful that you still have a choice to make.

I find your continued silence disappointing.

You send an associate who puts me under an impression that immediate arrangements would be needed to facilitate the relaying of your leak, so naturally I keep personnel on stand-by to do exactly that.

Imagine how foolish I start to look the longer your silence persists? There is a war that needs fighting and an entire planet's worth of people currently living under subjugation while you cower in whatever hole you fled to.

When you are ready to act like you have courage again please inform me, consider your privileges suspended until then.

You've really let yourself go.

Your unkempt and seemingly unwashed appearance aside, I wouldn't be slapping you on the wrist if I wasn't prepared to uphold my end of the bargain. So hurry up and get this done, because I need to divert all my focus towards preparation for a drawn out conflict over Erie.

Weapons, vehicles, and ships won't make themselves.