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fm: FAdm. Ward, Marjorie, Task Force Prometheus
to: Siara Solatra, New Dawn Movement; "Counterpoint", PLF; "Bowman"; Clarion Group; Ashen Hull; All Other Pennsylvanian Resistance Fighters
subject: A More Perfect Union

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Pennsylvania,

I am Fleet Admiral Marjorie Ward, and I speak on behalf of Task Force Prometheus.

You'll have surely noticed our forces rallying at Pinnacle — old things with burnt orange livery and flaming skulls, and with them all the doubt to your ranks they rightly bring. To many of you we are outsiders; former Navy, oathsworn to a state in the independent worlds that promised safety and justice for Liberty's people, including the autonomy of Erie, and collapsed upon itself from within. Half a decade later, what remains of us emerges from the barrier, having spent years under the patronage of the Technocracy — by all accounts a power interested in itself above all else.

It would be pantomime to ask for your trust. So I will not. Yet this fight is ours as well.

Our people — Legionnaires, Commonwealth citizens, men and women who believed in something and paid for it — were interned on Erie when the camps still had names we could put on a map. Those camps are closing now. Some are being relocated to Houston and Sugarland, and more still disappear every day. We are not here to grandstand or do political theater; it is the reason we are here, and it is the reason we cannot afford to move slowly.

What I will say plainly is this: we are a military, and we fight like one. We will not pretend otherwise, and we would not insult you by trying. What we bring to Pennsylvania is firepower, discipline, and experience bleeding the Republic — and we intend to use all of it. We did not crawl out of Inverness to watch from the sidelines. We came to fight. This is your war, and we are here to fight it with you. We know what happens when a standing military force and a coalition of cells try to share a battlefield without a word between them, and we have no interest in finding out firsthand. We will not ask you to fold into our structure. What we ask is a conversation before we move, and a point of contact to have it with. We know how to work that seam, and believe we can be stronger for it.

Effective immediately, Promethean vessels operating in the theater will be flying the colors of the Erie resistance. We are done operating from the margins.

We will not ask your trust. We will do what is needed to earn it.

Tell us where we're needed.

We will be what we have always been.

A sword.

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Mihi Vindictam Retribuam
Non Omnis Moriar,
FAdm. Marjorie Ward

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SENDER: FAdm. Nodoka Hanamura, Head of State, Utsunomiya Commonwealth RECIPIENT: FAdm. Marjorie Ward, TASKFOR PROMETHEUS SUBJECT: A More Perfect Union Marjorie, Your people have bled for Erie just as much as ours and so many other causes have, and to say it is anything short of admirable and commendable would be insulting to the lives in your ranks who have bled, suffered and died for her. Even as our forces regularly interdict prison transports out of Erie in the badlands of New York, we find ourselves waging a war tetering towards loss. It is our hope that this will be a shifting of the winds in our favor. Erie was my safe haven, when I fled Kusari over a decade ago. It is where I found work, a ship of my own, and forged my path that led to where I am today. The Zoners of Erie welcomed me into their world and from there the seeds of my loyalty to the Zoner cause germinated and blossomed. To say this place means a lot to me personally, and after engendering that very same passion in my men, so many of us, is an understatement, and to see it under Liberty's boot is unacceptable. That being said, whilst we cannot speak for Zoner Society, or the causes of Erie at large, Utsunomiya favors your undertakings, and we look forward to continuing to wage war, brothers in arms, to liberate the worlds of this system from Liberty's grasp - per rationem aut vim. Nodoka Hanamura

[Doc Holliday]

*incoming transmission*
Comm ID: Doc Holliday
Location: Personal Retreat, Planet Erie
To: Admiral Marjorie Ward

It is good to hear from you, Admiral Ward. I have owned and still maintain a private residence on Erie. Med Force Enterprises is quietly here providing medical service to any and all resistance fighters. Your people will receive the same treatment.

For what its worth, we lost a couple of ships and pilots during Liberty's crackdown of the planet. That was when I started allowing the resistance to pass through my lands and provided supplies as needed. I think you will find a good many of those people quietly and successfully integrated themselves into Zoner communities. Much mutual respect has been maintained. I also have a Junker friend that runs a trading post. I will send you coordinates to it. His name is Grady and while he looks like a mountain man, he will help you when you mention me in conversation.

Let me know how else I can be of help. Reach out if you want to meet up and just chat.

Dr. John Holliday
Med Force Enterprises

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▐ ENCRPT:

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▐ RECVER:

⤥ Marjorie Ward, TFP

▐ SENDER:

⤥ Pennsylvania Liberation Front, COUNTERPOINT

▐ SUBJCT:

⤥ RE: A More Perfect Union

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Hail. Message acknowledged. Greetings, admiral. High command salutes you. The Front appreciates your gesture of help. We do share the same pains. Our chain of command has been cut shorter each month. More and more cells are ceasing contacts and not following proper secure communication channels protocols. Abandonment of duty is commonplace by all the reports we've been receiving. The manpower situation is dire, and we have more frames and munitions than able men. Fighters all over Erie and system-wide have been dealing blows against the enemy, but to little effect. Liberty's industrial capacity and replenishment speed far surpasses our most prominent recruitment campaigns. Nowadays, the fight is less direct, with fewer and fewer combat sorties. Some cells have been taking a more indirect approach, raiding merchant convoys. A handful of them are striking civilian ships, under the motive of "raising insurance premiums" and making the whole Pennsylvania system economically inviable. The effect of this is unknown. We raise the worrying indication that the military front is collapsing. The Front needs military success, otherwise the movement will degenerate to brigandry - if it hasn't already. End of Transmission. For Erie. "COUNTERPOINT", P.L.F.

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User ID:__"Bowman"
Target ID:__FAdm. Marjorie Ward
Subject:__Re: A More Perfect Union

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Rendering transcript... Transmission received, Legionnaire. Welcome to the Pennsylvania theatre. Your vigorous engagements of Navy forces noted so far are a welcome first step onto this stage. I've received at least two notices of our supply freighters slipping through the orbital defense network thanks to the commotion you lot have kicked up. A rare turn of good news, something we're dreadfully short on. The years haven't been kind for Group Clarion. Our force used to be an organized component of a rebel regiment numbering over a thousand fighters, but by the time I stepped into my role as coordinator late last year, it'd been cut down to just about fifty. The leftover veterans were reduced to back-alley murder, arson and car bombings over any real resistance. I've had to tolerate immense security risks to put the cell on, essentially, life support in a safe haven. We've walked similar roads, I see. Our immediate situation is now stabilizing, but planetary combat operations against the Liberty forces have taken a backseat - on my order. Our total personnel at this time still barely number two-hundred after merging with other cells, and while we're now well-supplied, wider recruitment efforts are currently a non-starter, with Liberty having taken control of the popular narrative on this world. We can't afford to suffer further attrition, so I'm preparing to fight this war primarily by subterfuge. To better effect, I intend, than we've recently had. Understand that Clarion's spaceborne assets are limited, as is my access to capable spacer crew. But, we've a reliable armored transport, a pair of bombers, and a gunship operating starside to assist in tactical missions, as well as a few clandestine freighters for blockade running and reconnaissance. If you've noted the hulk of the EDF Reckoning near Pinnacle, that's also been placed into my custodianship. We're damn short on means to get that Hel into fighting shape, though. We're willing to support whatever heavy naval fires you've brought with you, but I urge you, use them wisely. As your prior defeat in Vespucci may have shown you, Liberty's war machine can sustain serious losses where we can't, and we're now working with scraps compared to what your Insurgency commanded at its height. Your timing, however, may be impeccable. Not all is lost just yet. We've reason to believe that, if Kusari and Liberty do lay on with each other, an opening will exist to rejuvenate the planetary resistance and possibly deal real damage to Liberty's space infrastructure, or the Battleship Alma itself. If you lend us your guns in that critical period, we'll help in getting your people - and ours - set free again. We'll remain quite interested in cooperating as our plans develop. Let's give it a go turning this mess around. Attachments (0)