To: Robert McKay, Secretary of State for Defense

[The Republic Of Liberty]

The Independent Miners Guild Board;

Your information confirms what we already suspected, but there is precious little in our power to do above what is already done.

Any actions the Kingdom of Bretonia takes against the Outcasts will quite possibly result in the Outcasts withdrawing the indirect military support that they provide to help combat the Empire of Kusari. This military support is not something we can replace; we have our own war to conduct, and Kusari have not provoked us as they have Bretonia.

That is the simple and short answer to the question of the Outcasts and the Kingdom of Bretonia. I don't like it either, but our hands are tied. It's up to the Bretonian public to decide whether sacrificing their values and morals in exchange for victory is a price worth paying.

- Robert McKay, Secretary of State for Defense

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