First Baffin Zoner Zummit at The Zenarch, Malaclypse Freeport

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Thomas moves down from the podium, to make room for the next speaker, he sits down and wait for the chance to go up an answer, the good commander.
He waited to Mr.Bloggs finished his speech, and noded whit a smile as he past him on the way up to the podium.
He turned his head to look ad Commander Matok and gave a respectful nod.

My good Commander Matok i hear what you say, and i understand your concerns about this, i understand your concern about COF, just being the same thing as the Old Cauncil, but i assure you its not the same thing,
we have learned from our past, but we have also learned from the good
things that the old Council did.
But we cant keep living in fear of old Ghosts and mistakes to happen again,
if you live your life like that, you will never live a truly free life, and will automaticly close you self in a box.
I was taught as a child, when you fall on a bike you get back up, you just dont give up on the idear of riding that bike, same thing still go for allot of things in life,
when times get rough, you dont give up you keep going.

He looks around and try to smile encouraging to the people who bother to listen.

I am sorry if i failed to explain more exactly,
what the COF is Commander Matok,
and what makes it different from the old Council, one of the main strengths of the COF, and perhaps the strongest, is that we embrace
each other as equals, despite how different we are, we use each other as advisors and we help each other when troubles arrives.
For example, Zoner Humanitarian Research that i represent, is building a Satellite station to aid whit secure coms channels, and to host the Zoner Emergency Channel.
When we started this project, we first asked what the members of the Confederation thought about it,and they spoke there mind freely.
Next step was building the station, we then asked for help to build this installation, whit in the Confederation and people stepped up to aid us, we never demanded aid, people did be course of there own free will, be course this is what we do in the Confederation of Freeports, we help each other.

He raises his arms to make the point.

I ts that simple Commander, we help , we stand together, but most importent
we respect how different we are.

He Smiles a friendly Smile to Matok, and then continues.

You spoke also about the Freeport Defends Force [FPDF],
yes i heard you when you told that, you use to lead Zoner Defends Force.
and i will say that you achieved much more then you give your self credit for.
you protected zoners whit your actions, and that is a achievement in itself.
And yes some mistakes will always happen, and some times things do not turn out the way we intent them to do, but never the lees we get back up on that bike and keep going.

He looks on all of them, trying to make a statement.

We need a Force to protect our self when all other hopes, or deplomatic solution
runs out, we cant trust mercenaries and other hirelings to solve every problem we will come a cross, what if the other part pays more, then what will we do then, Mr Robert D"Autoine, tell them they cant hurt us be course they need us,
No we need that force not to use as a weapon of force but to show the flag,
that we care what happen to our homes, so that you have some one to call for if
the need realy is there.

He smiles again and looks around and then looks ad Matok again.

I will make you a promise my fellow Zoners, i will not give up i will aid you as i best can, and i will keep riding that bike even when the weels is gone.

Whit those words he left the stage and sad down next to Mojo and Voncloude

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Ldr.Thomas Henrikson
Leading Doctor in ZHR|
Part of [COF]
Freeport 9 Administrator
Corfu Base Administrator
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Michal Steel
Part of the [M]-Cauncil