Holiday Wrote:Awhile back, I was asked to go out to your former home world of Toledo. I remember the destruction and was shaken by what I saw. I was then asked to report to everyone of my findings so as to hide the Order's new location in secrecy. I did as asked. I even stationed a man out there. Mr. Chris DeGarmo in the Moonstone to assist. I think you owe us something and that something is trust our work and leave us be. As I said, I wouldn't have approved that ship if I felt it dangerous.
“Ami, this is war. No blackmail anymore.”
Holiday: die another day Wrote:Or is this a case of where the Order isn't happy that they didn't get the technology first for their own use? As Pope Koetzer asked, why don't you ask the folks at JIVA about it?
“…Exactament! Now you hit upon it; the artefact is the object of our ambitions as much as it is the object of your ambitions.”
“…However, the difference between us is that the Order aspire to cull nomad technology utilisation. You, however, aspire to perpetuate it.”
“…Plus, well. You’ve simply shot at us a ridiculous number of times, so this is more of a revenge exercise for the Commonwealth – along with a well-deserved pectoral flex.”
Doc holiday Wrote:Now go home before I have to take back my office to throw you out myself!
“…Unfortunately, that’s not the way the universe works. Unfortunate, that. It would be infinitely easier for me if all objective furthering ever required was merely to out-petty somebody into submission.”
the obvious Wrote:–Doc
- Achille Augustain Nadeau the First.
“A colleague of mine will deliver the exact terms of our own, personal ultimatum once the the conference upon Shasta has died to its inevitable, sad conclusion, and both I, brother Robert and brother Tyrion are imperilled no longer by this bloody installation.”
“Overwatch, we remain at your side, and you will hear from us independently.
To everyone else – bear with us – lay an ear to the wall. You may hear the drums, for chaos reigns.”
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)