To : CoF / OSI / Zoners and Freelancers all around Sirius; CC: [TAZ]

[Flinx]

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This is Flinx speaking,
Administrator of Brunswick Shrine and Pope of TAZ Church.

I would like to answer that all is nice and fluffy, but discord is strong in this Galaxy, and Sirius is no excemption to that.

I do not think that Order or TAZ seek reconciliation,and I understand why. I was at Shasta as the lockdown came,and I experienced the chaos firsthand.

I do not seek vengance or war, and I would be happy to return to normal. But Pentabarf was broken, violence was brought to holy ground.I can not ignore that, trust has been broken.

If others choose not to do the pilgrimage because of a threat, because Order deems us infected, I can not change that. I would let myself or my ship be scanned any time, and the same can be said about the shrine. But I will not bend to force, or sway from my belief.

I will greet anybody coming to the Shrine in peace. But as you do not know if you will be safe, I have no faith in Order any more. More and more as events unfolded I had to suspect that not duty brought Order to Baffin: If political intrigue and the lust for power winfect the just cause of Order, to whom could I turn for guidance, who could I trust to find sense or sanity ?

Show me the mediator able to unwind this gordic knot without cutting it in pieces. I pray to HER any day, and I enter the holy Geode often.

I respect your worries and share them to some extent, but I will neither bow down to house rule, nor to zealot force. That has been my vow since I entered the zones.

May you find whatever you seek

Flinx