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**Petitioner** · 04-30-2016, 06:43 PM,

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[[[ Sender ID: Albrecht Stellmacher
[[[ Message Source: OS&C Liner "Bali"
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Greetings, Navy commanders, admirals, and other assorted higher-ups who might be receiving this message. I do wish I could contact you under better circumstances, but this is, unfortunately, an urgent matter. I am Albrecht Stellmacher, captain of the Orbital Spa & Cruise liner Bali, recently commissioned under secondary contract, having rolled out of Baltimore Shipyard only last week. Her maiden voyage was today.

As we entered New York via the Texas gate - with thousands of passengers onboard, to say nothing of our crew members - a Navy pilot bearing Battlegroup Harmony's colors and a misconfigured IFF demanded we halt our vessel, and promptly began a torrent of insanely wild and implausible accusations directed against myself and my chief communications officer, ranging from implications that we were foreign spies and saboteurs to the extraordinary charge that our passengers and crew, including myself, were all alien infectees!

After we had been subject to these absurd verbal assaults, the pilot - who was in a bombercraft of some sort, I'm not exactly familiar with military hardware - claimed that Navy high command had given him a direct order to destroy our civilian vessel and ensure the deaths of all onboard, and proceeded to attempt to make good on that assertion. Thankfully, what my staff in the scanner room informs me was essentially an impromptu Naval task force responded to our distress call and chased this maniacal renegade off.

Currently we are moored at Baltimore Shipyard and undergoing repairs. While I and all members of my crew - save the two who are currently undergoing emergency medical examination at our vessel's onboard medical facilities - are fully prepared to submit to any sort of in-person interviews, interrogations, or screenings, our passengers have been dropped off at their destination - as they were most eager to leave - and, in keeping with company policy, their identities shall not be revealed without a legitimate court order or a direct request from the Liberty Security Force.

Furthermore, I'm tentatively fielding a request for compensation from the government for these inhumane acts committed at the hands of this Naval officer, which resulted in extreme emotional distress for all onboard our ship, subjected Orbital assets to significant risk, and medical bills of the Bali's two gunnery staff who sustained head injuries as a result of repeated antimatter impacts. Once again, I cannot reiterate enough how eager I am to hear an official explanation, and, hopefully, apology for this incident, assuming that our vessel isn't actually filled with secret alien spies and slated for immediate, extralegal demolition.

Infuriatedly yours, Albrecht Stellmacher.

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