The information broker

[Xing]

"Very well." Isabelle said, trying to supress her frown. She looked suspiciously at the agent of the order sitting next to her, and wondered what to think of.

For a time, she did thought the Order might have been the one in the rightful path while Liberty command, separated in two parts with the northern fleet scattered in disorganised battlegroups seemed truly like the corrupt and inefficient entity criminal organisations seems to made them look like.

Yet, through her many personnal experiences, she knew the Order, if at its origin a noble cause, was nowaday a mere regroupment of greedy paramilitary dragging recruit with a cause they didn't believed in obviously since a long while. For she saw clearly what the order was doing: stealing liberty built technologies, upgrading it with doubtful alien technologies, then selling it to anyone offering credits on the blackmarket.

And these people considered themselves savior of humanity?
A joke, right?

She looked with slight disgust at the weapons pointed on her and shook her head.
"You may as well keep these things down instead of aching your arms in such position. My body can't move faster than a blaster bolt anyhow."
She crossed her arms on her chest as she thought of what was coming next.

"Let's get straight to the facts. You have taken posession of Liberty property through illegals mean, and we want it back. The whole of it. Might I begin with the suggestion of not trying to take me as hostage to get the prices up, because that won't work. I am a soldier, and as such am fully ready to die if need is to be."

She made a polite smile as she relaxed a bit her body,
"Liberty won't be ingrate however. Hand them over to us freely, and I might convince high command to accept a certain amount of credits to be deposited for... cooperation with the authorities. However, the prices must be reasonable. You do realise we won't be scammed that easily by any thief - because that's what you people did - and as such, we wont leave you many choices."

"High command original orders were destroy, and it took me some convincing to keep them at a neutral stance for the while. I wish to take what we want in a peaceful way so everything goes around without any leaks. I hope that makes my position clear, sir."

She sighed, eyeing slightly her Order counterpart with a certain curiosity.

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