Meeting in Cologne, Phase 1

[Swifty]

It kinda seemed to me like you needed to hear that, so i just offered my honest opinion. He said then nodded. I am happy you understand the point i am trying to make. With that, i am most certain Rheinland's future is in safe hands, it is my duty to do the same for Gallia. He takes another small sip and then lays back on his seat.Another Civil war will only repeat history all over again, that is not the result i am looking for. Those are internal affairs that we will set in order, i have my options but for now i would like to focus on what i can do. Patience et one step at a time... surely you can understand that. He sighed softly. I believe it all started with the Glassing of Leeds, which by the way was a reckless action taken by the decision of a crazed lunatic that could simply not accept the turns of the war, now the rest of us, Honorable people at that, suffer by the actions of a single person. Et with the Council urging for the power, that is just the most convenient excuse that came at almost the perfect moment. Basically it was just what they needed for us, the Crown loyalists to lose credibility in the public's eye. The media, controlled by the revolutionary forces made it seem like it was a decision we made together but the reality is this; Not even i knew of the Glassing until i heard of it on the news. I was never there to put a stop to such a inhumane act of murder. Before even the course of the war had changed, my Battleship has been deployed back into the Gallic Border Worlds to secure our supply lines, so imagine my surprise when everything suddenly took a turn on us; On one end, our state has fallen et by the other, somehow our forces were driven back. Those of us that i know remained true to the cause failed to surrender in order to survive, which you can say is another reason why they tagged us as pirates, or criminals, or whatever else they could say in order to keep us down. It is generally what this people do when things do not go their way, they will harm your reputation until you go under the ground by yourself. He pauses for a short moment, planting his eyes at the flag behind Traudel. I do not believe in this... short term saying. Short terms do not give us enough time to settle or to create anything to last, only for a short period of time. Our goals are very simple my dear; Gain the public support, gather support from the Gallic nobility to the Heir's claim on the Throne, restore the Gallic monarchy by bringing the Heir et supporting their claim on the Throne, et ultimately imprisonment of ex-Royal Naval personnel serving the Confederal regime. Something normal under the Royalist regime, everyone pays for their actions. Now in order to achieve some of the mentioned, i had to turn to a friend we helped in times of need. But quite frankly, i still hold some regret thinking that high, after my soldier's results of his encounter, et after one of your Lieutenants openly said a few hurtful things, it was then i realized some things have changed within Rheinland as well, et perhaps, in the same way it has in Kusari before they launched an attack on our House... Yet here i am, with the intent to convince myself before judging over something that may simply have been misunderstood. Mounier lifts up his glass and takes a sip, then locks his brown eyes on Traudel's.

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