To: Xeno Alliance

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ID: Captain Jack Frasier

Recipient: Adjutant J. Royce

Subject: RE: Safe Harbor

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Adjutant Royce,

Call it 'equal disdain'. I wasn't a big fan of how the Commonwealth operated, nor of how the Separatists twisted Legion operations, but orders were orders. They drill that into you at West Point, and they drilled it into you at Monterrey. Didn't mean I liked them at times.

I wasn't involved in Bering, as we were stationed at Hesperia during the operation there. I was only the comm officer then, but even if I'd had authority to mobilize Lancer to the front, orders were orders. Guess I'm just lucky those orders saw us leave not long before your people showed up.

I'm not sugar-coating it. The Alliance is among our last options. It's either that, surrender and likely execution, or we get turned into toasters for some technofetishist, barring some miracle. At least with the Alliance we have sympathies.

I'm aware of how long the odds are, as are the crew. I have some contingencies planned, but if I know the Xenos well, and judging by your attitude I do, then at least I've made a head start in other directions.


Frasier, out.

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