While I'm sure some of you have particularly strong feelings given the origin of this transmission, listening is still worth it.
I'll deal with the elephant in the room first. Our movement did attack Handayan and sever supply lines to the Cohort in Vespucci. I had no direct involvement, nor did the Alliance. I will confess that when the declaration was being voted on in the Free Republic Assembly, I voted against it. I won't pretend like this was some act of altruism though, I just didn't think attacking you was worth the potential costs.
This didn't stop the others. Which puts us where we are now. At a fork in the road. And while I'm pleased to state that I've managed to maintain a cooperative relationship with the Sect and worked towards the common goal of thwarting Planetform's operations in Hudson, there's been little communication otherwise.
I'd like to address two key issues.
One, is that with the Navy's campaign in Vespucci being close to completion, their withdrawal will leave behind a power vacuum and a rush to seize anything of value on Veracruz, if not Veracruz itself. I'm not fond of this prospect however, so I'd like to see us working together and keeping people away from the former colony. There's been one too many tinpot dictatorships for our generation.
Two, is that the most likely suspect for making overly ambitious powerplays in the independent worlds will be the Technocracy, or whatever they brand themselves as now. They're already trying to ingratiate themselves with the locals of Erie and take advantage of their situation. It would be consistent with their MO for them to try and do the same thing here. And they may even rely on force given that Vespucci is close enough to their own territory.
As an added disclaimer, I don't expect for us to arrive at any kind of concrete policy to handle the issues I mentioned. It's enough for me to know we're at least on the same page. So I'll wait to hear back from you.
And to the Cohort - I regret that we never had the opportunity to work together against the Commonwealth. If we had, we might have been able to prevent the formation of the Insurgency. Wishful thinking in the present, I know - but I'm not immune to sentiment.
You deserved better.
"Liberty or death."
-"Cobra"
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