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Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 05.16.34, 02:20 GAST
Rank & Name: Initiate Crowe, Bellamy
Reporting From: Valravn Garrison
AAR # 001

Initiate Crowe here. First report, composite report actually. I hope I'm doing this right.

I departed for a quick patrol of Vespucci on the 8th at approximately 0600 hours. Upon entering the system from the Magellan jump corridor I encountered a Kishiro transport, the Azuma Maru, serving as a tender for a newly erected installation called Tijuana Freeport. I spoke at length with both the Kishiro captain and the Freeport's administrator, one James Salworth, a former resident of the Commonwealth. This gives us both a potential line of communication with sympathetic Kishiro elements as well as a port of call in Vespucci, as Mr. Salworth made it clear that Prometheus was welcome aboard the installation.

I don't know if we want to draw undue attention by establishing a presence in Vespucci too early, but it's hard to deny that it would be a convenient location to base from, given its proximity to Magellan.

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Now for the more... solemn, half of this report.

I did a quick flyby of Westpoint on my way to see Erie. Alone. Stupid, shortsighted, but just maybe it paid off.

I made contact with two ESRD operatives at the lane junction. Held position at the edge of the badlands expecting them to give pursuit, but we ended up exchanging blows with words instead of guns. These people seemed different, oldtimers. They saw action against Gallia. Neither of them, allegedly, were involved in operations in Vespucci.

They seemed sympathetic, if cold. I pressed them about the camps and they.. they actually said they were going to go down and check it out? I have no idea if it'll go anywhere, but if we can change even one of these people's minds about things I think it could be a pretty big deal. Like I said, these two seemed.. different. I've attached logs below.

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[16.05.2024 07:07:06] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Oh FUCK, ESRD?

[16.05.2024 07:07:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ARRES: Contact, short range.

[16.05.2024 07:07:19] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Confirmed...ah, you're familiar then?

[16.05.2024 07:07:51] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: *The pilot's voice cracks over the comms channel. They're young.* D-don't come any closer!

[16.05.2024 07:08:23] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: We're well within the West Point Defense Perimeter... *she chuckles softly*

[16.05.2024 07:09:12] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: So you're.. /not/ going to chase me into the badlands?

[16.05.2024 07:09:35] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Pretty curious what a technocracy ship is doing here..

[16.05.2024 07:09:49] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: to know*

[16.05.2024 07:10:44] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Ah.. *an audible hint of disappointment in the pilot's voice* so you don't know. I'm not sure...

[16.05.2024 07:11:01] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'm not sure whether I should be feeling relief or a punch to the gut right now.

[16.05.2024 07:11:45] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: You don't seem as...altered, as the others we've encountered.

[16.05.2024 07:12:30] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Kind of funny that you wouldn't know after those LSF shitstains grand slammed us in Erie orbit last week.

[16.05.2024 07:12:46] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Then again, maybe that's.. why. *The pilot sighs*

[16.05.2024 07:13:19] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Mmh, I think I did see something about that....LSF operations aren't really my forte.

[16.05.2024 07:13:51] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ARRES: Friendly contact, short range, ESRD transponder confirmed.

[16.05.2024 07:13:57] /showinfo

[16.05.2024 07:14:00] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah, yeah..

[16.05.2024 07:14:01] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Don't come any closer!

[16.05.2024 07:14:53] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: What do you make of this then, Pherkad?

[16.05.2024 07:15:05] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I haven't been.. altered, at least not that way anyway? *The pilot laughs*

[16.05.2024 07:15:24] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah that's what I was saying..you seem less machine.

[16.05.2024 07:15:26] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: What, one of those Technocrat types?

[16.05.2024 07:15:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah, but different.

[16.05.2024 07:15:57] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Hm, dunno, I've had mixed interactions with them.

[16.05.2024 07:16:04] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Aye, same.

[16.05.2024 07:16:25] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: If you're not going to try and kill me, I came to see Erie.

[16.05.2024 07:16:47] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Not much to see there I'm afraid.

[16.05.2024 07:16:55] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Fascinating...but yeah, that

[16.05.2024 07:17:04] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Maybe not to you.

[16.05.2024 07:18:17] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: That's a weird strikecraft, I don't recognize it.

[16.05.2024 07:18:19] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Unless you like overly zealous Zoners trying to stab you there isn't much to be had there.

[16.05.2024 07:18:47] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Shoulda withdrawn and blown the gate as far as I'm concerned...but the government has different intentions, so here we are.

[16.05.2024 07:19:14] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Should've just let them all leave through that backwater on the far side of the system.

[16.05.2024 07:19:17] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Well you.. *the pilot grits their teeth* you fucking didn't.

[16.05.2024 07:19:46] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You ever been to war, Technocrat?

[16.05.2024 07:20:08] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I... I grew up on Leeds..

[16.05.2024 07:20:48] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I watched that big op years ago, the one where you killed that Valor. I used to think you were the good guys.

[16.05.2024 07:20:59] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: But I'll bet neither of you were even there for that..

[16.05.2024 07:21:11] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Which one.

[16.05.2024 07:22:07] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: There were more than a few Gallic Battleships destroyed.

[16.05.2024 07:22:18] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Probably means the Oubli.

[16.05.2024 07:22:29] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Hm.

[16.05.2024 07:22:46] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: What about the Betheny?

[16.05.2024 07:22:58] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: That was a good time.

[16.05.2024 07:23:22] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Oubli, I think that was the name. Sorry, it was a long time ago now..

[16.05.2024 07:23:31] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Yeah you're telling me...

[16.05.2024 07:23:31] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Wait, what am I apologizing to /you/ for?

[16.05.2024 07:23:35] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah, it sure was.

[16.05.2024 07:23:58] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ARRES: Civilian ship, short range, scan completed.

[16.05.2024 07:24:10] Callous_Roamer: Good day, gentlemen

[16.05.2024 07:24:40] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Did that Freelancer just assume that you were both men?

[16.05.2024 07:24:55] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Think you're here, too.

[16.05.2024 07:25:10] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I mean they were right about me though.

[16.05.2024 07:25:44] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I mean, that's kind of validating, but I don't think he was talking to me.

[16.05.2024 07:25:52] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: As for Leeds, if I never see that place again for the rest of my life, I'll be happy.

[16.05.2024 07:26:12] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We lost a lot of good people there.

[16.05.2024 07:26:21] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah, we did.

[16.05.2024 07:26:50] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Damn Bretonians haven't exactly been grateful about it either.

[16.05.2024 07:27:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I'd watch the Oubli burn a thousand times over and still feel joy from it.

[16.05.2024 07:27:27] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Yeah? 

[16.05.2024 07:27:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah, it's like that.

[16.05.2024 07:27:49] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Royalist bastards.

[16.05.2024 07:27:53] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Is it like /that/ with Guadalajara, too?

[16.05.2024 07:28:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: *she scoffs* ...I wasn't there for that operation.

[16.05.2024 07:28:55] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Do you people even realize what I am? The hell you've put us through?

[16.05.2024 07:29:16] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I lost one home to Gallia, and the other to Liberty. What the fuck am I supposed to.. do, with that?

[16.05.2024 07:29:21] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Oh you're one of *those* lot.

[16.05.2024 07:29:39] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Look kid, I don't blame you for the way you feel.

[16.05.2024 07:29:51] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: But we didn't exactly have a choice inthe matter.

[16.05.2024 07:30:28] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Oh, I suppose the President held a gun to your heads personally and forced you to saturation bomb every population center on -

[16.05.2024 07:30:30] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: the planet?

[16.05.2024 07:30:52] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: That wasn't my call to make.

[16.05.2024 07:31:05] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You get orders to remove an enemy force, you follow them.

[16.05.2024 07:32:00] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Enemy.. force? There were civilians down there. Not many, maybe, after Victoria Knight came along. Most of us fled to Erie.

[16.05.2024 07:32:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I'm still not entirely sure what took place on Guadalajara, but as I understand, the Navy's objectives were military targets

[16.05.2024 07:32:17] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: -- but like I said, I wasn't there.

[16.05.2024 07:32:23] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Bullshit.

[16.05.2024 07:32:43] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We weren't the ones that built military bases in among the civilian populace.

[16.05.2024 07:32:52] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'll show you personally, if you want. Have you ever even laid eyes on the planet? Set foot in Vespucci?

[16.05.2024 07:33:01] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: They did that stuff on purpose, knew we wouldn't bomb them if they did.

[16.05.2024 07:33:35] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: What the fuck is wrong with you? Even if that were true, that doesn't excuse the act.

[16.05.2024 07:33:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Civilians always die when nations fight, it's unavoidable, and...insane, for humans to keep killing each other when --

[16.05.2024 07:33:40] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: there's so much worse out there.

[16.05.2024 07:34:03] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You think I don't know it doesn't excuse it?

[16.05.2024 07:34:13] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: You aren't acting like it.

[16.05.2024 07:34:15] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You think I wanted that to be what I became?

[16.05.2024 07:34:52] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We destroyed Gallic capital ships that were operating in atmo over Leeds?

[16.05.2024 07:34:58] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You know what happens when you do that?

[16.05.2024 07:35:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Civilians definitely died on the surface, too, from Gallic and Libertonian, and Bretonian guns.

[16.05.2024 07:35:39] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: At least you weren't aiming for the buildings they rained on. It took two, Gallia put those ships there.

[16.05.2024 07:35:55] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Yeah and we shot those ships down knowing they'd crash into populated areas.

[16.05.2024 07:36:05] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Sometimes you have to make a call.

[16.05.2024 07:36:15] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: It won't always be a good option.

[16.05.2024 07:36:31] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Night and day. We were just trying to live our lives..

[16.05.2024 07:36:54] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: As they say...the only way to win the game is not to play, but The Republic had no such option, in the face of a militarized

[16.05.2024 07:37:00] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: internal opposition force.

[16.05.2024 07:37:07] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Yeah, did you ever stop and think about what would be a big enough target for us to hit it anyway?

[16.05.2024 07:37:38] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We didn't want to go after targets near civilians, but sometimes you're forced to choose that.

[16.05.2024 07:42:09] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: *As the ship's comms come back to life, the sound of the pilot's fists slamming against the console can be heard* PIECE OF-

[16.05.2024 07:42:25] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Wait, is this thing on?

[16.05.2024 07:42:29] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: That's encouraging..

[16.05.2024 07:42:43] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Those old Prossies never were made very well.

[16.05.2024 07:42:55] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Do you want to test that theory?

[16.05.2024 07:43:12] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Hey, Rogue, crawl back to your hole by the way.

[16.05.2024 07:43:20] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I dunno maybe you should bang your hand on the console a bit more, see if that works.

[16.05.2024 07:43:30] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Look, Kid.

[16.05.2024 07:43:48] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: How about I bang your head against the... why aren't you doing anything about this Rogue, anyway? Do I need to myself?

[16.05.2024 07:43:48] BIoodhound: Why should I? I don't see many of you people around here.

[16.05.2024 07:44:03] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Doubt you even know who "my people" are.

[16.05.2024 07:44:04] BIoodhound: I wanna listen before I watch.

[16.05.2024 07:44:09] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We didn't choose where the military targets were on Guada.

[16.05.2024 07:44:40] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We *tried* sending troops in covertly, take out just the military targets.

[16.05.2024 07:45:05] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Place was rigged to blow.

[16.05.2024 07:45:34] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: If there were military facilities, it wasn't the Legion.

[16.05.2024 07:45:58] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: It was that bitch Knight, the one who took everything over after they dragged her ass out of Bering.

[16.05.2024 07:46:06] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We were beyond the point of being ablle to make the distinction at that point.

[16.05.2024 07:46:53] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'll add that to my list of reasons she's at the top of my list of people, then.

[16.05.2024 07:47:13] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You send troops in, try to do things the right way, and all you get back is ten pairs of boots.

[16.05.2024 07:47:34] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: That's why we bombed the rest of the installations on Guada.

[16.05.2024 07:48:15] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Even if, even /if/ I allow myself to believe for a moment the bombings were justified.. it wasn't fighters who fled to Erie.

[16.05.2024 07:48:40] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Yeah, and we tried to deal with Erie peacefully.

[16.05.2024 07:48:49] BIoodhound: Pfft.

[16.05.2024 07:48:53] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: The Zoners had other ideas.

[16.05.2024 07:49:06] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Yeah, peacefully order our deportation. Right.

[16.05.2024 07:49:33] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: How about I peacefully deport you from your home and you tell me how peaceful it is?

[16.05.2024 07:49:50] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: And then after that, why don't I come peacefully annex you to make a point out of it?

[16.05.2024 07:50:07] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: The GRN tried, look where that got them.

[16.05.2024 07:50:25] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Then maybe you shouldn't be taking lessons from them.

[16.05.2024 07:50:26] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: What result do you expect when an insurrectionist insurgency loses a war?

[16.05.2024 07:50:48] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: separatist*

[16.05.2024 07:51:21] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: What do you expect when you order those people deported, then annex their second - third for a lot of us Leeds refugees - their

[16.05.2024 07:51:31] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: new home, and then... then the camps..

[16.05.2024 07:51:51] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: You're growing something, and I don't think you're going to like it.

[16.05.2024 07:51:51] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You think I don't know what it's like?

[16.05.2024 07:52:11] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: To bring in a shuttle full of refugees from Leeds?

[16.05.2024 07:52:15] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: The temporary resettlement camps are...an unfortunate product of our current reality.

[16.05.2024 07:52:22] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Run them into the closest friendly port?

[16.05.2024 07:52:46] BIoodhound: I remember all that commotion in Cortez when the Navy started blasting refugee ships.

[16.05.2024 07:52:47] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Temporary resettlement camps? *The pilot laughs at this point, a sad, unwell noise* Is that what you really believe they are?

[16.05.2024 07:52:55] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Head back to get another shipment and find out that while you were gone the GRN bombed that collection point?

[16.05.2024 07:53:10] BIoodhound: Made me forget I was a pirate for a good moment there.

[16.05.2024 07:53:35] BIoodhound: Or was it the LSF?

[16.05.2024 07:53:39] BIoodhound: Never can remember.

[16.05.2024 07:53:40] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Having to go back and tell the family that went out on the first trip that their father who had stayed behind to make sure-

[16.05.2024 07:53:50] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: -there was room on the ship for the children wasn't going to make it?

[16.05.2024 07:53:56] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Maybe you should forget permanently and fight for a cause other than your next meal, ever think about that?

[16.05.2024 07:54:12] BIoodhound: Hey, food's damn expensive, man.

[16.05.2024 07:54:25] BIoodhound: I blame these fat cats for eating all the good stuff.

[16.05.2024 07:54:44] BIoodhound: Got me and mine eating that shitty 'synth paste'.

[16.05.2024 07:54:49] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I'm fighting to keep people that would do that sort of thing out of power. You think I'm going to what, go join the-

[16.05.2024 07:54:55] BIoodhound: Tastes like cardboard, man.

[16.05.2024 07:55:04] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: -fucking Zenos and their seven punds of crazy in a three pound box?

[16.05.2024 07:55:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Synth paste -is- pretty gross..

[16.05.2024 07:55:16] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Don't talk to me about Xenos.

[16.05.2024 07:55:28] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: The Xenos are traitors, too.

[16.05.2024 07:55:40] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: They're worse than traitors.

[16.05.2024 07:55:45] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Oh, they're fucking traitors alright. I don't want to have this conversation.

[16.05.2024 07:55:58] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Sounds like we might agree on something.

[16.05.2024 07:56:03] BIoodhound: They make me look good.

[16.05.2024 07:56:05] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Xenos aren't for talking about, they're for lining up against a wall.

[16.05.2024 07:56:18] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Nah, then you have to repair the wall.

[16.05.2024 07:56:32] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Point.

[16.05.2024 07:56:58] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: The Xenos, we think those fucks took in Knight.

[16.05.2024 07:57:09] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Well...we have to treat them humanely and in accordance with the Republic Human Rights Charter..so no summary executions.

[16.05.2024 07:57:17] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: Republic's*

[16.05.2024 07:57:23] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: As far as we're concerned, you're enemy combatants.

[16.05.2024 07:57:30] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Good thing they tend to not surrender.

[16.05.2024 07:57:31] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: That places you a step above traitors.

[16.05.2024 07:57:58] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Interesting.

[16.05.2024 07:58:30] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: So what happens to 'enemy combatants' captured by you fine folks?

[16.05.2024 07:58:48] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: The Xenos stabbed the Legion in the back. Softened them up for Knight to roll in and put her bootheel on West's neck.

[16.05.2024 07:59:04] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I...

[16.05.2024 07:59:22] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: You know what? I'm going to find out.

[16.05.2024 07:59:30] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I sure am glad our government functions democratically...that sounds like a lot of instability.

[16.05.2024 08:00:16] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Ours did too, until Knight came along.

[16.05.2024 08:00:29] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Then it was, as I said, dissolved.

[16.05.2024 08:00:39] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Even if I wanted to take my biggest, blackest, pair of boots and go usurp the Presidency, I wouldn't get very far.

[16.05.2024 08:00:42] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: *she laughs softly*

[16.05.2024 08:00:54] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Yeeah that didn't go well for Baldwin back in the day.

[16.05.2024 08:01:28] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I sure do like a good pair of tall boots though...

[16.05.2024 08:01:51] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Might be into that if you weren't you.

[16.05.2024 08:02:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Pfft...you're probably too young, anyway.

[16.05.2024 08:02:41] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Tsch.

[16.05.2024 08:03:07] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Will you do something for me, "Interloper?"

[16.05.2024 08:03:23] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Eh? That depends.

[16.05.2024 08:04:00] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I want you to dig, really dig, into those camps on Erie. Go and visit one or two of them, even.

[16.05.2024 08:04:19] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'm not even going to tell you what to do with what you find. Just, do that.

[16.05.2024 08:04:59] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: If I wanted to, it would be incredibly easy for me to do so. What do you expect it to do for me?

[16.05.2024 08:05:52] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: That depends entirely upon how well developed the empathy center of your brain is.

[16.05.2024 08:06:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I hardly need to go there, to know that the conditions there are -fucked-.

[16.05.2024 08:07:09] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: There's a difference between an ignorant and an intentional fucking.

[16.05.2024 08:07:45] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'm not talking about shitty rations or lack of meds or dirty water.

[16.05.2024 08:08:30] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: We had all that and more on Leeds.

[16.05.2024 08:08:59] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Given the size of the refugee population, and the state of things between the Republic and the government on Erie --

[16.05.2024 08:09:11] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: I'm not entirely sure what more the Republic could do for those people.

[16.05.2024 08:09:26] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: But, I'm a soldier, not a policymaker.

[16.05.2024 08:09:33] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Can you please. Just. look.

[16.05.2024 08:10:06] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: If she won't, I will.

[16.05.2024 08:10:37] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: You will? You struck me as less.. open.

[16.05.2024 08:10:46] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: We can make an official visit of it, if you really want to go down there...what are they gonna do, refuse the ESRD?

[16.05.2024 08:11:04] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I don't care what the people that took up arms did, I don't want civilians to suffer.

[16.05.2024 08:11:10] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Depending on who you are? I wouldn't put it past them.

[16.05.2024 08:11:11] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Not for what someone else did.

[16.05.2024 08:11:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I agree with Pherkad, for what it's worth.

[16.05.2024 08:12:26] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Liberty has already seen too much senseless death.

[16.05.2024 08:12:37] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: If someone wants to take up arms, and fight it out, that's their choice.

[16.05.2024 08:12:45] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Their kids didn't choose that though.

[16.05.2024 08:12:57] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Who.. are you two, anyway?

[16.05.2024 08:13:09] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: That information is, of course, classified.

[16.05.2024 08:13:54] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Tsch, yeah, naturally.

[16.05.2024 08:14:02] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: *He glances over at the gunboat next to him*

[16.05.2024 08:14:17] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: An old man, who feels about twice that old.

[16.05.2024 08:14:28] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Well I'm Bellamy. Or Bel, or Bella, depending on the day.

[16.05.2024 08:14:40] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Initiate Bellamy Crowe, Task Force Prometheus.

[16.05.2024 08:15:23] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You seem like a good enough sort.

[16.05.2024 08:15:29] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I'd tell you if I could.

[16.05.2024 08:16:00] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Just know that some of us were there for the duration of the war, and when you're over a decade in to armed conflict things-

[16.05.2024 08:16:04] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: -tend to look different.

[16.05.2024 08:16:15] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'm being pragmatic, not polite. You're.. still the enemy, after all.

[16.05.2024 08:16:22] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I'm not excusing whhat we did.

[16.05.2024 08:16:29] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: I see...Task Force Prometheus. This has been an interesting conversation.

[16.05.2024 08:16:30] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: But I wanted to make sure you had a way to reach out to me, in case, you know..

[16.05.2024 08:16:39] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: But, trying to tell you why we did things that way.

[16.05.2024 08:16:56] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: We'll look into the claims you made about Erie.

[16.05.2024 08:17:03] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Not sure what good it'll do.

[16.05.2024 08:17:16] Tip: The world of Freelancer is full of ambiguity just like real life is. Not all characters showing up as hostile are your enemies. Likewise - not all characters showing up as neutral are your friends.

[16.05.2024 08:17:41] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I hope I don't have to kill either of you, someday, for what it's worth.

[16.05.2024 08:18:13] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: *He raises his left hand, tapping his fingers together, which makes a distinct clacking sound*

[16.05.2024 08:18:22] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: You wouldn't be the first.

[16.05.2024 08:18:44] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Mm.

[16.05.2024 08:18:45] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Doubt you'll be the last. Medicaly technology is pretty advanced these days.

[16.05.2024 08:18:55] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah well...we'll see.

[16.05.2024 08:19:03] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I should know, given our leader, is, well..

[16.05.2024 08:19:18] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: What it is.

[16.05.2024 08:19:47] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Mmh, 30 years ago I'd probably be dead, too.

[16.05.2024 08:19:57] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Or at least crippled, but here I am.

[16.05.2024 08:20:01] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: Ha, same.

[16.05.2024 08:20:25] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: For what it's worth Crowe, good luck, and try not to die, you seem to have a good head on your shoulders.

[16.05.2024 08:21:02] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: In case our next conversation happens with guns,

[16.05.2024 08:21:33] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I want you to know that we - that I - we're doing this for justice. Not vengeance, and not blindly.

[16.05.2024 08:22:00] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Yeah well, everyone thinks they're just.

[16.05.2024 08:22:07] [LN]-Pherkad|ESRD: I'mm certain you *think* that, it remains to be seen if it's true.

[16.05.2024 08:22:27] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: The difference between us and the Insurgency is that we /know/ that.

[16.05.2024 08:22:37] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: There's very little justice in people killing people.

[16.05.2024 08:23:04] Ashlynn.Wimns: Good morning, everyone.

[16.05.2024 08:23:06] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I know that. I do.

[16.05.2024 08:23:16] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: Hey, good morning DSE.

[16.05.2024 08:24:20] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I'll be going. Thanks again, just for looking.

[16.05.2024 08:24:36] [LN]-Interloper|ESRD: ?: Mmh, stay alive out there.

[16.05.2024 08:24:45] TFP)-Bellamy.Crowe: I will. Don't die yet yourself.

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