The Fontana Summit

[Hemlocke]

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The rogue sat a moment, running over the events from years ago. Frustration appeared at every skip that occurred in memory, every blank that should've returned vivid and immaculate memory. Forced to concentrate for harder than he used to, they were right, looking over the sequence of events summoned forth by the mind, they were wrong. He thought back to the event that had caused this death fog to appear in his mind. Though his face remained in grim neutrality on the outside, he twisted with rage on the inside over the detrimental ramification of the event that took his perfect memory from him. There was a remedy of course, yet the remedy left a trail behind that his enemies could exploit.

He remained silent for a time while considering all the branching ramifications of Liberty's tampering, what he knew and what he thought he knew. Coming to the conclusion it wasn't entirely relevant to the situation. Golanski's understanding of the word "warlord" was primitive, and outdated by a handful of years, using the word "equal" even more misguided than his appreciation of the term warlord. The rogues had dashed the "warlords" of old against the rocks that made up their very homes, it was an ultimately inaccurate, and childish term to stroke one's ego. Even if his people would consider it appropriate, Hemlocke hadn't waged war against another faction in quite some time, his position at the time would've prevented such a title from entering his resume. A silver lining to the situation he never wanted to be a part of.

Stewing in the past produced nothing that would aid the current situation. The perfectly still rogue glanced to the passing data shard, and listened as the matter at hand turned toward the nomads, an entity, or rather two entities that were of rather minor significance to the Earhart chain of events. Either way it was predictable that the Order refused to dedicate any resources to the matter to break Liberty's back. No doubt the reason for this was the same reason the Navy had been seen flying Order vessels years ago, and why the Overwatch had sided with them during conflicts in New York.

Though in fairness, at least. Section 8 at least had a track record of getting their hands.. "dirty", a generous terminology, here in Liberty regarding this whole affair over the last years. Though completely unimpressed with their typical Order behavior, they were trying, which was a miracle in and of itself. The Wyoming however, he was uncertain how long Section 8 had known of it, or if they'd known of its existence at all, Hemlocke was surprised that the Overwatch had revealed it during this meeting. That battlecruiser was something the rogues were intimately familiar with, wild attacks on convoys bound for Ames were common a handful of years ago, ever since Kepler had been swallowed, they had become far more common in Galileo, nearly severing movement between the Raiden and Reppu. Though that wasn't Hemlocke's neck of the woods, so he never paid it any mind.

Addressing Morreti regarding the flanking maneuver

"The present issue with flanking action is they haven't left us much room. The Lehigh being the foreguard, makes striking the Robert Preary incredibly difficult, if not an outright suicide mission."

"The Innocent Slaughter, in tandem with the Firestarter, can wreak havoc on the logistical lines in California, the issue is the window to do so is incredibly small, we'll be contending with the response times of two battlegroups, and striking from the Sierra on their way into Ontario will see us contending with three. In addition to response groups, patrols have been increased along their weak points. None of that includes the roaming Hunters."

"Whichever strategic planner's behind this certainly isn't of the Delaware's stock."

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