To: Liberty Forces | From: SECDEF

[The Republic Of Liberty]

Admiralties of the Liberty Navy, Directors of the Liberty Security Forces & Commissioners of the Liberty Police,;

The Government of Liberty will not remain without reaction to Kusari's advances into Galileo and their failed efforts to hinder our defensive positions through invasion of the Colorado system.
President Hawthorne has expressed his utmost concern for the ongoing situation, and an official Presidential announcement is being prepared as of the making of this transmission.

Following recent events, the Department of Defense has decided that it is time for Liberty's armed forces to retaliate against Kusari's inhumane acts of terrorism that not only threaten the Republic of Liberty's well-being, but also civilian life on the Galileo and Kepler system.

The Government of Liberty thus authorizes the Liberty Navy, Liberty Security Force and Liberty Police to enforce an embrago in the systems of Galileo and Kepler, disallowing the movement of Superconductors in and out of Liberty through the northern border. Additionally, employment of lethal force against Kusari's armed forces has been greenlit within Liberty Sovereign Space and in the surrounding independent worlds.

Admiralties of the First and Forty-Sixth Fleets, as well as all available auxiliary forces are to acknowledge reception and affirmation of these deployment orders and report to LIBNORTHCOM immediately.

- Robert McKay, Secretary of Defense

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