To: Cobra

[Reeves]

☠ Incoming transmission.
☠ Signal source: Free Republic relay, Liberty
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Sender: Alliance Commander "Cobra"
Recipient: Caliban
Subject: Re: In Sheep's Clothing

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Right you are - liberty or death.

Try to get us a fourth ship. That way the boys stand as good of a chance as they're going to get - one way trip or not.

That request aside, I've mulled over your idea for hours to account for all the finer points. Distance to potential exits, natural cover, patrol response times, stellar orbits, and just about every other statistic I can scrounge from the net. In doing this I found state police issued circulars, published quite some time ago, informing the general public of the station's relaxation of entry requirements and immigration processes.

You've marked it down as a priority target on the basis of stale information. Ohashi's little more than a hangar space for state police patrols now - all we'd be doing is giving the Hogosha or whatever other two-bit smugglers are out there a free ride by knocking it out of commission.

That doesn't sound like the cold, and clinical efficiency of a Liberty Navy unit sent on a perilous strike mission. No, they'd go for the jugular, or the closest thing to a jugular under the circumstances. Something that's actually pissed off the Government enough to escalate this far.

And yes, while attacking Ohashi would give my men the highest likelihood of coming back, it would be meaningless, and look stupid. Maybe even an obvious sign that something else is going on. So for the sake of both efficiency and believability - I can see only one viable target to hit.

Fuchu Prison.

Odd thing to go after on the surface, right? Well, there's one big reason. Recent expansions gave it a platinum refinery - staffed by an ever so cost effective supply of free labor. Liberty's been fuming about it quite publicly, using all the right language which we can use as pretext.

They've done all the yapping for us. All we need to do is light a match and sing happy birthday.

Get us blackmarket HE ammo - the kind stuffed to the brim and then some. They'll only get one pass and if those fires do credible damage then we strike two tumors with one scalpel. One, the refinery will go offline and tilt the scales back in favor of the Liberty working man. Two, it'll look exactly like something a special operations wing would do as a result of the Government's most "reasonable" excuse to commit violence over.

Policy.

"Liberty or death."
-"Cobra"

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