To: Xeno Alliance || The Accord

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Sender: Alliance Commander "Cobra"
Recipient: Cmdr.Elect Leyshon
Subject: RE: Cooperation

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Commander Elect Leyshon.

Honestly? I am a little bored, yes. I was hoping there would be a second colony war by now but what we have instead is a cross-border foreplay session that's beginning to encroach on the territory of voyeurism for all involved.

And I gave up on the "popular" notion of peace a long time ago. What we have isn't peace - it's mass delusion garbed in virtue and outsourced murder. Innocence makes for a convenient headline, but a jury of your peers still passes the sentence, even if they refuse to swing the sword.

In our world we consider that cowardice.

Freedom isn't free, and it's entirely meaningless if you aren't willing to kill for it. Of course a vast ensemble of talking heads will decry you for it, but when separated from the shoulders all tongues fall still, and knees bend.

I've seen plenty of people walk up to what they perceive to be a podium and then balk at the corpses providing the vantage. We don't sell moral superiority - these things hold no value to the institutions we seek to kill.

So if you're prepared to do whatever it takes - then you've called the right people.

It's just like we say.

"Liberty or death."
-"Cobra"

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