In the Bretonian Parliament

[BaconSoda]

Home Secretary Lord Anthony Grenville was alarmed at the proposed ultimatum to the Junkers. Not only was his funding being slowly siphoned into the war effort, but he knew such a venture would be foolish in and of itself. Even if the Junkers were harboring criminals in the Southampton, investigators that confirmed this were not equipped well enough to relay the information back to New Scotland Yard before the pirates that the Junkers were allegedly harboring did away with them, and if the Junkers weren't harboring criminals, then the money invested into the investigation would be wasted.

"Lords, ministers," Anthony began as he rose, "I move that such a venture would be folly. Such an investigation to prove that the Junkers are harboring such criminals cannot be effectively carried out at this time. Looking into the intimate operations of the Junkers is something that is neither monetarily, nor humanly possible while other internal security dilemmas are still present in Bretonia. The Corsairs from the Grasmere Cloud constantly pound the Cambridge line, and from the outset of the war, the BPA have had trouble keeping the line intact with diminished BAF support. This is evidenced easily by the growing rates of piracy originating from the Cardiff and Cornwell asteroid fields."

"Furthermore," Anthony continued, "With the Essex's forces cut at the outset of the war, the Mollys become bolder in the past months. This can be easily seen in the rise in piracy originating from the Cumbria and Devon asteroid fields, as well as the West Leeds smog cloud. Though it has been a slower rate of growth compared to the increase in piracy by the Corsairs, the piracy rates of the Mollys have been steadily increasing as well as a result of the Essex's reduced garrison."

"On the matter of the Southampton debris field," Anthony added with a change of tone, "Since the emergence of the Junker's Congress as an official corporate entity in Bretonia, piracy originating from the Southampton field has been reduced significantly. Further on this matter, the Junker's Congress has been steadily recycling our scrap in the Southampton field into usable alloys in surprisingly significant amounts. This shouldn't be discarded offhandedly, seeing the shortages that Stokes has encountered in the past years with shipments of both alloys and raw materials from Rheinland being cut off by piracy in the Omegas and Core Breotnian Space."

"Onto a matter unrelated to piracy, I'd like to ask from where exactly Lord Grey expects to fund this endeavor. Raising taxes further this year on an already war weary people for an effort completely unrelated to the war may be folly. Civil unrest has risen 30% in Cambridge, and 17% in New London this year alone. Giving the masses more taxes that do not alleviate what they see as a problem is nothing short of folly, in my eyes. Unless BowEx or Gateway want to partake in an extreme act of philanthropy, I don't believe this endeavor to be politically possible."

"Instead of this motion, I move to continue the current goals of repelling apparent piracy in Core Bretonian Space, and leaving the asteroid field to the Bounty Hunters and mercenaries, unless a high priority target presents itself or a criminal is chased there."

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.