To all Bounty Hunter Guild ship captains

[Apocalypse_Now]

[Incoming transmission]

You want us to kill for you but you don't want us take aggressive actions on our enemies' strongholds? (Corsairs, to be more precise). You are letting our own men and women to suffer while enemies raid our systems, and you dare to regard us as insane? How do you call when the assassins accuse assassin?

I support my men, I believe in them. I encourage them to follow but also to lead as well. You have to have men who are moral and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling I just cannot see that happening with all your limitations and rules hanging over our heads.

Several hours ago I've seen a Core battleship in Omicron Delta after a very long time! Isn't that sad? You brought it just for us and not because of our own enemies. You are so predictable... I spared it's crew of terrible deaths, which you did not do when you attacked our 2 battleships with almost dozen of bombers and a battlecruiser. Next time, I won't be so tolerable, although the captain of this particular battleship is a fine man. See what you make me do?

So here how it goes; we don't attack when we outnumber our enemies in strength, and that goes the same for you now. If someone of my men do that and I find about it, I will personally exterminate him and his crew.

Do not tempt us. Do not underestimate us. And better yet, do not judge me or my men. You have a right to call us mad murderers, you have right to hunt us, you have right to kill us. You have right to do that. But you have no right to judge us. Because it's judgment that defeats us.

The revenge will be ours. You will pay for hunters, for my brave crew, my brave men who have fallen in Omicron Delta incident. Their names will be carved on the barrel of every turret, every mortar and every missile that will be shooting in your direction.

I have forseen this a long time ago, considering how much my actions were unfairly criticized during my career. Do your own thinking and you will come to a conclusion how much I am ahead of the curve.

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, commander of BHG BS "Apocalypse Now" and BHG BC "Apocalypse Now Redux"

[End of transmission]

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KURTZ, WALTER E., Col.