Xeno Alliance communications (iRP) (FO)

[Dusty Lens]

I feel that there has been, historically, some confusion even amongst our own ranks as to why it is that we maintain hostilities with the Junkers. Some of the younger members ask why it is that all of our base goods need be purchased at terrible cost from the Zoners when there's a Junker base right around the corner, waiting to make deliveries.

The truth is that the Junkers encompass virtually everything that we're against as a movement and as a people. Their willingness to do business lays entirely in their desire to escape our wrath, to avoid yet another entanglement as they continue their works of profiteering at the cost of Liberty's people and health.

The Junker's surface motives of being scrap movers is vastly overshadowed by their practices of providing aid and succor to the pirate fleets of Sirius, their enthusiastic desires to move poisons to the populations of our worlds for their own profit... Their lack of utter revulsion in the practice of brokering in human lives.

Slavery, profiteering and corruption are at the very heart of what the Junkers are. They're not Libertonian, they're not "working class people trying to get by". They are thieves, smugglers and enablers for those who feed on the darkest desires of humanities' soul.

I would sooner lay dying in my ship before taking a breath of Junker provided oxygen, knowing that breath was tainted with the sorrow they have tirelessly worked to spread for a credit.

-David Chambers, memoirs of a Knight of Labor.