SCRA Communications Centre

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[font=Garamond][color=#33CC00]To: All SCRA Assets
Comm. ID: Captain Ricardo Alvarez
Priority: Medium
Subject: Freeport 9

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Salud, Comradas!

I have some dire news, the Zoners have detonated the biodomes at Freeport 9, the principal source of food for the Corsairs. While many of you may celibrate at the idea of starvation again gripping Crete, I tell you Hermanos, it will not be a pretty picture.

I lived through the starvation time, I saw bands of starving youths roaming the street kidnapping and dragging off the infirm and the weak, headed for cookpots... The stink of cooking flesh...

Starvation plays into the hands of the Cretian Elders, who will use this hardship to their advantage. Control of the food means control of the people, si? I remember when the first food shipments arrived off of Zoner ships, the Elders confiscating the shipments, labeling them with their own names and redistributing it as if they had, by some kind of magic, produced the food from thin air.

They will use the images of starving children and the spectre of Cannibalism as political weapons, blaming the woes they have brought upon their own people upon others. And it is a powerful image, hermanos.

Starvation makes men locco, it makes them desperate... and desperate people with ships and guns that are powerful... and flushed from victory over the Zoners... they will come, mi Amigos, in a great horde of Locusts... and we all know where they go, Mi Hermanos. They will head straight for Gran Canaria... and see how far they can drive the Zoners back.

This is not the end of the war, Comradas, this is just the beginning, and with the resolve of our allies crumbling and giving ground so readily... our enemies and their Elder masters, will only grow stronger.

For the Revolucion, mi comradas, we need to trust in Katz!

Alvarez out!

El Coyote

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