The Unseen Freedom

[Eichann Rush]

Rush gazed out the viewport, his eyes sweeping across the rocks as he waited for something, anything to pop up.
He took a sip of his coffee and hitched his legs up on the console, reading from a ancient book on politics.
Before he had time to get through a paragraph, klaxons blared and an eerie red light bathed the bridge.
Rush straightened and silenced the alarm, shouting to his first mate, "Shamus, contact id?", even as he booted up his console.
The screen flickered on unwillingly, displaying the scanners readings.
BAF vessel, gunboat class, coming in with weapons hot.
Rush manipulated the controls, shouting orders to his officers and readying his ship for battle.
Today they would strike yet another blow at the Bretonian tyranny.
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~The Unseen Freedom, chapter five, page 15.

"When we say that we desire freedom, we do not mean rights. Freedom is not being told what you can do, it's not words on a page guranteeeing things to you. All these are simply another form of slavery, the slavery of the mind. True freedom is noone being able to tell you what to think or believe. For this reason, and this reason alone, any form of compromise with the BAF that does not remove the hated Essex is unacceptable. There can be peace in Dublin, for sure. But only when every trace of the Crown's tyranny has been erased and purged from our fair homeland."

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