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Greetings from Candace Liao, Chancellor of the Capellan Confederation.

     There is no need to justify our war with the Federated Suns.  We have been at war since the fall of the Star League.  The Davion Princes have taken dozens of worlds from us in that time.  We are now taking them back and once those worlds are recovered we will end this war.

     We have no desire to take worlds that were not originally ours.  Since the Federated Suns won't just give those worlds back to us we will take them by force of arms just as they took them from us.  You may argue who is right and wrong but once we have the worlds they took from us we are willing to end this war and establish a permanent peace.

Ah, already the posturing begins. 

Try honesty my misguided Inner Sphere friends.  We of the Marian Hegemony took Niops and other worlds, why? Because we wished for more power. It is a simple as that.  We were defeated eventually , due the arrogance of the then current Caesar, and recognised a greater power and better avenue for gaining it, alliance with our Periphery brothers.

The Capellans hate the Davions and vice versa.  You fight because you hate and desire the glorification of your own names over those of your ancient foes.

Any other justifications are little more than rambling falsehoods.

My name is Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, ambassador for the Taurian Concordat

As he speaks, a limping man in good quality clothes gets down the stairs.

I am afraid that the firestorm in which the Inner Sphere has turned let free reign to another thread: pirates.
All our States have been hit by them and they seem to get stronger and stronger with each passing day.

The real question is: can we work together to find a solution to this problem that plagues our States and endanger our citizens?

Tiberius Saul, as haughty and self righteous as ever, bows to the Taurian.

As always, Ambassador, your as wise as you are cultivated, a true example for others to follow.

I agree that the Pirates scourge is now worse then ever before.  The Hegemony, descending for such scum and now a respected realm, knows first hand what these pirates do, from our own past actions and now by these villains actions on our worlds.

In order to demonstrate our dedication to this issue and our good faith towards our Periphery brothers and sisters, the Caesar has directed me to inform you that Legio VI - Niopus Secondus, will hereby be attached to the inter-realm Periphery Guards as the Hegemonies contribution to any campaign against the pirates and answer directly to the ORCA-JPC.

Will any other realm, not yet committed, match our noble contribution?

Fellow ambassadors,

The Oberon Confederation sends it's greetings and it's hopes that this conclave will produce a forum that all nations Great House and Periphery Power alike will be able to communicate freely with progressive and productive discussions.

That the first words spoken by the Capellan Ambassador are defiantly claiming that they do not need to justify launching an invasion to reclaim worlds long lost, and do not refer to the full scope of the current conflict where the Kapteyn Alliance has launched attacks all across the Inner Sphere is quite telling.  If the purpose of this so called "pre-emptive" strike is the return of worlds originally claimed by the great houses, I fear many of your Alliance's Troops are going in the wrong direction.

The official justification of the launch of war has been published as, after removing the rhetoric, I quote "Firstly, ... Houses of Davion and Steiner, ... have been massing forces of war on the Concord’s borders, ... ." and "Secondly,... we will endeavor to free those we encounter ... from ... the ... Steiner and Davion families ...."

One could point out that in order to launch any such pre-emptive strike, the Concord would have had to mass their own forces of war on the border.  As well, the shear volume of increased raiding over the past few years by all of the Great Houses is another cause for defensive types of forces to be placed such as to limit a neighbor's pilfering attempts.

The Oberon Confederation is quite unclear as to the validity of this justification of the initiation of this conflict, and this body would be very interested to hear that this is not a completely unfounded and unjustifiable aggressive action against another sovereign state.  Recently we have been reveiwing the standard Principles of a Just War, and find the Concord's actions very contrary to these standards.  We await the entire Concord's explanations.

In terms of the pirate threat to the entire civilized world, the Oberon Confederation is well aware of the danger of rampant piracy, and we will continue to actively ensure the security of our peoples.

Ambassador Simon Kosh sits down from his podium.  In appearance he is a sharply dressed man, with a slim band of very grey hair remaining around his temples and a cropped short chin strap style of goatee would almost make him look quite distinguished, until one takes in his black eyepatch covering one of his sharp blue eyes.  One could almost imagine that Simon is what one of those ancient seafaring pirates would look like if he was all cleaned up and dressed for modern high society, missing the parrot on his shoulder of course.

If this is true, it places a grave shadow across the operations of the Order, unless of course this material was supplied under direct contract.  If so, cannot other nations have access to such materials?

With consideration to:
-the current state of conflict between the Kapteyn Alliance and the Federated Commonwealth Alliance,
-the supply of these war materials to only one side,
-the curious origins of this volume of war materials,
-the lack of follow through on even simpler promises by Comstar of "Economic incentives"
-the lack of significant trade fleets to the other nationsor even
-the deployment of the essential services of HPG communcation stations to the periphery nations who have sought to end the periphery conflicts of recent years.
One can only speculate on the motives and operations of the Order.

Perhaps the Comstar Ambassador would care to address these issues?

Simon once again sits down refering to his datapad.