OBT Forum

"She would apologize if in error, as would any person of honor."

"But speaking of errors Ambassador Holstein, my predecessor mentioned a promise you made during the first Council that I only now have remembered. Did you not promise the members of ORCA to use your nation's vast intelligence apparatus to track down the raiders currently plaguing their borders? I remember veiled insinuations towards ComStar among others, but no real answers were forthcoming. While I'm sure knowledge of the pirates would help ORCA immensely, it would also help the Dragon as well. Is that why you've withheld the information, because assisting the Dragon chafes more than leaving a promise unfulfilled?"

"Does the LIC lack the skill or, dare I say it, the intelligence to supply the necessary information?"

 

Actually Tai-sa, it is more that the Dragon does not accept information offered.

The Lyran Commonwealth has been very cooperative to the nations of ORCA in terms of pirate information.  In specific, they have provided intelligence on pirate activity to compare with our own on an ongoing basis, as well they have contributed 4 experienced mech regiments and 1 full aerospace wing to a highly successful and lengthy joint operation with the Oberon Confederation Armed Forces, that has recently concluded significant anti-pirate operations in the Coreward / Antispinward Periphery.  When offered a similar arrangement, the DCMS are still thinking about offering 1 training regiment of cadets maybe by the beginning of next year?  So tell me Tai-sa, who puts more effort into dealing with the protection of their people from piracy, someone who actively hunts down pirates, or someone who thinks maybe one day soon they should send green as Luthien grass kids out chasing blood thirsty cut throats?

The Oberon Confederation has on numerous occassions offered the Draconis Combine information on Pirate activities, and these have not once been accepted.  In many cases the people of the Kirchbach region of the Rasalhague Military District were victimized and brutalized by the Dragon's complete disregard for their safety and protection with respect to pirate actions that should have easily been dealt with by the DCMS.  So Tai-sa, it is not that anyone has withheld information, it is that the Dragon or the DCMS, to use your exact words "lacks the skill, or dare I say it, the intelligence" to accept it, or even work with it when it is freely given in the hopes the DCMS could prevent further bloodshed in the region(which, for the record, they did not).

Turning to the Kuritan ambassador

I must confess that the Lyran Commonwealth provided us with intelligence on pirate bands and that their intel combined with ours was of great help.

Tai-sa, perhaps you should spend a little more time reading the briefing notes, before you jump to rattle your sword.

The Oberon Confederation and ORCA have from the moment this event began to transpire earlier this month, been working along with both Governments to provide a solution, including providing peacekeeping forces if required.  The two worlds rebelled against the Circinus Federation to join the Lyran Commonwealth, you seem to have missed that point.  The Lyrans have agreed to remove their forces and make appropriate repairations to the Circinus Federation, however due to the timing involved and the misunderstanding we just finished talking about, diplomacy did not have the time needed to achieve a peaceful resolution.

Considering that the Dragon has only just recently heard of the peacefully concluded results of Andrion, I find it quite humorous that you are claiming that lives could have been saved by positioning a shield between the Circinian people and Lyran Guns in a rebellious event that only developed in the last few weeks.  It is a miracle that Comstar has been able to keep up with the flurry of HPG messages going around to all parties over the last few days.  Is it the Dragon's policy to now position shields between random periphery worlds and other Inner Sphere house troops unasked for and often unwelcome?  The DCMS must be quite large and ominscient indeed to take on such an auspicious task.

And Tai-sa, the people of the Kirchbach who have been victimized by the raiding of one certain pirate band can sleep easier at night now, as I have heard reports that the OCAF has managed to catch up with and cripple the band as well as eliminated their base of operations, in a few short months.  You might remember that this is the very same band that grew from a green unit of 120 light mechs and 40 medium fighters to an elite band of 178 medium and 100 medium fighters, on the blood and broken backs of the people of places like Rodigo, Bruben, Verthandi, and New Caledonia.  What the DCMS "warmongering death machine" failed to do in years, the OCAF managed to do in a few short months.  But then again, the OCAF focus on killing pirates, not chasing old lines on old maps with the blood of young men.

The Marian ambassador snorts to himself.

It is interesting to see the so-called Great Houses bicker over two small worlds like they were the keys to the kingdom itself.  I find it amusing that you can't even agree as something as simple as peacekeepers.  How any of your noble lines plan to rule known space is quite beyond me.

"Jade preforms a Draconian Salute, takes three steps back turns and walks back to the Ambassador.  She bends and whispers to him and heads to the Chamber doors.   "I will be returning shortly!" Bows to the Presentor. Turns and walks out head high and silent.