GalNet: General Snider Warns; Ultimatum Ends
03 May 2021Rho Tefnutet
In the most unexpected moment, General Maite Snider decided to open the official broadcast to President Zachary Hudson and Federal Navy: "Federal forces. We are warning you from the intervention without any legal basis. It is one thing when you are dealing with internal affairs, but it is a wholly other thing when your megaship gets deployed into the system you do not control. We may dislike you and Empire, but deployment of FNS Harmony’s Shield in Paresa is clear attempt of many centuries-old external pressure in order to achieve your goals. You no longer act in order to defend your own citizens, but you are acting against galactic peace and only to indulge the warmongering of President Hudson, using NMLA as excuse to extend your domination in never-ending rivality with the Empire."
"New Republic will stand in opposition to making anyone scapegoat, because that is both what Federation and Empire have always done ever since we reached stars. However, this ends now. We demand removal of FNS Harmony’s Shield from Paresa system, because not only you act against interstellar laws of maritime, but also try to ignite conflict with the Empire. Conflict, which may be yet another excuse to oppress the independent citizens and enforce your own sick corporate rule over systems which you take as if they already belonged to Federation."
"We accepted the Federal ploys in order to oppress the systems that did not belong to them while spreading lies about democracy they offer - spreading them with gunpowder and bayonets, through terror and 5th columns created as proxy agents who topple entire government. Time for looking at Federation's actions through fingers ends now. We request independents to stand against the oppression of the superpowers such as Federation, which would do everything in order to gain control over independent systems. We ask the independent galactic community to stand against oppression of the Federation. It is about time to introduce true, unshaken liberty - and justice to the wrongdoers!"
The official statement on the open broadcast coincided with movements of the New Republican Navy. The heavy fleet initially mooring around Draguan Nu 6 moved into the far-most edges of the system, likely in order to execute a mass jump without leaving easily-reachable wake signals should the order to do so be given.