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[Margrave]

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Not the Iconian Exotica Snuff Powder, the Desert Firewines of Istakhr nor even the controversial and unimaginably expensive Stigmatian Ground Squirrel Steak (Exquisite by the way) could ease the Caliphs troubled mind. Atrocity, war, now even assassins preyed upon the normally jubilant mood of the Lord of the al-Malik. Worries of Symbiots stalking the wilds of Cadavus, battles raging on the Decados/Li-Halan border worlds...

Pancreator above! Would there be no end to the crisis that now faced the Imperium?

Would the Emir al-Din now be in danger on Byzantium Secundus? He may not have been a particularly likeable or intelligent fellow, but he was still family. So much at risk even if it seems so far away. One thing was for certain, the Galactic Peace was over.

[Il Palazzo]

I take it the "war" between Hawkwood and al-Malik is but a rumour stemming from badly publicised economic exchange or something?

[Margrave]

Yes, lets just say the Grailian(or Grailers or Grailkind or Cupholder my personal favorite) News Networks have very little to broadcast, a simple land transaction between businessmen led to a minor dispute between a miner and a farmer, wherein the  miner threw a pebble at the farmers favorite cow. Naturally police from all over the World appeared and settled the altercation. There is no war between historic friends al-Malik and Hawkwood.

[mainiac]

I guarantee passage of transports to Cadavus

Never did I say that the Fleet's presence was meant to protect anyone, and never did I say attacks against transports would be forbidden.

What the hell, man.  What the hell?

[mainiac]

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Given the exceptional events we have seen on Cadavus I would ask that control of the Fleet be returned to house Li Halan.  Recall that we were the ones who made the call for the fleet to be placed in neutral hands to defuse the situation.  This has proven to be a mistake.  The neutrality of the fleet has merely escalated the situation further by allowing for the assassination of Battlemaster Yi Tang.  This man would never would have been placed into a defenseless position were it not for the assurance of safety that the fleet commander gave.  We can only be safe so long as transgressors are punished.  Given the fleet, Li Halan will deliver that punishment and do no more with it.

With control of the fleet Li Halan will be able to enforce the same peace with honor and without greed that we have called for since the start of this whole damnable affair.  The guilty parties can be removed and control of house Decados can pass to someone not tainted by this affair, such as the Lady Lilith.

[Kebooo]

Surely no noble family could support such a reckless idea.

Would a Li Halan commander have bombarded my cities with the fleet? How else could they have protected their transports? Because my star bases would either have been on the ground or in the skies, they had nowhere else to go. If the threat of destruction forced them to the ground, they could still have destroyed the transports regardless of what any fleet commander did. It was house Li Halan that was too cowardly to leave the relics in the war zones where they belonged. My people would not hide in the skies from judgment. And so it was with a great blessing the Pancreator gave my people a chance to strike a blow to the sinners of house Li Halan, those that would war with the church, those that would use the fleet to pave a way for their colonization of symbiot worlds, those that would threaten a freighter with annihilation over lands they never set foot on, those that would try to joint occupy a world with a house they had open hostilities with, and those that would bring assassins to the throne world itself. Now they wish to use the fleet to their personal advantage? That is madness.

[Il Palazzo]

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[mainiac]

Once again Keboo speaks of the irrelevant, I spoke of retribution for his acts, not prevention.
And no there is no madness, his acts are henious and should be punished.  It's pretty simple.

[Il Palazzo]

You're not exactly in a position to act holier-than-thou, considering your recent conduct.

[mainiac]

You're not exactly in a position to act holier-than-thou, considering your recent conduct.

My retaliation you mean?

I'm calling for control of the fleet because the fleet was explicitly promised to protect shipping to Cadavus.  Keboo can not break imperial law and then start singing the song of peace, insisting that we should get along.  He showed that he had the utmost scorn for imperial law.  When he showed this scorn he was no longer deserving of protection.

As an alternative to the fleet I'd be willing to accept Keboo making appropriate reparations and sending the Lady Gorakhan to be a prisoner on Kish.  Life is better then she deserves but we could tolerate her, just barely, as a prisoner.  We would promise never to execute her without the consent of a majority of the five houses, Decados included.  But if the imperial law will not give us retribution we should be given control of the fleet that was, for better or worse, committed to that cause.

[Il Palazzo]

So now you out-scorned him. Good job.

[Kebooo]

Imperial law? Forgive us for questioning why an edict of one house is now considered imperial law. Is Lord Aqizzar the emperor, or the regent? I used conventional weapons that were part of a war. There was no law stating that my ships cannot attack yours. The edict specifically said armed ships were not allowed, yet yours were allowed through. And there are laws preventing combat on Byzantium II. Your assassins skirted these laws. You also were the first to spill noble blood of any house. Let no royalty ever forget that.

And you also are breaking church law at the same time. How could any believe you fit to ever rule a ministry again?

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[mainiac]

I'm shocked, shocked to hear that Decados thinks Decados shouldn't be punished.

[Kebooo]

What do you wish, for the extinction of my house? 60% of my family has been wiped out by yours hands. You lost relics that no other house had in the first place, relics that gave you complete military dominance over the known worlds, while I now claim the smallest royal family. My people can no longer vote in this election and obviously not the next. Is that not enough to appease your blood thirst? We have lost many ships too, resources and good men. What punishment are we fit for? We have no military ships at Cadavus now, while you do. You wish the fleet to aid your invasion of a planet you do not belong on? A planet I sacrificed my siblings to try to hold, one you only care for to ensure you have uninterrupted travel to the worlds you greedily grabbed in the name of a "crusade" while the church crusades on your own lands.

[mainiac]

How sad that the family members you committed to the front lines needlessly cast their lives away.  Maybe you shouldn't have put them right on the front lines or started this pointless war of choice.

I gave you chance after chance to end this war.  Do you expect to find empathy in my heart?  I tried to make peace, I tried over and over again.  You spat in my face and then made the ultimate betrayal.  You chose this path.