"Duchess Ngo, you have killed Galaxy Commander Icaza, and several of our officers with your...
...cowardly weapon."
Elizabeth leaned back in the RTO Station of the U-One.
"Oh? that's nice." she said, "Are you guys going to do the smart thing then, and go home?"
"The whole purpose of Operation Revival is to return to our HOME!!"
"Kowloon has never been the home of the STar League Defense force, Colonel...it's Roshak, right? This system was NEVER your home. If you need directions to Old Earth, I'm sure we can hook you up, and you can go there, instead."
"Kowloon was a member world of-"
"Wir erinnern uns an das Abschlachten von Dinh Diep." she said grimly, "The scar should be visible even from that distance, Colonel Roshak. Did you think we'd forgotten the SLDF's support of Amaris in 2729? that we haven't been planning to prevent a re-occurance?" she spat, "Three hundred thirty nine years is not enough time to forget what happens when an SLDF battleship comes to orbit seeking to 'restore an order'. Go home, or go back to your mission and retake old Earth and the Sol system, we are not on your route, Außenseiter."
There was silence on the channel, and then, "Warriors have died without honorable battle, we are going to liberate you from the traitor lords and restore the Star League. This could have gone so much more easily for you if you had not chosen such a dezgra tactic."
"It would have gone easier for you, the Inheritors of the Star League Defense Force, if you had come as friends instead of conquerors." she spat back, "but you came as thieves, not family, which I guess is in keeping with your oathbreaker ancestors, but let me explain to you what you were too stupid to understand." she flushed in anger she rarely admitted to feeling anymore. "Your ancestors were practically worshipped by most of the human race! a promised return to make right what they did wrong! Had you come as friends you would have been welcomed as good news, but you chose to come on a carpet of blood, behind a wall of secrecy and silence, to take by force what those fools on Tharkad would have given you freely! Let me be clear for you, Colonel Nathan Roshak; Your ancestors in their perfidy guaranteed three centuries of blood soaked apocalypse, trillions dead, worlds annihilated in endless war, war with out end, without rules, without decency. The desertion by the SLDF guaranteed it would happen and you, their inheritors, have repudiated the debts left by your ancestors and demonstrated their Perfidy! We will not submit, Nathan Roshak, and you have given no reason to forgive the betrayal of MY PEOPLE by Kerensky and his Deserters!!"
she was shaking, and smelled cinammon and sweat. not now.
"So I take it a face to face meeting is out of the question until you have been subdued."
"We will fight you in the orbitals, we will fight in the atmosphere, we will fight on the waves and in the streets and the hills, in the forests and the deserts, we will fight you in the wastelands and in the rocky glades, Colonel, we will never, ever, surrender again. Go home. MY people know the price of submission, what it means to be conquered, and we have pledged one and all, 'Never Again'."
