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Talking to Earth Sun, 25 March 2007 12:17
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Dear Earthlings,
judging on how things are going this might be our final call upon you to liberate your people and be the masters of your own destiny.

As you probably heard, the shooting has started in the north. The Martians attacked two of our colonizing missions, one of them over a shadow planet triggering the battle so that the Shadows who are allied with the Martians did the dirty work for them. More than 100.000 of our people and a new queen sent to establish a colony there died.

The other ship made a navigation error and got too close to the Martian HW, again trying to settle on a place to prevent if from falling into Shadow hands. Our navigator made an error in judging the distance because it was a last-minute rush-job, and we would have fired him if the Martians hadnīt done that job for us, literally unfortunately.

Weīd like to add that the 100 ly non-colonizing radius was a voluntary offer on our part a long time ago and we had offered to talk about all the other planets in the area between our HWs to settle things peacefully. The Martians never replied, reminding us of our former friends the Drakh in their stoic silence.

The planet they want us off now? We told them we were colonizing it, several years ago, and they never objected before. Also, their message to leave their space was sent *after* they had shot down our colonizer which was visible in space. They had our direct communication adress and could have warned it to turn back (which we had told them to do in the past if they didnīt like anything we were doing) instead of shooting it down and using it as an excuse to start a shooting war.

The really interesting bit: It happened right after we told them that we were intending to stay independant and masters of our own destiny and offered them full cooperation in case they wanted to do that as well. Next thing we know several of our ships get shot down and a fleet of 10 destoyers is gunning for the planet they could have objected to years earlier without any bloodshed.

We were able to repulse the destroyers, barely, using alpha torpedos which is closer to throwing rocks than it is to decent warfare but we are a peaceful people, so we had to use what was at hand.

A message sent to the Martians apologizing for the navigational error and again offering a chance to talk was never answered. We think weīll be killed quickly though, we have two shadow colonies right next door, the martians have a JOAT economy and getting fed shadow technology and range 3 shadow cruisers have already been spotted in the area with the martians ordering a gate planet to get an attack fleet there.

So far for the situation in the north... you might have noticed that we used the words "former friends" to characterize the Drakh, after long deliberations we took away that status because of their lack of communication and fruitless pursuit of skirmishing against you (at least we assume itīs still ongoing, we never really knew what was going on there) inspite of our repeated appeals to stop it and make peace with you.

Now, letīs talk about you... It has become very probable we think that you join the Vorlons as a so-called lightbringer. But before you make the final, irreversible commitment we wish to tell you a few things about them which you might not know otherwise. We hope that this might make you re-consider that choice, but we admit it is a very slim hope indeed.

You once told us that you wanted the Elders not to meddle in our affairs and not use us as pawns in their struggle. Well, it has come to our attention through our Queen of Secrets that the Vorlons are doing exactly that, instigating others to take up arms against the Centauri, weakened from a meteor strike on their secondary world. Calling upon them to fight as their proxy, fully realizing that this might be the doom of those people and making them the enemy of the Shadows forever.

Also, they are not as trustworthy as you might think. Hereīs some quotes:

Received almost 20 years ago when we asked them about their public offer of aid for younger races: "At this stage there is little we can do to prevent the hostilities of others but if you find yourself under attack from your neighbours let us know and we will contact them and let them know our displeasure - there should be order in the Universe. If you find yourself under prolonged attack we will supply you with weapons to defend yourself and send ships to enforce the peace."

This offer was repeated later on.

Well, we took them at their word and contacted them, along with our friends the Llort, to give us that promised aid when the Martians attacked us. We outlined the situation, calling for aid and hoping for weapn technology. We offered to use it to fight the Shadows and their minions, but only got the following reply:

"Greetings
Sadly at this point there is not a great deal I can do for you - I am already feeding tech to 5 races and cant afford to take much more away from my econ to help anyone. I didnt know that having someone set to friend meant you attacked if they did, this may have bad reprecussions for you.
May I suggest you look to others who may be part of the alliance for help? The Centauri and Martians are Shadow touched so only one other race should be under their sway (I am guessing either the Dilgar or Minbari).
You might get help from the Spoo or the Pac'ma'ra (they should at least have weap6 to give you)."

Very helpful, suggesting that we go against at least collodial armed cruisers with bear shields with yak armed destroyers. Of course this will be exactly what weīll be doing, if we even get Yak tech till then. As we said, we had to resort to alpha torps to shoot down the Martian invasion...

The Llort replied and told them that only unarmed QJ5 scouts were needed at the already established wolf-lamb sites (our scanners have picked them up and know that the Vorlon are feeding tech to 5 races already), but no reply ever came to that...

To summarize: They call upon others to attack younger races weakened by meteor strikes, promise aid which they decline for no valid reason, tell us to basically go into battle naked all the while professing to be the do-goody-two-shoes with their Light-Bringers. Well, call us underwhelmed.

If there is no aid forthcoming we might have to consider striking some form of bargain with the Shadows to prevent being wiped out. Weīd rather resist and fight for independance with the tools to do the job, but we wonīt give our lives fighting for a side if they canīt even bothered to invest in 5 measily scouts for us to give us a fighting chance.

Think about it before you commit. If you decide to stay independant, we can guarantee that the Drakh will stop harassing you or we will help you out against them, thatīs a promise.

We think that the true Vorlon meaning of "Lightbringer" is "Cannon-Fodder" in their private language. Decide if that is what you want to be...

Gaim Council of Hive Queens

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