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=Chapter 4=
==Silent enim inter arma: Tribunals==
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"...orbital scans showed numerous cratering events on the surface, including partial destruction of the Republican Guard base outside Nha Tranh.  The impacts are consistent with the use of heavy orbital bombardment weapons or possibly asteroid strikes.  Contact with the surface indicates the Rim Worlds Administrators have forted up in the outskirts of Hue, and are being contained by pickets of rebel troops.  I took the liberty of contacting the apparent rebel leadership.  Apparently while we were in transit here. They were staging a revolution and this time they've succeeded.  We'll have to get more details once we've established a rapport, but this should free up the 331st to move on the next objective."
-General Aaron DeChevalier, aboard SLS Tuscon, 2769
"We threw rocks."
-Commander Anh Cu'ong159,
Kowloon Coast Guard Navy, 2769 (responding to SLDF inquiries on the destruction of two Rim Worlds military garrisons on Kowloon the previous year.)
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota
North America, Terra 
Sol Star System
Former Word of Blake Protectorate
3078
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...it is actually consistent with Kowloonese history and tactics."  Star Captain (Commodore) Leanne Foster noted.  "It's not even their first time doing it like this, you know."
"What, orbital bombardment, or kinetic weapons? The Lyrans are not known for this."  Star Captain Randolph Tseng asked, intrigued.
"The Lyrans are not what makes up most of the Lyran Navy brass." the Snow Raven officer said, as a local labo-local waitress filled her coffee up in the diner's main room.  "Liz Ngo built that navy, and she used Kowloonese to do it.  Peter Steiner-Davion owns the service, but they are her people.  My ancestor was DeChevalier's taxi-driver on the Tuscon early in the war against the usurper. They were the ship that made first contact with Kowloon after things kicked off."
She sipped her coffee.
Her companion, a large man of Elemental breed dressed in Ghost Bear uniform, paused with his fork over a plate of pancakes smothered in syrup and strawberries.  "Really? What did they use?"
"Rocks." she said, "The Kowloonese-their 'spacer' cousins in the outer system, dropped rocks on the planet to break the Rim Worlds military's ability to control the situation, break the Republican Guard bases, and disrupt the commo long enough for their ground-side insurgency to win the war there."  she took a packet of sweetener, tore it open and stirred it into the coffee.  "So they orbital bombarded themselves to get rid of a hated enemy."
"So it is NOT their first time." he nodded.  "I got my chit, Leanne.  I am to be seated on the Tribunal."
"Sucks to be you." she said.
"Excuse me?" Randolph questioned
"Well, you know...Elbar." she said. "You will have to pass judgement on a descendant of the Elbar campaign."
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