INS Special Report: From: Vice Admiral Kraken of the New Order:
"I come to you today in response to ludicrous claims made by a ORS sympathizer. In regards to certain Imperial members slaughtering people with abandon, in comparison to the ORS Officers doing the same thing, let me point out two very important facts. Number one, actions comitted by one or more officers of an orginization does not mean that the entire orginization is corrupt. In this way, the Empire has been slandered. I am here to set the record straight. It is indeed the ORS, not the Empire, that is corrupt. Oh sure, maybe occainsinally an officer of the Empire would commit a terrible act, but, unlike the ORS, they are acting for the people, and not for themselves. The Officers of the ORS, on the other hand, kill only for their self-images, their pride, and their honor. Take into account one Admiral Griff, who has led a brutal campaign against the people of the faction known as Farfalen. His attack on their homeworld of Hargeeva has been brutal, with his quick destruction of their shipyards, killing many civilians, and the brutal blockade of their world, preventing many needed supplies found only offworld from reaching their citizens, resulting in the deaths of thousands of innocents. And his actions over the world of Kessel need attention, though he has lost more than seventy five percent of his fleet there, with the Farfalens losing only fifty percent of theirs, the ambitious dictator of an Admiral refuses to admit defeat in withdrawal. Again, a blockade style planetery occupation has ensued, again resulting in needless deaths of civilians. In both cases the ORS fleets look to be in bad shape, in both cases defeat seems immiment, in both cases withdrawal would look wise, but why do they persist? They know that withdrawaling means opening supply lines again, and allowing the much needed supplies that could only be found elsewhere back into their warehouses, thus saving the lives of many civilians, but why, why, do they not do this, why stay? The answer; Their pride, honor, and glory won't allow it. They refuse to see defeat. No matter what stands in their way, no matter how many innocents die, the ORS will never give in to reason. That is all." said Admiral Kraken.
I know of no "Sorra Bing" and she is not supported by the Sovereignty.
Thank you for pointing that out. You saved me some time.
Tell that to the dead of Alderaan.
The Empire you so unquestioningly serve, Kraken, has murdered billions, if not trillions. Where was the Empire when both cities started to fall? According to the reports I have received, hundreds of civilians from both cities were saved by ORS forces, not your vaunted Empire. Where was the Empire when they needed you the most?
The only honorable thing we have done today was to save the civilians of both cities. Whereas the Empire made no such efforts after the mercilessly obliterated Alderaan.
That is "President Griff" to you, sir. And Farfalen should never have attacked the peaceful world of Kessel. Their fault.
Not a shot was fired at the surface of Hargeeva, and you will note the Empire also has attacked planets and destroyed shipyards. You will also note that Farfalen has recently made an unsuccessful incursion into Imperial territory. Although not a shot was fired by both sides, I am told, it was the ORS honorable attempt at protecting Kessel that probably saved the Empress Teta system.
The attack on Hargeeva has ceased and it only lasted for a few hours. Please get accquainted with the details, sir.
Farfalen has made an unprovoked attack on the GC world of Kessel and many ORS soldiers dies defending it. I have found most of your writing amusing thus far but I will not tolerate you slandering the dead. You are obviously have no idea what happened and your intelligence is flawed. Has Imperial Intelligence become lax?
Farfalen has blockaded Kessel, not ORS. And we retreated at both encounters. The sorties have both beel resolved. Your intelligence is out of date. Fix it.
Who is this Admiral Kraken thing? I mean his claims are so out of date and by far annoying that I find I cannot stop laughing even as I write this. Sir, you need to watch the Holonet more, or take lessons in propaganda with Commodore Gevel, who actually knows something of it. I encourage you to write again, though, so thousands of ORS personel in their break rooms across the galaxy can continue to be amused. Good day to you sir.
The Empire was defending those cities against your murderous armies, Emperor Griff. They were protecting the citizens from the armies you sent against them, from the fighters you used to drop bombs on them, from the murderous gases you pumped into their enviorment.
The Empire was protecting the people of the cities you so gladly obliterated. But as were the citizens, the soldiers were caught off guard. Your can only claim to have "saved" the civilians because you knew in advance what was about to happen, and took steps to preserve your image as much as you could.
Unfortunately for you, Emperor Griff, that is not nearly enough. Your imeptitude in combat is rivalled only by your ineptitude in galactic politics.
Farfalen warships entered the Empress Teta system, yes. But as you said, they retreated without firing a shot. But it was not the ORS ships which were decimated before retreating from Kessel that stopped them, but the sheer force of will of the New Order.
Every citizen of the galaxy knows that, as they know that you are a liar and a murderer.
Breaking News! Security Recording Show Imperials caused Cloud City Massacre
*The screen shows a large reactor operating. A stormtrooper enters the picture and places a bomb on the reactor. The picture cuts to the same scene hours later when the bomb begins to blink. The bomb blows up destroying the holocamera.*
"This holo-recording recovered by Sovereignty Forces before the final destruction of Cloud City clearly shows that it was the Empire that caused what is beginning to be known as the Cloud City Massacre. There is no doubt that they also caused the Taloraan City Massacre. No doubt Regent Hyfe and grand Marshall Kaine believed that this would be the best way to defend their interests in the galaxy."
"Also government sources report that just before the explosions that marked the final minutes of Cloud City and Taloraan City there was also another explosion caused by the Empire. The Imperial Forces managed to pump both cities full of tibanna gas except the buildings where there forces were holed up. The tibanna gas reacted violently and killed and injured thousands of citizens, most of whom were still alive thanks to the mercy of Sovereignty Forces who refrained from bombarding both cities completely and killing thousands of non-combatants."
-Sovereignty News Service
OOC:Know I'm sure somebody will complain about how I didn't rp getting those pictures so heres a clue.
That was completely fake.
We had the blueprints. Knew what kind of cameras they had. And recronstructed a exactly perfect copy down to the last speck of dirt. We then blew it up. Can you prove it false?
Since they were in buildings and there's no way to determine time location etc. I'd say no.
The Empire was protecting the people of the cities you so gladly obliterated. But as were the citizens, the soldiers were caught off guard. Your can only claim to have "saved" the civilians because you knew in advance what was about to happen,
"..and took steps to preserve your image as much as you could."
Much as the imperials seem to be doing now.
"Unfortunately for you, Emperor Griff, that is not nearly enough. Your imeptitude in combat is rivalled only by your ineptitude in galactic politics."
Supposed ineptitude as stated by a leader of an opposing warring faction. The empire is not above propaganda of their own. Although ulike most free worlds they make it quite hard to substantiate their claims.
"Every citizen of the galaxy knows that, as they know that you are a liar and a murderer."
Every citizen in the galaxy knows that the Empire calls people that disagree with them liars and murderers. Just becuase a super power says that something is so that does not make it a true fact.
The empire of today is adept at confusing the facts and presenting lies that well keep them looking like they are justly and right. Even though every one in the universe also knows someone in imperial space that can state other wise since the take over of their space by the empire.
The truth. Such a frigile thing. Keep looking for the truth people that is all that we can ask of you in light of lies and propaganda.
<font size=4>Recordin proven false by panel A recently released holorecording from the ill-fated Cloud City is faked, experts say</font>
Earlier today, INS brought to you the tragic story of the destruction of Cloud City and Taloraan City at the hands of the Outer Rim Sovereignity.
Following this release, the ORS has released 'footage' from the Cloud City event. A report from a panel investigating the released their own report, discrediting the authenticity of the tape.
"Aside from the most obvious fallacy," the report says, "the tape released by the ORS contains several prominent holes. There is no proof presented that the reactor in question is even based on Cloud City, and the unit itself is far to small to power the massive floating city (the Cloud City Reactor was a Supernova XP-55, one of the largest commercial reactors available and generally reserved for super starliners)."
The panel goes on to say that the proportions of the room are all wrong for the Cloud City location, and notes that any Stormtrooper who was within a hundred meters of an unshielded reactor would die instantly of radioactive poisioning.
There was also mention that the entire occurance was simply to convient, and question as to how the ORS managed to salvage footage from a destroyed holocamera before the city disintigrated entirely.
The lead investigator of the panel, Dr. Simon Hausfeld, says that "governments are often seen to falsify evidence in order to appease their people. This is nothing new."
The full text of the report will be available on the public market within a week.
This recent footage, fabricated and released by the Outer-rim Sovereignty, is one of the most poorly-conceived pieces of mindless propaganda in history. It's difficult to believe that any group of human beings can be so mind-numbingly inept.
The very core of the Sovereignty's story is flawed. Clearly, these pictures would have been filmed right up until the very last moments of Cloud City's reactor, at which time the invading forces had not breached the perimeter of the city's command and control bunker. Shortly after the explosion of the reactors, the situation was repeatedly announced. How did the Sovereignty, then, acquire these tapes? While they were doing "everything in their power to save the populace"? Or while they were scrambling onto their ships, desparately trying to flee the station?
Then, there is the matter of the existence of these holograms. If any commander were to order the commission of this sort of heinous crime, why would he allow footage of it to be made? Why would he allow it to be kept? Why would he leave it intact and accessible to others? This simply makes no sense. It would have taken a single button press to shut that camera off.
I believe that the people of this galaxy will find, as I do, that footage all too convenient. It is what earlier INS releases have already labeled it; an utter fabrication. I will remind the people of the Empire and the galaxy that it was the INS who brought the first footage of these terrible events to the public eye.
The Sovereignty has now compounded a viciously evil act with a tremendous lie.
I would suggest that next time you get a panel of experts you hire some people who actually know something. That is a Supernova XP-55, that is the right proportions considering it's the same room and no the stormtrooper wouldn't die instantaneously. Yes they would receive a lethal radiation dosage. However it wouldn't be the first time a stormtrooper has sacrificed himself for your dear empire.
Commodore Gevel,
The Empire obviously in that case has little sense in a large number of it's officers. Vice-Admiral Kraken's little bit of fantasy is excellent proof of that.
Informing the terrorists that they are wrong, it seems, will never go out of style.
Vice-President Meer. A panel of experts from a dozen worlds have inspected the tape your government fabricated and produced hundreds of flaws in it. The reactor in the recording is far to small to power Cloud City, the room is far smaller than Cloud City's reactor chamber was, and the room itself could not be entered by any Stormtrooper.
And as Commodore Geven pointed out, why would the Empire let such footage exist?
Your money is wasted, Vice'President, as are your words. The people of the ORS are not as stupid as the VP that governs them.
