Shortly after one of our former brothers in Pyre joined the Akagi Initiative, currently under contract with the Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive, his former CEO Taisho Xun Yu of Sanxing [SANXI] attempted to exert diplomatic pressure on Akagi Initiative to fire said pilot, citing alleged earlier crimes against Sanxing security forces.

Considering this to be an intolerable breach of this pilot's honor and right to self-determination over the trivial matter of a small number of baseliner deaths, and preferring not to exert counter-pressure on respectable entities like I-RED or Akagi, we decided instead to reduce the credibility and potential impact of Sanxing sanctions by complete destruction of any and all of their in-space assets within our reach.

Are you speaking these accusations in any kind of official capacity for SFRIM?

It would be appreciated if I-RED was kept out of this accusation Mister Schmidt, as we are not aligned with the Monyusaiya Industry Trade Group, and were not in any way a part of their original war declaration. Their decision to go to war so was their own.

We will not speak on behalf of Akagi's decision for their actions, as they are employed by us through a contract and they have their own decisions that they make.

I-RED has it's own reasons for the war that have been communicated to the effected party itself and no outside parties, as it should be.

Mr. Schmidt, your answer to Ms. North's question depends upon whether or not we give you the time of day, I humbly ask you answer it.

You are free to judge others on this public forum, I only ask you make educated judgements rather then assumptions. Ishukone-Raata is content to keep the matter between us and Sanxing as it should be.

This will be our last communique on the matter at this time. Rikaato.

Lavius-haan, while you may have been informed on the matter it is clear you're missing key information. Ishukone-Raata was given an ultimatum to complete within a remarkably short time period, diplomacy was our strategy and still is. Other actors drew blades for their own purposes, we drew ours for our own.

For the record, Sanxing had no intention of using violence against Akagi/I-RED.
Our "unacceptable ultimatum": dismiss the disputed individual from the shelter of Akagi/I-RED within seven days. Our measured and civilized idea of consequences: public release of the details of what the individual did and no possibility of positive relations with I-RED in the future. (By now people can piece together from this thread what was done and by whom anyway.)

Why should we have waited to see what Sanxing considered to be "appropriate" consequences after a threat was made?

If someone threatens unspecified revenge and you have the opportunity to remove the threat, why wouldn't you?

You're the only person using the word eviction here. Does PL call it an Invasion every time they want a fight with another group?

We need no further justification.

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That is all the justification we need.