The Rebel Faction

Viryn Quell seems to be making some very broad assumptions. Not only are you assuming that I would be so sore as to attempt murder, but you also attempt to degrade and insult not only me, but our government as a hole.

I'd say I was impressed with your attempts to critize and keep from portarying yourself as a biased and utterly unworthy man, but I do my best not to lie.

Believe what you will, but the GDI does not condone murder. I support freedom of speach, and would not attempt to destroy it, but there are some not nearly as liberal as me.

You, naturally, jumped to conclusions about my threatening you. I can't blame you, but try to keep an open mind.

After all, you may not like it, but what I say is true.

Obviously, you can't. If you were able to divine what I am saying you would see the truth. Maybe you are to blinded by your own hatred of your betters, or maybe you have some other crippling emotional problem I do not know of.

What the GDI does, and what I do, is for the betterment of this galaxy. The way you see it, frankly, doesn't matter to me. Unlike others, the leaders you so love to insult and degrade, you have no sense of what is right.

You see peace as a neccessity, as most do. You fail to see, however, that to atain peace war is invetable.

Rather than try and take an active role to make or keep peace, you simply insult those who strive to atain that peace.

Rather than help the galaxy, you must litter it with your insults directed at those who have worked for years for peace.

If you're such an advocate of peace, then do something about it. Instead of yelling about how the Force is a cult and everyone is corrupt, strive to attain peace.

After all, you say its what you want, don't you?

"Striving to attain peace", my very narrow-sighted friend, is precisely what I am doing. Simply because I do not have a gun in my hand doesn't mean I am being complacent. Being a voice of an oft-trod upon people in a time when everyone refuses to listen is as worthy a cause -- if not more so -- than any war you wage. People who have spoken softly have been rolled over again and again by you who refuse to listen; so it's time for me to, yes, shout. Perhaps then the message will resound home.

I'm not quite sure how you, Gash Jiren, Daemon Hyfe, and Chadd Fearsons bitterly scrapping for territory is bringing the galaxy peace, nor am I sure how you throwing your loyalty out to anyone and everyone you see is instilling harmony in everyone.

And what you perhaps forget is that I have every right in the galaxy to insult you, your government, your fleet, and your pets, while you have absolutely no right to threaten me. This is what the press does, and we have been an effective instrument of positive change and informing of the people well back into early human history, and that of most sentient races. I'm sorry if I interpreted "Careful, Viryn. If you don't learn to keep your mouth, or pen, silent, you may find yourself on the wrong end of a blaster" as a threat; perhaps it was a love message written in code, or a warning about the coming apocalypse. Perhaps if I take the first letter of each word...

And I'll say it again; simply because I am not building a fleet and killing people doesn't mean I'm somehow sitting at home, drinking Corellian Ale and not giving a shit. Perhaps if you actually read what I wrote you wouldn't be so quick to judge; I've had enough of you and others tossing about fleets as quickly as a foam rubber ball, with no sign of remorse.

I could, quite easily, get myself elected on a planet as the president, begin amassing a fleet, and join this glorious conquest for peace. I'm quite popular among the general populace who have read my work, and I have three degrees from the Caridian Military College in Basic, Politics, and history. Or I could just accept the job offers I recieve every day.

Here are some reasons I don't.

Every time you destroy a Carrack Cruiser, 1,000 people die.

Every time you destroy an Interdictor Cruiser, 2,000 people die.

Every time you destroy a Victory Star Destroyer, 5,000 people die.

Every time you destroy a Dreadnaught, 16,000 people die.

Every time you destroy an Imperial Star Destroyer, 36,000 people die.

Every time you destroy a Super Star Destroyer, 280,000 people die.

Every time you destroy an Eclipse Star Destroyer, 850,000 people die.

And that Death Star everyone banged their drums about destroying? Somewhere around 1,204,075 people died on it. And not just Rogue Empire personell, but diplomatic missions onboard.

Given that I am "filling the galaxy with insults", while you and your allies are filling the galaxy with millions of dead bodies, I'd say I'm doing a better job.

-Viryn Quell,
Freelance Author

Mr. Isstal. Perhaps you don't quite understand this concept. Perhaps you choose not to.

This is not about me. There are a trillion trillion members of the press in the galaxy, many of them writing just as negative articles as mine. Simply because you choose to notice and threaten me does not make this about me, my life, or my intentions. If you want to learn about me, turn on VNN. I'm sure they'll be airing my interview with Victor Barrell at all hours.

The purpose of the press -- of which you are not and have never been a part -- is to draw attention to the actions of those in power, those who matter to the people. You are one of these people. I have drawn negative attention to you, because I -- and many, many others -- disapprove of you and your actions. Because I am a member of the press, I am entitled and, indeed, obliged to do this. If you would prefer I sugar-coat the truth, to pretend the galaxy is just filled with love and esteem for you, well, you're up shit's creek, aren't you?

Attempting to draw the attention away from the story and towards the person writing it is not only tactless and naive, but it lends force to my case that you are unfit to lead a band of dead Wookiees down a Coruscant garbage shaft, never mind an empire.

Welcome to the real world, Mr. Isstal. Not everyone loves you, and most especially not the press. The press can and will criticise you at every available opportunity. If you refuse to refute the facts, and instead attempt to put your own stupidity on ready display by shouting "But, but, Viryn Quell is ugly and mean!", that's your choice. But try to do it out of the public eye, where you are steadily making yourself appear more and more inept.

You are a warmonger who has been rooting for the Juutralian Empire to turn down the Empire's terms of surrender since day one, so that you can leap in and buy more territory with sentient lives. You are an oppressive warmonger who has threatened a member of the press in an attempt to deny free speach. And you are unversed in how a government is supposed to react to the press.

These are facts, and you have not attempted to argue that any of them are any less true. And, regardless of whether you think I am mean, ugly, stupid, tactless, wasteful, ignorant, loud, boastful, boisterous, or insulting, the people need and desire to know of them -- and because of the way I do things, some (believe it, or not) desire to know of them from me.

When I die, I will die content knowing I have informed a people about the galaxy they are living in.

-Viryn Quell,
Freelance Author

Oh, dear. Why, it seems the infalliable Dxun Isstal has resorted to the deplorable character assassination he so vehemently blasts me for! Whatever will we do without our becon of hope and justice!?

For you see, my dear man, you have not gained an inch of ground in this little struggle with the Rogue Empire, but rather you have bought leniency from the Empire. This time. And the next, they will hit you unpreparedly, and then, the price will be paid. My words may well become prophecy, for though you know it not, the Empire doesn't share power. You'll either conform to their agenda of wiping out the Republic -- which, yes, does exist and is freely and openly admitted, whether or not there is currently a war -- or be destroyed. Either way, you have bought not territory, but leniency, with the lives of your people. Because life under the Empire's banner is as it has always been; tyranny. That is why the Rebellion brought the Empire down from power in the first place, in efforts you yourself have called "brave".

And perhaps it has escaped you that simply saying you're striving for peace isn't enough. I mean, you say you are, just like you say I'm a liar, but where's the proof? Where is even a shred of evidence that anything I've said is a lie? You can't call my opinion a lie -- it's my opinion, and it's just as valid as yours. You can't deny that you have bartered a truce with both the Republic and Empire, thereby sealing your fate as a participant in some sort of galactic conflict that probably isn't even your own. You seem to just say things, and, instead of backing them up with reasoning, merely expect them -- as if by magic -- to ring true and pure. They don't.

You say I am not a member of the press. Yet, I am. So, I'll just say that you're a member of an illegitimate government. Will that make it true, as well?

I'll reply no further to this mockery of a co-respondance. I think that, in time, certain things will become readily apparent.

-Viryn Quell,
Freelance Author