Citizens of the Caspian Democratic Union, The Empire does not doubt that Ambassador Delgard is well known to you - how else, but by planting this viper in the garden at the outset, could the treaty which was to secure your safety and neutrality in their war of terror been so thoroughly undermined for so long? It is telling that the voice which appeals to you is not that of your own government, but a treacherous agent of the Rebel Alliance who has induced them to act in the interests of her zealotry and against those of an independent, sovereign Caspia. Duke Aldus Thel