"I wish to discuss...the possible future motion as follows..."
Purpose
In response to the The Northern Colonies Incident.
1. The placement of strict embargo on the Lorath Matriarchy for its actions.
2. To protect the Yamatai Star Empire from a possible threat.
Proposal
1. That all trade between the Lorath Matriarchy and the Yamatai Star Empire cease and be made illegal immediately.
2. That the Lorath Matriarchy may not have passage through territories of the Yamatai Star Empire.
3. Suspension of any tourism, effective immediately.
Signed,
Taisho Ketsurui-Motoyoshi Katsuko
Gallant said:"The topic?" Mifune responded. "Pardon me for saying something true that you don't like, Taisho, or that casts some shadow of a doubt on the reasons you have for attempting to harm our relations with other empires.
"I'll just sit behind my podium if you want, and let the military dictate international policy, why don't I? That seems to have worked very well for us in the past.
"No, I don't think I will.
"You opened discussion on a trade embargo, which is the definition of suggesting policy. The fact you have not written it yet yourself is immaterial because you have proposed the idea and it is most certainly yours. I am getting extremely tired of reading these shortsighted, wounded-pride articles of yours, Ketsurui-Motoyoshi. When will you take the hint?"
Gallant said:"'Cover up'?" the senator responded, perplexed. Then, standing up, she asked, "Do you even have a chain of command to go to, Taisho?"
Mifune spread her arms out, shrugging a bit to adjust the way that the suit coat sat on her shoulders, before rebuttoning the bottom couple of buttons. She was well dressed, a gray suit and skirt, and wore a small flag on her lapel. A typical politician by all accounts.
"For some reason I think that I should not be hearing your concerns directly. Or is the military now standing divided, every admiral giving an opinion to the senate in an attempt to curry favor? Do you all have opinions? Don't you report to somebody who can give us an official opinion? Because otherwise the only thing I see here is a desperate bid to get your way. Would you like to go to war, Taisho?
"Because if you really want to be flat about it, and honest, the fact of the matter is that we can smell war on the air. I served. I was a Taii. I had command of a starship too and it's very tempting to view things, sometimes, through that narrow perspective. Two fleets were mobilized to cover up a diplomatic travesty, Admiral. Don't tell me that you weren't just rearing to launch into another war the moment the Lorath twitched - and right now you're trying to find that twitch. You're smelling the blood on the air, too, and just begging for the Lorath to make some sort of move that you and your admirals can interpret, so that you can enact upon their people a slaughter and a slavery that they would consider to be much more broad and worse than the civil war that they just finished.
"Well I'm not going to let you have it. And I should hope the rest of the senate sees sense, and denies it to you, as well."
Gallant said:I would like to ask that more senators weigh in on this issue, as opposed to the - and no offense meant, here - frontier officers who have too much cause to hate the Lorath, and not enough cause to consider the effect of their warmongering on the people of the Empire."
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