- Your rhetoric is old and boring.
- Go away.
To my Chapter Master, I offer my support to your message and thank you for it.
I am one of the many that tried their best to uphold the ideals of the Pax Amarria and the beauty of the vision for the Empire and cluster it espoused. I still very much wish to, as well. However, this past decade, and year especially, have challenged my ideals unceasingly. I am forced to admit that perhaps the path of peace is closed to us, blocked by a rage-tainted enemy who seeks to take advantage of every virture percieved as weakness we present, be it patience, mercy, or open-mindedness. I often feel that every move we have made to reform and appease has merely emboldened that enemy, making them believe their treachery and violence is working to their benefit. I cannot in good conscious keep this kindness up, not when there are so many we must protect.
Still, I pray at least some form of Pax shall bless us, one day. I pray a new policy of deterrence may begin to slow the thousand slights we are given every day as a reward for our efforts to create a better Empire and cluster. I pray that my brothers and sisters will realise a new path is here, and we must take it lest we be slain and left in a ditch by the road to peace for the crime of trying to walk it.
If peace by the sword is all that will be understood, then so be it.