A logged quote. As you can see, without direct evidence, Commander Kim believes you are slandering her alliance’s leadership. Inference is not sufficient to make your case in this instance. You have said multiple times that you spoke with them. If you have any communications logs or recordings of these discussions, it would go quite a long way toward settling the issue.
Make no mistake, Warden Saltz, I am not an advocate of warm feelings and strong bonds between the State and the Empire. However, Commander Kim is someone whom I respect. My own direct experience with her has shown me that she is willing to reconsider her position on matters if she is given compelling reason to do so.
In this instance, Paladin Warden Saltz, your statements are currently uncorroborated claims. Commander Kim has direct experience with the individuals to whom you refer. As such, she must set your statements against what she knows of those individuals. At this time, she does not appear to find your statement credible without corroborating evidence.
I do understand that you believe you have offered this evidence in the form of the corpses of her organization’s leadership. However, you must admit that without a well-documented chain of evidence, there’s no way to demonstrate how those corpses were acquired. While I may take your claim at face value, Commander Kim clearly does not, and is not entirely unreasonable in doing so.
I am not asking for ‘all the evidence in the world’. I ask only for one log of these conversations where the CALSF leadership has expressed their lack of loyalty to the State. Commander Kim is correct that she has no authority to alter the corporate direction of Templis CALSF. She does, however, possess the authority to determine whether she remains with the organization.
More, I believe that she would recognize that if Templis CALSF is disloyal, and acting against the interests of the State, she has a duty to the State to refuse to follow the orders of CALSF leadership. And that if presented with evidence of this, she also has a duty to the State to thoroughly determine the veracity of this evidence, and not simply dismiss it out of hand. She will not, however, disobey her chain of command—and should not be expected to—and will not sever herself from her current chain of command without direct evidence that she can verify for herself.