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Bosena Accords Launch Full Investigation into SARO Red Troop
25.5.122
Fury and outrage spread among the mercenaries of the Bosena Accords Round Table Assembly in response to new information brought to light by the ascension of Provost Marshal Kasiha Valkanir from the director of CONCORD’s Authority for Emergency Interdiction and Security to the head of EDENCOM. Prompted by controversy posted across the Intergalactic Summit on Valkanir’s prior service record, the Bosena Accords launched their own internal investigation in the Marshall’s past assignments.
The investigation was immediately met with shock and rancor as research revealed Kasiha Valkanir’s previous role in SARO’s Red Troop. Branded as a “specialized counter-augment unit” the existence of Red Troop has confirmed long-held suspicions within the warclone community of CONCORD’s involvement in targeted purges of warclone groups during the 21 Gun Riots. Branded the “Warlord Uprising” internally by CONCORD in the aftermath of the conflict, the riots originally began as a demonstration protesting longstanding rules of engagement upheld by CONCORD that limited mercenary activity and settlement to specially designated “burn zones.” The demonstration continued to escalate as several warclone groups began to band together in solidarity, until it was silenced by heavy orbital shelling from an unknown source trailed by reports of assaults on warclone territories. Followed by the mass collapse of the TacNet system used to coordinate warclone troops in Molden Heath the 21 Gun Riots marked the definitive end of the warlord-era in Molden Heath and a shift towards a longstanding ceasefire as many surviving warclone groups banded together to seek support and refuge among the chaos, ultimately leading to the formation of the Bosena Accords on Bosena IX.
While the Bosena Accords has long held a policy of cooperating with CONCORD restrictions in the hopes of remaining in good standing with the “Big Four” empires, the revelation of Red Troop’s existence alone has been enough to elicit calls within the Round Table Assembly to abandon this policy and take up a defensive strategy to safeguard warclone interests from CONCORD interference.“It would be troubling enough should the Provost Marshall have simply carried out her duties of persecuting our kind as her job entailed,” Galm Fae barked before the Round Table Assembly in the fallout of Red Troop’s discovery, “But to have executed these duties with such brutality and efficiency as to warrant a promotion that set them on the course to leading the single largest military coalition that New Eden has ever seen? That, my comrades, is entirely unacceptable and cannot be overlooked. Look now, to the comrads-in-arms to the left and right of you; there stands a good chance now that a soldier one of you once knew is not here today due to the actions of the Provost Marshall!
“And what now of the Arkombine? Our progenitors, once a secretive and well-guarded organization of first-generation of warclones formed to protect themselves form persecution and the Purges. Now they stand, chained to Upwell licking CONCORD boots without so much as a whimper blindly supporting the formation of EDENCOM without a single protest. This assembly cannot accept or endorse any such hypocrtical organization that claims to serve warclone interests while refusing to address or challenge the Marshall’s clear ties to Red Troop!”
It is unclear at this time how this discovery will affect the Bosena Accord’s relationship with CONCORD, with some of the more radical members of the Round Table Assembly advocating for an all-out withdrawal from Skarkon II to preserve resources for any future conflict with EDENCOM that may arise. For now, the Bosena Accords have petitioned CONCORD for one last attempt at diplomacy and maintaining the status quo; release all available records related to Red Troop’s actions and explain the nature of the purges carried out in Molden Heath or the Accords will be forced to withdraw all diplomatic in-ways and support for EDENCOM in the coming war with the Triglavian Collective.
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(Above: One of the few images confirming the existence of SARO Red Troop during the 21 Gun Riots / Warlord Uprising.)
