Regarding the Incremental Attainment of Progress

To the dispossessed and disenfranchised patriots of the Federation, and to the free peoples of the Tribes of Matar: greetings from Verge Vendor.

Word has travelled on GalNet that our compatriots among the Minmatar have struck new blows for freedom, with member corporations of the Ushra’Khan alliance enacting surgical strikes on Amarr slaveholding assets deep within Empire space, beginning a new push for the liberation of their people. Additionally, the Intaki Prosperity Initiative continues to advance their program of self-determination and resistance to unjust Federation policy, providing both security and economic stability to the Intaki peoples on the Intaki homeworld and vicinity.

These struggles are notable and worthy of support not solely because of their focus on the values of liberty and autonomy, but because of their successful application of direct action in accordance with their principles. While they act in their own ways, in their own communities, for the benefit of their own people, so too must we act within the Federation. Their successes will be the model for our successes, though our ends and our means are our own.

Our comrades here in the Federation have spent the past few weeks deploying our tandem programs throughout the systems apportioned by the CEMWPA, as well as in our most high-volume centers of trade. In that short time, our financial agents attached to Operation Slow Burn have acquired and sequestered over 2.5 billion ISK in Roden Shipyards construction assets, bolstered by an additional 140 million ISK worth of blueprint copies that have been destroyed. As the bulk of the remaining assets we control are components necessary to blueprint reproduction and research, we have begun to apply pressure to the cluster’s ship manufacturers and researchers. The resulting cooling effect we anticipate for RS’s profile within the military theatre will only be temporary, and as the market responds to changes in RS manufacturing, our strategy will respond in kind.

Within the operational area of the FDU and Federation Militia, agents attached to Operation Velvet Rope have distributed 26 containers of agitprop throughout 15 systems under the auspices of the FEDEF ticker. They have contributed to FEDEF materiel losses of over 200 million ISK and have engaged in the misinformation of FDU pilots with regard to enemy fleet composition and whereabouts. While our agents have suffered losses to their logistical capabilities in recent days, they should return to operational status before month end. The Velvet Rope doctrine itself remains in its final testing phase, and we expect to see chasseurs on hot sortie in the coming days.

With this humble gambit, we have initiated an overall program of non-compliant participation in the systems which have subverted the values upon which the Federation was established. Our actions in turn subvert those systems themselves, reversing and diluting their intended functions, proving their corruptibility, demonstrating the folly of acquiescing to the institutionalization of plutocratic governance. In turn, through the public estrangement of these offending parties, we make it known to the citizens of the Federation how our government has failed us, and call for redress of their dereliction of duty.

Direct action based on principle - our principle - as adherents of the Federation Charter and the Constitution, is the work that must be done. There is much of it yet undone.