Regarding the Adaptive Response to Contretemps

To the overlooked and dispossessed patriots of the Federation; to the free people of the Tribes of Matar; on behalf of those who have given all for the sake of our society's return to the Constitutional criterion; greetings from Verge Vendor.

It has been a month of preparations, logistical transitions, and the recasting a more streamlined agenda. We’ve faced setbacks, and confronted them, bringing us closer to achievable measures of progress toward our aim. The central tenet of the Federation has always attracted the resourceful and the adaptive, and we continue to exhibit those qualities, as we must, while retaining our vision of a Federal society worthy of its founding principles.

While we were endeavoring to lay the groundwork for a more just Federation, there was a notable reaction in response to the FDU earning complete control of the CEMWPA combat theatre once again. There has even been a suggestion that, due to FDU dominance, sovereign systems should be 'renamed' in order to bring them more in line with the reality of Federation hegemony. Yet even amongst the raucous milieu of the capsuleer class, the fanfare surrounding this development died quickly, replaced by the grim recognition of the hollowness of the pursuit. There are those among them who see that this conflict has no value.

Perhaps fewer than we first expected. In our employment of the Velvet Rope doctrine, we miscalculated the FDU capsuleers’ patriotism.  We overestimated their commitment to the fundamental ideals of the Charter and Constitution, which is distinct from saying that they are unpatriotic. Our fellow citizens have been lied to by our own administration in complicity with CONCORD. Some experience an indoctrination so deep that to question the value the FDU truly provides the Federation is a treasonous act. The Velvet Rope was developed in response to this, to prevent the deaths of comrades who fought and died to perpetuate the control of the plutocrats over Federation citizens.

We have been hard-pressed to find CEMWPA partisans willing to embrace a commitment to the Federal ideal, and so we are in a transition where the doctrine itself will see a reduced role within Operation Velvet Rope. We will continue with our efforts to hinder the logistical capabilities of FEDEF along with the ongoing campaign to discourage and demoralize line pilots of the militia. We are reading the development of the situation and formulating reactions accordingly.

Operation Slow Burn continues in a throttled capacity while we observe the characteristically volatile market reaction to our tactics. There will be opportunities in the near future for more intensified activity along the front of market manipulation, and rest assured that we will not let these opportunities go to waste. The benefit to the overall program that is generated by these activities cannot be understated, and so we commend our comrades serving the ideal from within the halls of finance.

There have been some questions about organizational challenges and the structure of our operations, so I would like to address these questions directly. While there were some reassignments among veteran agents, there will not be a shift toward consolidation. Our organization, indeed the enterprise of our asymmetric response of direct action, operates best based on the decentralized model: it minimizes our disadvantage while delivering disadvantage to our adversaries, which raises another point.

Above all things, we must commit to memory the truth that our adversaries are Federation citizens, though misguided, who deserve the Federation that was envisioned within the Federal Charter. It is imperative that we do not mistake their passion for treason: our adversaries want to believe in a Federation worth defending. The militia crewman, the line pilot, the combat-zone manufacturer, the logistics officer, the station laborer; all these citizens have been sold a carefully-crafted deception marketed as a Federal ideal. It is up to us to reveal the deception, and through our program, dismantle it.

Amended directives are imminent, and we are prepared.