Vicont » 20 авг 2012, 11:08
Вапула пошел на сотрудничество.
Манеев в карцер и лаборатории.
Ополчение на службу в то же ополчение после разбирательств за преступления.
Counsel:
We’ve highlighted the relevant quotes from McKesson’s journal for you to present to the jury at his upcoming trial. The non-bolded text is immaterial and irrelevant; we highly suggest you only display the important quotations. The confession was signed in the presence of three psychoanalysts, of which you will have access to all three for their professional opinions on McKesson’s state of mind. Because he is highly unstable, we recommend you not put him on the stand until after his fragile mental state is
established in the minds of the jury.
Your cooperation is appreciated.
–Lisa Aarebrot, Associate Executive Counsel-General, Terran Protectorate, 3 February 3079
I, Precentor Jarvis McKesson, being in my right mind and sound body, do hereby relate the following confession to my captors. I do so with my own free will in hopes that one day, Mercy may absolve me of my sins committed against my fellow man.
My station of duty was command of the entire southwest Asian sector on Terra, with my command quartered in the megacity of Singapore. I ascended to this position on 9 February 3060.My duties were to maintain the peace throughout most of the region, interact with political dignitaries from various national provinces, provide security and assistance to those areas in need, coordinate training activities with visiting Militia units and those TerraSec units under my jurisdiction, and monitor the import and export of military hardware throughout the region.
In early October 3078, my main command facility fell under attack by Coalition forces, commanded by General Thomas Hogarth. Enemy forces included the Fifth Free Worlds Guards, the Com Guard’s First Army, and the Second Davion Guards. I quickly took command of the TerraSec forces after Demi-Precentor Scott Abrams (a great friend and commander) was killed in the initial defense. My forces, which were undergunned out outmanned by nearly three-to-one odds, operated in defensive formations as attempts were made to evacuate large portions of the city. Unfortunately, several high rises burned, bombed by overhead fighter cover. Hogarth’s troops seem to operate with impunity, having little regard for the civilian sectors they plowed through, outright destroying many historic and heavily populated districts as they moved towards my command center near Kallang
Entrance No. 2.
We held out for nearly a week; the majority of my surviving troops managed to escape through the Singapore Strait tunnels while my command staff and I surrendered the Castle Brian to Hogarth and his men. Despite my repeated assurances, Hogarth continued sending out “sweeps” to conduct block-by-block searches. Even as I negotiated to surrender my forces—as I had instructed them to hole up on Pulau Batam across the straits—Hogarth proceeded to round up suspected agent provocateurs and imprison them. Most of the “suspects” were city authorities in uniform: police, rescue personnel, utility workers, and university students. They were given cursory examinations by our overzealous captors and then executed.
Horrified, I managed to contact my remaining troops and a few mercenary units still under Blakist employ , and implored them to retake the facility. Anything to rid the city of its infestation.
My troops caught Hogarth by surprise, pushing most of them back out of the city. I and two loyal soldiers pursued and cornered Hogarth near Jurong Island, where I then demanded his surrender. (I had hoped to use his capture as an opening for parley and to secure safe passage for my people.) We had just commenced the exchange when a sudden blast shook the ground violently, toppling Hogarth’s Atlas II onto my damaged Legacy and trapping me. (I discovered what happened later: someone had initiated the Castle Brian’s nuclear failsafe measure. I still grieve for the millions who died from the explosion and fallout.) My companions died as a nearby gas main exploded and Hogarth’s aide-de-camp dragged them from their cockpits and finished them off with a bullet to their head.
Despite what lies my captors tell me, I know Stone and his Coalition didn’t come to save Terra.Terra was already saved from the horrors of the Inner Sphere; Stone only brought madmenlike Hogarth and Davion so that the brutality of war could continue. It is men like them who need to be cleansed from the universe, in order to purify humanity and make it into the image we so longingly desire. If there is anyone to be held up before such sham trials as the ones I suspect are coming, it is them. Not innocents like me. I only wanted to protect humanity.
I only did my duty.
*signed* Precentor Jarvis McKesson
(aka “The Butcher of Singapore”)
"In soviet clan space, Inner Sphere invade you" - грустная правда.