Within days of the Vonian attacks and the rumors of rebellion in the south, Freeport had dozens of new residents. OF, pleased at the new arrivals, was in his office. Since it was now obvious Freeport was not going to join United Earth, he was busy thinking up ideas for the station's new government. He was to be the leader, of course, but everything else was open to thought.

Suddenly, another person came into the room and asked "Are you the guy in charge here?" OctoberFost nodded. "Well, my name is Ian, sir. I'm from Iothe, so I guess you could just call me Iothe Ian." "Please to meet you, Ian. What can I do for you today." "Well," the Iothian said, "the UE wants me dead, so I decided I better come here, where the bastards have no juristiction."

OctoberFost stared at him in shock. "The UE wants you dead?! What have you done?"

"Oh, nothing much," Ian grumbled. "I was their top Fighter Pilot, the only one to get a kill durring the first few encounters with the Voinians. The encounters they're too embarassed to even speak of. I was the only one to know to weaknesses of their ships, and the strong points of ours. I was their most promising new recruit. And how do they reward me? They keep me in my dead-end position, and promote a bunch of idiots who get slaughtered on their first mission! They don't even let me in on their fancy new ship design, which also got nowhere!"

"I don't understand. Why do they want you dead if you did all that?"

"Oh nothing," Ian said. "In the past few days I've stolen a few doccuments, a few thousand credits, and oh yeah, deserted from the UE Navy."

"Nifty. So what did you want to speak to me about, Ian?"

"Oh, I was just thinking you might want to look at the UE plans for their new ships, and their plans for this station...."

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UE News Network- "Recent reports indicate that the three Voinian warfleets which were previously based in the Eltor system have withdrawn. However, the system is now occupied by 92nd, 3rd, and 5th warfleets. Government officials currently don't know why the fleets exchanged positions, but it is still obvious that the Voinians intend to threaten earth itself."
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Note- Three Voinian warlfeets make up a warfleet division. Since my fleet is currently composed of three warfleets, it is now called the 17th warfleet division.

17th warfleet division numbers:
75 Cruisers
300 Frigates
1500 Heavy Fighters
75 Supply Ships

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(This message has been edited by Captain Skyblade (edited 09-20-2001).)

Back at the government center, Starkiller was delighted. The UE Governer had announced to the General Assembly of Huron that he was making a new policy that would transfer planetary affairs to the local government, and his job would concern matters with other systems, and, of course, affairs that involved the United Earth government. Starkiller was glad that Huroners could run Huron again, but he still felt that the draft was not fair. However, he thought that it was another matter for another time.

The main problem on the hands of Huron at the moment was the increased renegade activity to the south and east. While the new independent station down there seemed to be free of those problems, a few of the human systems in the area, particularly the Hatuli system, had been having increasing problems. With very little resources designated for the stellar defense of Huron, Starkiller was worried about raids. He was sponsoring a bill that would allow Huron to create a local militia, but was afraid that the UE Governer would not allow it. If the renegades began to raid, Huron would be reduced to a constant state of terror, and Starkiller feared that the UE, with it's ever increasing war with the Voinians, would be unable to defend the southern settlements adequately.

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"Listen, OF", Ian said, "The UE wants me dead, and consideres most of us traitors. I have a plan that could get us out of trouble. A lot of southern UE worlds, such as my own Iothe, are already sick of this new government and this war. If we combine forces with the "renegades" that live to the east, we could help Iothe and other worlds free themselves. Think about it. The Renegades will govern themselves to the east, you'll keep Freeport, and I'll be in charge of Iothe, but we'll all be in a military alliance against the UE or any other threat. How about it?"

OF reclined in his chair, thought for a moment, and then spoke. "Alright, we'll see where this takes us. You still have connections among the renegades and the possible rebels on Iothe?" Ian nodded. "Great. I want you to assemble some representatives from these groups, and bring them here by the end of the month. Then we'll discuss what to do."

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Ship: Advanced UE Destroyer (i.e. heavy armor, advanced shields, more weapon space)
U.E.S. Absolution

Admiral of the 23rd Sol defense fleet

23rd Sol Defence Fleet:

25 UE Destroyers
111 UE Fighters
15 mod. frieghters (supply ships)

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Admiral A. 6000 ordered a scanner report. If the rumors of the Voinian warfleets were true, then the ships crew would have to be on yellow alert status around the clock.
"Scan Ops, Admiral here. Report. Include names of all possible hostilities in system." He shut off the intercom. Scan Ops report was brief.
"Sir, no possible hostilities located. The system is clear."
The Scan Ops' officer's report was true...for a while. About ten minutes later an extremely violent explosion rocked the U.E.S. Absolution.
"ENGINEERING! DAMAGE REPORT!" A. 6000 blared even louder than the emergency klaxon.
"Sir! The port side armor and shield generator have been severely damaged! Shields at 56%!"
"Damn," A. 6000 said. "All fighters and patrol craft form squadrons of 5 units and attack all hostilities! Supply ship 5, requesting assistance at coordinates z=(47a.u.), y=(12a.u.)!" He paused to breathe,
"Scan Ops, report all hostilities and distances!"
"Sir! Small semi-triangular fighters closing in! Nearest target 47 klicks away and closing!"
"Weapons personnel: Open fire on closest target when in range. And may God have mercy on us all."

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What signiature?
Ohhhhhhhhhhh...

The streaking stars jolted back to normal, Red Squardron had dropped out of hyperspace. Azdara Ace took a deep breath, "Red Squadron report in."
"Red 12 reporting in!"
"Red 7 here!"
"Red 3 ready!"
"Red 6 armed and ready!" One by one the twelve fighters of Red Squadron reported in. Red Squadron had been together for years, but hadn't seen any action in a long time. When the war between the Vonians and UE started, Red Squadron was only too ready.
"Okay team, a scan of the system reveals 3 Vonian frigates, do you guys think you're up for it? Let's give them a little present from Earth!" 12 UE fighters hit maximum thrust and rocketed into battle.
"YEE HA! This is Red 2, rockets away!"
"Okay boys, Red 1-4 take the one on the left, 5-8 take the one in the middle, and 9-12 get the one on the right." Azdara Ace targeted one of the neutron turrets, and let loose 2 rockets.
The frigates had been taken by surprise, but they quickly retaliated. Rockets and neutron bolts streamed straight towards the fighters, explosions going off everywhere.
"Red 3, watch that rocket!"
"Roger that Red 7." Red 3 made a long dive, and then came up under the frigate, guns blazing.

After about 6 minutes, the explosions finally stopped, leaving in their place a stillness. One of the Vonian frigates floated slowly across Azdara Ace's vieport, it's surface charred. Another one was nearby, but it 's entire front section was missing. And there other one.....there was no other one.
"This is Red Leader, Status report." All of the ships were okay, but Red 4 and 11 had lost half of their power. "Well boys, we're heading back to base. But on our way out, I'm going to buzz the bouy and see if I can dig up anything. Fire Dragon made a gentle bank and headed towards the distant bouy. Although Azdara Ace didn't say, he was on a secret mission from High Command. His job was to drop off a stealthed sensor on the bouy, so that High Command could moniter the system. It only took about 2 minutes, and soon after, red Squadron hypered out of the DSN-9418 system.

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REDchigh relaxes at Luna's Bar, while his fleet is re-outfitted. An Ensign comes up to him, and mentions that in three days, (when he leaves), 30 destroyers will be armed with one Voinian Space mine launcher, and 10 mines. REDchigh grins slightly, and sends a message to the Prime Minister (?), asking for a heavier battlefleet, and replacement ships for those lost at Dogover.
(safe to say that it's assumed that all ships now have rockets?)

OOC: I know im not a mod, but carriers aren't developed yet! They were designed and rushed into production to take advantage of the voinian's defeat at the battle of sol! I'm against a prototype being used, but not more than one! Anna Baloshova's brother can have one, but of course its not as strong as a real carrier, and otherwise they dont exist yet!

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Starkiller said goodbye to his staff, then headed towards Huron Launch Pad 000013, where his ship, the Mongrel, was docked. The Mongrel was really a mongrel. Though it was originally a scoutship, Starkiller had added and changed things around so much, that it was pieced together from almost every class ship in human control, including some UE Navy enhancements that civilians were techinically not supposed to have. However, they were hard to see, and Starkiller had found them on a crashed UE fighter on some planet a couple months back. By common law, it was his property now.

Starkiller's bill, as expected, had been vetoed by the UE Governer, so Starkiller was sent by the General Assembly to petition the central government for a larger defense force. He set his jump path to take him to Sol, and punched into hyperspace.

The Mongrel:
STATS
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Hold: 20 tons
Shield: 300
Acceleration: 400
Speed: 300
Maneuver: 4
Fuel: 9 jumps
Armor: 75
Weapons: 2 blaze cannons and one automated turret
Slight fuel regeneration properties due to small added solar panel

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Azdara- What system were you attacking? You should post the systems you are jumping into before creating battles.

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"Good news sir," the spokesman announced. "Renegade activity around the Huron system is increasing. This will give the United Earth yet another foe to worry about. The Voinian Empire is already enough for the humans to handle."

"Very true," Skyblade responded. "But the humans have also grown stronger and bolder. I received reports yesterday of a new warship, called the destroyer. Small raids are also beginning to errupt among the frontier."

"But the Voinian Empire is well prepared to deal with such raids, and the Emperor is confident," the spokesman replied. "The humans have yet to meet us in a major battle, and when that day comes, it will be one neither side will forget."

The spokesman saluted (as he always did), and left Skyblade alone on his quarters.

"Major attack," Skyblade said to himself. "It's about time we launch an offensive against the humans, even if Sol isn't our first target."

Skyblade viewed a map of the surrounding systems. Surely, an attack would come soon. He hit the comm button on hit desk, and a young Voinian officer entered the room.

"Ensign," Skyblade stated, "Bring these orders to the Commander of Operations. Tell him I want the Yandros system scouted. We must not delay the Emperor any longer..."

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Quote

Originally posted by OctoberFost:
**A lot of southern UE worlds, such as my own Iothe, are already sick of this new government and this war.
**

Who said that Iothe Prime was ever owned by the UE? Huron is unique because it accepted UE portection from the Renegades. It was independant until then (and, in EVO, it becopme independant again.) Also, the only other former UE world in the southern regoin of space that we know of is Apollo, which was once under UE protection but withdrew once the UE could not afford to defend it.

Also, IMHO, I don't think the war is drawn out enough for people to get sick of the government.

God bless,

UE Patriot

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Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
**Azdara- What system were you attacking? You should post the systems you are jumping into before creating battles.;)
**

Quote

Originally posted by Azdara Ace:
It only took about 2 minutes, and soon after, red Squadron hypered out of the DSN-9418 system.

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Originally posted by Starkiller:
Originally posted by Azdara Ace:
It only took about 2 minutes, and soon after, red Squadron hypered out of the DSN-9418 system.

That was the system he hypered out of... I didn't see him mention which system he hypered into.

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Iothe Ian jumped into the Iothe system in his Cargo Transporter, usually a suicidal action. But Ian had lost his UE Fighter when he deserted, and since he had his freinds among the renegades that frequented the system for trades and UE vessels, and no one dared to attack him.

Suddenly, an idiot in a Helian began firing on Ian, who laughed it off and fired several Hunter Missiles into the guy, blowing him away. But not before sustaining heavy Needle dammage to his hull, which was quite annoying.

"Oh well," Ian mumbled as he landed on his homeworld. "Prehaps one day they'll make a freight courrieing vessel good enough for my needs..."

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Originally posted by UE Patriot:
**Who said that Iothe Prime was ever owned by the UE? Huron is unique because it accepted UE portection from the Renegades. It was independant until then (and, in EVO, it becopme independant again.) Also, the only other former UE world in the southern regoin of space that we know of is Apollo, which was once under UE protection but withdrew once the UE could not afford to defend it.

Also, IMHO, I don't think the war is drawn out enough for people to get sick of the government.

God bless,

UE Patriot

**

Artistic Liscence?

Seriously, the UE is young now, so Iothe could have been a member half-seriously in the first year or so, and then dropped out. Iothe isn't going to have any major conflict against the UE. Rather, the conflict will be internal...

Also, the people arn't sick of the government becasue of the war. They're sick of it for personal reasons (Ian) or not having enough local power. The draft dosn't help the UE's cause either.

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(This message has been edited by OctoberFost (edited 09-20-2001).)

Quote

Originally posted by Captain Skyblade:
**That was the system he hypered out of... I didn't see him mention which system he hypered into.
**

Yes, but he hypered out of that system AFTER the battle. Read his post.

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A fleet of strange looking ships entered Saalia from the DSN-4044 system. Their ships looked like purple frisbees, and these ships were escorted by a small group of blindingly fast purple and white fighters. There was also a green ship that looked like a half-frisbee, and had multiple turrets mounted on it. These people hailed Saalia, and identified themselves as the "Miranu" and said they only wished to trade. They had heard about this war, and had no interest whatsoever in getting involved in it.

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The Fireball (heavily upgraded Miranu Gunship)
Shields: 250
Armor: 40
Speed: 300
Accel: Good
Turning: Good

Weapons
3 phase turrets
2 pursuit missile launchers and 10 pursuit missiles
1 dispersal rocket launcher and 10 dispersal rockets

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OOC: The reason I'm assuming that the Miranu have EVO tech is because there are supposed to a lot of scientists in their population, so they research this stuff...

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Ertai, wizard adept

Sorry if that was confusing. I jumped into the DSN-9418 and then I jumped out.
By the way, is Outpost Alfa around at the moment?

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After 2 days of hyperspace travel, Red Squadron arrived at Centauri. Azdara Ace was woken up by an alarm signifying dropout from hyperspace. "Azdara A- Sorry, I'm still a little sleepy....Uh...What was I going to say again?...Oh yeah, know i remember. Red Leader here, Red Squadron, prepare to make landfall on Centauri.'" Azdara Ace switched the communicator to ground control. "Ground control, this is Red Leader, requesting permission to land."
"Affirmative Red Leader, the pattern is clear. We're transferring your transmission to tthe UE Fighter Base." Azdara Ace waited for about 10 seconds, and then the all too familiar sound of Commander Jeffory Smith.
"That you Azdara?"
"It's been awhile Jeff."
"Yes, it sure has, it sure has." Jeffory Smith suddenly changed his tone to that of a proper military commander."Okay Red Leader, your squadron can land on Pads 20-32. After you land, go to the HQ building for your debriefing. Is that clear?"
"Yes sir!"

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= = = = = Urgent!!! = = = = =
This is the <explosians in the background> commander of the Yandros Defense Fleet, requesting immediate assistance! An entire Voin- <static> division has attacked, and our fleet has crumbled! Shields are failing, and the planet itself is being invaded! We are requesting <large explosians, screams> stance! The Voini- <violent explosian, comm link broken>."
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Two days later, 14:00 hours:

"We took the United Earth completely by surprise," the commander of the 92nd warfleet division announced across the comm channel. "You're orders were followed to the best of my abilities. The human defense fleet was composed of fighters and small numbers of the new destroyers. They were completely wiped out in three minutes of battle. In addition, Yandors is secure, and in Voinian hands."

"Well done!" Skyblade exclaimed, slamming his fist on his desk in excitement. "You've just shown the humans that the we are very well capable of defeating them. You've proved yourself an excellent commander, Ry'sern. How does a promotion sound?"

"All to nice," Ry'sern replied. "I thank you for the promotion. Also, be sure to inform the Emperor soon of the victory. He'll find the news welcome, since the Emalgha have been offering tough resistance as of late."

"I certainly will," Skyblade responded. "That is all, 17th warfleet division out."

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Losses of the 92nd warfleet division at the battle of Yandros (keep in mind this isn't my fleet)

2 Cruisers
5 Frigates
17 Heavy Fighters
1 Supply Ship
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92nd warfleet division now numbers:

73 Cruisers
295 Frigates
1483 Heavy Fighters
74 Supply Ships

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Back on Iothe, Ian, cloaked and wearing fake facial hair, waited outside the office of his close freind, now Deputy Governor of Iothe.

The Deputy Governor was a busy man, but always had time for a close freind, or a completley strange bearded man standing outside of his office. Ian was let in by one of the guards, and sat down in front of his freind.

"Mr. Deputy Governor, I think you know who this is..."

"That's Mr. Governor to you, Ian," he replied with a smile. "You don't have to hide yourself anymore -- the UE's laws no longer apply here."

"What?", Ian said in shock.

"Oh yes, you've been in transit. Well, while you were away, the Iothe quietly pulled out of the UE. You see, we had not sent a representative to them since they organised, and we have not been too cooperative with the draft or with handing over renagade fugutives, its as if we were not members at all. Besides, the UE dosn't want a civil war between Iothe and earth, so they made no fuss over it."

"If the UE agrees so easily here, why don't they also free Huron or other worlds like ours from their rule?"

"That's for the UE Prime Minister, not me, to decide, Ian. What do you wish to talk to me about? Remember, the elections are comming up next month, I have to prepare for those."

"Elections?", Ian asked. "For what?"

"For governor and general assemby of Iothe, of course!"

"Really...", Ian said, gazing into the distance...

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"Blue 7 standing by,"
Aben Zin was the last in his wing to report in. He listened to Captain Harris give the brief over the Com.
"Alright Blue Wing, you know the score. Red Squadren have already made a sweep of DSN-9418 so this is just a routine patrol. Remember to keep in formation and watch your backs. Your not in the Academy any more.
Ok then, by the numbers. Good luck."
With praticed ease they swept into formation. Captain Harris in Blue 1 was flanked by Blue 2 and Blue 3. Blue 8 and 9 cruised effortlessly either side of Aben Zin. He hailed them.
"Alright boys, keep it steady."
"Hey!"
Zin grinned.
"Sorry Miranda. Karl?"
"Yes Comrade?" the burly Russian boomed. Zin grinned again. It really was Untied Earth.
"Don't try anything funny OK? This time it's for real. Alright te-"
He was cut-off as Harris gave the order to hyperspace.
"On my mark Blue squadren: 3-2-1, Mark."
At that Zin hit the Hyperdrive and the Universe seemed to bunch up as the craft came to mind-numbing speed.
I'll never get used to that, Zin thought.

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Entering the system Blue wing checked in once again.
"Alright Blue wing, lets have complete sensor sweeps of the system. We don't want to let these Voinians..." he spat the word, "put up a sensor beacon here. Scan all as-"
He was interupted by Blue 3.
"Sorry sir, but that might have to wait..."
All eyes turned to the huge Voinian fleet that had dropped out of hyperspace. Zin counted 8 Cruisers and innumerable fighters were cruising menecingly toward them. And only 12 of them.
"Blue Wing, prepare to engage. Go for the fighters, we can worry about the cruisers later. Save those rockets for the cruisers."
Aben Zin hailed his wingmen.
"Ok guys, sorry, people, split up and watch each others backs. Here they come!"
Five heavy fighters broke off from the Voinian battle group and headed toward them. Zin banked sharply and went for the leader.
"Lars! Miranda! Try to split them up, and watch for those rockets!"
Almost on cue the lead fighter launched a rocket at him. Jinking to on side the rocket harmlessly passed him and the Voinian was in range of his guns. His cannons let out a fury of blaze fire, shot after shot pounding into the heavy ship. In return it let out a volley of neutron fire. Most of this Zin avoided but he was hit twice. He glanced at his shields. Just under 90%.
Turning through 180 degrees and accelerating hard brought him behind the unmanoverable voinian ship. He let out again with Blaze fire, this time crippeling the heavy ship. He left it drifting.
A whoop came over the Com. Miranda's first kill.
"Save it Miranda, there's more where that came from. Blue 9, report."
Karl's deep voice replyed.
"I've been hit by one of their rockets but shields are holding,"
"Roger Blue 9. Keep back 'til you're back to full shields. Blue 8? Cover my back."
He glanced quickly at his radar. All through the system the dots on the radar were engaged in deadly dog-fights. So far the superior manoverability and speed of the UE fighters seemed to be winning over the numerical advantage of the Voinian fighters. They were not without calualties however. Into his vision drifted a mangled heap of wreckage that had once been Blue 4.

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What seemed like an eternity later there were no heavy fighters left to engege.
Zin had chalked up 4 kills and Voinain wreckage was everywhere. The UE in the system now numbered only 6. Karl had gone when he was ganged up on by 2 heavy fighters, his Russian cursing had echoed over the Com. 'til the end. Blue 2,5,6 and 11 had gone the same way and most of the remaining fighters were low on shields. The 8 Cruisers were completely unscathed. Captain Harris' voice once again came over the Com. His voice sounded weary, but remained perfectly steady.
"Good job Blue Wing. Keep it up, it's not over yet. We can allow none of these vessels to leave this system."
The vast bulk of the cruisers drifted closer. Zin could see the heavy Neuron turrets bristling from the thick armour of the cruisers. Harris spoke again.
"Blue 7, come round to 45.31.28 and engage from side of convoy. Try to split the up. The rest of you follow me."
His heart in his mouth, Aben Zin came round the side of the convoy and accelerated hard. As he came in a wall of rocket and neutron fire flew toward him. He closed his eyes and held down the trigger as his ship shook as shot after shot pounded into his ship. Opening his eyes again he glanced at the sheild readout, and realised there wasn't one. A few small centemetres of armour stood between him and the cold vacuum of space. He glanced about. By some miricle the fleet was behind him! As hoped they had diverted their attention to him and he saw Captain Harris lead the rest of Blue squadren at a lone destroyer- seperated from the rest of the battle group and thus doomed.
His heart lept. They stood a chance yet!
Then his entire ship shook. A stray rocket had struck the ship squarely and the ship was on the brink of giving Zin an early retirement. His right wing had been torn completely off and the crippeled Changling drifted slowly through space. Zin reached under his seat for the small extinguisher and doused the small fires that had sprung up around him. He checked the life support- thankfully it was still operational. It could keep him alive for several days. He checked the Com. Nothing. He craned his head around the cramped cabin windows but could see nothing of Blue Squadren. He was alone.

AZ

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The above post can be concidered
"Parlez vous sans mon derreire"
As the french probably wouldn't say.