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""From Marshall Richard Cooper,
Fifth NEB Army Command.""
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""To Joseph Hendricksson.
Matters of extreme urgency.""
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""Demand immediate
peace negotiation.""
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""Request two officers.
Safe passage guaranteed.""
:13:21
""We await your arrival ASAP.""
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- Peace negotiation.
- They sound pretty desperate.
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- We"ve been waiting for this.
- What have we been waiting for?
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The end of the war.
:13:39
Maybe it"s another bullshit tactic
to get us to lay back.
:13:45
- MacDonald, are you there?
- Yes, sir.
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l want the following message
transmitted to San Francisco.
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Have received first contact
from NEB army in six months.
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They wish to open peace
negotiations. Please advise.
:14:07
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We picked up an emergency message
from a commercial transport.
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We"re 5 million miles
off of the shipping lanes.
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Find out what their emergency is.
No clearance, no landing.
:14:22
Joe, what do you make of this?
:14:26
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Looks like a map
of the forward command post.
:14:34
- They"re laying themselves open.
- So why the pony express?
:14:38
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They"ve been completely silent
for two weeks. Not even radio.
:14:44
But why just one guy?
Why not a patrol?
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