{"data":{"id":15029,"title":"Plain Truth: Bishop's Betrayal","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/15029-Plain-Truth-Bishops-Betrayal","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/15029","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/15029","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":1547,"name":"PlainTruthFI1.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/e0op6vokxdi6sr\/source\/PlainTruthFI1.jpg","alt":"","size":950082,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-04-01T19:31:34+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1547","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1547\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"There\u2019s an old saying that history will be the judge, but I say, why wait.\n\nI\u2019m Parker Terrell, and this is the Plain Truth.\n\nIt has been about three weeks now since the \u2019verse first heard of the attack on Aremis, and I know a lot of you have been waiting to hear my take on things; been wanting to know if I am having the same uneasy feeling and suspicions as you.\n\nWell, I think three weeks is long enough to not only allow the government to have their \u2018official word,\u2019 for them to make speeches and promises, but more importantly, it has been time enough for the truth of what transpired that day to begin to come to light as well. Everyone agrees that what happened in Vega was a tragedy, me included, but I think the real tragedy is more than just the horrible destruction and death of that day. This atrocious attack by the Vanduul finally showed us just how corrupt and morally bankrupt our supposed leaders have become.\n\nBefore we get into the thick of it, I want to say a few things first. You don\u2019t go around exposing the truth as long as I have without realizing that misfortunes like what happened in Vega are different from a politician lying or a corporation betraying its customers, and need to be treated as such.\n\nReal people died that day in Vega, and I\u2019ll bet that many of you out there suffered a personal loss or know someone who has. The things I\u2019m going to say, I don\u2019t want them to belittle what you all must be feeling. I don\u2019t want anyone to think that I\u2019m trying to imply that the horrible events that transpired on the 5th are somehow less meaningful because of the truth behind them. Brave men and women, civilians, Citizens, starmen and Marines alike sacrificed more than anyone should be asked to, and all too many good people lost their lives along the way. I want to make it clear that what I am about to discuss is not on them. No, the accusations I\u2019m going to make lie squarely at the feet of those in power; the ones who allowed their deaths to happen in the first place.\n\nLet\u2019s looks at some facts, shall we?\n\nSenator Polo does the Empire a huge favor and, for the first time in decades, if not centuries, makes an extremely admirable attempt to curtail out-of-control military spending. After being stymied by the Senate, the true power of democracy comes to bear and the Citizens of our grand political experiment will be given the final say in the matter. Now, just as the voting for this groundbreaking initiative is wrapping up, what happens? A Vanduul Kingship decides to pay the poor people of Vega a visit. I find it interesting that when the Vanduul could have attacked at any time, they somehow managed to choose to launch an all-out assault in the middle of a vote that would slash the military\u2019s overly inflated budget, don\u2019t you? Especially when you take into account that it\u2019s been well over fifty years since the last time a Kingship entered a Human-controlled system. It seems that we\u2019ve had no trouble keeping the invading clans at bay since then, so we as responsible, skeptical individuals have to ask, why now? Why Vega? Was Admiral Bishop under orders to let a Vanduul fleet through so that the military could show unequivocally that the Empire still needs to funnel them trillions of Credits every year?\n\nThink about this. We know from first-hand reports that the 2nd Fleet was already in place near Vega II when the attack happened. Why would the full mass of the fleet be gathered there if they didn\u2019t expect an imminent fight? It seems that the Navy had advanced intelligence that a raid was going to happen, or, as I believe, had planned for it to happen. Either way, if the Navy did know that Vanduul were on the way, why the hell weren\u2019t the people of Aremis warned of the attack earlier? Wouldn\u2019t the military want to evacuate as many people as possible? Instead, we have survivors saying that the raid sirens only went off at the last possible moment, barely giving them any time to react. Is it possible that maybe, just maybe, the military wanted the body count to be as high as possible? That High Command believed the only way to ensure their budget for the next hundred years was to have enough blood spilled that every Human would be rushing to give them anything they asked. It was either negligence or malfeasance that lead to so many deaths on Aremis, and to be honest, I am not sure which scares me more.\n\nActually, I take that back. I know what scares me the most and it\u2019s this \u2014 it is looking more and more like they are going to get exactly what they want. Thanks to the death of those few million innocent people and Admiral Ernst Bishop\u2019s recent fervent plea to the Senate, I am sure that any day now we will be hearing that our conflict with the Vanduul has been escalated to a full declaration of war. Then it won\u2019t matter if the Polo Initiative passes or not. The military will have unfettered access to a wartime budget completely separate from the normal fiduciary constraints and not part of the spending cuts outlined by the Initiative. I can only imagine the next gigantic boondoggle that the Navy will leap to throw money at in the name of defending the Empire.\n\nLet\u2019s take a break here. I need a minute to calm down, and I want all of you to have the chance to reflect. The truth can sometimes be a hard pill to swallow, but it\u2019s a bitter medicine we all need to take. When we come back, Jerald Ferv, a survivor of the Fall of Caliban, will join us to give his take on what happened in Vega.\n\nThis is the Plain Truth and nothing else.","de_DE":"Es gibt ein altes Sprichwort, dass die Geschichte der Richter sein wird, aber ich sage, warum warten?\n\nIch bin Parker Terrell, und das ist die klare Wahrheit.\n\nEs ist jetzt etwa drei Wochen her, seit der Vers zum ersten Mal von dem Angriff auf Aremis geh\u00f6rt hat, und ich wei\u00df, dass viele von euch darauf gewartet haben, meine Meinung \u00fcber die Dinge zu h\u00f6ren; ich wollte wissen, ob ich das gleiche unbehagliche Gef\u00fchl und den gleichen Verdacht habe wie ihr.\n\nNun, ich denke, drei Wochen sind lang genug, um der Regierung nicht nur ihr \"offizielles Wort\" zu geben, damit sie Reden und Versprechungen machen k\u00f6nnen, sondern vor allem, es war Zeit genug, dass auch die Wahrheit dessen, was an diesem Tag geschehen ist, ans Licht kommt. Alle sind sich einig, dass das, was in Vega geschah, eine Trag\u00f6die war, auch ich, aber ich denke, die eigentliche Trag\u00f6die ist mehr als nur die schreckliche Zerst\u00f6rung und der Tod an diesem Tag. Dieser schreckliche Angriff der Vanduul hat uns schlie\u00dflich gezeigt, wie korrupt und moralisch bankrott unsere angeblichen F\u00fchrer geworden sind.\n\nBevor wir uns in die Tiefe st\u00fcrzen, m\u00f6chte ich zuerst ein paar Dinge sagen. Man geht nicht herum und enth\u00fcllt die Wahrheit, solange ich es habe, ohne zu erkennen, dass Ungl\u00fccke wie das, was in Vega passiert ist, sich von einem Politiker, der l\u00fcgt, oder einer Firma, die ihre Kunden verr\u00e4t, unterscheiden und als solche behandelt werden m\u00fcssen.\n\nEchte Menschen starben an diesem Tag in Vega, und ich wette, dass viele von euch da drau\u00dfen einen pers\u00f6nlichen Verlust erlitten haben oder jemanden kennen, der es getan hat. Die Dinge, die ich sagen werde, will ich nicht, dass sie das, was ihr alle f\u00fchlt, herabsetzen. Ich will nicht, dass jemand denkt, dass ich versuche, anzudeuten, dass die schrecklichen Ereignisse, die sich am 5. September ereignet haben, irgendwie weniger bedeutsam sind, weil die Wahrheit hinter ihnen steckt. Mutige M\u00e4nner und Frauen, Zivilisten, B\u00fcrger, Sternenmenschen und Marines haben mehr geopfert, als man von ihnen erwarten sollte, und allzu viele gute Menschen haben dabei ihr Leben verloren. Ich m\u00f6chte klarstellen, dass das, was ich gleich diskutieren werde, nicht auf sie zutrifft. Nein, die Anschuldigungen, die ich machen werde, liegen direkt zu F\u00fc\u00dfen der Machthaber, derjenigen, die ihren Tod \u00fcberhaupt erst zugelassen haben.\n\nSchauen wir uns ein paar Fakten an, oder?\n\nSenator Polo tut dem Imperium einen gro\u00dfen Gefallen und unternimmt zum ersten Mal seit Jahrzehnten, wenn nicht gar Jahrhunderten, einen \u00e4u\u00dferst bewundernswerten Versuch, au\u00dfer Kontrolle zu geratenen Milit\u00e4rausgaben Einhalt zu gebieten. Nachdem sie vom Senat blockiert wurden, kommt die wahre Macht der Demokratie zum Tragen, und die B\u00fcrger unseres gro\u00dfen politischen Experiments werden das letzte Wort in dieser Angelegenheit erhalten. Nun, da die Abstimmung \u00fcber diese bahnbrechende Initiative abgeschlossen ist, was passiert dann? Ein Vanduul-K\u00f6nigsschiff beschlie\u00dft, den Armen von Vega einen Besuch abzustatten. Ich finde es interessant, dass, wenn die Vanduul jederzeit h\u00e4tten angreifen k\u00f6nnen, sie es irgendwie geschafft haben, sich daf\u00fcr zu entscheiden, mitten in einer Abstimmung einen umfassenden Angriff zu starten, der den \u00fcberm\u00e4\u00dfig aufgebl\u00e4hten Haushalt des Milit\u00e4rs zerschneiden w\u00fcrde, nicht wahr? Besonders wenn man bedenkt, dass es weit \u00fcber f\u00fcnfzig Jahre her ist, dass ein K\u00f6nigtum das letzte Mal in ein von Menschen kontrolliertes System eingetreten ist. Es scheint, dass wir seitdem keine Probleme hatten, die eindringenden Clans in Schach zu halten, also m\u00fcssen wir als verantwortungsbewusste, skeptische Individuen fragen, warum jetzt? Warum Wega? Steht Admiral Bishop unter dem Befehl, eine Vanduul-Flotte durchzulassen, damit das Milit\u00e4r unmissverst\u00e4ndlich zeigen kann, dass das Imperium sie noch jedes Jahr mit Billionen von Credits versorgen muss?\n\nDenke dar\u00fcber nach. Wir wissen aus erster Hand, dass die zweite Flotte zum Zeitpunkt des Angriffs bereits in der N\u00e4he von Vega II stationiert war. Warum sollte die gesamte Masse der Flotte dort versammelt sein, wenn sie keinen bevorstehenden Kampf erwartet h\u00e4tten? Es scheint, dass die Marine den Geheimdienst dahingehend verbessert hatte, dass ein \u00dcberfall stattfinden w\u00fcrde, oder, wie ich glaube, geplant hatte, dass er stattfinden w\u00fcrde. So oder so, wenn die Marine wusste, dass Vanduul auf dem Weg war, warum zum Teufel wurden die Bewohner von Aremis nicht fr\u00fcher vor dem Angriff gewarnt? W\u00fcrde das Milit\u00e4r nicht so viele Menschen wie m\u00f6glich evakuieren wollen? Stattdessen haben wir \u00dcberlebende, die sagen, dass die \u00dcberfallsirenen erst im letzten m\u00f6glichen Moment ausgel\u00f6st wurden und ihnen kaum Zeit zum Reagieren gaben. Ist es m\u00f6glich, dass das Milit\u00e4r vielleicht, nur vielleicht, wollte, dass die Leichenzahl so hoch wie m\u00f6glich ist? Dieses Oberkommando glaubte, dass der einzige Weg, ihr Budget f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten hundert Jahre zu sichern, darin bestand, gen\u00fcgend Blut zu vergie\u00dfen, dass jeder Mensch sich beeilen w\u00fcrde, ihnen alles zu geben, was sie wollten. Es war entweder Fahrl\u00e4ssigkeit oder Straftaten, die zu so vielen Todesf\u00e4llen auf Aremis gef\u00fchrt haben, und um ehrlich zu sein, bin ich mir nicht sicher, was mir mehr Angst macht.\n\nEigentlich nehme ich das zur\u00fcck. Ich wei\u00df, was mir am meisten Angst macht und es ist das - es sieht immer mehr so aus, als w\u00fcrden sie genau das bekommen, was sie wollen. Dank des Todes dieser wenigen Millionen unschuldigen Menschen und des j\u00fcngsten leidenschaftlichen Appells von Admiral Ernst Bishop an den Senat bin ich sicher, dass wir nun jeden Tag h\u00f6ren werden, dass unser Konflikt mit den Vanduul zu einer vollst\u00e4ndigen Kriegserkl\u00e4rung eskaliert ist. Dann spielt es keine Rolle, ob die Polo-Initiative erfolgreich ist oder nicht. Das Milit\u00e4r wird ungehinderten Zugang zu einem Kriegsbudget haben, das v\u00f6llig unabh\u00e4ngig von den normalen treuh\u00e4nderischen Beschr\u00e4nkungen und nicht Teil der von der Initiative skizzierten Ausgabenk\u00fcrzungen ist. Ich kann mir nur den n\u00e4chsten gigantischen Kn\u00fcller vorstellen, den die Marine im Namen der Verteidigung des Imperiums springen wird, um Geld zu werfen.\n\nMachen wir hier eine Pause. Ich brauche eine Minute, um mich zu beruhigen, und ich m\u00f6chte, dass ihr alle die M\u00f6glichkeit habt, nachzudenken. Die Wahrheit kann manchmal eine schwer zu schluckende Pille sein, aber es ist eine bittere Medizin, die wir alle einnehmen m\u00fcssen. Wenn wir zur\u00fcckkommen, wird Jerald Ferv, ein \u00dcberlebender des Falles von Kaliban, sich uns anschlie\u00dfen, um seine Einsch\u00e4tzung dessen zu geben, was in Vega passiert ist.\n\nDas ist die klare Wahrheit und sonst nichts.","zh_CN":"There\u2019s an old saying that history will be the judge, but I say, why wait.\n\nI\u2019m Parker Terrell, and this is the Plain Truth.\n\nIt has been about three weeks now since the \u2019verse first heard of the attack on Aremis, and I know a lot of you have been waiting to hear my take on things; been wanting to know if I am having the same uneasy feeling and suspicions as you.\n\nWell, I think three weeks is long enough to not only allow the government to have their \u2018official word,\u2019 for them to make speeches and promises, but more importantly, it has been time enough for the truth of what transpired that day to begin to come to light as well. Everyone agrees that what happened in Vega was a tragedy, me included, but I think the real tragedy is more than just the horrible destruction and death of that day. This atrocious attack by the Vanduul finally showed us just how corrupt and morally bankrupt our supposed leaders have become.\n\nBefore we get into the thick of it, I want to say a few things first. You don\u2019t go around exposing the truth as long as I have without realizing that misfortunes like what happened in Vega are different from a politician lying or a corporation betraying its customers, and need to be treated as such.\n\nReal people died that day in Vega, and I\u2019ll bet that many of you out there suffered a personal loss or know someone who has. The things I\u2019m going to say, I don\u2019t want them to belittle what you all must be feeling. I don\u2019t want anyone to think that I\u2019m trying to imply that the horrible events that transpired on the 5th are somehow less meaningful because of the truth behind them. Brave men and women, civilians, Citizens, starmen and Marines alike sacrificed more than anyone should be asked to, and all too many good people lost their lives along the way. I want to make it clear that what I am about to discuss is not on them. No, the accusations I\u2019m going to make lie squarely at the feet of those in power; the ones who allowed their deaths to happen in the first place.\n\nLet\u2019s looks at some facts, shall we?\n\nSenator Polo does the Empire a huge favor and, for the first time in decades, if not centuries, makes an extremely admirable attempt to curtail out-of-control military spending. After being stymied by the Senate, the true power of democracy comes to bear and the Citizens of our grand political experiment will be given the final say in the matter. Now, just as the voting for this groundbreaking initiative is wrapping up, what happens? A Vanduul Kingship decides to pay the poor people of Vega a visit. I find it interesting that when the Vanduul could have attacked at any time, they somehow managed to choose to launch an all-out assault in the middle of a vote that would slash the military\u2019s overly inflated budget, don\u2019t you? Especially when you take into account that it\u2019s been well over fifty years since the last time a Kingship entered a Human-controlled system. It seems that we\u2019ve had no trouble keeping the invading clans at bay since then, so we as responsible, skeptical individuals have to ask, why now? Why Vega? Was Admiral Bishop under orders to let a Vanduul fleet through so that the military could show unequivocally that the Empire still needs to funnel them trillions of Credits every year?\n\nThink about this. We know from first-hand reports that the 2nd Fleet was already in place near Vega II when the attack happened. Why would the full mass of the fleet be gathered there if they didn\u2019t expect an imminent fight? It seems that the Navy had advanced intelligence that a raid was going to happen, or, as I believe, had planned for it to happen. Either way, if the Navy did know that Vanduul were on the way, why the hell weren\u2019t the people of Aremis warned of the attack earlier? Wouldn\u2019t the military want to evacuate as many people as possible? Instead, we have survivors saying that the raid sirens only went off at the last possible moment, barely giving them any time to react. Is it possible that maybe, just maybe, the military wanted the body count to be as high as possible? That High Command believed the only way to ensure their budget for the next hundred years was to have enough blood spilled that every Human would be rushing to give them anything they asked. It was either negligence or malfeasance that lead to so many deaths on Aremis, and to be honest, I am not sure which scares me more.\n\nActually, I take that back. I know what scares me the most and it\u2019s this \u2014 it is looking more and more like they are going to get exactly what they want. Thanks to the death of those few million innocent people and Admiral Ernst Bishop\u2019s recent fervent plea to the Senate, I am sure that any day now we will be hearing that our conflict with the Vanduul has been escalated to a full declaration of war. Then it won\u2019t matter if the Polo Initiative passes or not. The military will have unfettered access to a wartime budget completely separate from the normal fiduciary constraints and not part of the spending cuts outlined by the Initiative. I can only imagine the next gigantic boondoggle that the Navy will leap to throw money at in the name of defending the Empire.\n\nLet\u2019s take a break here. I need a minute to calm down, and I want all of you to have the chance to reflect. The truth can sometimes be a hard pill to swallow, but it\u2019s a bitter medicine we all need to take. When we come back, Jerald Ferv, a survivor of the Fall of Caliban, will join us to give his take on what happened in Vega.\n\nThis is the Plain Truth and nothing else."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":272,"created_at":"2015-10-28T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"10 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-28 00:32:07","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":15028,"next_id":15031}}