(excerpts from the after action inquest about the Delga incursion into
Louisiana)

KN:	I was a little out of line in my comments right after the incident,
	yes.

i1:	How so?

KN:	Specificly?  I was pissed off, I was woken up in the middle of the
	night, after spending eight hours arguing with our US suppliers about
	how their quality wasn't high enough on the shipment of parts for our
	giant robots.

	They were consistantly getting the alloys wrong, and shipping us out
	of tolerance parts.

	Because of this, at that point we had three giant robots in functional
	condition, and, (growls)

i4:	Why did you answer the request, if two other giant robots were
	functional?

KN:	The Delos Theta's pilot is pregnant, and she's about seven and a half
	months along.  The Dark Morning is a three-pilot craft, and two of the
	pilots are recovering from injuries sustained in the last invasion
	attempt, three months ago.

	If the US had allowed us to fight in the lake, it would have gone
	easier.

i3:	Why do you say that?

KN:	The US told us that if we didn't stop the robot before it left New
	Orleans they would hit it with nuclear weapons in lake Ponchartrain.  

	This was not an acceptable option, however, even after we told them
	why they said they would disregard our warning and nuke the thing
	anyway.

i2:	Why were the US so insistant about stopping the thing there?

KN:	It was heading for Stennis, where, as you know, a lot of Ctholon tech
	and a number of personnel are helping develop an Earth built
	interstellar craft.  That giant robot research is also conducted there
	is unclassified as well.

	They didn't want that disrupted.

i4:	Why did you not want the robot nuked?

KN:	Delga giant robots use an antimater power supply, containing over a
	megagram of antimater.  The explosion when the containment field fails
	is sufficient to destroy all multicellular life on a planet.

i5:	And the US was going to nuke the robot anyway?

KN:	I don't think that any of the people ranting at us over the phone
	understood what we were telling them, or maybe they just refused to
	believe.

i1:	So any casualties in New Orleans would be justified?

KN:	Unavoidable.  We did manage to evacuate most of the city, however.
	Final count was five hundred injured, seven actually dead.

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