GNN Exclusive - Major Press Release

  Global News Network were today given exclusive access to the historic
  events which unfolded out on the Rim today - Damion Day filed this
  report.

  This morning at 00.15 GST the recently elected President Marcel Sturj
of
  the Outer Worlds Alliance of Alder Valley Sector made a formal
  declaration of independance from the Earth states. President Sturj is
  quoted as saying " the rimworlds will no longer tolerate the position
  they hold with the Earth states. The continual failure of trade
leaving
  colonies on the brink of disaster and the never ending raids and
  strategic invasions by the opposing sides causing disruption,
bloodshed
  and fear amongst the colonists."  The President, speaking from onboard
  the OWA Destroyer Onizuka announced the appointment of a military
adviser
  Lord Lutz Malon who met with Fleet Admiral Kurionis Kato of the
Leningrad
  (ESU 2nd fleet) and Fleet Admiral Gambit Kriskov (OWA) aboard the OWA
  flagship Crazy Horse.

  The military commanders were discussing territorial ground as well as
the
  proposed trade pact between the ESU and the OWA which Fleet Admiral
Kato
  is known to favour.

  After the meeting I spoke with Kato aboard the Leningrad. He told me
that
  they had agreed on a non-aggression pact along their border and that
as a
  gesture of trust the OWA had gifted two strike cruisers to the 2nd ESU
-
  the Sinhailien and the Kunming. Fleet Admiral Kato was quoted as
saying
  "A stable force in these territorries between us and the other Earth
  factions can only be in everyone's best interest. Perhaps a neutral
force
  in the area able to defend itself will bring about an end to
hostilities
  for the inhabitants."

  The ESU fleet returned to it's own space to deliver the declaration
and
  treaty proposals.