He took out a monocle, placed it on his right eye, opened the indictment, and read aloud:
"This year — specifically Imperial Calendar year 560, April 10, at dawn.
"The New Reclamation Legion Headquarters stationed at Maple Fort, and the capital of the Newly Reclaimed Lands Province, Maplestone City, were attacked.
"The attack ended with Maple Fort falling, resulting in the deaths of eighty-nine New Reclamation Legion members, including General Kevin John Adams, and one hundred sixty-seven members being injured.
"It was later determined that the attackers were in fact the New Reclamation Expeditionary Army, considered a friendly force by the New Reclamation Legion."
The freemen listened in silence, although what Colonel Skool spoke of was well-known. Yet it was the first time that someone had unemotionally articulated the "Maplestone City massacre" using formal language.
