Date: August 28, 2318
From: the Great Senate of the Solar System
To: General of the 147th Command.

We deny all charges you put forth against us.  We have kept the peace in this great Republic for hundreds of years, founded on the proposition of peace and prosperity for all of humankind.  These alligations are absurd!  We are well within the laws of this space and have not violated any human right.  Our laws are based on just principals, passed down to us by the great thinkers of our past.  John Locke stated that slavery was justified as a result of war.  Adam Smith claimed that in a free economy, the needs of the whole will be met without regulation.  General, it is you who is out of line.  You are in violation of every law that we have held sacred and kept the peace with for hundreds of years.  By this declaration you have submitted, you have stabbed a poison arrow into this great Republic, and threated the peace.  You will be the cause of millions of lives.  We will take every means necessary to stop you and return order to our space.  Let's hope this insurrection ends swiftly and justly in your demise.