Exit Fate: Meiko's Interviews
Rock
Meiko: Today I'm talking to Rock, formerly leader of the Highland rebel army and now leader of the Highland Republic. Now, you've become pretty famous lately, but we don't know much about your earlier life. How did you get involved in the Highland rebellion?
Rock: I used to be a lieutenant in the Highland Army. I was one of the many people who couldn't see what was right in front of them. For years, I believed the same thing as the people in Matrech did, that everything's fine, just a few isolated incidents. The man who changed me was Joshua's father. He was a businessman, so he suffered directly from the corruption. He opened my eyes and showed me what was really going on around me. And for that, he was murdered.
Meiko: I heard about this story. You tried to expose a corrupt army captain. I see why you'd leave the army after that, but did you join the rebellion right after that?
Rock: Joshua told me about a friend of his father's. You gotta know that at the time, the rebel army was nothing. An uprising a year earlier was crushed mercilessly and not much of it was left. But this friend was one of the ex- soldiers who took part in that uprising, and I went to find him looking for help. We'd tried playing by the rules, but the rules were only there to keep the same people in power. At that point, I just wanted revenge. Well, I found the guy, a bunch locals joined up with us, and that's how it all got started. He died fighting for control of the town, but we won in the end, and from then on, I was in charge of the main resistance army.
Meiko: So the whole rebel army in its current form was your own work?
Rock: Pretty much. Over the years we merged with some other more or less successful rebel organisations, but we were the first ones to pose a real threat to the Highland government.
Meiko: Just one final question: what was your relation to Erin back then?
Rock: Back then? We joined the army roughly at the same time, so we served together for a while, until she got promoted. I tried talking to her after the whole mess with Joshua's father, but she wouldn't listen. I knew from the start that she had no strong feelings about Highland. As soon as she got the opportunity she left to Matrech, and even as Captain of the Matrech Guard she didn't ever do a damn thing about our situation.