I am Commandant Matthieu Picard of the Unione Corse. I may have met some of you briefly at the New Tokyo Summit some weeks back. I am reaching out to you today to follow up the initial dialogue we established that day.

We see many opportunities for profit in establishing trade deals between our organizations. We have access to many items highly sought outside of Gallia, and your own company has access to many items we are most interested in distributing within Gallia.

We also provide protection for our friends. There are many dark places in Gallia where the unitiated would suffer were it not for our hand. We would offer this assistance to you if you so desire it, and in that we may both benefit.

On behalf of the Unione, I look forward to your reply.

I apologize for the delay in responding to you, Monsieur Takahashi. Internal matters have taken up a recent portion of my attention. With that said, to business.

We find mutual escort within each other's arenas quite acceptable. I will inform our pilots that they are to prioritize the safety of your vessels within Gallia if such a need arises. We expect that a similar directive will be forthcoming to your own pilots to reciprocate this gesture in Kusari.

As for the trade goods, we are currently drawing up a list of our own interests. We will relay those in a future transmission. As to your own interests, if you have that list available, we would be more than glad to evaluate the feasibility of arranging shipments to you. Let us know what you desire and we will work to make it happen.

It has taken some time to properly analyze what may benefit our interests in Gallia, but at last we have made our determination on the matter. Please review the following.

• Ablative Armor Plating
  
• Artifacts
  
• Cigars
  
• Optronics
  
• Furs
  
• Sorted Artifacts
  
• Polymers
  
• Optical Chips
  
• Hydrocarbons
  

We understand that we may require your legal assistance in procurring a few of these items. We hope that we can make the proper arrangements with you with respect to that. As for the trade goods you presented, we find no problem with your requests.

We look forward to setting up an exchange of goods once we come to agreement, as a gesture of good will between our organizations. No doubt after that we will be able to each make our own way in supplying these items to one another.

We look forward to your response with interest.

We are glad to have you on board with us in this mutually beneficial endeavour. We would like to propose an exchange of goods take place near our facility in the Lyonnais system. We can make arrangement to have you met in orbit of Planet Lyon, and then you will be lead to our depot from there. You will find our station accepts most manner of goods, and that we maintain stock of quality diamonds there that we've found to be most desired outside of Gallia. We trust that this will lead to better opportunities for us both in the future.

We are glad you agree. We believe that sometime this weekend would work well for all parties. If you find this convenient, we can work out the specifics in a more face to face fashion.