Madame Crownstone, it is a pleasure.

I have been briefed by my Second about this. Apologies for sending an encrypted card. This is the result of our over-the-top encryption procedures making everything difficult for everyone except us. Even when made for the use of outsiders.

Indeed, I will provide to you the list of necessary materials to be delivered on our ship, when you can, in Provence, where we will work on the project immediately.

The project, codenamed BISO ('Target' or 'Aim' in Corsican) - Bustard-class Integrated System Overhaul (BISO), which aims to modernize the partially-analogous and/or obsolete equipment aboard the UCS Pasquale Paoli. As it still has analog computers and systems (such as punch cards) for the databases, we are to modernize it. However, the UCS Pasquale Paoli was brought back into use with no end. Now that the live fire exercises and other classified operations have been terminated, the UCS Pasquale Paoli can resume its modernization efforts, and this is where you come in.

The UCS Pasquale Paoli will however retain one analog system; which will be the encryption systems. This is paramount due to classified reasons. And the computers itself will not be available for you to see. The punch cards will also be destroyed by us, and you will not have access to the data stored on the core rope computers, nor the punch cards. These will be transferred to the University of Marseille where they will be properly decommissioned and rendered out of use and then, used as an exhibit in the University, as inspired by your High-School story your told to my Second. We have contacted the UoM and they agreed and are eager to recover such an "ancient piece of technology".

In short, Project BISO requires many various components that you can find in Gallia, however some are unavailable in Gallia proper; the project was mostly finished before the UCS Pasquale Paoli was sent back into action for operations, so we only require a portion of all these commodities:

• 50x Quantum Multiplexors,
  
• 50x Engine Components (modernization of the engines),
  
• 100x Bio-Neural Processors,
  
• 25x HazMat Canisters (modernization of the processing of organic matter),
  
• 10x Holo-tainment Bands (addition of the capacity to train pilots),
  
• 5x Medical Equipments (rehabilitation and refurbishing of the Medical Wing),
  
• 50x Optical Chips,
  
• 100x Optronics,
  
• 100x Ablative Armor Plating (continuation of the modernization of the armor),
  

Send us the final bill, and come in Provence according to your conveniences. There is no issue as well if it needs multiple deliveries, we will be available. Also indicate us if you are unable to obtain certain materials, we will do our best to continue on this angle. This is to not cause too much strain on you.

We await your response eagerly and with excitement. Thank you once again, on behalf of the whole crew, for accepting this task.

Warship Pasquale Paoli, out.