A Warning To Konpeki

[Einbeck]

Kothar'wa'Khasis

A warning

You seem to not understand with whom you are dealing. As We have laid out to an associate of Yours, for now, at the very least, Our attention is focused elsewhere. An excellent time to walk out and steal what is Ours, is it not? We understand Humanity much better than You think.

Allow Us to put the foot in the door, as it were. Let it be known that from this day onward, for every Order warship sighted within Omicron Minor, two mining operations, without regard if they are meant for Konpeki or otherwise, will be put to the sword alongside whatever material you manage to extract. We know better than to simply demand total control of Your base, or to demand You to stop. Humanity doesn't learn through death, but it shall learn through torture and cruelty.

Now would be a good time to talk with Your friends. Perhaps an agreement can yet be reached. The only loss is Yours, of course, and of Your associates. Think well and fast, We only give you a timeframe of 24 solar hours to come back with something resembling a response.

[IahimD]

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Subject: A Warning To Konpeki
Sender: Abel Deacon
Origin: Gas Miner Konpeki
Encryption: Gamma-Miu-Xi-Delta

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Greetings

You are absolutely correct with your assessment - I am not familiar with your organization at all. My name is Abel. I've been on this station for a while now and I know the people that reside here. We are an independent Freelancer group. We are not affiliated with any faction, nor do we fly Order warships.

We are not a military station. We simply acquire Azurite, we study it and sometimes, if the price is right, we might even sell it. We don't want hostilities with anyone, nor do we want to be involved in power struggles.

Now, this system, Omicron Minor, is under Order's jurisdiction. We have absolutely no way to control what they choose to do. Therefore, I am not sure what to answer you in this regard. If you choose to intensify your activities in this system and engage miners or transports, I suspect Order patrols will inform their intelligence in terms of this development and that might increase their military presence further. Again, we have no control over that. It is up to you how you want to approach this.

Abel Deacon
Logistics Officer in charge of Konpeki

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[Einbeck]

[In a rather twisted fate of events, it was they, the vanquishers, who had become the vanquished. Mere hours after the mindnode was created, the Einbeck, alongside the Schiller and a grand fleet of fanatical Wild -- of True Rheinlanders -- made way for their 'home' after reports of an enormous gathering, unseen before outside of the largest battles in the Colony Wars.

The clock had struck the hour for Valhalla, but also for these very ships too. Faced with a weapon they hadn't seen before -- and therefore not aware of how to counter it in full, The Wild marched to destroy its carrier. A foolish move it was, as the shockwave of the explosion destroyed all ships, Nomadic or otherwise, in the split of a second. Then another pulse, withering away the shields and armor plating of larger vessels. And yet another...

With orders given to evacuate at once and abandoned any further efforts in Thuringia, The Wild limped away. Indeed, so too was to be the fate of this attempt at diplomacy; silent, abandoned, left to rot away. For the present, the personnel aboard Konpeki would not hear anything back, nor would anyone associated with them. Still, the feeling persisted that should The Wild indeed consolidate again, perhaps the chance would show yet again for them to try greater plays against the despoilers of Omicron Minor. Whatever the case, no large attempt was to be made for now, leaving the fate of the miners and robots aboard the station in the hands of Shozak's Nomads and whatever raid sorties make way from Lichtenfelde and into Omicron Minor.]