Crayter Defense Industries @ Sabah Shipyard

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[Sender: Alan Corentin]
[To: Colonial Defense Industries]
[Subject: Another construction request]

I believe I can skip the introductions.

First of all, we've been able to make very good use of the two Hydra-class corvettes built by your shipyard. You have my thanks. However, I'm here to make another request of you - one that might not be accepted, which I can understand.

In the last few months, jumpdrive technology has rapidly become more reliable and more commonplace. In order for Corentin Brothers Limited to remain competitive, we would like to have access to this technology ourselves to move large quantities of various commodities.

As the Independent Miners' Guild does not build ships itself that can accomodate a large jumpdrive capable of jumping multiple ships, we've had to research other options. The only option that seems remotely achievable is the acquisition of a Kronos battleship.

We understand that a private party owning a ship of this type can quickly become a serious issue. For example, I would imagine that, if we were to use it in combat, whoever we used it against would likely come knocking on your door. We do not want to risk your diplomatic ties with other parties.

For this reason, we've come up with a list of limitations that we, ourselves, can accept, and which should make this request a little more.. acceptable:

• The ship will at all times be unarmed,
  
• The ship will be relatively lightly armoured,
  
• All jumps made by the ship will be documented in a place accessible to the Colonial Republic.
  

We hope these limitations will suffice. If not, we're open to additions to the list. Of course, we can understand if this request is simply not acceptable for your Republic no matter the limitations.

Thank you in advance for your consideration,
Alan Corentin

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