I have received all the data gathered by Mr Orlov. I am afraid you will not like what I am going to tell you.
It appears that you have been misinformed. Having in mind possible business between us, I will give you some information that we still consider as classified, although, to be honest, it has purely historical value as of lately. There was only one Spyglass prototype developed originally by the LSF and acquired by us in collaboration with back then our allies, the Hellfire Legion. What was unique in this prototype were not its armaments, but incredibly sophisticated array of scanners and devices to conduct advanced electronic warfare. Hellfire Legion engineers managed to reproduce the ship skeleton, plating, engines and avionics, while we focused on what was most interesting for us - electronics and software. The original prototype has been completely disassembled, but the Hellfire Legion managed to reproduce several copies.
Only two of them were in service outside of Hellfire Legion fleet. Fu Manchu was our mobile base of operations, while Metropolis became home for Vagrant Raiders. Both these battleships were destroyed. Since both Hellfire Legion and Vagrant Raiders were more interested in sheer fire-power of their vessels, only Fu Manchu had complete set of scanners and electronic warfare armaments of the original prototype. Over the years Hellfire Legion decided to even further cut the costs on expensive electronics while boosting pure combat potential of their vessels. This is how Arbiter class of battleships has been developed. The Legion slowly replaced all of their Spyglasses with Arbiters, and by replacing I mean that they either completely refitted them or disassembled.
Spyglass battleships no longer exist, although I believe that Vagrant Raiders, known for their foolish romanticism, re-pressurized wreck of Metropolis and started to use it as their base of operations. The aura of uniqueness and speciality which surrounds this class of battleships has fooled many people, who forgot that it was developed many years ago and by today standards it is already outdated. Excellent shipbuilders such as your kind should know this better. The only thing that mattered has been duplicated by us and actually you can still buy some Spyglass scanners on the black market.
After decrypting its database I have no doubts that the ship you have acquired is an older version of Hellfire Legion Arbiter class battleship. Whoever sold it to you was most likely a defector commander from the Legion. We have heard that recently their morale has fallen and the group is in disarray. This is probably why they have vandalised ship's database and pretended to be someone else. Actually, I am quite baffled how you could even believe in such a surreal story? A defecting Hacker trying to sell our battleship to you? Also, just thinking out loud, if this was true, we would be obliged to reclaim or destroy the vessel, locate the defector and most likely assassinate everyone involved in the process, including you.
Fortunately, this is not the case. And since we are no friends of the Hellfire Legion anymore, we can help you restore this Arbiter to a working condition. I believe that all engineering can be done in your excellent shipyards by your own specialists. From our side we can offer you restoration of the database, removal of any safeguards and replacement of corrupted software. The only question is, what you can offer in return?
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