Tour of Houston.

[Tinker and Transport]

Tukker stepped a little to the side to allow the rest of the group to pass him and the Lieutenant Commander while he paused for a short moment. Then he answered sincelery while looking Simon straight into the eyes .

I understand your question and your concerns, Lieutenant Commander. And you and your men will have full acess to our records including our files about every bretonian civilian who has passed through our rehab programs if you wish.
We ceep these files exactly for such research, as we want to avoid any slaver image. Also it is not unisual for families to get torn apart in the struggle for survival, and we help to enable reunions whereever possible.

He seemed to gather his words for a short moment, and then continued.

I will explain our future plans in detail while we circle the area we have picked for our construction site and Mr. McScrap can aid you with detailed information on the current problems at the Haven itself. And believe me, if you get about 2500 to 5000 civilians to disembark at a space station while they are still in shock from the evacuation sites at leeds you need much more space than we can currently offer at the Haven. Doc Nagger can show you detailed figures on the medical triage we have had to implement for these situations, and we would have brought then directly to Houston if our work here were already fully licenced by Houston Authorities. To be frank with you : we do not have enough space at the moment to already offer the long term care needed to as much refugees as we could transport, and we know how many civilians are waiting at the evacuation sites at Leeds for a shuttle to take them. I have heared they call it the Haven lottery.

Tukker pointed around them to the faraway landscape of Houston.

Some fear we want to deportate them to the work camps here at Houston and sell them to GMG as slaves afterwards; but most see our offer as what it is. We currently have to be careful to warn our Ambulance Skippers not to accept any bribes whatsoever, and not to take more passangers per flight as is safe.
But we offer no free service , even if the refugee himself must not pay anything to board.
We are funded by a philanthropic help trust, and so we can operate on a strictly efficient and cost-neutral bias, but we have a security bond set calculated for the costs it takes to transport, rehabilitate and relocate our patients.
And the patient has full control of his own future.

Pointing at the towers and houses of Jacinto city near the spaceport he continued to talk :

Not surprisingly most refugees at the moment feel no desire to return to Bretonia, as the patriotic or at least not too war - weary of them never leaves the planet Leeds but opt to join the brave resistance troops there. And I salute these men. Quite a few of them however offer us funds to ensure the safe future of their families while taking care to evacuate these entirely. And so we offer training like language lessons or cultural integration courses as well as trauma therapy or mere physical and physiological rehabilitation.
And we welcome that the Authorities of her souvereign Majesty Queen Carina have now sent you here, as we would bid you set up your own office her, for repatriation efforts, relocation control, legal and financial support for those who wish to be repatriated to bretonian space and perhaps even recrutation efforts.

Now a shine entered Tukkers eyes, he was clearly now describing a dream that he was pursuing with zeal.

Let me get this straight to a point, Sir, as I will show you the figures, the plans and scetches and all the riffraff of long term project management later : Of course we earn money with this, but we have managed to set up an operation that can support us, our ideals and our econiomic principles without compromising our morals. And the rehabilitation and refugee relief project is worth more than it´s earned credits to us. It is a broad scale economical boost to Hudson and Texas, and it is very good PR for us here at Tinker and Transport.
And we can afford to let you relocate and repatriate the refugees back to bretonian space for a stricktly self sufficient cost cap, if you choose to repatriate them yourselves. If not, transportation can be arranged for a fair price.
All other costs are either met through the carefully invested and used trust funds, or are met by offering those patients who do not wish to return to their old home the training, support and transportation they will need to be able to freely choose a new place to settle. And we do not only recieve patients from Leeds.

Tukker looked back at the BAF Officer, his eyes and face as earnest and cool as those of his guest.

I suggest you look at everything and check and countercheck our figures as thoroughly as you want. You will be able to question any patient freely in an open setting if you want, too. But please realise : I know exactly what I am talking about as I share the experiences of our patients. I might have had the luck to be an adult and an experienced skipper of a Borderworld Transport at the time the gallic wave swept in through the Taus, but I know very well how disruptive such an experience can be.
We will support any official effort by Bretonia to recruit or repatriate as much of our patients as possible, but we will also continue to offer them other opportunities and allow them to freely choose their port of destination.

Now Tukker smiled again, even though his demaneor still showed some reserve.

I think you will find that although nearly all our patients wish to return to Bretonia they also quickly realise that in the aftermath of the current wars trained and well supported settlers or workers are sought after, and the job offers that come from libertonian, rheinland or even kusarian corporations tend to be interesting at least.
I suggest you take a look at btheir offers too, and thoroughly. Because it is not the cooperation with the Haven Memorial Clinic and our rehabilitation programs that will decide where your fellow bretonian civilians will chose to live in the future, but the competition with the offers sent by the other major hiouses or corporate structures.

Tukker gestured to the two Marines standing behind Lieutenant Commander Simon and himself, as all others had entered the Pelican already.

And on a last word and advice : Even though I also greet the presence of your combat specialists, as we have our own enemies and problems arrising from the well known fact that we fully cooperate with several Junker families and groups,
I do want to point out that the presence of a combat armour tends to intimidate civilian personel that has just seen their whole world dissapear beneath fire and ashes. I advise caution, as some of these refugees shy away from violence more than from the unknown difficulties of foreign cultures. We are working to offer them a oportunity to shed these fears and ancieties before we are forced to let them leave so they may choose wisely, but we do not choose for them.

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