To: The League, or 'The Hyperspace People'.

[Enkidu]

Incoming Transmission

To: The League.
From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
Subject: Project involvement.

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Of course. A pleasure, Miss (or is it Mrs?) Horizon.

Full access to the wet-dock area of the shipyard. Obviously, particular berths will be sectioned off which lack relevance, such as experimental munitions plants, hydroponics bays, medicine factories.

We would rather pursue diplomatic action that would engender comrades than machines alone. The fact remains that a repeat customer is more valuable to us than a forced acquisition. The Union has no intention of abusing your status as independent worlders without set ports of call for individual advantage. Such an action would be against our organisational and institutional ethos. Remember that we are criminals by historical accident, not by intention or infliction. First and formost, we are individualist protectionists; we hold it self-evident that a person is privy to the fruits of their own intentions.


The reason why we make this offer in these early steps as it allows us to ascertain early on the cost-to-loss benefits of direct assistance to the League regarding R'n'D, materials shipping, etcetera, beyond the already offered shipyard berth. We have no intention in weaponising the League's creation - we have quite enough artillery already. However it perpetually remains the case that the primary operating pressure on Unioner hardware and infrastructure is not materials, expenditure, or manpower, but service conditions. Pacifica has perpetually grown over the centuries - in the years to come, it will grow yet larger, however obvious security concerns prevent us from constructing comparable architectures anywhere other than the security of the Tanner. Many of our habitats are in a dangerous state of disrepair from constant use far beyond their intended usage life, assembled from whatever components can come to hand. Every year we lose scores of Unioners - mostly families, from habitation failure. In short, we view our interest in your project as a strictly humanitarian one. A sufficiently scaled repair and service vessel would be the solution to one of the Union's most pressing needs.

We are so disinclined to arm the vessel that we would be entirely comfortable if the resultant product lacks artillery entirely. Only the repair functionality is of latent interest to us. We were planning to develop a similar project of our own accord before you approached us with the program, but the benefit to sharing R'n'D and manufacturing hours between us has obvious incentives. There is also the inherent advantage of a production line; the more of any set of materials you produce, the more fault-tolerant the resultant product becomes, and the cheaper the manufacturing process. One vessel, is a dangerous prototypic test article. Two, is a working production model.

We, of course, would work sequentially. Since the vessel is yours, your project would take Unioner priority. We would not section resources until your own design was finalised, to prevent conflict of interest or resource resistance.

Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.

Transmission Ended

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