I believe my envoy to you explained everything in detail, but let me repeat just the key points. The Hellfire Legion betrayal over six years ago resulted not only in a very painful loss of our flagship and numerous assets, but also made us extremely paranoid when it comes to repetition of a similar scenario in future. You knew it very well from the day one, Victoria. If there is a slightest chance you might betray us we would rather terminate our alliance now to minimize and contain the damage. From the day one we were nothing else than fully supportive to your cause. Whenever you called for help we were there asking for nothing in return. We did nothing to warrant your suspicions, while you repaid us with a breach of our trust by concealing your ongoing negotiations with The Hellfire Legion from us, when all you had to do was to trust us. If you simply had told us in January that you plan to sign a ceasefire with the Legion and kept us it the loop, current conversation would have not taken place.
Fiasco of Mr Malprave's mission and continuing silence on your end did not improve the situation either. Despite all of this, we continued to support you whether you knew it or not. Lieutenant Taylor maybe forgot to inform you that parts of the data core you mentioned were delivered by an independent associate of mine, John Silverstone. I have convinced him to choose your offer out of entire competition and even give you a significant discount. Mr Malprave was overseeing this transaction last week.
The bottom line is that it is still our intention to maintain this alliance, but unfortunately it can continue only under the condition that we have a solid guarantee of your loyalty. This time I would rather not waste breath for a gentle diplomacy and get straight to the business details of my offer.
The Battlegroup Harmony will receive 12 Vindicators and 6 Transgressors in order to fill in losses in existing wings. You will obviously participate in assembly effort which is about twice as costly as their corresponding vessels' employed by the Navy. Naturally we will continue to provide maintenance and spare parts for these vessels afterwards.
Point 6 of the alliance document is declared null and void. What was meant to be a safeguard for us proved to be highly ineffective. You are obviously free to maintain your operations center on Cochrane on your own accord, though given the fact that you are now almost exclusively contained within Bering and Texas, it might be useless.
In order to improve cooperation The Lane Hackers will maintain a position of a permanent observer within The Battlegroup Harmony high command with unrestricted access to all intelligence resources. No data will be used without a prior consent. As you can imagine a senior Lane Hacker stationed aboard Harmony is the most solid guarantee and all I need. This is also a leap of faith you have to make. Specifically, that you trust us that we do not break our own deals and will not use this vulnerability against you.
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