To: Temporary Autonomous Zoners | From: Your friendly neighbourhood ex-Raiders

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Identification: Minister Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Ministry of Relations

To: Mad John Rackham and the Temporary Autonomous Zoners
CC: Johnathan Jones, Aquila Defense Systems

Subject: We require additional pylons
Encryption: Zounds and gadzooks!
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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John!

Boy howdy is it ever good to hear from you.

I'll give you the long and short of it: We've got ourselves out in somewhere that's so nowhere even Gallia wasn't interested in it. So while we're safe from being thwapped in the noggin by an angry man with a case of wine and a Valor we've got more of a logistical problem more than anything else. The solution, of course, friendship.

Friendship, and credits.

Now, we've been out of the "hiring contractors for modular base construction" game for a while but we're in need of the following:

• 100,000x Industrial Hardware
  
• 40,000x Heat Sinks
  
• 40,000x High Performance Alloy
  

Monetarily speaking, we can do you for 200% over your operating costs on the supply commodities, plus a flat three million bonus per five thousand units delivered. Altogether, if your people choose to fully complete the contract, that will be 156 million credits paid out by the dockmasters and 96 million credits of bonuses transferred upon submission of delivery receipts, for a grand total of 252 million shiny little Sirian credits. If you want to give a certain commodity a trial run to determine whether or not this is a good fit, that works too (and in that case, we'd prefer the industrial hardware, as those are a bit tricky for us to acquire in bulk.)

And if you want, we can put together a list of additional materials we'll need to continue our construction. Assuming this contract works out for you, of course.

Regardless of whether or not the TAZ accepts this contract, we'll make sure the dockmasters accept y'all with open arms. You'd be more than welcome over for a spot of tea any time.

23's,
Harold Kane
Minister of Relations, Natio Octavarium

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