Fraser stood up, looking around the table. Gentlemen and women, let me get straight to the point. The Kingdom intends to lay claim to the system of Omega 49 along with Planet Gran Canaria. Why invite you then you may wonder, considering that this system is as much in your sphere of influence as in ours. Well, the simple reason is that the Admiralty and I suppose the War Cabinet as well, do not want a war with the Coalition.
We have been reducing tensions and building a growing relation over the course of the last one or two years of the war without any real incidents. Therefore we decided to extend our hand for cooperation instead of senslessly sheding each others blood while our real enemies laugh at our incompetence.
To make this clear right from the start, we do not intend to drive everyone out of the system apart from us. Our main objective is annexing Gran Canaria, preferably with minimal violence. The War Cabinet will reach out to the Zoners within the near future to negotiate about a possible friendly takeover of the planet without derooting families and taking peoples belongings. But there is a matter that will most certainly not solve itself, namely the Corsairs. Both our nations know of their barbaric nature and their willingness to burn every hint of civilisation down for an easy profit. I suppose even in the best of cases not all of them will leave the planet on their own wich leaves us with the question how to treat them. The Admiralty proposes a rather conventional solution. Every Corsair who did not leave the planet will be considered a combatand and treated accordingly.
To sum it up. From a military perspective the prefered outcome for the Admiralty would be a takeover with no loss of life whatsoever, but more likely there will be fighting with Corsair settlers. We see no reason to kill Zoners if they do not decide to take up arms against us. We see no reason to fight your forces or those of the Hessians or Mollys for that matter, given this is a mutual interest. The Mollys have had to feel Gallias inhumanity by themselves recently, I can see no reason why we should reignite fighting with them even if the non agression pact is not signed yet.
The Armed Forces see no problem with your ships continuing to travel the system and refuel on Gran Canaria, should we come to an agreement. I personally would consider the desired result a more than zero sum game. We will gain ground for refugees to settle, you will not be bothered by Corsair activity in the system while retaining full access and maybe the future can bring our combined forces to bear down on the heart of their activity in our backyard, Cadiz.
