To: Secret Intelligence Service

[Lythrilux]

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»ID: Nathan Archos
»Location: Dagger Station, Omega-55
»Subject: Operation Veil
»ENCRYPTION: INVINCIBLE

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Mr. Hudson,

I'm glad we are already off to a good understanding of the conflict. It is unsurprising that neutrals are scum; they have no strong convictions or beliefs to guide them nor justify their purpose. They are simply leeches, who feed off borrowed time, false promises, and crocodile tears. That is why the best resolution to this crisis is to be merciless, to crush their spirit, and to make them rue the day they ever dared rise above their own festering dirt.

The Core has drawn up methods to help end this conflict quickly.

• Whilst the Independent Miners Guild have many friends, ultimately those ties are no more than social circles composing of misfits who have more pressing concerns elsewhere. Minimising the number of dissidents is the solution to keep the opposition's number count low. As much as we despise them, the Hessians and Coalition should perhaps be approached by Bretonian organisations with logical proposals to keep them out.
  
• The Core is willing to launch a rapid, heavy strike on the shipyard to temporarily cripple its operational capacity and ready itself for annexation by Bretonian forces. This would be much like our strike on Freeport 11.The idea here is for Core to act akin to a terrorist organisation, and for Bretonia to respond with horror to our aggression and to extend an olive branch to the Guild: Bretonia takes control of the shipyard and offers to repair the damage.
  
• Finally, The Core is more than able to offer direct military assistance against Guild and resistance forces. We can easily shift ships from our Omega forces to help tip the scales in your favour. This and our above proposal may be mutually exclusive, however.

Our price for our involvement is simple: we want what the IMG were originally offered; AP Manufacturing taking administratio of Aland to help construct Capital vessels. The capital scaffolding at Aland Shipyard would not only serve as perfect construction points for Dunkirk Battleships, but Makos as well. Alternatively, BMM can handle Kirks and the like if you don't want us anywhere near them, and the station can be run jointly between our two parties.

And once you've won this conflict, you'll need a strong bulwark to protect your interests in the Omega region. With a solid shipyard rooted in Omega-3, APM constructing capitals in the Omega region will be a great boost for the both of us.

With your permission, I'd like to patch in the Armed Forces into this communication, given the recent rapid development of events in the past 48 hours.

-N. Archos
Supreme Guildkeeper, The Core

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