To: IMG

[Independent Miners Guild]

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¤ LOCATION: <unknown>

¤ COMM-ID: Guang Yao

¤ TARGET-ID: Trevor Westbrook

¤ SUBJECT: USI situation

¤ ENCRYPTION: IMG M.E.T.A.N.O.L. Code

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Mr Westbrook;

Guildmaster Guang Yao here.
There is much to unpack here, and I hope to have addressed everything sufficiently by the end of my message. Needless to say your open threats made this a high priority transmission.

Since it is the core of your concern here, I will start with our stance towards Universal Shipping Incorporated. Now, you've made very clear the Republic's disapproval towards the hostility, but rather surprisingly never asked why it came to that in the first place, so let me fill in some background information.

Universal was found shipping construction materials to Aland, our occupied shipyard, to aid in the Bretonian war effort. Naturally when their shippers were intercepted by Guild patrols, they were made to drop their supplies.
In the transmission that followed, USI proved completely incapable of understanding the situation and instead not only demanded compensation and blocked us from their bases, but brazenly assured us of their further intent to support Bretonia against the Guild.

Even though the Crayter Republic forsook our alliance and refused to defend us against the Bretonian Imperialists, I'm certain you must recognize that the Guild is still at war, that we consider Aland our territory under enemy occupation, and Omega-3 a warzone. While we would not harass non-Bretonian shippers from conducting regular trade through the Omegas, bringing war materials to our stolen shipyard to directly aid the enemy is a different story. For USI to assume that we would not act against that is a hopelessly naive perspective.

To move on, we are rather perplexed why you seem to be taking such an intense interest in any of this at all. We are not aware of any particular ties Crayter has with Universal, besides being a corporation from a generally friendly house. Given how you completely abandoned your closest ally when they were attacked, it's rather strange to see you jumping to the defense of what, to my knowledge, is a neutral entity, although the Crayter Republic clearly has a rather different view of how diplomatic ties should function.
I would like to point out the irony of your condemnation of Xander's traitor fleet, your issuing of threats of invasion, and of calling us "friends" in the same message.
But to address the last part of that unambiguously: You are not our friends. The Crayter Republic not only failed to defend their ally against outside aggression, you worked against us actively, a schism in your Republic large enough to spawn a substantial battlegroup which played a major role in the Omega war and a coup d'êtat back at home gave us a good impression of how Crayter values their former allies.
I wish I could be surprised that you are now threatening war over a minor conflict with a neutral third party, but given your recent history I can't say I am.

If you really are intent on ending this conflict, I have to wonder why you are contacting us and not Universal? Clearly your ties with them are much closer, seeing how you are rushing to their aid immediately, something you don't appear to have ever done for the Guild.

Guang Yao
IMG Guildmaster

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