Bowex InfoNet (inRP)

[jammi]

Incoming Transmission from Planet Cambridge
Cambridge, Kingdom of Bretonia
29th February 827 A.S.

To: Bowex InfoNet [department manager access credentials]
Priority: Normal
Topic: Memo RE unsolicited offer of boxes for sale

Message Contents:

At approximately 15:20 New London standard the BES Davenport was contacted by an individual self-identifying as Garcia Ortega. An earlier chance encounter with a vessel bearing the same transponder stamp indicates that the individual is affiliated with the Outcast criminal cartels.

Ortega insinuated that they had gained access to Ageira white boxes (biometrically secured shipping vaults containing proprietary trade lane and jump gate technology). He believed that these items may be of interest to Bretonia, in so far as reverse engineering them could assist in the development of our own domestically produced infrastructure. Ortega then left instructions for contacting a 'Rodrigo Diaz', who appears to be his superior.

I must stress that it is beyond reasonable doubt that these goods were obtained illegally. There would be potentially extreme legal repercussions should it be discovered that Bretonian representatives had attempted to circumvent Liberty's intellectual property protections. Raw comm data appended.

Unfortunately my helmsman (Gary?) is a raving incontinent and has no idea what he is talking about in the slightest. I honestly don't know how he qualified to fly my vessel. It is abundantly clear that Mr Ortega wishes to sell us some white shipping containers that previously belonged to Ageira.

I don't particularly know why he felt that I, personally, would appreciate such an unsolicited marketing call, but there it is should you fellows wish to make use of it.

That being said, I would be rather reluctant to rely upon second hand shipping containers. I am assuming that Ageira probably threw them away for good reason, and I am rather loathe to pay scavengers for another man's leavings.

You've no assurance of quality after all, and my own experience with second hand goods tells me you're liable to be rather awfully scalded when the blasted things immolate themselves.

Raw communications transcript 2903827CAM1

[29.02.827 15:20:40] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Hola, Bowex!
[29.02.827 15:22:02] Bowex)Davenport: *Muffled* You, employee, bring the telebroadphone over.
[29.02.827 15:22:06] Bowex)Davenport: *Rustling*
[29.02.827 15:22:19] Bowex)Davenport: Hello, yes, speaking?
[29.02.827 15:24:15] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Hola! Amigo. What are you in Bowex?
[29.02.827 15:24:53] Bowex)Davenport: Oh, I see. You're one of those foreign sorts. Yes. I'll speak slowly. Yes, I am 'in' Bowex.
[29.02.827 15:25:41] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Ese, don't be playin' smart with me. I need you to do something for me.
[29.02.827 15:25:44] Bowex)Davenport: Wait, I vaguely recall your voice. Were you the chapette who tangled with that awful Enclave oike?
[29.02.827 15:28:10] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Si, that was me. The Gaul relied heavily on mines and disabled my ship... Unfortunately
[29.02.827 15:28:31] Bowex)Davenport: A pity. Oh well. You said you wanted something?
[29.02.827 15:29:25] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Si, si amigo. I need you to pass a message onto your superiors. We have came across some Ageria White Boxes, and since Bretonia looks like it could do with some 'extra' infrastructure. Maybe you're interested.
[29.02.827 15:30:46] Bowex)Davenport: Well, I don't quite know why we'd want white boxes specifically, we seem to have lots of other boxes of other colours that are perfectly serviceable.
[29.02.827 15:31:23] Bowex)Davenport: Why, I was walking through the spaceport only this morning and there were all sorts of boxes, filled with... well, things.
[29.02.827 15:32:01] Bowex)Davenport: It must be rather bland at Ageira if they only use white boxes...
[29.02.827 15:32:01] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Ohh, ese... These are the cargo containers that Liberty corporations uses to transport jump gate and trade lane parts
[29.02.827 15:32:59] Bowex)Davenport: Oh, the bits that make the lanes work?
[29.02.827 15:33:20] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Si si.
[29.02.827 15:33:25] Bowex)Davenport: Wouldn't that... void the warranty or something?
[29.02.827 15:33:42] Bowex)Davenport: I don't really know how those things work, honestly.
[29.02.827 15:34:37] Bowex)Davenport: Why, there was this one time while I was still attending jolly old university that one of my chums decided he was going to build his own quantum calculator as a bit of a lark.
[29.02.827 15:35:16] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Look... look. Ese. Ask your jefe's if they're interested in some of these parts. They can reverse engineer them or something...
[29.02.827 15:35:27] Bowex)Davenport: But the silly thing burst into flames because he'd used some second hand parts from Kusari. Cheaper, you see?
[29.02.827 15:35:35] Bowex)Davenport: That's why it's not a sensible choice to be poor.
[29.02.827 15:35:38] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Bretonia made trade lanes! How does that sound.
[29.02.827 15:36:29] Bowex)Davenport: But we already have those. Don't we? I'll certainly drop a memo off and let them know that you've got some white boxes though.
[29.02.827 15:37:04] Bowex)Davenport: *Muffled* Employee, draft a message and send it back to Cambridge. I'll proofread it later.
[29.02.827 15:37:31] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: That would be news to me, your lanes are all Ageria built. Anyway, I'm just the messenger.
[29.02.827 15:37:58] Bowex)Davenport: Hmm. Yes. I do vaguely recall hearing that Ageira had something to do with trade lanes. You may be correct there.
[29.02.827 15:39:55] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: Well, there you go! - Some White Boxes without Ageria oversight. I suspect you could do a lot with those.
[29.02.827 15:40:23] -|-Garcia.Ortega: Garcia: If your jefe's are interested, tell them to send a comm to Rodrigo Diaz.
[29.02.827 15:41:35] Bowex)Davenport: Yes well, I'm positive they'll treat your offer for boxes seriously.
[29.02.827 15:41:45] Bowex)Davenport: Toodle pip, and all that.

Captain Horatio Fairfax Rodney Alfred Bickerton
BES Davenport
Borderworld Exports

Transmission End

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