To: MAE Board of Directors | From: Amiral Rose-Marie Dumont, EDA

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RECIPIENT: Amiral Rose-Marie Dumont, Marteau des Hebrides
SENDER: CRO Vardan Raza, MAE R&D Division
LOCATION: Uxeau-de-Bordeaux, planet Bordeaux, Aquitaine system
ENCRYPTION: High
SUBJECT: Sledge-class Cannons

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Dear Amiral Dumont,

My name is Vardan Raza. I am the Chief Research Officer of the Montluc Advanced Engineering Incorporated. It is an honour to meet you, Amiral.

Our corporation is familiar with this kind of weapon and even if we had no chance to perform field tests before, we are capable of the manufacture of this kind of cannons. However, due to the various difficulties with manufacturing, which includes hard to find recourses and the possible additional expenses the price of a single unit of the Sledge-class cannon shall be $787,500,000 Gallic francs, including 25% discount for you as an Enclave clientele. Would you be ready to pay so for its manufacturing, direct the francs to bank accounts MAE|La.Grosse.Dame and MAE|L'Astrolabe.

Should you be interested in the general working principles of the Sledge's cannons, I will briefly introduce them to you. As you are well aware, this is a Rheinland prototype battleship weapon. As all made there, its a very heavy, slow firing and high powered hardware suitable for use on massive warships only, and optimal against targets of equal size.

Long Range Plasma Turret "Fierbois" with the projectile capacity of 2500M (2.5K)

Based on the C-48 Cerberus Heavy Repeater, the Sledge-class plasma weapon is not compatible with battleship heavy battery mounts. Nevertheless, the Sledge has several advantages over Cerberus-class turrets. It includes an ability to be mounted with a battleship primary battery mounts and increased projectile decay range than it's bigger brother has. The price of this is a reduced projectile destruction force (starts from 60% and ends to 75% of a theoretical Cerberus-class battleship battery, depends on the calibration and wear-and-tear damage of the cannon)

In general, the Cerberus, as well as any of its variations, consists of a plasma condenser, capacitor, loader and an energy converter. The converter takes it's energy from the capacitor and converts the nuclear energy taken from the main reactor into lethal plasma, which is then sent to the condenser before it is sent to the feeder. Condensers capsulate the stored plasma and sends it to the loader for the plasma round to be shot.

Should you be interested in additional details it will be an honour for me to provide you with them. However, would you wish to proceed exactly to the deal - we are waiting for a confirmation that you are agreed with our terms.

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