OS&C| Orbital Spa & Cruise - Flight Logs & Internal Communications

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* ID: James Blackwood - Captain
* Location: OS&C|Atlantis

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Members of the Board,

While I appreciate the delicate situation that Orbital finds itself in I feel compelled to ask if a billion credit ransom is even worth 1800 odd passengers and crew, let alone an aging soon to be decommissioned liner. As Orbitals Director of Travel and Tourism a few short years ago we faced what was, at the time, the largest loss of life with the Mindoro Massacre within the Fleets history. Since that time not only have we lost the Luxury Liner Mackinac, we have seen profits fall across the sector, entire houses fall pray to revolution and one cannot forget the general piracy increase.

Additionally a records check shows that the Martinique isn't even apart of Orbitals current Fleet Management System. Meaning this entire operation was being run without the Directors consent or knowledge, and more importantly I feel, without posting the vessels profits to Orbitals Operation Account per guidelines.

In short these sorts of things happen and the board would be ill advised to pay out any ransom that allows a bounty charge of over 100,000 credits a head on a Liner who refused to compete a simple registration form for our administrative staff or even contribute to our Operations Fund.

The Martinique Ransom reasonably shouldn't run Orbital more than 200 million credits even if they had registered with our fleet management system. Anything more than that, to be blunt; would make it cheaper to pay a P.R. firm to scrub the interlink of any mention of the Martinique.

Regards,
James Blackwood

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