To: Imperial Coalition From:Antonio de Mendoza Source: Malta, Omicron Alpha Subject: Trade and warring states at our doorstep
Buenas,
Seems like a full-scale war in Lorena between Kusari and the current regime of the Gallic systems. This looks like a territorial conflict and Kusari aims to take over significant amount of territory from Confederacy control. I think we can step in now and weaken both sides, preventing the warring parties getting too comfortable next to our doorstep or we can wait for losing signifcant amount of man and ships, so we may fight against tired out enemies. Of course there can be other options too, but we shouldn't just watch the chaos when we can profit from it. Taking over Metz would be great, because the planet have large population that later can be transported to Albegna and Soledad, so they can work in the mines and on the Cardamine fields. If they are ready, we can move the more civilised man on Malta too. In that case we will need biodomes to feed them.
Pushing out the Corse and the Maquis from system is also very important for the Cardamine trade in to the Gallic market.
The situation in Languedoc is unknown for me now. We may need to move an intel unit to do intel on both forces and the cause of the war (if it have any besides petty revenge). Based on the Tau-23 activity royalist frogs are already joined the fight, so there the Confederacy have to fight against 2 enemy. We should make their job harder on the other end of their borders or both if we have enough people and ship to move there.
Some say, this is an opportunity to increase the Cardamine trade to Leiden and beyond, because the Naval Forces have moved most of their forces to the Gallic borders.
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I can report good news too! Sandoval named pilot and I moved a large amount of Orange Dream to Liberty and moved back with livestock (Gallic- and Bretonian-origin). On our way saw a desperate battle between the Liberty Insurgency and the Liberty Navy. Thanks to this, they ignored us and we could move out from Liberty safely.