To: NO Ministry of Relations; From: Koushaku Shimamori Masahito

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Identification: Taskmaster-Adjutant Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium

To: Masahito Shimamori

Subject: RE: Peace Conference, Attempt Two
Encryption: Overachieved
Location: Canberra Star City, Tau-44

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Shimamori-sama,

My name is Harold Kane. In circumstances where the Minister of Relations is not available, or where military matters are more directly involved, I represent his office as the Taskmaster-Adjutant of the Fleet and as a former (retired) Minister of Relations.

It is always good to meet new people, and doubly so to meet people who you are ostensibly engaged in a conflict with. Even more good is when you are meeting people who seek an end to the conflict, though as I have gleaned from your message and, frankly, as I had anticipated, the end will not be an easy one to accomplish. As you noted, we are no strangers to organizing peace conferences -- the Leviathan conference in which the end of the Gallic War was formally signed was one of the moments that brought the Natio into the international stage. Unfortunately, it was also something of a mess, due to no delegations being sent by several parties, notably the house of Liberty.

Which brings me to the issue with your request: There are five houses in Sirius and they each have their quirks, which affect this plan in several ways. I shall detail them as follows:

• House Liberty: Largest and most intact of the houses, but generally unwilling to help others and more concerned with maintaining a rabid corporatocracy than keeping international peace. Unlikely to send a delegation.
  
• House Bretonia: Broken by ten years of war against a seemingly-limitless aggressor and several years of intermittent conflict with Kusari; they are not going to be interested in seeing further bloodshed in the Taus. Likely to send a delegation.
  
• House Kusari: I cannot render a blinking "you are here" sign in this message, but for the sake of levity, please imagine one now.
  
• House Rheinland: A house torn by civil war. Considering their current status and their history as an accessory to the Kingdom of Gallia during the War, this is possibly a dead-end, as we hold no favour with them whatsoever.
  
• House Gallia: There are three House Gallias right now and they cannot agree on how to deal with the continued insurgency of the exiled Kingdom that they deposed, let alone how to handle international incidents. May find a unified delegation to send, but as the defender in this conflict, it may not be what we're looking for.
  

Looking at the following non-house micronations, we have:

• Crayter Republic: Currently overextending and being punished for it by Kusari. May be willing to engage in a bit of propaganda to stop this nonsense, but expect any delegation that helps us to be black-bagged by their fascistic intelligence services.
  
• The Coalition: Not their problem.
  
• Crete: Also not their problem.
  
• Natio Octavarium: I'll fly myself over in a fighter if it'll stop yet another war everyone will lose in.
  
• Malta: Not unified enough to send a delegation, also not their problem.
  
• Liberty Insurgency: I don't think we're on speaking terms right now.
  

We want this war to end as much as you do. We have little breathing room as it is, and the Kusari Naval Forces making incursions into our territory means that we've had to authorize retaliatory strikes and disruption of logistics lines supporting the Kusari government. I don't want innocent people to be hurt, so offensive actions of violence have been declared a last resort burdened with paperwork and possible case review, but in any modern war there is the possibility of accidents.

I will reach out to people I know and trust and see what I can do. Let's see what we can do about this stupid war.

Regards,
Taskmaster-Adjutant Harold Kane
Natio Octavarium

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