TO: Bretonian Parliament and Cabinet of the Kingdom Of Bretonia

[The Kingdom of Bretonia]

Message Class: Audio-Visual

Encryption: Holyrood
To: Venator Onyx Statuette, Auxesia
From: Assistant Undersecretary to the Foreign Office Nigel Swindle

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Ah, good morning to our subtenants! It is relieving to hear that you are still alive. My name is Nigel Swindle, I work for the Foreign Office and it is my pleasure to meet you, mister... Onyx Statuette. I have been instructed to deliver the Cabinet's proposal about how to resolve our little misunderstanding.

It has been a long time since the Kingdom of Bretonia received you as guests in Inverness and gave you a place to settle yourselves there. You might have forgotten. People forget, that's what people will always do. That is why people should be reminded. Since you are still alive, I assume nobody has yet been sent to remind you. I personally disapprove of the way the SIS likes to remind our debtors, so that is good. Well then, we'd better get this over with before they finish their tea and start moving!

Dunedin can be sold. That shouldn't be a problem. We can sell it, we can lease it, we can move it too... At your expense, of course. It is you who is bothered by its presence, after all. But Inverness as a system will demand more.

Yes, it is a bit desolate and our corporations and military forces have more important things to do. At this moment. That will probably change within the next couple of years, but this is not what makes it complicated. We will be interested in exploring the threat level of the supposed aliens and the phantom Gallic warship that you've mentioned, but first we must settle the matters at hand. Inverness is part of Queen Carina's title. I quote: "Carina I, Queen of Bretonia, Empress of the Taus, Sovereign of the systems of Exeter, Inverness and Nottingham." The Cabinet has a special proposal for you in this regard.

We are ready to recognise Auxesia's claim over Inverness under one condition: that Auxesia becomes a Commonwealth state. This would mean that Auxesia would recognise Queen Carina as its head of government, but still keep much of its autonomy. The limitations would include that Auxesia will not attack Bretonian allies, that Auxesia will not work with Bretonian enemies and that our two states may request aid from each other against common enemies. Since Bretonia has a claim on Inverness, then this would also imply that Bretonia would defend it from invaders -- the system and those who hold it in the monarch's name.

How does this sound then?

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