To: The Core/APM; From: Bretonian Office for Trade and Industry | Aland

[The Kingdom of Bretonia]

Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Whitehall
To: The Core HC, APM Management
From: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Sir Henry Fairfax, Bretonia

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Esteemed Guildmaster Nathan Archos,

The Kingdom of Bretonia has decided to sell Aland Shipyard to the Core or its sub-branch the APM, under the following conditions:

The Bretonian Government will:

• Transfer Aland Shipyard to the Core, whereby it will switch to Core IFF protocols.
  
• Maintain 10% ownership of Aland Shipyard. The Core will retain the other 90%. If the shipyard changes hands due to the 'Crisis Clause', these percentages will swap over.
  • The Kingdom of Bretonia will not hold any facilities on the shipyard, but will instead be paid 10% of its profit monthly. Should the shipyard create a deficit, the Kingdom of Bretonia has the right to impose profit-generating policies, or not take part in the division of the deficit.

In exchange, The Core will:

• Pay 250,000,000,000 (two hundred and fifty billion) Sirius Credits to the Kingdom of Bretonia.
  
• Implement the 'Crisis Clause' - if similar events (such as inter-House war) that prompted Bretonia to request, and then seize, Aland Shipyard occur again, The Core will willingly transfer ownership of Aland Shipyard to the Bretonian Government / produce Bretonian Capital Ships for the Armed Forces within a week's notice.
  
• Construct a cutting edge Iridium refinery on Aland, allowing us to produce and deliver the metal to Bretonia with increased efficiency.
  
• Use Aland Shipyard to construct Threshers, Bullheads and Makos to help boost Core and Bretonian efforts in the local region.
  
• Supply the Bretonian Armed Forces, and the Secret Intelligence Service, with 6 snubcraft each of their choice from the new Core/APM APX shipline.
  
• Supply the Bretonian Armed Forces, and the Secret Intelligence Service, with 48 Core/APM APC fighter guns of their choosing.
  
• Ensure that the Bretonian Government has timed exclusive use of future weaponry produced by APM, including but not limited to Capital Ship Turrets.
  • This does not include Nomad weaponry.
• Maintain its current garrison in the Nottingham/Omega-3 System.
  • As soon as a new Core capital ship is produced, it will not be added to the garrison, but it will be sent out of the borders of the Kingdom of Bretonia, unless granted a special permission.
    
  • The garrison may uphold the Bretonian Charter of Interstellar Law, but not the Omicronis Legal Codex, within the Nottingham/Omega-3 System.
    
  • The garrison is subjected to the Bretonian Charter of Interstellar Law, except as exempted by this agreement.
• Eventually use Aland Shipyard to construct a civilian line of ships, created by APM. Once again, Bretonia will get first access to these.
  

Proof of the highest bidder, as required by the Clause 1, Section 2 of the agreement proposed by the Core.

Sir Henry Fairfax
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
Kingdom of Bretonia

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