To: Corsair Empire communications network

[Enkidu]

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Errant Ident: Dessalegne Linhares Cabrera
Errant Outbound Node: Thira Colony, Omicron Xi
Topical Proclamation: Negotiated settlement with The Order

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Ilia has given our piece. I stand by his words, so I come forward as a practitioner of the trade. It is not the way of our people to sit quietly on our reservations.

Primeiro Tenente Axiotis, este documento é uma representação do coração indomado do touro. Your family shoulders the gravitas of living history. The Church of Crete will hallow your name at the santuario de sacrificios, for you have made a sacrifice for us, Black Flags.

The Bull is steadfast. The Bull feels the fibre in its muscles and the wire in its bones. We Cretians see law as action. Our justice moves with godspeed. Ambiguity is the enemy of survival, and a document for debate or contest will undermine the spirit of its creators. It is the nature of the young to test the mettle of the old. It is their righteous purpose, to induce contest and the new.

I believe a dishonest man, who was not a signatory to the inceptor's intent, could exploit this treaty without a strong detail of the borders of 'Order-controlled Space.'



That definition must be pressure-tight and rigged for battle. Not to be Guapería; the living church holds to the old ways of Jim Brown and the First guilders. The trade is sacred. No treaty comes above the trade.

The opening of the system known as Omicron Nu is a vital artery for our empire. The Sanctified cartels pass through Nu, and into Minor and Zeta, with the Bull at their backs. The Knossos artifacts carried by these transports fund solar storm shelters, feed desperate mouths, clothe the shorn. They are biotherapy to Leon, the rock of the Jihad to the north. They are the Malvalda standard in the currency of unregistered arms from the Core Worlds – the same arms that scour the Outcasts from the edge systems.

The Church can see a situation where the Order will frame Omicron Minor or Zeta as their space. The Order’s intention must be as precise as their name.

We Tauri will back this treaty with our acts. To sanctify this document, I request that a Tauri attends the next round of negotiations. It’ll help Crete pre-empt any contest - a spiritual eye will heed details another will not. We have our own points of discussion with Order, the fruits and nature of which we pray we will share with the Empire, and with the Flag.

Oh, consider this an open offer to invite yourselves to the Asturian shrine, brothers. They say revelry is good for the soul - we try to be excellent hosts. Pick your pleasure.

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Ofrezco mi carne al cuerpo de Creta. Ofrezco mi corazón a su pasión, mi sangre transfundida al pueblo. Ofrezco mi todo para conocer mi alma; Entonces sabes que estoy realmente vivo.

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