To MNG & GSB || From The Order

[Omicron]

Nomad countermeasure tech

While I am disappointed by the decline, nonetheless I fully understand and endorse your decision as your own sovereign right. Perhaps another time, when Seigneurs are fully convinced of our usefulness to the Union. Our offer is not retracted. Tech will be shipped to Union’s military port instead under Marine Nationale Gaulose’s supervision in this case. I will arrange for transportation to happen sometime this week. Expect Liberty ‘Bison’ or ‘Mastodon’ class under Order flag - quickly re-reading your laws, I believe merchant ships made by the ‘Libertarian’ hand are not an issue. Logistics and schedules in Edge Worlds are a finicky thing with Nomads in every direction so excuse my vagueness.

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Vatan

Feelings are mutual, our work is never done and our vigil: eternal. I learned to value even a mere act of stretching one’s legs and breathing fresh non-recycled air at a cold frontier world or busy civilian Gallic starport. Your info on Vatan is intriguing. Ship’s dated, perhaps predating the Wars. May explain why Nomads invested so heavily in bringing this vessel operational to modern day standards through growing their bioforms inside. There is clearly no point looking for this particular hull within Gallia's core worlds which by itself narrows our search pattern to Tau and Bretonian frontier. Thank you, Director. We will speak on this subject again when one of us gains more information.

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Case of Bouchard

I also took over Miss Valkyrie’s files, since she had been sent for an assignment to verify security in the area in question where Maquisard had been spotted. Unfortunately, that pilot was interrogated, but not captured. The flight leader assessed the situation on the fly and decided against bringing this pirate onto our stations proper. We’ve already been aware of certain cleverly disguised volatiles which had been utilized by their organization during the Second Gallic War. One of the leading causes why we never bothered to speak to them in the first place - Council was leagues more sophisticated and civilized. Instead, the wing leader decided to play ball and gather intelligence after relieving Bouchard of likely ill-gotten Sirius Credits as a fine. Possibly robbed a Kusarian or something along these lines.

Scans revealed in a post-action report indicated that even if we desired to attempt taking him dead or alive, Boucher’s ship was equipped with an expensive escape mechanism that might have amounted to even quarter of the ship’s overall worth, not too far behind leading producers in Sirius. All we would have achieved there and then would be to piss him off and terminate his usefulness as a source wherever his allies would have locked onto his beacon and recovered him. I believe you must know this frustration well. He is certainly someone important within their ranking structure, perhaps even a cell leader. I share the frustration with you, it's the aces and masterminds that are hardest to bag and tag, wherever rank and file low-tech pirates who know nothing of importance fill up the cells.

Any Maquis that surrenders or otherwise gets captured by The Order by any means will be sent gladly to any location of your choosing free of charge. We do not take kindly to useless prison population eating into rations of honest working men and women. Food is scarce here as it is.

Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
1st Battlegroup "Wargods", Black Fleet

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