To: The Unione Corse (UC~) From: Orbital Spa and Cruise (OS&C|)

[Stoner_Steve]

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* ID: James Blackwood, Public Relations Manager
* Location: Planet Curacao

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Principal Alard,

While your change in tone is most welcome we will need to work on a mutual understanding of Orbitals business practices. As I'm sure you are aware Orbital is a Trans-Sirius Corporation. With that in mind; if it is convenient, or more accurately, cheaper to work with say, Rhineland Shipping over USI, we of course will make that decision. For our economic benefit. Which is to say you are more than welcome to have your corporate disputes with IDF, provided we are left out of it.

While I am intrigued by the inner machinations of your House, we do need to move onto actual business. Which is to say our terms. I am willing to concede that the 5 million credits is a measly sum to our treasuries and wave repayment. But I must be firm about the other two. We cannot have our guests shaken like children trying to get candy bars from vending machines for free. There needs to be an understanding that your men will be able to restrain themselves at the sight of one of our delicate Liners. Furthermore we cannot simply arrive at Marseille without some further information on planet-side conditions. While we have been looking at purchasing the Antibes we haven't put much time yet into actually researching the system or its planets. Most of the work done so far has been on debt schedules on transportation analysis. We will need you to provide us with more intimate knowledge of the people, their tastes, needs, local hotel capacity numbers for the last 90 days. Those sorts of things.

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