The Hawaii Summit

[Emperor Tekagi]

The Kusarian delegation remained quiet, listening to the Brotherhoods and Deterrence's vast list of demands. While Secretary Ishimaru was busy writing down a handful of bullet points, mostly regarding the Corsairs demands, Umehara got his shoulder tapped on by the KNF man just when Nina concluded her list. The tap was unconcealed and clearly held indications on the man's opinion as well as on what Umehara would say in the following.

Umehara himself formed a rather strong opinion on his own during the past minutes, the way they greeted them, the rushed methods. He did not expect the fine art of diplomacy from Corsairs, though he had issues hiding his true opinion and speak diplomatically himself now.

"Executor Ravenna, Centurion Rodriguez. We thank you for informing us so thoroughly about each of your parties expectations and desires. Naturally, we expected a degree of eagerness, though I wish to remind everyone here that this negotiations are the very first steps on a very long road to a full-scale formalization and implementation of official relations between the Empire of Kusari and the people of Crete."

Umehara briefly rearranged his position on the chair, folded his hands and briefly let his view sway over to the Naval Forces representative, who merely gave him a nod. Only then did he continue, calmly speaking:

"We shall begin with addressing the points which were expected to be brought up by your side and thus received ample of attention within the relevant state organs prior to this meeting.

The Defence Ministry has settled to disapprove of officially including any Corsair vessels as hired mercenaries. Instead of access to regular bounty board work, the Empire of Kusari is interested in ratifying an unique contract with the people of Crete. We shall dive into the details of such a contract a bit later.

Additionally, the Defence Ministry, alongside the Shogunate and the Board of Admiralty of the Naval Forces settled on multiple restrictions to be imposed on Corsair vessels until the people of Crete have proven themselves as sufficiently trustworthy: No warships will be permitted within Kusari space, all such vessels will be treated like any other foreign warship. Vessels of Gunboat-class shall be permitted. No vessel bearing Corsair identification codes will be permitted past the Honshu system within Kusari.

On the topic of Shirosato Station, we have good news for you. The business opportunity represented by the trade flow to and from the station was already forwarded to the relevant parties and negotiations are on-going independently from this summit. This includes Samura's vast number of food related subsidiaries.

Matters such as the cultural exchange or our relations to the Gas Miner Guild shall wait, as I expect a significant amount of questions and points from your side already again."

Umehara nodded slightly, his eyes meeting the Naval representative's again, who now stood up, briefly walked to the Secretary and whispered her something, before he kept staying at roughly two meters from his char. Waiting.