>: Crayter Republic

[Reeves]

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Sender: Alliance Commander "Cobra"
Recipient: Agent Vernier
Subject: Olive Branch

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I am putting my hand out in the interests of something I should hope we both want.

The continued survival of our Republics, despite the best efforts of the Houses who appear to be more than happy to meddle and mangle wherever possible. I am offering you what is enclosed as a token of gratitude for how forthcoming one of your military officers happened to be, I recall their codename being Spark.

For your reading pleasure

Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Ceylon
To: Xenos
From: Office of the Admiralty, BAF

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To whom this may concern,

The Admiralty Board of the Bretonian Armed Forces wants to submit a formal request to the public representative(s) of the Xeno movement for a temporary agreement within the Independent Worlds due to recent moves by the Republic of Liberty.

We propose an exchange consisting of modern weaponry, materials and ship parts in return for information regarding the Liberty Navy's movements within the Kansas system and for a guarantee that the supplied systems and materials will be utilized directly against the efforts of the Liberty Navy.

We await your reply.

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Office of the Admiralty
Bretonian Armed Forces

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While I have no fondness for the current mandates and policies of your Government, I do have a fondness for what you're trying to do. And I'd like to see your nation standing on its own feet years from now. I'm not a House politician, I will freely admit my self interest - your independence ensures mine, and mine yours. Neither of us are endowed with the endless lines of meat and metal to throw at a problem, that advantage is reserved for the Great Houses.

But we could do things the Houses could never dream of achieving together, why? Because the Houses can never bring themselves to agree on principal, too broken and decadent to respect what belongs to someone else. Too caught up in what they want and what they lack to understand how little there is to go around. Their wars will never end, and if they could have it their way, it would be our people they send to die fighting them.

I imagine that's why Bretonia intended for you to serve as the bulwark into Inverness, and why Liberty is presenting you with all those Trojan horses - no doubt hoping you won't see all the rot behind those pearly white smiles of theirs.

So I'm left only with one question. Can we agree on principal? Because I personally refuse to be manipulated by their offerings of short term benefit, all they're ever going to do is play us against each other because they're afraid of what we'd do if all of us went after them instead.

Maybe we should.

"Liberty or death."
-"Cobra"

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