To: Kusari Naval Forces; KNI | From: Bretonian Armed Forces

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Recipient: Fleet Admiral Harold Sommerville
Sender: Kusari Naval Intelligence
Date: 28.02.830
Subject: Insightful news
Priority: High

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Goryō speaking.

Whilst we are grateful that you try to lay out the bigger picture, it was unnecessary to cite publicly available information. It was all too easy to piece together a connection between the dubious Xenos news report and the revoking of the Curacao Treaty. What matters more is what exactly moved the Republic of Liberty to validate such a source in the first place. We will simply live with the assumption that this charade suited their own goals and they merely utilised it, for now. But we will keep in mind possible alternatives and pursue an investigation into this matter, after all perhaps it was orchestrated by Liberty forces to begin with? Perhaps it is authentic and we should be worried? - I do not have to cite the suspicious ignorance shown by our local troublemakers towards Bretonian assets around and briefly after the conflict between our nations over a decade ago.
But we do not expect our friends of Bretonia to be foolish and attempt any such stunts in this time and age. Stability and economic revitalisation represent shared key interests of all great houses right now.

Moving on to the more useful bits of information you willingly share with us, Admiral.
The statement provided as initial reaction to the law codex adjustments and revoking of the treaty by Liberty is a nice read, however it barely contains anything useful. A standard diplomatic reaction to a surprising move by a partner.

The fun begins with the Insurgency warship, Sommerville. It is the vessel in question here, am I correct? Asset Tsubaki was tracked down in Bretonia, transferred to Kusari sovereign space and executed for high treason. He did not see fit to mention his findings to us, inform us about the deal he made with your forces, and then attempted to defect together with as he lated admitted, an Order contact. As you were so very cooperative to share with us, the Liberty Security Forces was informed about the vessels destruction within the Omicrons after it escaped the Armed Forces. Interestingly, "an organization long considered extremely unwelcome in Liberty" fits the Order's description quite perfectly in this context. We are back at the Order here, Sommerville. It started with the Order assisting these Insurgents, it ended up with them seemingly destroying the vessel? Experience tells me that this LSF Operative all too easily gave up on the Enterprise here. They did not deliver you concrete evidence of its destruction at some later or earlier stage, did they? If not, assume the vessel is intact and in service of the Order now as it seems to have been the plan of Captain Thach right from the get go.

Finally, the accusations thrown by the Liberty Security Forces Department of Tactical Operations regarding the 'loss' of the Insurgency warship paired with your own description of the events leaves me with a worrying question. Are the Armed Forces in adequate shape? Please do not take offense in this question, as it is one of honest worry and consideration for Bretonia. Your house suffered immeasurably due to Gallia and our strong partnership exists in the light of mutual reconstruction and opposition to the cruelty Gallia committed. Though losing control of a captured warship within the context delivered by the LSF is something I hope can be described as "one time accident only". I am glad to see that the Armed Forces swiftly reacted to the flaws painted by the Enterprise successfully fleeing - hopefully this includes a proper scolding for whoever had oversight on the Enterprise. I can now understand the angered nature of the Liberty Security Forces. As with most Libertorians, they have a tendency to search for a scapegoat and they found it in whoever managed to lose this warship.

I strongly advice the house of Bretonia to stress the need to solve this diplomatically, however as you are surely aware yourself, means for negotiation are thin at this point. An escalation beyond small-scale intrusions by the LSF must be avoided at all costs.

In regards to ourselves, we do not have concrete evidence on recent large scale operations by the LSF or other Liberty forces within Kusari's sphere of interests. As it stands, all I will do is pass on instructions to the Office of Intelligence. If they see fit, they will send a few investigators into Bretonia and Liberty respectively. The KNI will restrict itself to the priorly mentioned observation duty across the Tau highway.

We should converse privately, Admiral.

In service of the Imperial Kusari Naval Intelligence, G.

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