To: Crayter MoFA

[Imogen Jau]

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Greetings, Ministers of the Republic. I am Sentinel Gestalt, speaking here on behalf of the Directorate and Inner Phalanx of the Technocracy of Auxo, and by extension for all of our people.

Our states have had conflicts with each other for some time, largely based on border friction and needless tit-for-tat escalation. In truth, there is no substance to this quarrel, and our core policy directives are far from incompatible. Speaking personally, I was quite young when your nation arrived in Bretonia from the Crayter sector. I recall hearing the news of your flight to the Tau sector, and, having never been especially political, not knowing what to make of it, only knowing that the stories I heard the BBC presenters telling on the holofeeds must have been one-sided.

Now, as a grown woman, I look back on your history with sadness. The Bretonians branded your entire nation terrorists, and for years waged a low-scale war against you in the Taus which was always intended to be an imperialist war of domination and eventual genocide in the name of fueling their extraction-based economy, so that BMM might have turned your home of Tau-44 into another smog-ridden hellhole as they had Leeds. This diplomatic stance changed only once the then-Kingdom of Gallia appeared on the scene, who were far louder and more aggressive about their intent to do the same to all of Sirius than New London ever was.

With a noble spirit of forgiveness, and from the tenacious urge to survive, you buried the hatchet with one Crown so that together you could topple another, and no one in Sirius will ever forget it. The consequences of that terrible war have changed the galaxy forever, with over six billion lives lost, and billions more having fled to all corners of inhabited space, myself among them. Your Republic lost hundreds upon hundreds of skilled fighters and thousands of civilian lives in the evacuation of Tau-44 alone, to say nothing of the rest of the Gallic War. To this day, your national motto—“for those we left behind”—now has a dual meaning.

Regardless, your people continue to fight against the Outcast menace, untrustworthy and conniving schemers who attempt to subvert the independence of all humanity by reducing us to the status of biological dependents with their cardamine. You know them better than anyone else—you know that the only reason they never did to you what King Charles' forces did to Bretonia is solely due to lack of sufficient firepower. We in the Technocracy also understand the threat posed by Malta.

Yet not everyone is so wise. Our intelligence operatives have informed us that, while now deprecated, the Bretonian Crown signed a treaty with Malta's oligarchs. This treaty would have obliged them to stab Crayter in the back if Malta demanded it, and gave the Outcasts a free hand to spread their poison throughout Bretonia. The same treaty handed over all the hard work of your allies, the Independent Miners' Guild, in the Taus to the Outcasts. All this despite the fact that Crayter and Bretonia were mutually engaged in struggle against the Royalists at the time, and that most of those Guild members were—still are—Bretonian citizens.

To make up for their inability to maintain consistent friendship with the treacherous Bretonians, the Outcasts have expanded their influence in Liberty. It's becoming an open secret that the Xenos are falling within Malta's grasp too, finally edging their way in on the cardamine trade. Now, the entire Libertonian underworld is within the vicegrip of the orange poison that to this day seeks to eradicate your entire nation and ours alike. With the chaos in the Pennsylvania System, it's only a matter of time before the Outcasts take advantage of the situation to further cement their power there, too. Refugee crises, as you're well aware, create desperate people. Desperate people without the means to run or fight take what they can get, and pushing cardi is easy money.

In the face of this threat, it's beyond childish that we continue fighting each other when we have no reason. The Technocracy seeks a reconciliation with Crayter's parliament and people, even if it ends up being temporary or conditional. We have to stand together to face this threat. Speaking on behalf of the Directorate, I'm not going to say “please talk with us”, or ask “are you interested”. I'm going to say “let's talk terms”.

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