To: Deterrence [DTR] HQ
Subject: [Time to pick sides...]
Priority: █ █ █ █ █
Encryption: [VERY HIGH]
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Freeport 1 [Omega 3 System]
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Señora Calliente,
I have received your message and I appreciate the swift response on your part.
In turn, I am hereby revealing my current whereabouts and enabling my direct Video & Audio feeds for communication, as a sign of mutual trust and good will.
Onto the matters at hand, I find your terms acceptable and am offering an assortment of exotic items, which I'd like to bestow to your organization, as a first gesture on my part - I am, after all, about to encroach into your turf in the Omega sector, so it only makes sense for the 'guest' to bring gifts. The items in question are quite hard to obtain and considered valuable... and also possibly dangerous. I trust you will find a greater use for them than I can, as surely your scientific expertise will be able to properly store and study them. I'm sending a cargo manifest for you to inspect shortly...
Now, all that's left to do is for me to make my way to Omega-41 and activate your secure beacon code, so we may finally meet.
One thing I would like to point out - I will be coming alone and my ship does not have any other crew on board (except basic maintenance droids, with less than one and a half brain cells' worth of intelligence).
You will, of course be welcome aboard "The Shovel" for an initial inspection to verify all of this, before we depart to your headquarters for a thorough look at everything you might be interested in.
A word given. A bond made, never broken. I will remember this.