>: Freeport 53

[Midnight Princess]

-opening transmission-
-source: Midnight Princess-
-subject: Freeport 53-

Okay, so we've talked about these points and most of this suits us just fine, but since you're offering negotiation, we'll try to do some of that.
No contention with point one, you're welcome anytime.
Point three sounds fine, the debris sea's big enough for everyone, I'd say.
Affirmative on point four, although if someone's in that area, they'd probably know about them already. But not from us.
Five sounds great to us, we're probably going to be keeping to ourselves mostly, but you never know when you might need help with something. I couldn't have gotten far without outside help myself.

So that leaves the point of dispute, point two. We don't have any docking rights registry because, well, it's a Freeport. Restricting our ports would kinda defeat the purpose of that.
Now I seriously doubt the Republic would be sending any cops out to a place like this, but I can't say the same about some of the other people in the area that you might have a problem with. Here's the problem. If, say, a Rogue found themselves in front of closed doors, or worse, saw the Alliance docking but themselves shut out, I imagine we'd be getting some pretty angry mail and very likely a pretty angry visit from them. At that point we've gone from a group of independents to being full into the turf wars of the area, and we'd just have to hope our side comes out on top.

I think the Freeport approach is probably our safest bet here, keep the doors open and let people figure it out from there. Seems to work well enough for Fontana.
Now what I can offer is that we hold a message line open to keep you up-to-date on the comings and goings. Then you'll still have an edge over the others and you won't be caught off guard by anyone, but we can still maintain the neutral harbor status.

How's that sound?

- Valerie