To IMG of Sirius

[Petitioner]

User ID: xxxx Lex Setiawan

Target ID: xx. Ivan Stroganov

Subject: xxxx Comradeship and the future

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Commander Stroganov,

It's interestin', you reaching out to us. Us Syndics have been thinkin' about establishing a line with your people ourselves, but seems you beat us to it. We remember your help against the Corsair menace, and fondly at that. However, we've got a fair few questions for you, along the lines of those already posed by Comrade DeGrasse.

Not sure how much you know about the Kongsi Syndicate, so I'll give you the lowdown. We're anarchists, meaning we don't practice hierarchy and we share our resources in common among ourselves and our dearest friends, distributing them as we're able and as they might be needed. I don't speak from a position of "authority" of any kind, beyond what temporary trust's been vested in me by my peers -- in that capacity, I regularly find myself leading patrols and combat ops up in the Taus, with my counterpart in the Omegas being Seth Al-Wajdi from our cruiser Bella Ciao.

So, as you might guess, we're a little wary of the Coalition. We don't doubt your utility as friends, seein' as you're locked in a death-war with the Corsair menace that threatens all the good people of the Omegas and beyond, and you punch well above your weight in fightin' them. What gives us pause is that all previous interaction with the Coalition have indicated that your state -- already a dirty word -- is more intensely hierarchical than even the Houses. I'm curious if that's somethin' the CIS is in favor of, and if not, what it intends to do about it.

Commissars breathing down your neck prolly doesn't make any prospect of shaking things up internally any easier, I'll admit, and we're likely amenable to working with you against the Corsairs no matter your answer to these questions, but if you're lookin' to do any more than joint combat ops and simple trades of supplies, it'd put every Syndic's mind at ease to know that the enemy of our enemy won't some day turn into a new enemy, if you're picking up what I'm putting down.

Let me know when you get the chance, and if we see more or less eye-to-eye, I'm quite sure the transport unions would be more than happy to ferry whatever you need down to wherever you need it.

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Lex Setiawan
Kongsi Syndicate