To: GNI officer "Duke V," Freeport 6 | From: Task Force Prometheus

[Denelo]

Incoming transmission...

Identification: Yoko Mori
Source: HFL Ichihara
Encryption: 5N3-4K1-357

Beginning voice transmission...

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I really appreciate the information. Gallia's internal goings-on can be a bit of a mystery to many outsiders, and there's still a lot of resentment from the war. Still, I have high hopes that that kind of gross prejudice can be overcome with knowledge.

We can fulfill two out of three of your requests for sure, but the third is more in the air. For Nomads, there's not a lot of better people you could have come to about that. I'll have to consult with our own intelligence apparatus to be sure how much I can tell you, but the Commonwealth - through the Hellfire Legion before us - has a long history of interaction with Nomads, both negative and even sometimes positive. That connection's only gotten stronger with our alliance with the Technocracy. We don't trust them, like many Technocrats do, but I think that's more out of an, um... how to say it nicely... let's say a closer connection with humanity than our allies. In short, we can give you a lot on them, both historical and present, I just need to talk to SOARD to be sure of the details.

Liberty, too, we're happy to share what we know. The LSF gets up to a lot of dirty business, and we have a long history of sparring with them on an intelligence front. Our intelligence network there is expanding by the day; we're happy to look into what you need.

Bretonia is more complicated. They're a traditional enemy, but one we'd like to appease this time. We have a number of mutual enemies, sure, there's even a Gaian (Bretonian eco-terrorist) base in our home, but more importantly part of the reason the Insurgency was destroyed was because Liberty and Bretonia were able to attack with a pincer movement from Kansas and Magellan, leaving little room for retreat. That's not an ideological agreement with them; we'd just rather not repeat the strategic mistakes of the military dictatorship that destroyed our home.

I'm not sure where you stand on them, but we can also provide information on the Outcasts and their cardamine network. It's an old problem - the old Hellfire Legion was close with the Lane Hackers, and when we distanced ourselves, the Outcast bloc became a perennial enemy. We have both old internal information and newer external knowledge, and have already clashed with them a few times as part of trade missions.

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In return, what we need most right now are two things: Access and logistics.

Our trade ships are spreading across the sector, but our tense relationship with Rheinland has made trade with Gallia very difficult. We need products like bio-neutral processors that Gallia alone can provide, and have access to raw materials like copper and platinum in return that you might otherwise struggle to access due to geopolitical tensions, but the closure of the gate between Languedoc and Tau-23 and the problems with access via Zurich have kept our logistics fleets from bringing that business to Gallia.

We also need to start rebuilding in earnest. Part of the reason the old Legion was so successful was a series of deals early in their history that allowed for the construction of major production and residential facilities like Phoenix Shipyards and Monterrey Base, as well as the acquisition of a number of warships, some of which are still some of the most iconic ships in our fleet today. If we want to do this better than them, we need to focus even more on that, especially the logistics part. A number of our warships are out of commission due to age and poor maintenance, and while we can provide the materials and expertise for repair, we have nowhere to actually do the work. We can only do so much at Invergordon; ultimately it's more scrapyard than military shipyard. We need to repair our fleet and start laying the groundwork for the construction of our own bases. With our traditional tension with Ageira, I can even see this turning into an opportunity for EFL-built infrastructure in the very long term. We'll see.

So how about it? What do you think?

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Looking forward to hearing back,
Yoko Mori (she/they)