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

[Lord Caedus]

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Name: DUKE
Identification: Gallic National Intelligence
Encryption access: EYES ONLY
Location: REDACTED
Subject: An Exchange

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Miss Mori,

In regards to the Outcast situation, I believe we already have that fairly well in hand. They are not as subtle as they would like to think they are, and we're certainly quite aware of their smuggling operations taking place in the Taus. Once you've talked to your own intelligence branch, since I'm assuming that's who the SOARD group you mentioned is, we'd be happy to take any information in regards to both the LSF and the Nomads that you are willing to send to us. The Bretonians are less of a concern, they certainly seem to be having their own internal issues currently, so we don't particularly see them as a threat to our interests.

In regards to the requests you made of us, I have both good news and bad news about both requests, so I will get to that straight away. Technocracy vessels are allowed into Gallia for the purpose of trade at this time, though you may not be allowed to transit through the Jump Gate between Languedoc and Tau-23, but that is a matter for the government to approve directly and we currently don't have enough sway to guarantee that being approved. You may need to use the Giant's Causeway in Orkney in the meantime, which will add a significant amount of time to your journey.

On the matter of logistics, I'm afraid the GNI cannot, at least at this time, be of particular assistance in the matter of providing a facility for you to conduct your repairs at. We only have one facility of our own presently that would be capable of providing the long term maintenance that your ships would need, and until we have a more established relationship between our groups, we wouldn't be able to allow your ships access. Do not take this as an outright refusal though, the GNI would be interested in allowing such access in the future, and the facility there would at least be capable of handling anything up to the size of a battlecruiser or a liner without problem. Unfortunately any vessels larger than that would require us to reallocate resources that we already have tied up in one of our own projects, so we wouldn't be able to allocate resources for a ship that large until our own project is complete. Once said project is complete though, I believe our people would be happy to assist with your own ships, though we may ask for a bit of a technology exchange in return.

With that said, I believe I have handled everything at issue at this point in time, so I eagerly await your response.

Regards,
Duke
Director of External Operations

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