To: Gateway Shipping | RE: Hangar rental | From: CDI

[Petitioner]

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Employee ID: TERBLANCHE, ELIZE - #1310L

Subject: RE: Hangar rental

-- BROADCASTING MESSAGE -- Sergeant Howard, it's always nice to hear from the Police Authority... or, well, what's left of it, I suppose. I'd be your someone at Kensington. After checking in with the relevant managerial personnel, reviewing applicable laws and bylaws, and generally doing the necessary digging, assessment, and analysis, it appears that the provisos of the Wartime Powers Act enabling Crown requisition of civilian facilities have expired and London extraplanetary governance has failed to refresh their terms of applicability. As such, given the legal status of the Civil Defence Initiative as auxiliary special constables, contrasting with the jurisprudentially confirmed and precedentially legitimized status of regular Police Authority constabulary, I must unfortunately inform you on behalf of Gateway Shipping Incorporated that the free licence of hangar space aboard Kensington to CDI pilots would carry with it a risk of legal liability that our investors have deemed unacceptable. There are thus two ways forward: Firstly, Chief Inspector Timson could take concrete steps to mitigate this liability vis-à-vis actions with legally-binding weight as substantiated via precedent well-established in historical cases of corporate liability brought before the courts. As a few examples of satisfactorily mitigatory actions, a signed and notarized letter of attestation from a traditionally-deputized, i.e. non-'special', officer of the law of at least the rank of Inspector, or a relevant minister of local authority, regarding the urgent public need for additional staging locations for CDI assets. Secondly, the CDI, as a corporate or chartered entity -- presuming you are legally incorporated or chartered, and don't exist in the legally vacuous state of other 'temporary' wartime-era institutions -- would be more than welcome to enter into a contract with Caledonia Distributions acting on behalf of Gateway to rent priority access to two hangar bays on Kensington. Should you choose to pursue this option, you should be aware that given the current market environment any final agreement would likely not include guaranteed access to constant electricity, nor to Kensington's supply of spare parts for scheduled or ad hoc repairs, nor to any Gateway personnel... though surely, in such a scenario, Civil Defence would have the resources to mitigate such gaps via e.g. portable generators and externally contracted technicians. Sergeant, I hope that the above satisfies your query. On behalf of all of us here at Caledonia, we're looking forward to doing our part to assist the Civil Defence Initiative and help keep Bretonia safe. Have a wonderful day.

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