To: Gregor Tykovkin; Coalition Command

[The_Godslayer]

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"Comrade,

Junkers are scrappers, whether notorious or revered, and your concerns over secrets of the Sirius Coalition have inspired me with a new idea. For both the Tsars, of which a set of four are currently stored in the hold, and for the parts of the ship yet to be repaired, and even for the reactor core nearing the end of its life that we can recycle for you, there doesn't truly exist a need for it to remain Coalition tech, so to speak, does there? Were I to seek modifications to better suit the Omicron environments, it would differ greatly from the Coalition model in everything but external armor. I could quite easily eliminate the threat of leaking Coalition Ministry secrets by simply not possessing such secrets.

The engine itself has already been refit to much more closely match Outcast engines of the same weight class, as the emissions are much harder to track through the Edge Nebulas. I see now that there isn't a need for the Tsars to remain as real Tsars, nor for the Hurricane reactor core to remain a Hurricane reactor core. The Hurricane itself is a frontal assault and breakthrough ship in Coalition fleet combat, whereas my requirement is a mobile base and rapid ambush platform. If I were to refit, remodel, and re-engineer these things, it would fully eliminate the threat of secret schematics being released. Tarancon was situated for the cleanup of the Toledo graveyard. There certainly is scrap and designs to be found there.

Upon the Interior Halls and Spaces being repaired, I welcome aboard a Military detachment. Perhaps they can yet make fighters out of some of these rookies. And for diplomatic incidents, I doubt there will be any great changes or shifts. Junkers maintain a near-global neutrality. We at Tarancon were wronged by the Order and Core, more specifically the withdrawal of Battleship Thebes and the Nauru force projection groups, and I have not seen either on your list of allies. In the interest of maintaining the Junker's expansive black and grey markets, I see no reason to seek hostile relations with any other group. The allies of the Coalition, by my memory, were the Red Hessians and Mollys, valuable business partners of mine already. I believe I can fully evade any diplomatic incidents that would disenfranchise the Coalition, and as I have no intention as masquerading as Coalition Military. but instead to fully claim the role of the vengeance of Tarancon, I also think that evading any incident that you wish to evade would be as simple as identifying the reborn Tarancon as a non-affiliated asset, salvaged by Junkers and outside your realm of Command."

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