To: Director Jill Xi | From: NCC

[New Covenant Church]

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SENDER ID : Ministry of Foreign Affairs - New Covenant Church

RECEIVER ID : Jill Xi - MFE General Academy Director

SOURCE : Pontifical Palace, Faith Haven Colony - Planet Pygar, Omicron Theta System

SUBJECT : MFE food deliveries

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NCC Minister of Foreign Affairs
Magister Yuri Orlov

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Greetings Jill.

Just a quick update on the status of your food delivery. As I informed you a few days ago, our freighters are already taking and storing your Synth Paste at our Faith Haven warehouses. We already have a considerable number of units, and we've started distributing them this morning.

We would have liked to have started yesterday, but a class 7 electromagnetic storm made any atmospheric flight within the planet impossible. Today, however, the white dwarf has dawned quite clear, with no electromagnetic anomalies around Pygar and winds not exceeding 130 kilometres per hour on average, so our pilots have been able to make the first delivery trip.

*Yuri points at the screen with a remote control, and fades out of the scene to make way for a sequence of images, while he continues speaking from the background.*

Today's target was New New La Gomera, a rather miserable settlement in the northern part of the Juno Sea, where one of our Voyagers landed at 8:32 a.m. local time. The population is less than a thousand inhabitants, and they live exclusively from collecting scrap metal and making consumer goods out of it, which they then sell at their local market. They also have a small cinnabar mine, which they melt down and use to make some rudimentary electronic devices.

As you can imagine, they're strong and tough people, accustomed to suffering and to thrive with very little. Lately I've received some news that they were experiencing food shortages, so we got in touch yesterday, and we agreed to take them a shipment in one of our freighters today, loaded with your Synth Paste.

The crew of our ship, along with some members of the Pontifical Guard who have come with them on board, have disembarked unarmed and have taken care of unloading Paste's cargo. Afterwards they have presented themselves to the local councillor in charge of the administration who has come out to greet them. As far as I have been informed, the man seemed tremendously relieved to see the ship with its cargo, and he has told the sergeant in command of the mission that New New La Gomera has been going through a few rather bad weeks. The food distribution centre of the settlement has been noticing shortages, and has had to implement stricter rationing than desired, which has angered the civilian population. There have been some small riots, which the sheriff and her two deputies have had to contain, and the councillor expected things to get worse if more food didn't arrive.

With the help of some of the settlement's workers, the pallets of food have been moved to the entrance hall of the settlement, now underground, where a strict count of the number of packages delivered has been made, and the delivery notes have been signed.

As you know, each of the packages contains 40 boxes of Synth Paste. Each box and package has been laser-sealed and renumbered once it has arrived at our hangars in Faith Haven, and this new numbering has been recorded in our databases in order to keep an accurate count. No box has the same number as another, so we will always be very clear about what we have delivered.

The local authorities of the settlement have also been asked to retain the piece of each box on which the seal and number appear, to return it to us when we come back to the colony with more shipments. It may seem a little strict, but above all, we want to make sure that the exact amount that each settlement receives is recorded. As I told you last time, I have reason to believe that food is disappearing once it is delivered to the settlements, so all caution is needed.

Once the count was completed, our staff helped load the food onto wagons that the locals have brought expressly for transport. They then accompanied council workers and sheriff's men in escorting the food through the settlement until the distribution facility. Once there, the packages were deposited in the storehouse, a place which, as far as our men have seen, is a mere shed with a metal door that can be locked with a padlock. Anyone with a crowbar, a little strength, and a little more need could open it and go in to take whatever they wanted.

However, the sergeant has asked the sheriff if she had noticed any theft of the stored supplies and she has said that she was not aware of any such thing. In the absence of more evidence, we can only take her word as true, and hope that this time the settlers will receive the food and stop going hungry.

After verifying that all the merchandise was now in the possession of the council staff, our men began their return to the ship. In that moment, the sirens of the colony had already started to sound, calling the population to carry out the distribution. Apparently, there were rather happy faces, and comments have been heard thanking MFE for sending their Synth Paste again. It seems that today our organizations have made life a little easier for these poor people.

*Orlov appears again on the screen, with a smile.*

Don't worry Jill, I've no intention of giving you a personal report of every delivery mission we carry out, but I wanted to let you know that our little plan has already begun. From now on, we'll contact some settlements every day and make some deliveries. We'll try to prioritize those that we see have more urgent food needs. I think that little by little together, and with the help of Our Lord, we'll solve this problem.

Take care of yourself, and Deux be with you.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
House of the Magisters
NCC Curia

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