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[Soban]

Greetin’s, Rotfront.

Grand tae see ye in a more peacefu’ setting for once. Always a pleasure meetin’ a fellow cockroach exterminator of the Cretan variety.

Right, doon tae business. Ordinarily, a ship request o’ this size might nip at our neutrality—but a barge is a civilian hull, which should soothe even the staunchest Livadians.
As luck would have it, a colony-ship build was just cancelled, so there’s a full dry-dock open at yer disposal.
Now, it won’t be free, as ye’d expect. I’ve spoken wi’ a few Livadians, an’ I think we can strike a tidy deal. We’ve seen Zoner militants flyin’ some rather bonnie hulls—usually sourced off the black market—but we’ve had nae luck gettin’ our hands on the schematics.
Our ships are stout on defence, but they lack that aggressive edge you Rheinlanders ken so well. A peek at those designs would teach our engineers a new way o’ thinkin’.

So here’s my offer: use yer black-market connections tae procure the schematics for those vessels, an’ in return we’ll lay down yer barge free of charge. How does that strike ye?

Mac Donogan, out.