To: Bristol Constructions || From: Phoenix

[Soban]

Greetings once again, Bristol,

I hope all is well on your side.
With Liberty’s renewed crackdown on Erie, more Zoners are leaving House space for the fringes.
To equip those crews, I’m once again turning to your craftsmanship and would like to order three additional Bulwarks.

I also have two unusual requests:

While surveying the deep Omegas, we located a rich osmium vein that we’re now exploiting. We’re making solid progress on iridium-based alloys and have begun experimenting with other materials. Platinum has proven promising for foils and crystals used in top-end systems. By chance, the osmium seam is co-mingled with gold and silver, which we’re refining at Sparta—and it yields some platinum ore as well.
If you could spare a small engineering team to audit our platinum refining process, we’ll bring them aboard with the Bulwark delivery. To be clear, we do not intend to compete in the already saturated platinum market; this is strictly for local production and R&D.

We’re completing a refit of a Q-ship with a standard docking module. As the designers of the compact, purpose-built Bulwark—complete with docking solutions—we’d value a second opinion on our final integration phase.

For compensation, we can increase niobium deliveries to Akutan and provide osmium if you’d like to run your own experiments.

Please let me know your lead times, pricing, and whether you can assign engineers for the audit and design review.

With resolve and determination,

Jonathan Cayran, out.