To: ALG, CDL, IMG || From: Bristol C&M

[Bristol Constructions]

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User ID: Blake, Esme
Recipient: ALG, CDL, IMG
Subject: Proposed Accords
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Ms Terblanche,

Thank you for your candor and honesty. I will try to return the courtesy.

I envy Caledonia and Gateway for their ability to make good, honest relations over the course of decades. I am impressed that you hold such safety and ability that you can build a road of friendship by the donations of your employees, by the chance meetings between your employees and theirs, by favors here and there which develops an interconnectedness that rivals most other diplomatic corps.

Unfortunately, though, I fail to see how a treaty, an agreement, a contract signals a strategy used by the big-businesses. No, their strategy is to have connections. Their strategy is to have friends. Their strategy is to have a favor built upon a favor built upon a deal with the House governments, with the administrators of stations, with the military, and with the police. Their strategy is to be so intertwined with the fabric of the House that they can apply pressure against newcomers through every which angle. They employ increased inspections that delay production to increased border checks that delay shipment to decreased police patrols that increase risk and so increase insurance, all aimed at driving competition to such a level that at the end they can begin their hostile takeovers and purchases once the company turns bankrupt.

These corporations employ favors, they employ connections, much like how the collaboration of ALG, Gateway, and IMG have done as you have so kindly observed, Ms Terblanche. The difference between the two is that they have chosen to make their connections with the Houses, while those between the borders of each have made connections with one-another. The difference is that they aim to create monopolies and empires within the Houses while you aim to build an honest living. Alliances, honest alliances, cannot always wait to manifest from decades of cooperation. Friendships - and organizations - change within that timespan, some to flourish, some to die.

If these Articles are deemed restrictive, by all means, tell me how. If you find Bristol’s possible contributions lacking, by all means, tell me how. There is a path forwards, I know there is, but I do believe that we cannot wait for the charity of time.

V/R
BLAKE, ESME
CHIEF OF OPERATIONS, BRISTOL CONSTRUCTIONS & MANUFACTURING
CO -BCV-SAGGIATORE (IND-BRI00033-K834)

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