To: Phoenix Zoners from Unioners

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Incoming Transmission

To: Phoenix Zoner Administration
From: Friedrich Kruger, Unioner Diplomatic Ambassador
Subject: Foundations of Cooperation & Request for Shipment

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Guten Tag, Freunde Phoenix,

Allow me to speak plainly and without ornament:
Your willingness to deliver cargo to us is welcome more welcome than you may realize.

The Unioners are a people of shipwrights and engineers.
Our drydocks on Pacifica operate day and night, fed by whatever materials we can gather or wrestle from the gaps in Rheinland’s economy. The Omicron regions are rich in resources, yet harsh and unforgiving. If the Phoenix are willing to supply us, we have no shortage of demand, and every shipment would be put to use in construction, refitting, and furthering the productivity of our people.

I will state this clearly, so that no words are twisted by outsiders:

Whatever occurs in Omicron Theta does not diminish the respect the Unioners hold for the Phoenix,
so long as our cooperation remains founded on honesty and mutual regard.

We will not throw our allies or our trade partners under the reactor coils to gain favor with anyone.
Our relationships are based on conduct — not on the shifting politics of hostile space.

You and we share more than most realize.
The Unioners survived our earliest years because the Zoners of Freeport Two sheltered us.
We were fugitives, uprooted workers, hunted laborers with nothing left but our tools and our anger. The Zoners gave us station air to breathe. That gesture shaped an entire generation of Unioners.

In return, we stood with the Zoner Militants against the pirate incursion that endangered the Freeport.
We fought at their side, and though Liberty ultimately intervened and stole the station from all of us,
we did not stand idle. We remember those days with a mixture of pride and grief.

Even later, during the long exile of our leadership nearly a decade many Unioners found refuge, once more, in the Zoner movement. The hospitality of your people was not forgotten.
Not by us. Not by me.

Our very vessels reflect this connection.
The Arbeiter that so many Unioners fly today is based on Eagles we once purchased from the Zoners of Freeport Two. Your history is literally welded into our hulls.

Phoenix, too, are shipbuilders.
You have Livadia Shipyard, we have Pacifica Assembly.
Both of us are people who carve survival out of metal and vacuum.
There is a natural potential for cooperation, so long as mutual respect is maintained.

To begin this renewed partnership on stable ground, we request the following:

A shipment of Iridium Ore
Delivered at a location of your choosing, or directly to Pacifica if you prefer the discretion our station affords.

We will, of course, pay fairly and promptly.

If this is agreeable, inform us of the quantity available and the timeframe in which your transports can move.

Let us see if the old ties between Zoners and Unioners might once again carry both our peoples forward.

With respect,
Friedrich Kruger
Unioner Diplomatic Ambassador

Transmission Ended

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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)

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