To: Bamburgh Company | From: Civil Defence Initiative

[Bamburgh Company]

The Bamburgh Company

Incoming Transmission

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Sender - Humphrey Sanders, Bamburgh Co.
Recipient - Inspector Grace O'Sullivan, CDI
Subject - Vessel Procurement

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Dear Inspector O'Sullivan,

What a pleasure it is to hear from an organisation such as yourselves. We admire your work protecting the wild frontiers of Omega 3 and Planet Nottingham. Now, let me introduce myself, my name is Humphrey Sanders. I form part of Bamburgh's Fleet Management team and have been authorised to deal with your request.

Bamburgh operates these days primarily as a general cargo haulage company, however we do still keep close to our roots and operate liners across all of Sirius. I'm sure you have heard of our famed Three Sisters, they've won many awards in their time. As such, vessels are in continuous rotation, some up for refit and repair, while others fail to meet our high requirements for service and are subsequently repurposed. Either for parts, or sadly end up in our small recycling yard, something we try to avoid at all costs.

That being said, we do possess a select few vessels that could be brought back into service for yourselves, relatively easily. I would have to speak with our engineering heads to figure out refit plans for the vessel that takes for fancy.

Currently, across the whole fleet, we have three vessels that you may fit your requirements;

• Oasis Passenger Liner - Given you named this class, we do have one available. However, not one I would usually offer as it has significant engine troubles. Something which will obviously take time to fix.
  
• Hegemon Asteroid Miner - Not an obvious choice for prisoner containment, but the mining equipment has already been stripped out offering a cavernous space for refitting cells.
  
• Titanic Heavy Tanker - Again, not an obvious choice. This one is currently in for refit but could be retired from service. The cargo hold offers ample space for containment.
  

While these are what we have currently, we are always procuring vessels that would suit our needs, so can seek out one that would meet your requirements to their entirety. Engineering and refits would be done in-house, so there would be no need to seek outside help. Conversion would also be handled by us, should you decide to do business with Bamburgh.

I would have normally suggested a Palace-class, however the only hull out of service is exactly that, just the hull. It would take extensive work which would not only be expensive, but time consuming. We would essentially be building a new ship, bar the hull.

Two further vessels that I don't think would fit your requirements, and quite frankly I'm not sure how we have, are an ancient AS-1300 Retrofit Transport and possibly a Salvager, one of those Junker freaks-of-engineering. Not sure how either of them still fly, both suffer from power core issues that have perplexed us so far.

In terms of a more permanent solution, would you and your organisation ever consider a joint venture with the Bamburgh Company? As we speak we are gearing up to enter the manufacturing world, starting with our new headquarters in Newcastle. It certainly wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility that a new prison could be built in the future. Anyhow, a conversation for another time.

I hope I have been some use to you regarding a new vessel. Please let me know should you wish to further your enquiry.

Yours sincerely,

H. Sanders
Fleet Management, Bamburgh Co.

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