An Offering of Friendship

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Johann looked intently at his Unioner counterpart. Though he might want a the best coexistence for the two Rheinland factions, Johann was unsure that he could deliver on such a promise. No doubt access to the Mackenzie system was a great boon, though perhaps unneeded with the LWB's own Saar, but unbridled access to Darmstadt might strain the already limited coffers of the LWB a bit too much.

"I'm sorry, Herr Metzger, first for the abrupt disruption of our meeting, and now for this development, however, we cannot freely allow Unioner ships to indefinitely use Darmstadt as a safe haven. Though docking rights in themselves are not a problem, and I assumed that they were included in the mutual military cooperation I had mentioned earlier, the fact that we cannot sustain Unioner forces for a long period of time, however, is a problem. Unioner ships using Darmstadt as a temporary safe haven is not a problem, however we simply do not have the economic or material capacity to sustain Unioner raiding and pirating vessels in Darmstadt for prolonged periods of time. Hopefully economic freedom from the Zoners might bring enough surplus money into your organization to where you can operate more freely.

Onto the matter of Die Erste Ernte. We simply require several engineers and technicians to sustain her when she reaches dry-dock in Saar, at our own Eindhoven Station, where our facilities are also capable of repairing Die Ernte. Our technicians are inexperienced, Herr Metzger, and that is what we wish to solve. Hopefully this can be far less costly to the both of us, rather than the before proposed solution to this problem, and far less dangerous as well, as the Jump Holes become rather unstable when moving large craft and even more-so when those craft are damaged."

Johann wondered about how the Unioners would react to this. Hopefully they would not think that the LWB was trying to take advantage of them in any way. Unbridled use of Darmstadt, however, was simply not possible. Docking rights were one thing, but basing raiding parties on a regular basis our of Darmstadt is a completely different matter. It simply could not be done in the LWB's current situation.

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[8:32:45 PM] Dusty Lens: Oh no, let me get that. Hello? Oh it's my grandma. She says to be roleplay.
[12:49:19 AM] Elgatodiablo: You know its nice that you have all that proof and all, Bacon... but I just don't believe you.