IMG Declaration of Neutrality

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The Bretonian government welcomes this announcement by the IMG leadership. I wish to express my thanks to Guildmaster Barrington, with whom I have always been able to negociate rationally and calmly and, unlike his unfortunate Colonial Remnant neighbours, has always abided faithfully by all his agreements with us.

Naturally will fully respect the neutrality of the Independent Miners Guild in this regrettable conflict; no IMG nor IMG-affiliated ships or facilities, other than those explicitly displaying Colonial Remnant comm signatures or actively assisting the CR in combat against us, shall at any point be fired upon by lawful agents of the Bretonian Crown. All BAF personnel shall, insofar as possible, refrain from docking on IMG bases in using them as staging grounds for attacks against the CR, but we shall ensure that IMG targeting computers do not mark out BAF vessels as hostile, to avoid firing incidents. All freeport no-fire zones shall be respected.

Beyond this, however, we wish to affirm our right to hunt down and destroy Colonial Remnant vessels wherever we find them, in order to protect our main war effort against the Kusari Empire, though we will do our utmost to prevent diplomatic incidents between BAF and IMG vessels.

Naturally BAF will never request, explicitly or implicitly, the assistance of the IMG against the Colonial Remnant. Sadly it appears the Colonials are not yet fully appreciative of the IMG's neutrality, as evidenced by this: .
Nontheless, we will take it in good faith that the IMG will not respond to this kind of partisan behaviour.

Once again I reaffirm that this conflict is regrettable in the extreme, and I sincerely hope that the Colonial Remnant will have the good sense to abandon their impossible goals of disrupting our war effort, in order that peace may be restored at the earliest opportunity.

Yours in good faith,

Commodore Sir Stanley Nelson
BAF Diplomatic Officer
5th Fleet - HMS Suffolk

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>