.:j:. JUNKER CONGRESS DIPLOMATIC CHANNEL

[Rudo]

COMM ID: Hannibal Bishop, Chief Arbiter of the Junker Congress
LOCATION: (scrambled)

Salutations, Mr. Black.

You will pardon again my tardiness on this matter. So much has transpired lately that it's difficult to stay up on things. I'm willing to broker a larger-scale deal for the ALS, but there is a caveat involved. Fly enough Junker ships and you will be known as Junker affiliates, for better or worse. This may make matters... uncomfortable in certain houses.

Keep this in mind. Unless you fall directly into the Junker lifestyle and become a member of our brotherhood, you'll suffer all the animosity and prejudice we do without reaping the benefits of our vast and numerous society.

That said, with this manifest and the previous guideline, we will be happy to charter more ships for the company. Our weaponry as well, if you prefer it over the civilian lines, purchase more. We keep a surplus, and it keeps our techs occupied.

- Bishop

Incoming transmission...
Sender: Evan Black
Location: Ames Research Station, Kepler
To: Junker Congress
Subject: More Ships
Opening link...

Hello again, this is Evan Black. We've been happy with the Harmless Freighter's service to us, and we heard that you made some new cargo ships that can fight.

Now, I'm not talking about the Recycler, that'd be a little too suspicious. And your salvagers are great ships for what they're made to do - but that's not what we do, so they're pretty pointless for us, and I doubt you'd part with them anyway.

I'm interested in the Combat Service Freighter. Like the Collector, it serves our needs as a heavily-guarded ship that can move enough cargo from place to place. If the terms are similar to those surrounding our Collector purchases, I won't have any objections.

On a related note, because I want the Collector to become our primary escort craft, I'm going to give you access to most parts of our employee roster - pilot names, ship IDs, and ship types. This should make recordkeeping easier for both of us. Here is a link to the file. You won't see much, security reasons and all that, but it'll keep you up-to-date on all our ships.

There is one last issue I have forgotten to address. The Collector that Drake brought with him when we hired him had Barrager Photon Cannons mounted, and we have not gotten around to replacing them - because we haven't had reason to even use them. But, our typical Flashpoint lasers have been shipped out to more bases; if the Barragers are an issue, we can immediately replace them and return them to a Junker depot.

Link terminated. Closing...

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