.:j:. JUNKER CONGRESS DIPLOMATIC CHANNEL

[Rudo]

COMM ID: Chief Arbiter Hannibal Bishop
LOCATION: (scrambled)

Salutations, Colonel Diablo;

The tone of a recent communique should do little to alarm you or the SOB/BLS Trading Arm. We know your ships well and will make the exception. You take the dissident Xenos and informants off our hands, and in turn supply us with the metals we build our empire upon, and the cardamine we trade in for our own profit and to placate those LPI officers on our payrolls. It also keeps those bored and trigger-happy Rogues at that backwater Fortaleza in line.

If Congress vessels are present, announce your intent to enter and exchange goods. If not, by all means proceed. Mind the Harvesters, I've received signals that they've encountered an avenue to secure biomass and will be using Puerto Rico for their own purposes. They've been instructed to follow Junker directives rather than Harvester directives for this task if they do arrive, but the Harvesters have always had their own agenda.

If anyone gives you trouble, uplink a comm with details to me. I'll straighten it out.

- Bishop

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**Incoming Transmission**
Comm ID - Col. Diablo, Comander {SOB} / [BLS]
Target ID - Junkers Congress
Subject: Permission for trade route

Hola Amigos,

I hope this message find you in good health & good profits.
It has been sometime since we last spoke, in that time the Shadow Outcast Brigade has merged with & oversees the Blue Lotus Syndicate. With the help of the former leaders, who we retained, BLS is once again back up & going. The Cardi fields are healthier than ever before & we are making arrangements to move the finished goods to distribution points through out Sirius. This is where we would now ask for your permission on one of our routes.
This route will have us traveling through your guard system known as Puerto Rico. We would be delivering scrap metal to your Culebra Smelter, & purchasing slaves from Arecibo.
The rest of the details on this profitable route we are willing to share in a more secured link.
As we have often assisted your ships & have in the past defended your base in Sigma 13, you can rest assure we will obey any laws & policies you may have in effect in the system mentioned.
BLS may also have escorts from the Shadow Outcast Brigade Escort Wing with them for protection. I assure you they will also follow any conditions set forth & as always, aid you when & if needed.
We shall await a reply on this secured link for your response.

In hopes of a continued profitable alliance,

Respectively,
Col. Diablo
SOB / BLS


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