Permission to Purchase and Fly

[werner]

[font=Fixedsys]From: Zoners Trading Consortium
To: Order Council
Topic: Order Gunboat purchase

I still do not see why you need war machines for simple duties. Also using Order ships to fire on anyone who gets in your way.

Sir, you don't have to see it, because we don't need them for simple duties, and we don't want to fire on anyone who gets in our way. What made you think so?

There are routes, which we plan to take, and which are exceptionally dangerous. For example the route to Freeport 11, where we intend to provide some basic goods like water, food or medicine. As you know, after the recent... environment transformations, the nomads activity there has increased, furthermore there are better equipped and more numerous now. We need your design of gunboats to provide enough level of safety to our traders.

Is the above justification clear enough? Or should I provide you with more details, like ship statistics comparisons, expected threats and dangerous points? If so, please let me know, I can do this.

As if our Sirius-wide reputation as terrorists and what not isn't bad enough, we don't need to have more people thinking we are giving away our already very limited number of ships to traders out of everything to protect boxes and crates instead of humanity.

By comparing my colleagues to crates and boxes on contrary to humanity, you insult us quite seriously, sir. If this is the way you would like to discourage us to asking you (our allies) for help, maybe it would be easier just to say "no". Of course provided you are interrested in negotiations, not just using out the situation to insult other people.

If the limited number of ships is the restriction, maybe it is possible for us to provide your shipyard with the needed goods, like hull panels or engine parts? Furthermore, we take as natural that the additional effort of your engineers would be additionally rewarded. Would this increase the chances of our application or the preferred number of the sold ships?

If you are afraid to be perceived as the "mass ship provider", we could agree to a low, fixed number of the Order ships we could maintain in our fleet. We are a small faction anyway so this would not be any problem. In the first post there was a proposition of one ship. Unfortunatelly this is not sufficient for our needs, that's why we keep bothering you and trying to convince you to more.

What would you say if we asked for three Order Gunboats?

Best regards,
Werner Mazursky
Zoners Trading Consortium Ltd.