QCP to the COZ

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Incoming Transmission
Comm ID: Aurelia Silvan
Recipient(s): Andrew Stuart

You're very poorly informed if you think the usage of space or jump holes is in any way related to Freeport Regulations. Also, we cannot stop anyone from using jump holes. If we were to make this concession, we'd have to make similar concessions to others. Would you like us to do the same for Corsairs, block off access to all Border World Export transports carrying supplies to Port Jackson, just because they told us we should consider it a violation of Freeport Regulations if they get into Omega-49? I think you'd be quite angry if that were to happen. Just as Corsairs will be angry if we take your side of the issue. We will not abandon our neutrality for you, and that is final.

Theft and piracy may be all you've ever known, but it's also clear that you're lacking reason and a basic understanding of how things operate in Sirius.

If 'Juan' were to enter Dublin and commit some heinous act against Bretonia, this wouldn't be using Zoner neutrality in the least. Bretonia can attack said Corsair the moment he is five K or more away from any Zoner station or planet. Our neutrality doesn't extend to the jump hole. So if you're so concerned, why can't Bretonia, or your own pilots, stop them? You're blaming neutrality, but the only real cause here is laziness. That jump hole could be patrolled regularly by anything under cruiser-class and we Zoners wouldn't get involved, unless a Zoner were to come under attack by said patrols.

Letting someone do something may make us look partly responsible in the eyes of Bretonians, many of whom don't know the full situation, but if we were to take direct action against Corsairs, it'd be outright conspiracy with the Bretonians against them, resulting in a war. As I said before, we will not abandon neutrality for you.

Furthermore, you're asking for an addendum to a treaty you aren't in the least bit involved in, nor is it something Bretonia asked to have added to the treaty.. And as if that weren't enough.. It's something that doesn't need added. As long as the ships aren't cruiser size or larger, Bretonia may attack Corsairs, just as Corsairs may attack Bretonia.. But don't bring that fight within five K of our stations or planets.

You're also very misinformed of the situation on Planet Gran Canaria. Obviously because you've never been there yourself and take the words of unnamed individuals.. Any Corsair residing on Gran Canaria is subject to Zoner laws and regulations. The Bretonians in Port Jackson have more legal and political freedom than any Corsair on the planet's surface. If you really are dead set on Bretonians having the same rights as Corsairs on Gran Canaria, we will give them that.. Meaning Port Jackson will lose its status as sovereign Bretonian territory, all citizens in Port Jackson would be subject to Zoner law. All Bretonian law that was enforced in Port Jackson would then be null and void.

And lastly on your issue with ships carrying refugees and humanitarian relief transports, that was part of a treaty with Border World Exports. And we cannot amend it without their permission or request. If Border World Exports wishes for their transports to be guarded by Zoners when heading to and from Gran Canaria, they must bring that issue to us directly. Already we discourage anyone from attacking ships carrying either of those goods, and those transports may request Zoners individually to escort them when inside Omega-49. Whether they must pay the Zoner for those services is entirely on that Zoner's choice. The Council can't force them to do it, let alone for free. Fuel costs money.
We may wish for peace with your, but that doesn't mean we'll bend over to blackmail. You claim I don't know how negotiations work, but you're not participating in a negotiation, you're attempting to blackmail us into doing what you ask. That's piracy. And until you do begin to participate in real negotiations, you aren't going to receive any of the things you ask for.

-Aurelia Silvan

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Ahem, where are my offers, ma'am?

I've made concessions, you get to yours. I'm not here to debate how things work, I'm here to get results.

I didn't claim that using a jumphole was a violation of NFZs. I said to treat it as if it were. Corsairs have no reason to use said jumphole, unless causing trouble. If they are causing trouble, you would have no issue with them being destroyed. The Corsairs on Gran Canaria would not be harmed. If a Corsair enters Bretonia from here, or flees here from Bretonia, Bretonia cannot pursue, due to it being foreign territory. I would suggest this be rectified.

Now, the Bowex shipments going to Gran Canaria are one hundred percent humanitarian. Why would the Corsairs worry about this?

I didn't ask you to shoot them, since I knew you wouldn't be brave enough, but I suggested that you let Bretonians do so. If Corsairs violate Bretonian borders, and take advantage of the safe haven of Zoner space, they are abusing your neutrality.

Now, I would suggest you don't make idle threats regarding refugee camps, ma'am, it does not become you. We all know the treaty is effectively set in stone. Regardless, if the Corsairs abide by Zoner law, well... that isn't saying much, right? You won't stop them taking a jumphole into Dublin, since that isn't against your laws, and you will let them do anything else they like, since you're a bunch of lawless anarchists.

And again I'm getting extremely tired of you ignorant people telling me that I can't demand you give gifts to my idiot family. If I demand that you offer Bowex escorts in your space, you might say 'we can't because it is too difficult' (which is not the case, but I'm giving an example)... you should not say 'no, you aren't of Bowex', because frankly, I do not care, ma'am. Offer it to them, for free, as a humanitarian gesture to the plight of the refugee, and accept nothing in return. Sign it on paper too. This does not require Bowex requests, and you know it.

Now...

Make me some offers, and quit making the same god-damn mistakes in telling me what I can or cannot request. I can request that you send the Kanzler of Rheinland a baby hippo for Christmas in exchange for a Corsair Titan, painted blue, for all that matters! I don't care how it is done, so long as it gets done.

I've made major concessions after the tsunami of tears the Zoners cried my way, and have been offered nothing. This is the last message in which these concessions will remain unless something substantial is offered. Unless actual negotiation is attempted, instead of attempting to tell me that my every request is wrong (a most extreme diplomatic faux pas, ma'am), I shall go back to the original list of demands.

Yours,

Sir Andrew

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