QCP to the COZ

[Drake]

A pleasure as always, Doctor.

Quite frankly, Bretonia does not rely on the Zoners to supply anything essential, Bowex keeps us well-supplied with all that we need. While your occasional shipments of iridium to Scarborough Station is useful, Bretonia has thrived for hundreds of years without your ore, and will continue to do so even if you choose to stop your shipments. It's also come to my attention that more than a few of your shipments go right past Scarborough and end up at Belfast, which is hardly of benefit to the Crown.

Hawkins takes a cursory glance at the photos, consults his neural-net, then tosses them aside with a shrug.

I see. My esteemed leader was upset at the presence of a Zoner battleship within Bretonia, and you wonder why? Wherever it came from, there was no permission granted by either the BAF or the Crown, of that I am positive. If you want to re-locate a ship to Omega-49, then you had best move it there through the Omegas, and not through Bretonian space. Count yourself lucky that the ship was not destroyed and everyone on board left to die in hard vacuum. If it or another warship is seen within Bretonia, we will destroy it without mercy.

Now, back to the subject at hand: What do the Zoners have to offer us? Not necessarily monetarily, but what makes it more worthwhile for us to leave you be? We have offered peace to Zoner vessels, even when we would normally interdict another ship in the same situation, and we have said we would not take any 'blanket' bounty on Zoner vessels, no matter how lucrative . What have you to offer in return?

As always,
Edward Hawkins