Adressed to the Council of Zoners

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To: Harrison McRemitz
The secretary of state for foreign affair

From: Samuel Nichols, CEO Omicron Supply Industries,
Representative of the Council of Zoners

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Mr. McRemits

Once again we offer that if the pursuing ship can show evidence that the "criminal" fled into our NFZ, they will be able to continue pursuit and use force. Now if Liberty has knowledge and proof that there are certain elements staging from our stations, provide proof and we will eject them. Now in return we would like Liberty to ratify our policies and recognize that Zoners have sovereign claim over their stations and the 5k around them. Now we can either get back to a give and take situation, or we continue to toss around bravado and get no where.

This is all we ask. We do not want relief from the embargo. That has too many potential problems. Moving capital sized vessels through your house territory would always be after we asked permission. Our gunship is, in reality, a heavily armed freighter. Our Cruiser an exploration vessel. The only real combat capital ships we have are our Destroyer, Battle cruiser and Juggernaut. If we were to be moving ships of this size through your house we would always ask permission first.

I do want Liberty and the Zoners to have a good working relationship. While our neutrality is our problem as you put it, it is still the core issue here.

You continue to issue veiled threats to us.

There are no laws in the independent worlds region of space. Something that I may recommend the Liberty Navy to look at changing in the future.

I would contend the notion that our laws hold no sway in the independent worlds. They hold as much sway as there are naval and security force patrols in those areas, and of course, the frequency of those patrols are subject to change.

How else would we interpret these two statements, but as you will move armed forces into Kepler and Bering, if we do not comply. I understand that you need to do what you need to, as do we.

Lets get down to some nuts and bolts. the real sticking point here seems to be the proof we require. I am not saying we want a 50 page report with 8 by 10 high definition pictures. We want two. One picture that proves they were chasing said fugitive outside our NFZ and a second one showing them inside our NFZ. If your chasing someone, we do assume that they have done wrong by Liberty and will take that for granted. We do not need proof of their crimes. As I have stated before it is also our policy that the NFZ is not for escaping ones enemies. Violators are blacklisted. We do not want trouble dragged to our doorstep.

Now if you want to suggest to someone that they move along while in our NFZ, without force, that is acceptable. We do not like folks just loitering about in the NFZ. Coming into the NFZ to apprehend someone, well I am sure that your people would already have proof of that specific person's crime already. If that proof was provided in a quick report to us, then I am sure we would satisfied with that. Honestly how many times do either of these situations really come up. Now if there are suspicions of a group operating out of one of our Freeports then by all means let us know and we will eject them. The proof provided, though, must not leave any doubt in any of these instances.

Now, we live in two different realities, You have black and white and we see things more as shades of gray. This does put us at slight odds. Our situation is unique, neutrality is a necessity, if we disavow a faction then we are at potential issue with many others. We do not condone the taking of life needlessly, we do understand your position, we ask that you understand ours.

I await your response.


Sincerely
Samuel Nichols
CEO-OSI
Council of Zoners representative

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Formerly Sam Nichols, creator of OSI