Encrypted transmission to the Colonial Remnant

[Zapp]

Opening Transmission
Comm ID: ********27
Name: Lt. Tanya Dey

Location: Tau 44
Target: Miss Kyan & all interested parties

All the rather useless rhetoric being thrown around is all nice and well, but I'm a pretty practical and down-to-Sirius kinda pilot. So, the main issue at hand is that the IMG are upset that our treaty gives the KNF the right to enter Tau 23, on the grounds that we don't own the system but more importantly that it brings a war onto the IMG's doorstep. I point you to this map of Tau 23, which I have put a few marks on.

The blue line is the practical boundary of the IMG in the system. Don't give me that "we go wherever we want in the system" bologna, or "nobody owns the system". Indeed, nobody outright owns Tau 23. But we all fly in it, and we all have our areas where we mainly sit. Now, the pink circle is the Outcasts sphere of influence around Cali... it's the effective range of their patrols. Sure, there's a corridor from that circle to the Tau 37 jump hole, but it's minor and not terribly relevant at this point.

The red line is the effective boundary of not only BMM mining, but Bretonian operations altogether. Rare is the time when a BAF ship ship will venture much past that line, besides the Privateers heading to Kusari through the jump holes marked in green, which is my next point. Those are the KNF's two entrance points into the system, both systems that are primarily controlled by Kusari.

Now, I understand that you're head of the R&D department of the IMG, so you may not see what the eyes of this soldier sees, which is gorramn conventional military wisdom. For the KNF to get from those jump holes to their enemy, the BMM and any BAF strike forces they're housing, they would likely circle around the Outcast-controlled sector, to the right of the map. Not only to avoid entanglements with the Outcasts, but because there is a mine field past Cali, separating the Outcast sector from the Bretonian one. It would be downright stupid for anyone to try to move a fleet through there.

What I'm trying to say is that any KNF ships that enter Tau 23 will be moving away from Java. Fighting that would occur would happen primarily along the red boundary, unless the Bretonians preempt the KNF and strike them en route to that location. Long story short, the IMG are in no way inconvenienced by the treaty. If you feel that your transports may be attacked moving through the system, let me tell you that you're as safe as you can be with them fighting each other, unless you fly through the battle and are caught in the crossfire. No one really pays attention to traders in any major conflict, trust me, I've been there.

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