To The BHG Core

[Jinx]

from: Persephone-II-, Elizabeth Tate
to: mr Graves

"now, you had your pills i guess and your temper is calmed down a little. - time to remember a few facts.

for years, if not decades, the guild enjoys a good relationship with the zoners. - the guild deploys some kind of power in the edgeworlds that is a nice balance to other powers. - it also makes a good living from what history tells. - more than that even, the guild accumulated enough money to finance the armsrace of the core - and still does.

additionally to that rather complex and long relationship - the core itself has used freeport 11 as a base of operations for a long time. - of course, we are ware that the fleet considered 56 and 15 their "homebase" but it is undenyable that many a core vessels would have suffered terminally if there had not been the zoners allowing them maintenance and repairs in the stations bays. - for a good price, you might say - but we zoners know that here in the edgeworlds.... credits are only a secondary currency. - trust is a primary currency.

now the problem about that is that sirius credits are easy to earn. - sirius credits get you a far far way - but not far enough. - trust and reputation is a currency earned a lot harder than sirius credits - but as life is unfair, it is a currency spent a lot quicker than credits.

here in the edgeworlds - everyone needs friends. - space stations are fragile, as we zoners had to learn the hard way when bomber destroyed freeport 7 - and nomad battlegroups severely damaged freeport 11 two years ago.

so - the guild might have got a station in delta now that they consider a solid bridgehead. - but truth be told.... such a station is a fragile structure. - and it is a good advice not to loose all ... "friends" in a place where you re otherwise surrounded by.... "enemies". - that could so easily destroy all your organizations effords in this sector.



by threatening zoners based on some internal affair of yours - you are spending primary currency..... trust. once you have spent too much of it - the term "lonely" might catch up with you in such a remote place like delta. - there are factions in delta that would readily "assist" us if something happened for a price. - but this price is still payed in credits.

when you loose friends - not even credits might help you out anymore.

so, please - do NOT throw stones at zoners here in the edgeworlds. - you are the one living in the glasshouse, we are just the ones that are passing by. - the guild has more experience fighting. - but we zoners have more experience ... surviving in the edgeworlds.



if you have internal issues - keep them internal. - do not tell the zoners how to deal with their guests. - we decide based on what benefits us zoners. the nova torpedo you fire at one of our biodomes or stations might rebound so easily and head the other way.

i do hope these words were clear enough - and i am also certain that the choice of words in your letter to those that "may" shelter whoever you consider a villain was just a "mistake". - mistakes happen - and no word may be spoken about such wrongly chosen words anymore.

we all wish to continue as good as we have, don t we?

sincerely, Elizabeth Tate.


postscript:

let me add, when a burning and crippled ship approaches freeport 11 and requests an emergency docking to safe the crew - we will NOT deny docking rights unless the ship was declared hostile by the zoner council - and in that case, we might just be mercyful and finish the ship up quickly. we will not let any crew that has never done harm to die cause someone else asks us to - that would be murder - and "we" at least are no murderers.

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