Rheinland Federal Police to Borderworld Exports

[Unseelie]

Message, Re: RFP To Bowex, Slaves
Comm: Alexander Kent, Bowex Shipping Combine Relations

Sir Nibelung, I can assure you that that is not a combine ship. I'd ask you to destroy it the next time you see it. The Bowex Combine does not condone nor practice slavery, and I've no record of any Shire registered as Niobe's Requiem as a member of our Combine.

That said, I can offer an explanation: We have, in the last year, lost a number of Shire class transports to the OPG, and other Corsair grous, as well as the Colonial Remnant, and as you are aware, it is not so difficult to muddle with a ship's transponder codes if one has a ship's captian under duress. I'd posit that this vessel is actually claimed by the Corsairs, and is broadcasting an illegal transponder signal, in an attempt to smuggle those people to somewhere in the omicrons.

Alexander Kent, Combine Relations

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