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Maloney drummed his fingers on the desk for a moment. The Henry VIII simply wasn't for sale. It had a 250 year history with the corporation, and it was due to be opened as a mobile museum orbiting New London within a month. It was too much of an investment financially and culturally to auction off to the highest bidder. However high that big may well have been.

Currently the corporation was sat on a nest of three Royal Liners - the Henry itself, the Victoria which would be unveiling as the new corporate flagship once the Henry was officially decommissioned and the Majestic Skies, which ran tours and holidays all over the three civilised Houses. Losing the eldest was not a part of the game plan.

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Comm ID: Sir Andrew Maloney, Acting Director of Operations, Borderworld Exports.
Message Source: Planet New London, Spaceport accountancy complex.
Message Target: Lady Julietta Windsor-Wilhelm; London Windsor-Wilhelms Hamburg Branch.
CC: Sale of the Royal Liner Henry VIII

I am unsure as to where exactly this request has come from, but I am afraid I must decline it. The Royal Liner Henry VIII has a massive value to Bowex and the Crown that exceeds mere material credits. The vast cultural and fiscal investment that it holds makes it a historical bank that must be available for future generations of the Bretonian public.

If you desire to inspect the Liner up close, and admire the workmanship that went into it's contruction, I can certainly patch you through to our accountancy division for the purchase of a ticket for the upcoming museum opening celebration. After this historic event, the ship will of course take it's place in New London's orbit, where it will be open to booked tours. I'm sure a woman such as yourself would certainly qualify for one of our VIP bookings.

If you must possess a Royal Liner, I would suggest contacting the BMM for purchase and reproduction rights of partial blueprints. From there you could either take them to the shipyards of Rhienland or Liberty for fabrication, due to the strain placed by the war closing our own ports to public construction.

I thank you for your time, if disappointed we could not conduct business.

Yours
~Andrew Maloney.

He sat back and sighed. Another hapless member of the aristocracy. He poured himself a drink from the bottle that had been near enough constantly perched on his desk since his appointment to Acting DO. How long before they realised money couldn't buy them whatever they wanted?

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