Toledo Lounge

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Katz blinked, a bemused smile finding its way onto his lips.

"Blackmail, and extortion are two methods... though I have found the methods of openess and honesty also quite effective... The key to achiving our goals is to dangle a greater prize in front of a person, and allow their own greed to make them..." he chuckled, "Pony up as it were..."

He stared pensively at the maps, "we could attempt what the Liberty Navy achieved with Willard Research station, carving the base out of the ice would make it go significantly faster. In fact... the Coalition has specific mining equipment for the Siberian Ice fields that would do the trick... handily. Combined with the Order's already well adapted and winterized technology..." he nodded out of the windows at Toledo's snow blasted surface.

He fished in his pocket and produced a pen, flipping open a portfolio one of his aides handed to him, and jotting down some notes while doing some calculations. "I am trying to work out how much one of our mining operations would cost, replicating the ice mine on a larger scale... This will take me a few minutes, so please continue..."

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