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TO: General Guild Operations, Foreign Relations, Trade department, Guild recruitment center
FROM: John Sanders, mining vessel Carsten Miller
RE: Freeport 4 request, and some suggestions

I have two things that I would like to adress. First, a relay from one of our trade liasons in Freeport 4. The station's comm array was damaged in a skirmish with a few Rogues, but he has had a request pending. It seems some trading company wishes to base itself out of Freeport 4. I can't say we've ever met these guys, but there's a wildgrowth of independant trading groups that come and go as of late, hard to keep track.
Forwarding message now.
Freeport 4 is also requesting a shipment of 450 hull panels and 100 optronics components, and 40 engine components to repair the damage done in that raid. Apparantly they had to pry a Rogue transport wreck from the portside docking bay, it took out one of the stations stabilizer thrusters too. The station is not in any danger though, once her carrier returned to station the Rogues were quickly routed.

Second. Rumors have it several trading companies are receiving quite lucrative contracts for supplying some construction efforts with raw materials. As widespread as we are throughout Sirius, IMG has access to a wide variety of natural resources, ranging from things as simple as water and oxygen, to helium, deuterium, and of course, significant ore deposits of nearly all kinds. My point? It wouldn't be a bad idea to do a little advertising, let people know that as far as raw ore goes, we can deliver. And unlike most of our competition, we can deliver nearly anything, and nearly anywhere too. As soon as this misunderstanding with the Kusari is cleared up I suspect they too will welcome us again, which expands our operational range from as far as Omicron Theta, up to the Council base of Reunion, and down to Gran Canaria.

Finally, a few practical questions:
Have our Colonial Remnant friends opened up their system for purposes of trading? I am not sure if they have a substantial trade fleet, and imagine, considering their constant battles with the Outcasts, that their shipyards could use some supplies to keep up with repairs and replacements. Hull panels from Newcastle can be brought through the nearby jumphole, and engine components can be imported from Kusari. It would bolster friendly relations even further if we assist them in this manner, I feel. And it gives our miners something worthwhile to carry back to the Taus.

Speaking of Kusari, should we, once the current diplomatic issues are resolved, approach them on obtaining a guild-wide license to carry restricted materials? It would allow us to pass through with cargo such as MOX to Dounby, Nuclear Devices to Java... Engine components and Optronics for our shipyards, and those of our allies. I know some of our members do so now, but strictly speaking, we are not allowed to carry MOX through Kusari space. And I might add, this is not the time to aggravate our relation with them any further.

Lastly, I understand recruitment is still closed. This is a shame since it seems our numbers have dwindled a bit of late. We have encountered a few promising chaps in our travels towards, and in, the Sirian ore fields, and had to turn them away. I recommend opening recruitment again so we can bolster our fleet a little. There is, after all, strength in numbers. Not to say we should not have standards, but to simply close our ranks is not the IMG way. It will force those folk to be independant without a guild to call home.

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