OPEN AGAIN! - Independent Miners Guild Recruitment channel

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From: Johnathan Sanders
To: New guild members
Subject: Acceptances and reservations

Gentlemen,

Mr... Sisco? I must admit your application makes me cautious. A man unwilling to share his past and openly admitting to having gone by aliases... makes me suspect you are or at some point have been, a smuggler. Unlike the Bounty Hunters Guild, the Independant Miners Guild can not offer amnesty for folk - we're not a get out of jail free card. If you have outstanding warrents in any of the major houses, I would like to know about it, and the circumstances leading to it. We can work around such issues to a degree, depending on circumstance. But there are some things we will not overlook. Until we learn a little more of your past, I cannot yet permit you entrance into the Guild. You are however free to work with the guild on an individual basis - you'll find our operations are open to friendly workers joining in.
As for our slogan... I do not think we really have one. Each Guild member can define it for him or herself. To me, I'd say it's "To the laborer go the spoils".

Mr. Moore,
In your message you write something that might signify a misunderstanding of the Guild. You say that in our raw material deliveries to Liberty, we support the Liberty economy. Be that as it may, we do so only because Liberty offers the best economic prospect, most of the time. There have been times where the route to Detroit was cut, and we simply diverted to Rheinland, selling at Ingolstadt instead. The Independent Miners Guild is not biased towards any house in particular - we follow civilian regulations of the house that we are in. Short of that, we are out to provide the best circumstances of labor for our workers - and make a healthy profit while we're at it. I presume the SiriusTrans trains were your own? Were you remotely operating the other two? I heared about that little venture, 15000plus gold ore in a single haul - we don't often run that volume, but I reckon that'll have drawn some jealous eyes from passing BMM transports.
Regardless, if you can live with the fact that the Guild is not biased towards Liberty, then we'll welcome you into the Guild.

To signify your vessels as Guild ships, please apply the IMG| transponder to your vessel's name. The division suffix ([M] for mining, [E] for exploration, [D] for defense and [T] for trade) is optional - keep in mind that the [M] and [T] tags tend to attract unwanted attention if you intend to operate alone. I recommend you read our latest operational report to familiarise yourself with our current politics, and the state of our operations Sirius-wide.
Good luck in your ventures in the Guild.

Signed,
- Johnathan Sanders, on behalf of the Independant Miners Guild.

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