To: Kusari, foreign affairs

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From: Johnathan Sanders, Independent Miners Guild
To: Director Marusa Ryo
Subject: Clarifications
Encryption: Moderate

Greetings, Mr. Ryo,

I did indeed not address this to the Emperor himself - I did not deem a clarification important enough to have to do so. I have no doubt he has more important matters to attend to these days, given the rapidly changing relations between the houses. I was however quite surprised to be contacted by a Samuran executive - I was unaware you held a position within the Kusari government. I guess there is still much of Kusari for me to learn.

I will heed your warning on the Hogosha, for the present, we will not take offensive action against Hogosha as long as they do not disrupt our operations. However I will stipulate that the Independent Miners Guild will defend it's own members against any attackers - and will, if no alternative remains, resort to lethal force to do so. I am not sure how to contact them - but I would request that they remain clear of our mining operations, west of Java station in Tau 23. There have simply been too many incidents.

We will await word of your council. One question remains unanswered however: Are the Hogosha behind Bretonian lines actively supporting the Kusari war effort? The Guild needs to know this in order to respond correctly to situations where Hogosha are involved, especially in systems where we have a presence in (such as Dublin and Newcastle - I am unaware how Kusari calls these systems). If they are, we will treat them as Kusari combatants, and expect them to do likewise to us.

As for establishing trade relations - I am not sure those were ever severed fully. Truth, the war has seen a disruption in some of the resources we used to supply Kusari with, primarily Beryllium and Gold, but if my reports are correct, Samuran and Kishiro traders frequently procure both raw and refined Niobium from our Tauside bases, presumably for your optronics industries. If you wish to reformalise this - that can be discussed, but should likely be done so through other channels, yes. I recommend you address the director of our trade division, mr. Gene Starwind, regarding this.

Understand that, given the current situation, we will be unable to provide you with resources we produce in Bretonia, but I see no such issue for our Tau, or Omega side commodities. The particulars of that however I will leave to mr. Starwind.

Kind regards,
- Johnathan Sanders, on behalf of the Independent Miners Guild

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