To: Kapitän Heinrich Falk, Maric Metallurgical Labs Subject: RE: RE: RE: Urgent Delivery – Industrial Materials Request
Güten Tag Kapitän Falk,
With my bags packed to have some time away from work I stepped into the office to do some last paperwork. The final delivery report for the industrial materials was filed yesterday. This makes me a CEO proud of the sole pilot who did the job. As both you and I do not wish our accounting departments to be grumpy please note that the bonus can be paid out in full to OSI-Servantio, the pilot and crew who did the job.
It is also very nice to read that we managed to bring a smile to the face of Dr. Lome. We hope our services equally brought a smile to you as well. While we mainly are a supply business we feel especially gratified if we make our customers happy.
Please let us know if OSI can ever be of assistance to Dr. Lome. We have some skilled engineers on the team who are always keen to help out and thrive on being challenged. If you take care of food and lodging OSI will take care of their payment during their detachment. The offer is there should you wish to follow up on it.
For now, I thank you for your trust in us and, on behalf of OSI, look forward to be of service in the future.
Wonderful news! I certainly didn’t mean to intrude upon your time off — may your vacation be long enough to forget the word “paperwork” entirely. Still, I wanted to extend my thanks before you vanish from the comms grid.
Thanks to your pilot’s skill and the speed of those deliveries, our projects can proceed on schedule. That is no small feat, especially considering the strain of moving such quantities with a single ship. OSI-Servantio has my full respect for carrying the task through to the end — and, as promised, the credits have been transferred to the account you specified. To be precise: 1,500,000 SC for the industrial shipment, plus an additional 500,000 SC bonus for exemplary service. The effort was more than worthy of recognition.
I must also make one small correction — you addressed our mutual friend as “Dr. Lome.” Hehe. Best not let Dax see that; he guards his name almost as fiercely as his experiments, and I’d hate to see a CEO drawn into one of his “lectures.”
For the moment, Dr. Lorne is positively radiant, chattering at 200 klicks a second about what this success will enable. Whether I should admire his genius or install a throttle remains an open question. Either way, morale here is higher than it has been in weeks.
You’ll find a detailed transfer document attached below, along with image proof for your own records.
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Encryption level: Maximum - MML-QES1.20.4
Sender: Kapitän Heinrich Falk Recipient: Omicron Supply Industries, Logistics Command Transmission Origin: Maric Metallurgical Labs, Omicron Mu Subject: Priority Request - Industrial Materials for M.M.L. & Dax's Gas Miner Timestamp: 12.12.835 A.S.
Grüße, OSI Command,
I am afraid I must call upon your assistance once again.
Over the past weeks, Maric Metallurgical Labs has been... let us say, stress-testing the limits of what a station can endure before it decides to mutiny. Cut supply routes, ship malfunctions and an endless parade of logistical "surprises" have turned our schedules into something between a puzzle and a bad comedy. I will spare you the full incident reports; they are more suited for a bottle of Rheinbier than a formal transmission.
More critically, we have suffered a series of reactor incidents that forced us to shut down or throttle several key systems on M.M.L. Given that we maintain a significant part of the AI network in Omicron Minor, and support the brain behind that network, Dax's Gas Miner, the disruption did not stay neatly confined to one station. Fortunately for us, Herr Doktor Lorne is currently off on one of his Geisterjagd-Expeditionen, "ghost-hunting excursions," as he insists on calling them, and is not here to witness our current shortcomings in person. I have no intention of letting the man down, nor of allowing the Order to remain displeased with our performance for long. We are slowly bringing things back under control, or so my engineers keep reassuring me.
To make that happen, however, we will need your support.
What we require from Omicron Supply Industries is the following:
- Total requested: 30,000 units of Industrial Materials
- Destination 1: 15,000 units to Maric Metallurgical Labs, Omicron Mu
- Destination 2: 15,000 units to Dax's Gas Miner, Omicron Minor
Given the severity of our situation, we are treating this as an urgent, priority delivery. Accordingly, we are prepared to offer an additional 250 SC per unit on top of our usual station price for Industrial Materials. As usual, once all deliveries are completed and confirmed, the full amount will be transferred to the account you specify.
Kindly confirm the target account for the final transaction, so our finance team can prepare the transfer in advance and avoid any unnecessary delays, or excessive teeth-grinding in the accounting department.
And as for the "twist": should Dax return from his ghost-chasing voyage to find that his precious gas miner was left starved of Industrial Materials, I have little doubt he would declare it the perfect Anlass, excuse, to convert my ship into a "temporary Azurite resonance testbed" with me still strapped into the captain's chair. I would very much prefer to avoid becoming a footnote in one of his more experimental research papers.
To: Kapitän Heinrich Falk Subject: Priority Request - Industrial Materials for M.M.L. & Dax's Gas Miner
Konnichiwa.
My crew and I have delivered 15.000 units of Industrial Materials to Dax's Gas Miner and 5000 units of Industrial Materials to Maric Metallurgical Labs
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Encryption level: Maximum - MML-QES1.20.4
Sender: Kapitän Heinrich Falk Recipient: Omicron Supply Industries, Logistics Command (Attn: Inaba Koshi, OSI-Ashen.Maple) Transmission Origin: Maric Metallurgical Labs, Omicron Mu Subject: RE: Priority Request - Industrial Materials for M.M.L. & Dax's Gas Miner Timestamp: 13.12.835 A.S.
Grüße, Koshi,
Vielen Dank for your prompt report, and my thanks to you and the crew of OSI-Ashen.Maple for the efficient delivery work.
I hereby confirm receipt of your current delivery status:
- Industrial Materials - Dax's Gas Miner: 15,000 units delivered
- Industrial Materials - Maric Metallurgical Labs: 5,000 units delivered
This brings the total delivered quantity to 20,000 units out of the 30,000 units requested. As such, 10,000 units of Industrial Materials remain outstanding for delivery to Maric Metallurgical Labs in Omicron Mu.
As outlined in our original request, Maric Metallurgical Labs will compensate Omicron Supply Industries at a rate of 250 SC per unit of Industrial Materials delivered, as a service fee for the contracted transport.
For clarity, the payment is structured as follows:
- Delivered so far: 20,000 units × 250 SC = 5,000,000 SC
- Remaining contract: 10,000 units × 250 SC = 2,500,000 SC
This results in a total contract value of 7,500,000 SC for the full 30,000 units, which M.M.L. will honor in full.
Upon confirmation of the correct account details for Omicron Supply Industries, we will immediately authorize a transfer of 5,000,000 SC to cover the 20,000 units already delivered. Once the remaining 10,000 units have been delivered to Maric Metallurgical Labs and logged by our docking and inventory control, a second transfer of 2,500,000 SC will be issued without delay.
If OSI prefers to route all payments through a specific financial node, such as an OSI-Bank.Deposits account or equivalent, please confirm the exact designation in your next transmission so our finance personnel can avoid any Fehler, mistakes, when preparing the transfer orders.
Please also extend my regards to your crew. If Dax were here to see how you prioritized his precious station, he would no doubt drag you and your entire crew into his humble bar on the miner and try to force-feed you his favorite drink, Kaffee, coffee, until you either developed a second heartbeat or escaped back to your ship. It is, in his own peculiar way, his version of saying thank you.
Vielen Dank for the confirmation of completed deliveries.
With Mr. de Crux’s final shipment logged, I hereby confirm that the contract has been fulfilled in full. As agreed, Maric Metallurgical Labs has authorized payment for your services as follows:
- OSI-Ashen.Maple - 20,000 units delivered - 5,000,000 SC service fee
- OSI-Servantio - 10,000 units delivered - 2,500,000 SC service fee
Total credits transferred under this contract: 7,500,000 SC.
The detailed confirmation from our financial hub is attached below.
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Encryption level: Maximum - MML-QES1.20.4
Sender: Kapitän Heinrich Falk Recipient: Omicron Supply Industries, Logistics Command Transmission Origin: Maric Metallurgical Labs, ==[HIDDEN]== Subject: Sad News and Urgent Need Timestamp: 06.02.836 A.S.
Grüße, respected members of Omicron Supply Industries,
I contact you again under circumstances I would have preferred never to put into words.
The past months have pressed hard on Maric Metallurgical Labs and our extended hand in the sector. Personnel and resources are at an all-time low. More and more independent pilots who once worked from our docks have withdrawn to safer work in House space, leaving our operations thin to the bone. At the same time, Nomad activity has increased across the region, and what used to be “difficult” logistics has become a daily exercise in risk management.
The result is simple, and bitter: we can no longer maintain two stations.
Dr. Dax Lorne will lose his habitat and research facility, Dax’s Gas Miner. The installation is being decommissioned. The decision was made with care, but also with the realism Omicrons demand. Dr. Lorne is currently on [redacted] and, put plainly, he is in grief, still processing what this means. I state this openly because OSI has earned our trust, and because I do not intend to dress this moment up as anything else.
M.M.L. will continue, but only if we keep the processing plants fed. For that, we require materials that are, unfortunately, far from plentiful in our present operating range. We are therefore requesting OSI’s assistance with a priority supply run to Maric Metallurgical Labs.
Docking access will be granted exclusively to vessels carrying OSI identification tags. Standard M.M.L. security protocols remain in effect; civilian personnel will be accompanied while aboard the station, and all sensitive documentation observed during docking operations is to remain confidential.
For the sake of clean books, please confirm in your reply whether OSI accepts the contract and which account you wish the bonus payment routed to upon completion.
* Uranium: 15,000 units
* HazMat Canisters: 15,000 units
Station Buy Prices (paid by unloading personnel):
* Uranium: 60 SC per unit
* HazMat Canisters: 240 SC per unit
OSI Service Bonus (paid by M.M.L. upon confirmed completion):
* Additional 50 SC per unit delivered, across 30,000 units total
* Total bonus value: 30,000 × 50 SC = 1,500,000 SC
Notes:
* Delivery to Maric Metallurgical Labs
* Delivery requested as soon as feasible.
* Bonus transfer issued after contract completion to the OSI account you specify in your acceptance reply.
Despite the tone of this message, I remain grateful that groups like OSI still operate where others retreat. In Omicron, that matters more than most would admit.