I'm working on an article about the mess down in Omega-49. Word is that the OMG is going to be ferrying some refugees to join us here at Canberra. Can either of you comment on that, or on the Omega-49 situation in general? I just need a sentence or two that I can quote for my readers.
The Natio expresses its deepest sympathies to the people of Omega-49 who are evacuating the system, as the situation mirrors that which we ourselves faced some four years ago. The Natio is prepared at this time to take in and give citizenship to ten thousand refugees from Omega-49, with potentially more on the horizon as we continue to assess the situation and our capacity for further expansion of the population.
I've been working on an article about the bombing of Tombstone Estate on Gran Canaria. Can your office share any information on the event? There's been a lot of rumors flying around, and IC's news arm published a rather sensationalized, poorly-researched piece on the subject. With your help, along with those closer to the incident, I think Canberra News can do a lot better.
Oh, the one claiming the Corsairs "activate nuclears"? That's not even grammatically sound, nevermind journalistically. I've seen better reporting from Die Zweibel, and that's a humor rag.
We have no proof this was Corsairs. There are numerous parties in the area with the capacity to do this. Bretonia, Corsairs, Hessians, Coalition, even the Zoners themselves, they've always been a fractious group. Frankly, if this is the drivel Interspace is willing to attach their name to, it's no wonder their customers are increasingly dissatisfied.
That being said, the Commission doesn't have any information we're able to share at the moment. We are, however, willing to offer support for your own work there.
The Commission has reviewed your interview feeds. Our analysis is as thus: nobody smuggles a nuke planetside to take out a doctor, his lover, and their child. That's barely above little league assassination, and at its most complex, an arson-and-sniper job.
Not that I would know anything about that.
A nuclear detonation at the centre of the Tombstone Estate that was completely caught by the estate's shielding means two things. One, the estate had a sufficiently powerful shield generator to create a bubble that would contain a nuclear bomb and keep itself from being cooked. Two, the estate's shielding was explicitly designed to contain a nuclear explosion set off in the centre of the estate, with the end result of thoroughly incinerating the estate while keeping the surrounding areas free of stray radioactive materials and washes of stellar-hot plasma.
Your inbound and outbound transmissions from Coalition space are being monitored and announced as such. In the interest of supporting your guildmastership and your ability to breathe, a relay drone is currently traversing the jump network and will be arriving in New Moscow within the next two hours. It will meet up with your ship and attach itself to your auxiliary short range communication laser array, automatically encrypting any data sent through it to a matching PKI relay terminal aboard Canberra. Please use it for any continued diplomatic channels with Malta or, frankly, anyone while you're in Coalition space.
This is the most secure method of keeping you in business and in the land of the living while you're operating out of New Moscow. Apart from embedding q-crypts in your eyes, and with some recent recruiting into the Commission we're running short on surgical gel.
If we see another message of yours gleefully announcing that the so-called Ministry of Truth has digested a copy of it, the next drone we send will have a payload measured in megatons instead of gigabits.
Now, now, there's no need for threats. We're all on the same side, after all. I only answered from New Moscow because that's where I happened to be when Minister Combs' message came in. OMG Guildmaster is not really a desk job, and the job doesn't prevent me from doing honest merchant work, so I prefer to do my business on the move.
As to your drone, any equipment that makes my jobs easier is very much appreciated. If it's all the same to you, however, I'd prefer to meet the drone outside New Moscow. The Coalition's people aren't bad hosts, so long as you don't embarrass easily, but I think they'd find the drone's delivery rather suspicious. They get rather... annoying when they're suspicious.
The Sea of Dreams will be leaving the system within the hour in any case, after our cargo is loaded. We'll be passing Eureka Station in Cambridge, so we can meet the drone there. Hopefully that'll put an end to prying eyes reading my mail.
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