To: The League. From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union. Subject: Project involvement.
We remain indebted to you.
Your agenda of spacefaring individualist autonomy is comparable to the Unioner spirit of pragmatic individualism intermeshed with social responsibility through planetary non-occupation that drives us to be the best spacefaring engineers that we could possibly seek to be.
Which brings us to a rather colossal question;
Your mobile shipyard project has caught the attention of the Direktorate. The fact remains that Pacifica is becoming somewhat overstretched and is in the process of servicing vessels from the Omegas, to the Sigmas - a somewhat limiting occasion as Pacifica cannot physically relocate itself throughout the depths of the Rhein, independent systems, Omegas, and Omicrons, without jarring itself apart. We suffer from demand that we cannot cater to.
Obviously the blueprints of your shipyard are your own. We seek not to invade or ameliorate the sanctity of your program. However, we would dare make the following request:
We request the option of storing a backup of the mobile shipyard blueprints once Vulkan has finished his consultation with your agency regarding the project, rather than simply deleting the vessel's project files from the Pacifica intranet as is customary. The obvious end intention would be to manufacture a more limited version of the ship for the Union's own employment, preserving only the wet-dock facilities and the vessel's propulsion frame (which we would, in turn, replace with an MOX-based reaction pile). The vessel would then be adorned in our own colours, plate-patterns and flags to prevent backregistration to your own hull.
In return, we offer to extend the League's use of Pacifica's dockland facilities... infinitely. You would perennially have a location to perform service, maintenance and component fabrication for any of the Hyperspace People's latent projects. In addition, you would benefit from undivided Unioner expertise towards the project's finalisation. The Unioners will provide material and academic expertise to the League, along with permitting the League undivided use of Bering's ample salvage fields for the procurement of components pertinent to the program.
We accept this is an enormous ask fielded in great faith. As such, there will be no negative consequences if you turn us down out of hand.
Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
To be honest, I thought it was a given that you'd hold onto the plans and make your own copy anyway regardless of what we would say. Talks in Senior Staff circles are ongoing, but I assure you that the fact that you came to us and asked nicely will be a strong point in your favor in the proceedings. What you have to offer us just sweetens the pot.
I will inform you when Senior Staff reaches a consensus.
Until we meet again.
Elroy Carpenter Da Bursar
The Bloody League
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To: The League. From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union. Subject: Project involvement.
We might be radicals, but we are decidedly not Communists. Intellectual property deserves respect, and we will not abuse our role of a service provider. The fact that we come to you rather than pursuing separate avenues on our own accord is a testament to our faith in your engineering rigour - you have provided the Unioners with a tactical capacity that far outstretched what we otherwise could have achieved. No small move for a collective of independent worlders. Usually we would denounce such proposals from clients as the majority of retrofit projects that pass through our gantries tend to be.... questionable.... in design rigour. In short, we trust you to be responsible shipwrights.
Any such agreement would come from a expectation that we would provide due diligence in return, instead of attempting to strong-arm you simply because you're employing our shipyard for the project. Feel free to negotiate.
Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
| User ID: Katt T, Horizon
| Callsign:Echo 5-2-1
| Recipient:Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
| Subject:Re-Project involvement.
[. Message Transcript .]
Greetings Mr. Jansen.
Foremost i want to thank you for Confronting us with your request rather then going right ahead and ripping off our Project Design despite already having been expected of to make a copy of the Data, as harsh as my words may seem it is merely what we expected to take place, so thank you for your professionalism in that regard.
That being said, My Name is Katherine Horizon, a Member of The League's Senior Staff and more or less The individual Engineer Responsible for the The League's 'Navigation and Drive Systems', how ever you may simply call me 'Katt' if you wish.
from your request it almost sounds like your granting us Full access to the facility of which you speak of, with in some margin of limitation under privacy standards i would expect, i would be quite surprised if that were not the case, simply all for the Right to build your own Vessel from provided Blueprints? i would have expected such an offer around the same time as the First flight after leaving the Production phase.
none the less I am rather quite curious to know of how you would plan to use your own... Version, shall we say of the Project Vessel, if you were permitted to use said blueprints and the Merits you see it might bring to your Cause, while i understand its general purpose and use as a one of a kind Repair Ship, I'm interested to hear your Thoughts on it and what you believe it might be able to achieve, call it 'The Curiosity of the Cat' as I'm sure one of the others might say.
- Regards.
- Katherine Horizon.
- The League : Senior Staff.
To: The League. From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union. Subject: Project involvement.
Of course. A pleasure, Miss (or is it Mrs?) Horizon.
Full access to the wet-dock area of the shipyard. Obviously, particular berths will be sectioned off which lack relevance, such as experimental munitions plants, hydroponics bays, medicine factories.
We would rather pursue diplomatic action that would engender comrades than machines alone. The fact remains that a repeat customer is more valuable to us than a forced acquisition. The Union has no intention of abusing your status as independent worlders without set ports of call for individual advantage. Such an action would be against our organisational and institutional ethos. Remember that we are criminals by historical accident, not by intention or infliction. First and formost, we are individualist protectionists; we hold it self-evident that a person is privy to the fruits of their own intentions.
The reason why we make this offer in these early steps as it allows us to ascertain early on the cost-to-loss benefits of direct assistance to the League regarding R'n'D, materials shipping, etcetera, beyond the already offered shipyard berth. We have no intention in weaponising the League's creation - we have quite enough artillery already. However it perpetually remains the case that the primary operating pressure on Unioner hardware and infrastructure is not materials, expenditure, or manpower, but service conditions. Pacifica has perpetually grown over the centuries - in the years to come, it will grow yet larger, however obvious security concerns prevent us from constructing comparable architectures anywhere other than the security of the Tanner. Many of our habitats are in a dangerous state of disrepair from constant use far beyond their intended usage life, assembled from whatever components can come to hand. Every year we lose scores of Unioners - mostly families, from habitation failure. In short, we view our interest in your project as a strictly humanitarian one. A sufficiently scaled repair and service vessel would be the solution to one of the Union's most pressing needs.
We are so disinclined to arm the vessel that we would be entirely comfortable if the resultant product lacks artillery entirely. Only the repair functionality is of latent interest to us. We were planning to develop a similar project of our own accord before you approached us with the program, but the benefit to sharing R'n'D and manufacturing hours between us has obvious incentives. There is also the inherent advantage of a production line; the more of any set of materials you produce, the more fault-tolerant the resultant product becomes, and the cheaper the manufacturing process. One vessel, is a dangerous prototypic test article. Two, is a working production model.
We, of course, would work sequentially. Since the vessel is yours, your project would take Unioner priority. We would not section resources until your own design was finalised, to prevent conflict of interest or resource resistance.
Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
| User ID: Katt T, Horizon
| Callsign:Echo 5-2-1
| Recipient:Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
| Subject:Re-Project involvement.
[. Message Transcript .]
Miss Horizon is fine.
I am quite please to hear that you plan to use the Project Vessel for humanitarian reasons and the Prosperity of your people, I much prefer this instead of its sole purpose being merely a byproduct regarded as a tool for out right waging war with, it would be such a waste of a wondrous thing that could very well improve not only the lives of others but general life as we know it if it was seen as but a "war machine", so I hope this will help relieve some of the issues that you would face on a daily basis.
In regards to your request and in acceptance of your reasoning of use and your offer, we would be quite happy to permit you to use the blueprints and Construct your own Vessel so that the lives of your people may greatly improve and that they may live more comfortably as a result of this, how ever there is but two conditions i want to address, First, the Blueprints and Data regarding these Vessels and their construction are to remain between our two groups, for reasons that need not to be said as you no doubt would understand and have probably guessed, and Second, although this might be some what selfish of me but I would like to request copy's of the Development Testing and Trial Data after the completion of the Construction, no doubt one of our people would be looking to stick a Drive Core into it as soon as possible and expect to start playing leap frog across the systems before we even get give it a toast...
The reason why i ask for copy's of the test data is that I would very much like to run a few of my own tests with the data in hand while comparing it to current collected data of the Vessels we currently employ as a means to find the optimal output under safe levels to ensure Compatibility with a Jump Drive Core and our Customised Navigation System to ensure that there is no issues due to 'Operator's miscalculations', of course I would be more then happy to share that same compatibility Data with your people Should it be required in the future.
I also apologise on behalf of Carpenter not being able to contact you back at this time as he is currently on another assignment. - Regards.
- Katherine Horizon.
- The League : Senior Staff.
To: The League. From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union. Subject: Project involvement.
Security is a field of mine.
We advise that the blueprints are held in a single master-storage which is regularly update and accessible to both parties. Both parties carry mutual access keys for design alterations. The Unioner master copy will be deleted from record upon initial design finalisation following transmission to the Shipyard's nanolathes - retro-active record deletion. Build enough axillary modules to cover the shipyard's service life, then burn the original schemata. Warehouse the rest. Of course, we'd expect you to keep your own copy. It won't fool house intelligence agencies, but they're unlikely to gain direct access to Pacifica's nanolathes between component refresh. Antimatter sterilizes the dirtiest storage.
Jump drives are your field, not ours. You'd be more aware of any particular design restraints we may need to include to prep a vessel of this size for jump action. Unioner vessels appear to be able to stand the jump shock, but we have a reputation for overbuilding and our ability to simulate hyperspatial structural stress is presently more art than science - a shipyard needs to be able to handle load forces quite differently to a warship.
I can hand you over to Vulkan for further consultation. This is where my space-frame architecture awareness stops.
Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.
Transmission Ended
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's outlawed trade unions, determined to take the underworld for themselves.)
| User ID: Katt T, Horizon
| Callsign:Echo 5-2-1
| Recipient:Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
| Subject:Re-Project involvement.
[. Message Transcript .]
No, that wont be necessary and I thank you for the offer of speaking to another of whom I'm sure I would get along with quite well but perhaps another time as i feel it would be rude of me to impose on you any more then i already have done, but It has been a Pleasure to have had the chance to speak with you Mr. Jansen and learn a little how you would intend to use your own vessel built of the Project Blueprints.
I feel there is quite a lot in the future that both of our groups have to offer to one another so please feel free to give us a call some time as we would be more then happy to hear out any future requests you may have. - Regards.
- Katherine Horizon.
- The League : Senior Staff.
I apologize on behalf of Miss Horizon for her lack of contact over these past few months. Due to reasons relating to her research and duties as Head of Hyperspatial Tech Development in the League, she has recently retreated to the far flung edges of charted space in pursuit of privacy from prying eyes. In light of her absence I have stepped up to take over matters of administration regarding our collaboration efforts over the continuation of the Mobile Shipyard Project.
Now to the matter of commencing with the initial stages of this project. The Bustard class vessel which will serve as the base chassis for the Mobile Shipyard, the "Mad Brick", has been dispatched to the Bering system to dock at Pacifica and is expected to arrive there in a couple of days time. Another of my colleagues in Senior Staff, Willow Holt, has also asked me to highlight to several changes that have recently been made to the design documents of the Project Ship. The prow fighter bays have been removed and in there place, space for a dual forward facing weapon system has been allocated. Talks of what this weapon system will be are still underway, however I have it on good authority from Holt's engineering teams in Titan-Holt Products that a conceptual design schematic has begun to take shape. I will update you when things have been finalised and a copy of the modified plans will be relayed to Unioner engineering teams over more secure channels.
Given my role as Head of Shipping and Commercial Operations within the League, I am able to free up some of my transport fleets that aren't busy with cargo assignments to focus on fulfilling the logistical needs of this operation. Additional resources may be drawn up from my other contacts to help and I will notify you if and when that happens. Now is the time for action Mr Jansen. For many within the League this vessel represents the first step towards self sufficiency that has been long dreamed of, and due to past dealings with the Alster Union, I am well aware that a Unioner vessel of this make will do much to lessen the suffering of your families and other innocents.
Yours eternally in profit.
~Anton Naiose Tordai The League : Senior Staff
P.S: Give Arno Shultzchy my best, I hope his project is reaching fruition.
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