I liked you better when you were an attractive shade of angry and encouraging me to commit manslaughter. There'll be a Dromedary for you in hangar three on Ames. You can leave your own ride in the opposite slot, six. I'll have someone keep an eye on it for you. The drom's quick, punch it down the lanes to Texas. Nobody will bother you since it's marked down as a zoner ship. Once you're in the system, break off the lanes and head to foxtrot-three. I'll be there.
You won't get shot at if I'm flying right next to you. And I'm capable of keeping my crew in line. So there's no need to be so paranoid. Consider it a nice little trust building exercise.
Incoming Transmission Liberty Security Force
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Senior Agent 'Siren'
Paperwork
Cobra, and Miller if you're present.
It seems there's been a mishap between our two forces, and with the sudden upswing in recruitment within the LSF, it was bound to happen eventually. One of your pilots under the callsign Boa attempted to gun down one of our bombers today, who of which is under the callsign Patriot. I'm not asking for a punishment, but I do want to forward to you a number of names to consider not firing upon. Obviously if provoked or fired upon yourselves, they're free game.
The new Agents who'd prefer not to brawl with the Xenos include;
Patriot
Minuteman
Warden
Winter
Light
Veritas - Advise caution.
If any of them repeatedly provoke or attack your men, you don't need my permission to treat them as you feel necessary. Agents callsigns you need to be extra cautious around include Kidman, Bobcat, and Sasquatch. GIve them a chance to move on peacefully, but not the opportunity to glory hunt.
As for capital ships, the commanders are usually classified. Case-by-case basis.
Like always, I've advised my Agents to avoid confrontation with your men unless it's absolutely necessary for their survival.
Also, if you think you could find a use for the innards of Arbiters, Judicators, and various Hellfire Legion vessels, there's a cloud of them circling Chadwick Station. Preliminary salvage surveys suggest at least two of the several reactors on one of the Arbiter wrecks are repairable.
I've relayed the updated list to my people. Suffice to say I will not be reprimanding Boa for his actions. He engaged a target of opportunity that was not on the list at the time. Though despite this Patriot has my apologies for the inconvenience rendered. The right to self defense is yours in the event one of mine disregards this arrangement.
As for mess around Chadwick, I've alerted a salvage team to cut out anything useful and haul it back. The hulls themselves are likely in no state to consider restoring, but they'll make for good raw material once broken and melted down. And I'm sure Assembly and Fabrication will appreciate having more resources to work with.
Incoming Transmission Liberty Security Force
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Senior Agent 'Siren'
Paperwork
Cobra.
Liberty workers will be present when you arrive, but they have already been informed to expect other crews, and to mind their own business. There will be a beacon flashing red in front of the wreckages we have set aside for you to claim, while we peel apart the rest. We'll be melting down some of the leftover plating as well, and see it added to Chadwicks outer armor layers. A fitting act, I think.
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Senior Agent-in-Command 'Siren'
Lull
Cobra, Angelina.
I appreciate the sentiment. I'd still be grateful if you found and violently removed Almost Honest from the genepool, but any other junkers are just collateral now.
I've little news to share with you at this time, as the Legion seems to have fled into their holes in Kansas and Vespucci, and the Unioners recent surge in activity has already been quelled.
I may have something to ask of Angelina, once she's available again, but that's all for now.
Roughly an hour ago, an incident occurred where a lumbering legion warship was reported to be wandering through Ontario. We already had forces in the area that had just mopped up a Hacker gunship, and so I ordered for the Malice to investigate while the Retribution was on route.
The person at the helm of the Malice at the time reports that the captain had entered our territory and seemed fairly intent on either belittling our movement or trying to give orders. As per a statement issued to all Legion forces in response to the Commonwealth proving to be a less than trustworthy entity, the two gunships and their small assault wing engaged the target and destroyed it.
I'm contacting you about it for two reasons, number one being the fact that our forces just engaged a non-compliant and belligerent legion warship to the extent of destruction. Number two is the fact that our gunships report the engagement as having "taken five years to reach its ultimate conclusion" - which has lead me to believe that a bigger gun is necessary to deal with threats of this magnitude.
The Alliance is in no position to tolerate the Commonwealth's attitude, much less still if they are willing to deploy warships within striking distance of our operations in Colorado. I intend to keep giving the order to destroy such threats, but being able to do so with greater efficiency would be helpful.
Incoming Transmission Liberty Security Force
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Senior Agent-in-Command 'Siren'
Arbitration
Cobra.
It's not a matter of if we have a bigger gun, it's a question of how big of a gun you would like.
There's broken Archer bodies still unsalvaged. There's Lend Lease Battlecruisers unaccounted for. You and I know there's also the hull of a Dreadnought somewhere out there. Would you be able to sustain and maintain any such ships? How much will you truly need?
And most importantly, what are you willing to do in trade for a particularly big gun?
The lend lease Battlecruisers are a travesty, repainted hardware we made for an inferior House. The concept of a single Archer pointed straight at the massive profile of something like the Arbiter, and perhaps equipped with long-ranged pulse weaponry seems like the sort of strategy I could work with.
Maintenance would be a fluctuating matter, for the most part being able to run it is something we'd be able to pull off, but it will have several inherent defects and damage that we won't be able to fix all at once, and maybe not ever in entirety.
Incoming Transmission Liberty Security Force
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Senior Agent-in-Command 'Siren'
Arbitration
Cobra.
I'm hard pressed to find something to ask of you that I know you're capable of. We have similar enemies, similar goals. Often enough, we can go get any material or exotic good we need ourselves. I do have one idea, however.
I know of a few bases of yours that would provide a strategic position to launch strikes, raids, or reconnaissance missions from. Locations on the borders of Liberty.
In trade for your Archer, I want my agents to be able to dock with your bases. There'll be full compliance with any of your demands, obviously, and I just might be able to reciprocate such a thing to your pilots out in the field.
Docking rights in trade for an Archer. Unless you had something else in mind?