....Good day, I am Mathew Hendricks, representing an independent party currently based on Canaria with the intent of purchasing some of your fabled mining equipment.
....We are planning a voyage into Liberty space, utilizing the Omega corridor into Pennsylvania proper to rebuild our foundation after what we can only assume to be corporate espionage drove us out. The journey will be perilous, as you no doubt know the Omegas are rife with organized piracy, given our small number and limited defensive capability, we need insurance against such things. This brings me to your man-operated "Goliath Mk II" mining rigs. We seek to purchase nine of these suits for our on-board garrison in the hopes that in the event of a boarding action, we are able to save the lives of our precious few members in the ensuing conflict. Unless of course you believe there is a different rig that would better suit our purposes.
Alongside the nine mining rigs, we wish to purchase eight-hundred units of Mining Machinery, the use of which is self explanatory. All of these items are to be delivered to our rented storage pad on Canaria once the details of payment have been discussed and agreed upon. ....
We wish you bountiful harvest, and hope to hear from you soon.
I am Albert Schulze the acting Guildmaster of Madeira. The Mining machinery is of no issue. They are sold thirty-seven credits per unit amounting for the price of Twenty-nine thousand six hundred.
As for the mining rigs while We could provide you with the requested Goliaths I believe that the Guild has rigs more suited to the role specified. They are handled by a separate part of the known as the Kongsi Syndicate. I could forward the request to them if you wish.
With regards
Albert Schulze, Guildmaster
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....The sum for the machinery is a non-issue, if you would notify me the data bank you'd like our payment to route through I can send that over immediately.
As for the rigs I am pleased to hear that there are in fact units more suited to our specific purpose, as we have never perused the Guild's catalogues previously, that oversight could have cost us extensive hours of modification with our limited expertise. ....
If you would be so kind, I would accept the offer of being forwarded to the Syndicate.
Al' here told me you lot needed some mining rigs you wanted to convert for anti-boarding.
So, for our rigs we started with the Goliath mark two's then up-armoured the rig with some light armour plating and stripped a lot of the actual mining equipment from the arms unless it was of any use in a boarding scenario. So these suits are gonna' be only good for slottin' bastards unless you want to re-attach some mining gear to the arms, but they are still vac-sealed and still have the magnetic feet for stability.
Now, the important detail here is that our suits are modular, meaning each and every suit is equipped differently depending on the preferences of the operators and their crews. A lot of Syndics are quite fond of flamethrower or flechette slinger mounts combined with a heavy duty boarding shield. And while effective, I would wish to highlight that neither are quite precision weapons so there is a high risk of collateral damage and the like. Which obviously might be problematic in a ship defence scenario, however there are naturally other options available, from plasma cannons, chain guns, etc, etc.
All of this stuff is produced by our crowd on Madeira, so if you can give me some specifics on what exact weapon configurations you'd like on these suits we can start getting your order together immediately, since I'm assuming from what you told Albert you aren't really interested in a presentation.
Once we have the exact details of your order together we can give you the final price and move onto organizing shipping details, unless of course you would rather pick-up the suits yourself.
....We have already acquired the weaponry we wish to mount on the rigs.
To save you and our own techs the effort of mounting and unmounting needless pieces, we would appreciate these modified mining rigs come weaponless, with the armor plating stripped from the upper backs, and included with six boarding shields as separate items so that we may utilize them as necessary.
For the nine suits, six boarding shields, mining equipment, and various individual armor plates and replacement parts for six of the nine rigs. ....
Well, that will cut the prep time of your order down to a lovely and quick two or three days. And your total with nine suits, six shields and the various pieces of equipment, plating and parts brings your cost for the order up to 193,580.S.C. in total.
Now, if you want to collect the goods yourself that's the final figure which can be transferred to the account ^Y^.Spirit.of.Revolt and we'll notify you when you order is ready. Alternatively since from what I gathered from the conversation you had with the Guildmaster, you guys are in the Omegas already so we can deliver them to any destination in the Omegas that doesn't blush at the sight of a Guild transponder for an additional fee of 5,000.S.C. if you'd rather not have to make the trip up to Madeira yourselves.
Whichever, the case, enjoy the rigs. The boys and girls on Madeira are really chuffed with themselves on 'im and I'd hope that they haven't misplaced their pride in their work.
....You'll find a rounded number sent across your data bank alongside an encrypted data packet regarding the location of our warehouse on Canaria for delivery. ....