A few days ago, the Guild was contacted by Bristol’s Chief of Operations, Esme Blake. She expressed a wish to establish an accord between Bristol, ALG, Gateway, and us the Guild. Seeing how her proposal would require a significant commitment from the IMG, I have decided to call the Assembly to deliberate on it.
To summarize for those members who do not operate near Liberty: Bristol is a worker cooperative based out of the Bering system, on Bristol Bay Station the site where Freeport Two once stood. Their main line of work is similar to that of ALG, focused on salvaging and smelting wrecks left scattered throughout their home system. Recently, Bristol has expanded its efforts into mining platinum in the contested Galileo system, where the local corporations, DSE and Samura, seem to be stirring up a war between their respective houses.
It doesn’t take a genius to see how grim things could soon become for Bristol.
I have attached the content of our communication for the Assembly’s review.
NON-ALIGNED INDEPENDENT ASSOCIATION
NAIA ACCORDS OF 835
Article 1
All signed parties shall undertake, to maintain the peace, resolution of any disputes between themselves and other parties by peaceful means such that the security of the signed parties is not endangered, and shall refrain from the threat or use of force in any manner which stands against the principles of this agreement.
Article 2
All signed parties shall further development of relations between the signed parties through strengthening of any and all institutions which, by commerce, security, or aligned goals interact commonly. The signed parties shall undertake removal of conflict between these institutions through the promotion of economic stability and the collaboration of economic policies between any or all of the signed parties.
Article 3
All signed parties shall maintain the individual and collective capacity to resist armed attack, in order to maintain the capacity of this agreement to foster stability and peaceable relations both between signed parties and other parties.
Article 4
All signed parties shall collectively consult when one signed party is threatened by any corporate party, signed or otherwise, in its territorial integrity, security, or commercial capacity.
Article 5
All signed parties shall undertake all measures to stand united against corporate action against them, whether that be threatening the territorial integrity, security, or commercial capacity of the signed parties, and shall come to that member’s defense in the interests of self-defense and the continued existence of this agreement.
Article 6
All signed parties hereby institute a Council, wherein each party shall maintain representation, to consider and affect implementation of this treaty. This Council shall maintain the ability to convene promptly. The Council shall organize and implement any and all subsidiary organizations deemed necessary to carry out the Articles of this agreement.
Article 7
All signed parties may convene to allow membership of additional parties through a unanimous vote.
With regards
Albert Schulze, Guildmaster
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If you ask me askin' for a mutual defense pact the moment you see the stampede peek over the horizon just doesn't sit right with me. Now don't get me wrong, what's being done to them ain't right, but this kind of deal shoulda been in the works for years. We didn't get where we are with ALG and Gateway overnight after all.
That said, I agree with the spirit of the Accords. We aren't gonna get the Houses to stop overstepping unless we're workin' together, and Bristol is as much out on the border as we are. Dropping Article 5 would make the whole thing just mint, in my opinion.
Maybe then when the next mess rolls around we'll be in a position to actually put the screws on those responsible.
I'd first offer up an introduction to you all. I am Haruka Onigawara.
In the absence of the previous Guildmaster, I've been elected to represent Pecos.
Now concering the proposal at hand. There's no dealings that I've personally had with Bristol up until this point but anyone not under the yoke of the Houses and their corporations should be helped. It is even written in the Guild Charter under Article VII's Solidarity clause. Let me quote from it:
"We support each other and other worker-oriented groups in times of need."
This is not to say that we should throw all our ressources into their struggle. Heaven's sake with the situation here on Pecos there's not a lot of support we'd be able to send. But I'd like to ask that we put out a call for volunteers within our ranks, maybe form them into a couple of squadrons and send them to their aid. It might not amount to a lot but would allow us deniablity of being directly involved while not letting those with similar ideals to ours hang out to dry.
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