to Universal Shipping; from the collectors

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to whom it may concern,



in the early days of industry, waste was scarce and space was plentiful. men expanded and expanded, speculated and speculated again, and now we're left with this huge mess of scrap metal in space. that's okay, though, because we junkers comb it and help you corporativists use it. we are the janitors, we are the sweep crew, the streetsweepers . . .

we are the collectors.

liberty corporations created liberty's debris fields, and they're growing. new york has become a junk pile (well, texas too, but that's not your fault.) but the collectors have a proposition for you. you can help us fix the mess your corporate kin created and earn a killing doing so. we propose that you help us by moving the scrap to smelting plants. in doing so, you'll drive down the hyperinflated price of rheinland metals (helping the war effort), help keep the debris fields down to size (helping the environment) and most importantly you'll make [color=#004400]money (helping yourselves).

we keep a scrap depot at rochester base in new york and we have cleanup crews working around the clock to store and package the scrap metal for hauling. please don't let the citizens of liberty down. do your part.

reduce. reuse.[color=#004400] recycle.



red beans and ricely yours,
carlos ortiz

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---Incoming Transmission---
---From:Araevin Teshurr; President, Universal Shipping Incorporated---
---Subject:Scrap Metal moving---

Mr.Ortiz,
It's a pleasure to hear from you, and let it be known that your jobs are quite important, perhaps as important as ours. Let me start out by saying that Universal is a shipping company, and we are here to help Liberty. Now, we have not caused the vast amounts of waste that are present in New York, as you have pointed out. But we are far less interested in pointing fingers then we are in cleaning it up.

We are happy that you present this opportunity to us, to make Liberty cleaner. And certainly the funds from such removal are only a small benefit to what we are doing, making Liberty a better place.
We have transports in standby all the time, and would be more then happy to put these to use in this way. So please, lets discuss the logistics of this deal in person, I have a nice private bar available on Trenton, or perhaps somewhere else?
-With regards,
Araevin Teshurr

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[color=#000000]Carlos Ortiz walks into the private Universal Shipping bar on Trenton Outpost wearing a silk necktie and a plaid suitjacket over greasy coveralls. After taking a seat at Teshurr's table, he lays a paper contract on the table. The contents, poorly yet diligently scrawled, display the following:

:: $1200 per unit of scrap metal from our barge at rochester base
:: option for low-interest loans, with collectors as creditor, compounded weekly
:: possible talks for "barrager" junker weaponry to follow if interested

"how 'bout it?" he asked softly.