Esteemed Dr Charles Holland,

Thank you for keeping us informed. I am Sir Henry Fairfax and I serve as the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, and it is y duty and pleasure to deal with Bretonia's corporations. My office always likes hearing from healthy Bretonian companies. I personally admire Planetform and I am proud of the monopoly that your company holds in the name of the Kingdom, which no other can rival. However, I am afraid that this talk of ours will not be entirely pleasant and regret that such are the first words I must speak with the new Planetform CEO.

Not everyone in the Office for Trade and Industry is happy about your announcement that Harris will take more than another decade. It was scheduled for completion in 820 and the prime minister has already sent a contract to a third party which assumes that the project will be completed in the early 830-s. It was assumed so because the planet was out of Planetform's hands for only four years, from 823 to this year, albeit it was admittedly cut off for longer. But, all taken into account, it is not a major setback when compared to the nearly four centuries of terraforming, and we will simply have the estimated date corrected. A copy of the contract will be provided to you when it is signed. Still, the Kingdom urges Planetform to hurry.

Ayr is not as hopeful. The entirety of Edinburgh is held by a powerful fleet of renegade Gallic forces that refused to acknowledge our peace treaty with Gallia. It is this government's primary goal to retake the lost Bretonian territory, but no one can say when that will happen. It is subject to war fortune. Perhaps additional investment into our armed forces could speed it up.

This is the current state of matters, and as some Gallic sailors could have said after they had been soundly beaten in New London, "c'est la vie".