“Ah, good t’ see yer up, lad! Siddown an’ have a piece of pie”, Druce says teasingly to Jonah, then puts his head down and scratches his beard while thinking over Eriksson’s proposal, then he raises his head and leans towards the table, having both hands resting on elbows.
“Well, t’ be honest, Eriksson, I feel a tad uncomfortable doin’ proposals of such scale without Greg bein' ere, and" he looks towards the direction where the woman ran off to, "from what I was told, it may take a while till' he gets 'ere, but I can tell ya in advance that, since we Gaians are mainly scientists to th’ bone, our facilities at Islay, including Glendale, Skye an’ Holmfirth are full an’ sufficient in resources right now, that includes weaponry research an’ engineering. One thing ya must know ‘bout our engineers, is that their pride of buildin’ up stuff from scratch an’ th’ results being as unique an’ far from others’ designs as possible.” , he adds with a grin, “so I reckon that it’ll be a tad difficult. I believe, though, that Matt oo’er there might tell ya a tad more ‘bout any possibilities of a technological cooperation, since he’s spent a lot of time with th’ chaps”, he turns around and waves at Matthew Grim, who notices him and gives him an “I’ll be right there” sign.
Druce sits back into his chair and closes his eyes again. “One thing our scientific division would definitely appreciate an’ make use of, is more information on…th’ original inhabitants o’ Sirius. Ya see, we’ve got an artifact route crossin’ Islay, so we do have a xenoarcheology branch oo’er here, but all we can do is theoretize.” He opens his eyes again and looks into Eriksson’s ones. “You chaps, on th’ other hand, have lived close to ‘em, seen ‘em daily, their tactcs, movement, even seen them interact to some extent.”, he picks up his jug of mead he nearly forgot about and takes a gulp.
“Of course, th’ possibility of resource exchange is open, as well as helpin’ protect Bretonia from…th’ natives. We may be eco-terrorists, but nay terrorists. We care ab'oot civilists an' realize what a threat an invasion may be. Other than that, maybe Greg would think of somethin’ ta add."
He looks into Eriksson's eyes again
Until then, my question fer ya is: What yould ya fellas require in exchange fer th’ intel, an’ other points which may arise?”