-=Incoming Transmission=-
-=From: The GMG
-=Comm ID: Guild CEO Kami Aiko=-
Greetings, To whom it may concern.
I wish i was contacting you under better circumstances, but i just received a report from one of my traders passing through liberty that he was treated less than fairly during one of our many fuel runs into liberty.
It seems that while my trader had been passing through New York, on a return trip of a plutonium run, He was stopped by several liberty navy pilots while carrying a load of Bretonian indentured servants from Planet Pittsburgh bound for Planet Miura. The pilots treated my trader with disrespect and called him a slaver and fined him for carrying legitimate cargo.
Now i'm not all to sure why they would be calling the humans we legitimately purchased from one of your planets slaves since these people would be getting better treatment that most of the traders in my fleet. They will be getting a job with more pay than half my traders get out in the fleet. they will be getting better food and housing than i can say for half the people under my employment. Now i don't know why your fleets scanners are programmed to classify indentured servants who are to be getting class A treatment as something as degrading as a slave? And that is what i am here contacting you today for.
I ask you, why is it that you are hindering our efforts to help these men by giving them Food, Money, Housing, clothing, and a sense of honor by fulfilling that which they so desperately needed. As i have seen from my many trips to Planet Pittsburgh That it is desperately overcrowded and most of its people out of jobs and living on the streets. we are simply giving these men and women the opportunity they are not presented with on Pittsburgh.
I can assure you that we do not treat these people as slaves but as what they are, people. and i am here asking you why you would be stopping us from helping these people.
I've had quite a few smugglers use this as an excuse for moving slaves through Liberty territory - I'm not falling for it. How you can justify them being on board as "legitimate" cargo is beyond me. As you've already admitted, you "purchased" the humans from the planet, clearly they were slaves and we've only your word that they wouldn't be harmed.
Inform your traders that if they're caught with slaves in their cargo hold, they'll be forced to unload them on the nearest station and face a hefty fine.
-=Incoming Transmission=-
-=From: The GMG
-=Comm ID: Guild CEO Kami Aiko=-
Konnichiwa Mister Jack Malrone, I would like to offer you our deepest apologies since it seems that our traders have someone convinced you that we are slavers, which we are not. And i would like for us to clear the air on this subject. I would like to offer you or a liberty official to the Fujisawa mining facility in Okinawa were the Miura workers are housed fed and treated with the utmost respect.
As it stand the Fujisawa mining facility has been in desperate need of workers to fill the role of mining for the precious minerals deep in Miuras crust. The guld sought to fill this role through YOUR licensed vendors on YOUR planet. And as it stands without the workers to fill this role we will no longer be able to supply liberty with the plutonium from these mines.
-=Incoming Transmission=-
-=From: The GMG
-=Comm ID: Guild CEO Kami Aiko=-
Greetings again, we would like to open up these comms to DSE as well seeing as the Vendor was under there employ and they may be able to explain the point further.
Firstly, allow me to thank you Mr Aiko for your invitation
to deliberate on our situation on Planet Pittsburgh.
As we all know, Liberty has become the home of many
displaced persons from the besieged Bretonian Kingdom,
and that Deep Space Engineering has taken the responsi-
bility to rehome and find work for these poor refugees.
Unfortunately the significant loss of territory through initially
the war with Kusari and now the more significant threat from
the Gallics, it has increased the influx of displaced persons
and given us an over population crisis. The Gas Miners Guild
has offered a 'Fuel for Employees' program where we offer
the Gas Miners Guild a keen, reliable and friendly work force
upon which is heavily endorsed by our United Hope Foundation.
It's with some unknown bureaucratic reasoning that unemployed
persons are regard to as 'Slaves' by Liberty shipping standards,
which is not only grossly indecent, but a sheer insult and further
dehumanization of the displaced refugees from Bretonia.
This is unfortunately the catalyst for over zealous Libertonian
officials who wish to sweep under the rug and absolve
themselves of any responsibility to the problem on Pittsburgh.
Deep Space Engineering has been the leading H-Fuel supplier
in Liberty with the assistance from Kishiro Technologies, Universal
Shipping and other trusted contractors. It is with these hard
working participants that Liberty is enjoying some breathing
space.
What is different between sending known criminals of Liberty
to work on the fuel supply this Nation desires so much, too
supporting a domestic corporation to not only supply the Gas
Miners Guild with willing law-abiding citizens desperate for work
but alleviating a known Government problem hosted by one of
Liberty's strongest economic partner in a matter befitting of
your allies, Bretonia.
Previous exemptions allowed only Deep Space Engineering
to transport these 'slaves', as you would label them, in and out
of Liberty. But Deep Space Engineering is not a dedicated
passenger service nor are we able to maintain these supply
lines on our own. The Gas Miners Guild fits this bill perfectly.
I am hereby proposing a reconsideration of your stance
regarding this matter as it is a matter of National integrity,
National pride and most of all, working in unity with our
friends and allies to create a strong Liberty and Bretonian
alliance with the assistance and supply from the Gas Miners
Guild.
As you can appreciate, there has been much discussion on the subject as transport of people who appear to be "slaves" undermines the core values Liberty stands for. In saying that, the we recognise what Deep Space Engineering and your Guild are trying to achieve through the United Hope Foundation. We also recognise the possible ramifications that transporting these refugees in an improper fashion could have on both the Guild's and Liberty's reputation.
As such, the following restrictions are in effect when transporting these refugees:
Only official GMG| tagged craft are permitted to transport the "slaves"
No more than 3000 people on board the vessel at any point in time
For every thousand passengers, there must be at least 70 units of Food, Water and Oxygen respectively on board.
The transporting vessel will be one of the following:
Renzu Liner
Luxury Liner
Geisha
Its is our hope that the terms are agreeable and these refugees can be given a new life, with a little hope in them.
- Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, Boris Livingstone.
-=Incoming Transmission=-
-=From: The GMG
-=Comm ID: Guild CEO Kami Aiko=-
Greetings liberty, It is with our deepest gratitude that we whole heatedly accept your terms and we thank you or this opportunity to give these men and women a new life with the guild.