08-10-2018, 02:09 AM
[ Incoming Transmission ]
Identification: Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium Ministry of Relations
To: National Council of Malta
Subject: Formalization of Relations
Encryption: Quite.
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44
Greetings, esteemed representatives of Malta.
As a prologue to my message, I would like to apologize for not reaching out to you sooner. The diplomatic and political climate in the upper Taus has been rather stressful as of late, particularly in the system that my people call their home. Were the universe a friendlier place we would have been in contact with you some time ago, but alas, human nature precludes that.
My name is Harold Kane. Some of you may have heard it before -- I am the Minister of Relations for the micro-state of Natio Octavarium and a former Taskmaster of the Vagrant Raiders. We are in a sense a successor to that organization, but with new goals. Instead of piracy and mercenary work we have established a colony in the far corner of the Tau Border Worlds in which our civilians can live without threat of the likes of Liberty and Gallia shearing off their front doors and arresting or slaughtering them for the sheer audacity of having what they would consider to be blemished pasts.
That being said, signores, we have not ever forgotten our history. The Raiders came from Malta, and our founder and long-time leader, the late John Petrucci, brought us what was at the time a significant amount of wealth and power, all thanks to Malta's influence and reaches. The Cardamine trade was our bread and butter. While for diplomatic appearances we have been... not avoiding, but downplaying our involvement in the Orange Dream in recent months, we are still very interested in being a friend and an economic partner of Malta's. We are working with the Amalfi Union to provide an economic way-station for legitimizing the trade of cryo-organisms and high quality Junker-acquired salvage to and from Malta, centered around our civilian colony deep in the north asteroid fields of Tau-44, Canberra Star City. The station is open to all, so please feel free to visit at any time.
If there is anything you would like to know about us, please feel free to ask. We wish only to bring our two peoples closer together again.
To the prosperity of Malta and her people.
Warmest regards,
Harold Kane, Minister of Relations
Natio Octavarium
As a prologue to my message, I would like to apologize for not reaching out to you sooner. The diplomatic and political climate in the upper Taus has been rather stressful as of late, particularly in the system that my people call their home. Were the universe a friendlier place we would have been in contact with you some time ago, but alas, human nature precludes that.
My name is Harold Kane. Some of you may have heard it before -- I am the Minister of Relations for the micro-state of Natio Octavarium and a former Taskmaster of the Vagrant Raiders. We are in a sense a successor to that organization, but with new goals. Instead of piracy and mercenary work we have established a colony in the far corner of the Tau Border Worlds in which our civilians can live without threat of the likes of Liberty and Gallia shearing off their front doors and arresting or slaughtering them for the sheer audacity of having what they would consider to be blemished pasts.
That being said, signores, we have not ever forgotten our history. The Raiders came from Malta, and our founder and long-time leader, the late John Petrucci, brought us what was at the time a significant amount of wealth and power, all thanks to Malta's influence and reaches. The Cardamine trade was our bread and butter. While for diplomatic appearances we have been... not avoiding, but downplaying our involvement in the Orange Dream in recent months, we are still very interested in being a friend and an economic partner of Malta's. We are working with the Amalfi Union to provide an economic way-station for legitimizing the trade of cryo-organisms and high quality Junker-acquired salvage to and from Malta, centered around our civilian colony deep in the north asteroid fields of Tau-44, Canberra Star City. The station is open to all, so please feel free to visit at any time.
If there is anything you would like to know about us, please feel free to ask. We wish only to bring our two peoples closer together again.
To the prosperity of Malta and her people.
Warmest regards,
Harold Kane, Minister of Relations
Natio Octavarium
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