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I am guildswoman Elke Schneider, I will be representing the Independent Miners Guild in these talks.
When we initially received the Council's invitation, things were very different with the Crayter Republic. I won't comment any more on that now.

All I will say is this: We harbor no ill will towards the Kingdom of Bretonia, we understand their position and do, to some degree, sympathize with their motives - a sentiment that unfortunately doesn't seem to be reflected by them towards us.

We are willing to listen, and we most certainly are hoping for a more detailed explanation from the Crayterians in particular.

But to clarify one thing from the start: If the only result the Kingdom of Bretonia is willing to discuss is the surrender of Aland, we are not interested.

The developments in the Crayterian Republic are very disturbing to hear about. The fact that you apparently need to stage a coup d'état to rein in your rogue elements isn't exactly helping to rebuild our trust. We've already heard reports that the Olympia was seen in Omega-3, though apparently it didn't partake in combat so far. While we will continue our cooperation on our common projects, I can't imagine our trust will easily return to its former levels, and given your lack of support for us even after the rogues were identified and marginalized, the end of our alliance is, as far as we our concerned, legitimate.

As for the Bretonians and Secretary East's message, we are not at all impressed by their squirrelly, weak-willed response. Aside from attempting to justify their actions due to the dire war situation, a situation we have already expressed our understanding and sympathy for, they level all manner of accusations at us, mocking our diplomatic relations and accusing us of siding with royalist Gallia, simply for refusing to hand over our most valued Omegas asset. An asset which, although you seem to suggest otherwise, we do not believe we will ever get back in any kind of "lease" agreement, we do not have confidence that Bretonia would be capable of delivering on that promise, and we most certainly do not believe BMM, the likely administrators in case of a handover and an organization we truly have no love for, would ever agree to.
They go on to express bewilderment at the fact that ALG, one of our oldest and most trusted allies, came to our aid to defend us against outside aggressors - a concept the Crayterian Republic clearly isn't familiar with.
Not only that, but they even pretend that our refusal to hand over our station at the threat of forceful takeover somehow amounts to us being the ones to declare hostilities; evidently they aren't even able to admit that their attempt at forced annexation of neutral stations is an act of aggression.
They have stated their state of war as an objective which we apparently should be sharing, while we do not. We are not at war with the Kingdom of Gallia, nor do we intend to be. We had maintained neutral relations with all five houses before the conflict started, four of which seemed to respect our neutrality.

At no point in the Secretary's statement was there a single mention of sympathy for our position, a sentiment which we have, for our part, expressed from the start, nor any indication to suggest that they are interested in anything other than neutrals like us simply surrendering our holdings.

If you want these talks to amount to anything serious, I suggest you reconsider your approach, Secretary East.
And to General LaFlamme, I apologize for what doesn't seem to be a productive start to this discussion, but we are reliant on an opposing side willing to engage.