"Mr. de Silva. As I gather from your response, you are likely confused by the decision to evict both your pilot and the Bounty Hunter from the No Fire Zone of Freeport Eleven. It is simple - Velvet does not potentially risk our people, nor the Freeports we protect. You know the rules of a No Fire Zone, regardless of your personal opinion or feelings of them. Again, I provided them again for your pilots to review, just to ensure that we can operate on the same page.
Now. You question what Velvet's aim is, and we owe you that information. Knowing who you are dealing with is important, and it is only fair you have such intel. We are a paramilitary group with the primary goal of safeguarding and securing Zoner installations and colonies, mainly in the Omicrons and Edge Worlds, from parties who wish us harm - be they human or not. In short, we are a military, intelligence, defence and logistical organisation. We operate predominantly in the edge worlds, but go where we are needed.
I will reiterate the rules broken, for absolute clarification. Section 5A and section 8.
5A: In regards to inducing a fight with the bounty Hunter. Now, the Bounty Hunter for your own peace of mind has been spoken to as well. And this was resolved incredibly amicably. As it was with your own pilot.
8: In regards to being under fire for engaging a cloak, then running to the station, even after the Bounty Hunter in question actually enforced the Zone by ensuring that your pilots cloak would not be used in the No Fire Zone. Now, he did violate the rules, and will be dealt with accordingly. But, we are not here to discuss the Hunter's wrong doings.
In regards to the Maltese Opposition Alliance, or whatever they call themselves... That is not our fight, but yours. It is not for the No Fire Zone of our stations. Were you chose to wage war, and who you do that on, is not our concern or care. However, when the war gets brought to our own stations, that is when we have to step in. We informed the pilots of the conflict they brought to a Freeport that does not want a part of your interior conflicts - and this, we feel, is a matter you can understand. We are working on an accord, after all, to allow us to fully enforce the safety of the Zoner populace of Freeport Ten, and we appreciate and strive to return the respect and understanding in this matter. It shows diplomacy is not dead - and I do not think either of us wants to be the one to resort to violence, or attempt to push boundaries.
With regards to you insulting my vessels, I will reiterate. We are here to defend the Zoner population, with our lives if necessary. From human or Nomad. Our goal is to protect, and the No Fire Zone is to protect our people - and we will maintain that neutrality with extreme force. We are not here to bend knees, nor do we expect others to do the same to us. But when you come to a Freeport, you are a guest. And a guest should uphold themselves to the standards expected of the outlined rules.
As far as apologies - we see nothing requiring us to ask for forgiveness. We have a job, the protection of whichever station we are at, and doing what we must to ensure it's safety is not something we beg forgiveness for. We would not demand forgiveness for cardamine that passes through the station after all. But. Neither party is blameless - and we can sympathize with your aim to protect your people. I will always be doing the same with my own people.
As far as revoking our rights to the Maltese systems, so that we are absolutely clear, that would be Alpha, Beta, Tau and Phi, for absolute clarification. If we're going to impose new rules on one another, I would rather we be absolutely crystal clear. If this is the case, I'm sure you won't object to us returning the favour in kind and barring you from ever being at Freeport 11 and Corfu, as well as restricting your access to Iridium in addition to Freeport 10, subject to IRG's approval. Such restrictions are not a one way street, as you well know as a businessman. In reality though, it would save us both a lot of time to not enforce such needless restrictions on each other... I will leave this in your court as to if you want to restrict our access.
The only really troubling thing in this whole response though... Comes from what I perceive rightly or wrongly to be a threat. Now, I will say one thing on the Core, they have their on motives, as do all the major players in the 'stella-political' system as you put it. But let me say, that you do not speak on anyone's behalf other than that of your own organisation. It might be a good time to remind you, that we are leaders of our own respective organisations, not of others. With regards do your threat about Freeport 10, this communication stream has been copied to IRG, the respective owners of the station... I doubt they'll be too pleased that our allies would deem it wise to threaten our people and station.
Malta and Nauru may be close, Mr. de Silva, but the Core can decide it's own position, should they want to have one. If needed, we can bring the Core into this communication feed, so that they can make their own stance clear, without you speaking on their behalf?
Now, I will leave this in your court so that we can come to an amicable solution. The last thing I want to do, is get all our respective allies in some pointless throwing of petty insults, and risk any loss of life needlessly."
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