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Ident: Imperator Davis Williams-

Dear Mollys

Recently I have had a report from one of my Pilots, that a Molly taxed them. I could not get hold of any proofs of this event, nor know of who the Molly was in particular. However, my pilot did say that this actions reasoning was that of a liscence for Mercenaries to work in Dublin.

My company have many a time, assisted you in defending Dublin from your enemies the Corsairs. And we try to warn any Miner we find in your Gold field in Dublin to move away from that area. If they don't we try to report them to you as soon as we can, as it is your terriority. With that in mind and knowing that this liscence to the best of my knowledge does not exist to remind every Molly that there is no such liscence. I always try to keep myself informed about any of the Mollys policies, and have not heard of this one at all.

So I simply ask you that of what I have stated in my previous statement. However if there is such a liscence, to which I doubt, I would like to ask you that you except my company from it. You know what we do, you know we do not bother you either.

Yours faithfully.

I D Williams

Imperator Davis Williams.
Owner of Venator Private Security.

<div align="right]Arranmore Base,
Dublin System.

Dear Mr Williams,


All those wishing to pursue a career in Dubhlinn are required to have a current Work Permit. This Visa is not a Tax, and there is a Fee of 1 million credits. This Fee is not negotiable, and applies evenly to traders, miners, freelancers, escorts, and their ilk.

As things stand, you and yours are mercenaries. You work for money. Sometimes you are fighting with us, sometimes you are fighting against us. Such is life, and we hold no enmity towards you for the life that you have chosen.

In no way could it be possible for your company to be exempted from this trifling sum. If your company were to be excepted, then every Thomas, Richard and Henry would line up for similar treatment. I would like to remind you that even dyed-in-the-wool Mollies are not exempt from a work visa. If they gladly pay it, and you gladly fight alongside us against corsair aggression, why do you begrudge us this sum? Of course, if we were to follow this line of logic, you want all Mollies to remain destitute, so that we cannot afford to maintain our combat vessels, so that we have to increasingly rely on the services of VPS, until we cannot afford to do any other course of action? You would grow fat off the sweat from Molly brows?

However, I have a course of action open to you. You charge money for your services? then perhaps you should consider including this fee in with your contractual arrangements with the ships you escort. All escort services are subject to the same handling fee, so there is no question of anyone gaining any fiduciary advantage.

Furthermore, I am open to the concept of a bulk license, paid on a monthly basis. To calculate how much this would be, I would need to know how many escorts you protected over the course of the last month, and we can go forwards from here.

Yours,


Ryan Doyle

Garda

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Mr Doyle

In all Kind regards you have not shown me any proof of this. Nor after doing some checking are you a Council Member of the Mollys. My statements still stands.

Kind regards.

I D Williams

Imperator Davis Williams.
Owner of Venator Private Security.

<div align="right]Arranmore Base,
Dublin System.

Dear Mr Williams,


Proof you say. What proof can I offer someone who can check the Molly Council Member Roster - not even I can do that.
I am merely a humble civil servant, following the Diktats of the Molly Council. What they say goes, and when they say frog I have to jump. But of course, you would be knowing all of this already, seeing as you know all the members of the Molly council.
Perhaps you could share where you managed to look it up?

Yours,
Ryan Doyle

Garda

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Mr Doyle

Mmmm. Looks like you are just a new phase then. Seems to me that the Seperatists and the Republic are no long with us.

I shall then speak frankly.

What in the church's name do you think we go killing mollys! We never have and never will. Unless they break the cease-fire. Those that respect the cease-fire we support fully. Please have your facts looked at. As they seem extremely wrong in that place. Furthermore, when the Republic and the Seperatists was about we never charged them for giving them help. It was just showing our good will to them both. For which in return, they gave us information when needed and not bothering us in other affiars they had.

We never asked much from them. So I doubt that excluding us in this new policy will not become a drain on your resources. We have done a fair bit for you past and present so it would seem much more respectable to give us something of value in return.

Kind regards.

I D Williams

Imperator Davis Williams.
Owner of Venator Private Security.

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Don ask me mate, this is the Garda's deal, they tax everyone and don protect em, I don really unerstan em meself, I even heard theyr plannin to tax mollys too! Though fortunately they aint tried tha on me.

Molly council is still "apparently" around and t ones in charge, but feck, iv seen more of these new Garda fellas in the last 2 days than council ships in the last 2 months!

Pretty much the mollys are in shambles righ now, so unfortuantly what we got here is a bit of a free-for-all

<div align="right]Arranmore Base,
Dublin System.

Dear Mr Williams,


Firstly, the Separatists and the Republicans, who constitute the bulk of the Molly Council, but I guess that you knew that already, are still very much alive and kicking, and the Garda are here to ensure that those who respect the authority of the Council can demonstrate this in concrete terms. The modest fees the administration of the licenses brings in is entirely devoted to the defence of Dubhlinn; for example, I am of private means (see below), and choose instead to return my salary to the coffers of the Council.

Secondly, when I say that you are Mercenaries, and that one day you may be fighting with us, and the next against, merely reflects the exciting politically-dynamic melting pot that is Dubhlinn. You might be contracted by a BMM miner, and this miner might have... certain reservations about the purchase of a work visa. He might even go as far as refusing the administration fee, and therefore is subject to compulsory expulsion from Dubhlinn. What would your move be in this situation? Would you protect your employer, or would you respect the Laws of the system?

If you would reject your employer, you might find it hard to negotiate future contracts with him, but if you reject the laws, then you might find negotiating any contract in Dubhlinn nigh on impossible. The sword of Damocles is not one I would choose to wield.

Rest assured in that whatever course of action you choose, the Garda will respect you for doing it.

Thirdly, the Garda will happily reimburse you and yours for your time spent in the defence of Dubhlinn. Whilst I am aware that you received no recompense for your time in the trenches from the Molly Council prior to this, I apologise that I am not able to make this offer retrospective. However, this offer is conditional on the receipt of Guncam footage, and is furthermore only available to those who have registered their ships with the Visa program: it would be impecunious of us to do otherwise.

Finally, I am aware of the difficulties that the administration of a large mercenary corporation presents to the CEO, after all, I used to run one myself, until it was profitably sold to the Mandalorians, and merely keeping track of the roster can swallow half a mornings work; so I shall be blunt. If you let me know how many pilots there are working in your organisation, I can arrange a one-off licensing agreement. This would mean that VPS would be eligible for remuneration in recognition of the defence of Dubhlinn, and half the paperwork that I am sure clogs your desk up as much as it clogs mine up.


Yours,
Ryan Doyle

Garda

To: Cpt Hone


To clarify, the work Visas are not a form of taxation, but a fee to cover the cost of the administration of the visas. Should the Garda become involved in protection, this would require an expanded roster and an increased levy. Perhaps you would be willing to co-ordinate such efforts between independents such as yourself and the concerns of the Republicans and the Separatists?

Conscious as I am of the fragility of the Dubhlinn economy, I have no wish to steal the bread from the mouths of the bairns of such a staunch defender of Dubhlinn; I fear that should the Garda expand to rapidly, we would step on toes belonging to those whose support without which the Garda and the Molly Council as a whole could not exist. Moreover, should the Garda take over the role which you so ably fulfil, we would find ourselves beset at every turn not only by naked Corsair aggression, but by the indifference to our plight on the part of those whose role we had usurped.

Yours,

Ryan Doyle

Garda

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Mr Doyle

Then in that case I wish to speak to a repersentative of either the Republic or the Seperatist's.

We do charge mollys for killing Corsairs as we can collect on them via the Bretionian Crown.

Next, it takes two to make a ceasefire. Thus the Bretionian Government supports the Visa's for Mining operations. However i doubt they know of the other Visa's you now have. So put simple if a BMM miner refused to pay, that is there less. I'll try to get them to pay it. If that fails my company will pay the Mining visa for them, but may result in raising our escort price to thsoe that refuse to legally pay you. If they continue to do so, and we can find there superior, we will report that Miners attitude to there superior. So in affect your statement is ill judged.

So for now I wish to speak to a direct repersentative of either the Molly Republic or the Seperatist's.

My company is very unlikely to become an enemy of the Mollys. Furthermore if this ceasefire was to end in a truely diplomatic style, with yourselfs being truely recognized as a lawfull entity, I would very much like to fully engage in talks with all Mollys to help police Dublin on your behalf. So I say this to yourself and hope that you can see further in to the future then the just now. Or you may not end up with want you would like, or an ally that you want to warmly welcome in to Dublin with there full support in helping you.

If you can find can reconsider my request yourself, please do not bring the requested repersentatives to this communication.

However to answer your direct question, we have currently 9 Pilots at our disposal. A few with more than one ship. One being a repair ship to support larger battles, able to support the BAF, BPA, our own pilots, Civilians that need repairing and of course any Mollys that require it. Which is currently stationed on the Battleship Essex.

Feel free to put forward your proposal. But please reconsider and find a repersentative for whom I would prefer to speak to, as I am in no way getting a full picture of events currently happening. Nor have I seen any news of these such events being broadcasted any where in Bretionia.

Furthermore if you are part of the Council, and the Republic and Seperatists do not support your Cisa's then they are in themslves invalid. As you said yourself the Council's Bulk are the Republicians and the Seperatists. So you cannot in anyway proclaim them as law, when they do not even enforce them, nor support them.

Kind regards.

I D Williams

Imperator Davis Williams.
Owner of Venator Private Security.

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Quote:To clarify, the work Visas are not a form of taxation, but a fee to cover the cost of the administration of the visas.

Now; heh, well,

I'm not one to jump on a vocabulary mistake, which I'm SURE this must be, specially on another molly, even a garda;
but let me tell ye what youv jus said:

You jus said that the only purpose of the visa, is to cover the cost of administering the visa.

Do ye see that means there is no profit for anyone from the visa?

Now this MUS jus be a slip up on ye part, OR ye fekkin ravin drunk, in which case I advise ye to carry on!
(Bu don post ere till ye sober up eh?!)


If it IS right, then well

Jaysus lad,

I dunno what to say, cept, stop

<div align="right]Arranmore Base,
Dublin System.

Dear Mr Williams,


A Molly Council Member can be arranged, but this could take a while. The main reason that they've been so quiet of late is that we've all been drinking solidly since the ceasefire was signed. I'm sure that you can understand the joy and exuberance of a people who have only known war to taste the sweet nectar of peace.
Our problem now is not war, but nectar. As for myself, I'm not teetotal, I'm merely a high-functioning alcoholic, which may have some bearing on how I was selected for this position. I can hold the fort as good as any, but if you need a Councillor, well... ...if you're absolutely certain you want to take them away from their business, sobeit.

As soon as a council member is sober enough to string two words together, I'll pick him up and deliver him in front of a communication terminal, in a wheelbarrow if necessary.


Yours,
Ryan Doyle

Garda