To begin, my eternal respect to you gentlemen, holding your own deep in the territory of the royals, not to mention the bravery I have heard about your men. I am proud to fight beside such a worthy ally.

I also appologise to you for the lack of quality in the video and sound feeds from this recording. It is increasingly difficult to send messages out to Gallic space to you.

But my reason for contacting you was not to complement you all evening, nor to begin small talk, nay, I am here to ask you, most humbly, to requisition one of your gunboat class vessels for testing amongst the Bretonian Armed Forces 9th fleet, Headquarters on the Battleship Ark Royal. In Return for said vessel being allowed, I will personally give my own gunboat of Churchill Class to you, if you so wish.

I hope that you can allow this, and hope to be working with you soon. In the meantime gentlemen,

An honour to speak with someone of such high regard in the Council. I would be more than happy to explain my reasoning. I apologise once again, seems my craft took a hit, something I will fix momentarily.

As to my request, the Churchill gunboat is large, and slow. This can be an advantage, and at points, a disadvantage. We wished to test the "Perilous" and her effectiveness under Bretonian weaponry and transponder systems, in combination with our own fighters, and Capital Class vessels. If it proves effective, I'm sure I can persuade the Merchant Navy to bring more supplies your way to construct more of those beauties, and more than the usual I mean. Anything to keep those boys busy is good news for us. But I digress, testing with Bretonian Weaponry, and in combination with Bretonian attack groups, can give us an idea of the effectiveness of said vessels.

If this is in any way possible, please let me know.

It is wonderful to speak with you again. I am glad you are receptive of the proposal, but there is one slight problem i noticed with your transmission, and something we must clear up before we proceed. This problem, is the Churchill Class.

If you replay the earlier messages, and possibly clean it up a little, i can understand why that would be nessacery, but you would find i stated the Churchill class as a gunboat. The Destroyer is a 'Crecy' Class, and is something i cannot currently pass on to you. Some of our BMM engineers advise me that this would cause a tremendous loss of power. The proposed exchange is as follows:

• We will give you One (1) Churchill class Bretonian Gunboat.
  
• In return, we request One (1) Perilous class Council Gunboat.
  

If you did just mishear what i asked of said, then there is no problem, and if you find the proposal acceptable, we shall proceed. I shall await your final reply, but will prepare the 'HMS Braisen' for transfer.

On behalf of the Bretonian Armed Forces Auxiliary Fleet,