Kyrios McRemitz,

Since kyrios Reeves was kind enough to open this channel for us as well, let me reply to your inquiries immediately. My name is Icarus Augustopolos and I hold the title of the General of the Custodi as well as, for the moment, an envoy for our foreign affairs.

The Cretan Empire currently remains in a state of war with the Kingdom of Bretonia and that situation I don't expect to change anytime soon. While, I'd imagine, both Custodi and the people of Bretonia would prefer peace between our nations, certain ancient grudges are too difficult to just simply wipe out and the hostilities aren't anything that can change overnight. While the mission of the Custodi is not to continue the war with the Bretonians, we still need to be vigilant about the status of our assets in the southern Bretonia and the Omega systems. As you are undoubtedly aware, war has its own rules.

As Custodi, our mission is nothing but providing wealth and prosperity to our people and by extension, the people of Crete. As mentioned by kyrios Reeves, Crete itself suffers from a number of issues including widespread famine and diseases. This is partially because of our longstanding isolation from the Houses, high population numbers and the general lack of strong alliances in Sirius. In the meantime our oldest enemies, the Outcasts, seemingly began forging a lasting friendship with the Bretonians and this is something very dangerous for us as you might hopefully imagine.

Liberty is arguably the most powerful House in Sirius at the present and having something even as rudimentary as trade ties between our two nations could mean a lot to the survival of the Corsairs. As you are likely aware, Crete lies in a very close proximity to the deep Omicrons and as such we have access to certain materials and resources which could be significantly harder to obtain otherwise.

We cannot of course assist the Liberty forces in combat in any way mostly due to the fact that moving any sort of fleet to wherever our help could be useful is simply impossible due to the long distance flights. We can move trade convoys silently through backwater systems and jump hole networks, but any sort of combat assets wouldn't be likely to make the journey and even if they did, it would put an increasing strain on our already small fleet.

Now, regarding the diplomatic talks, I hope it's clear that we were and are interested in them from the start.

Yours sincerely,
Ίκαρος Αυγουστόπουλος
Icarus Augustopolos