To: Dietrich Bonhoeffer/administration of Handelsdepot | Subj.: Weapon Platform

Guten Tag, Sehr geehrter Herr Bonhoeffer. My name is Laura Carsten and I am polizeidirektorin of the Rheinland Federal Polizei.

During routine check, we found out that your base is guarded by a weapon platform and you started already construction of another one. This seems to be a violation of paragraph 8.3. of Article Eight of Rheinland laws which state that construction of weapon platforms must be approved by at least one of the primary law-enforcement authorities ([RM], RFP|, BDM|) before construction begins. As far as I can check, federal polizei did not approve construction of any weapon platform and we were not informed that Rheinland Military or Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts would do that as well.

Thus, I request from you to provide NeuralNet link to communication with representative of some of the mentioned law enforcement authorities where they approved construction of weapon platforms.

Polizeidirektorin Carsten out.

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Guten Tag, Sehr geehrter Herr Bonhoeffer.

Let me start with pointing out that according to the paragraph 8.3. of Article Eight of Rheinland laws, "construction of weapon platforms must be approved by at least one of official law-enforcement authorities before construction begins". Thus you broke the laws even before the platform was actually deployed and the scenario with unfinished construction which you described is still illegal.

After examining your case, it was decided to issue a fine of 20 million credits for every platform, thus 40 million in total. Send the sum to the account RFP|Arsenal and submit the confirmation of the payment hier, bitte. Once you do that, we are ready to issue permission for your two platforms and legalize them. Despite we are displeased to see you violating the laws quite soon after the station was constructed, you confessed and cooperated and thus we decided to give you chance to prove there was no ill intention behind your act. Also, we are aware of the risks which your base may face in the Frankfurt system and it is not in our interest to make it more vulnerable to attacks of criminals or terrorists by forcing it to stay less protected.

Now to one last thing. You mentioned observations of "Outcast and criminal capital ships traveling past Handelsdepot in its early construction stage". Can you submit any photos or at least data about types, numbers or names of these ships?

Polizeidirektorin Carsten out.

Guten Tag, Sehr geehrter Herr Bonhoeffer.

Danke for the information, we will try to watch the area more closely to disrupt any operations which mentioned criminals or terrorists may conduct there.

The issue with weapon platforms is solved and current two platforms which your base has are legal now under two conditions. First, use of so called "full hostile automatic defense mode three" which would cause platform opening fire at all unregistered ships is not allowed. Second, placing any ships which are not listed in the Rheinland criminal database or declared criminals on black list of the defense system is not allowed as well.

We consider this matter hereby as closed.

Mit Grüße

Polizeidirektorin Carsten out.