Greetings Miss Young,

I am contacting you today in regards to our interest in the Republic's Nyx-class superiority fighter. You see, Director Ruiz has, for many months now, been requesting that OSI acquire some of these fighters for her security squadrons. We sated her request when our contract with IMG was re-negotiated, but we were informed that due to the extensive fighting in the Taus the Republic was having a difficult time in keeping their current strike craft operational and replacing the lost craft.

What we would like to offer the Republic is a way to supplement your own internal production of the Nyx-class superiority fighter and Pytho-class light bomber. In return we'd like the ability to field a small number of those same craft within our security squadrons.

How do we intend to do this? Cornucopia Manufacturing, a small manufacturing firm that is majority owned by OSI. Our manufacturing facilities are all aboard the Barge-class IMG built, Cornucopia. We currently have two production lines that aren't profitable and we are willing to incur the cost to re-tool them to produce Nyx-class superiority fighters and Pytho-class light bombers. We of would need all the technical stuff on how to build them, blue prints, I think they are called. I'm no engineer so forgive me if that isn't the correct term.

We understand that the Republic doesn't want the plans for these vessels falling into others hand's, as such we are willing to open a secondary operations manager position so that the Republic can have oversight of the production of these craft. The individual the Republic selects to fill this position would receive a salary befitting of his position from CM as well as the same benefit package offered to other OSI employees.

The cost to the Republic, other than granting our use of said technologies, would be the material cost to produce the craft plus five (5) percent. I look forward to discussing this proposal with you, Miss Young.

Evening Miss Young,

I wasn't requesting the ability to produce the craft for our own needs; Director Ruiz's request was for a quartet of Nyx fighters and a quartet of Pytho bombers. Our interest in obtaining production rights was because we were under the assumption that your ability to repair and reintroduce new craft was being stressed according to information we received. Given that we now know otherwise, the cost for the prints and the cost to re-tool two production lines is far more than we are willing to spend to only fulfill Director Ruiz's request for a handful of attack craft.

In lieu of obtaining the Nyx blueprints themselves, OSI would be willing to exchange the plans for our flak turrets in return for four Nyx fighters and four Pytho bombers. You get the turret technology and we get the few fighters we need. I say it's a good fit for both sides.

I'm sorry for the delay in getting back to you Miss Young. I've been speaking with my lead engineer and he tells me that we wouldn't need to re-tool an existing production line in order to produce such a small number of the craft. That resolves our concern over the cost of re-tooling two production lines.

I've also been reviewing past communications with the Republic, and I noticed that the Republic has an interest in deuterium, for obvious reasons. Mr Mace, the CEO of Omicron Supply Incorporated has said that he could arrange a monthly delivery of about 30,000 tons of deuterium to Singapore Shipyard. In addition to these deliveries we can offer a total of 48 ZT-9 gunboat turrets, and 15 flak turrets in exchange for the rights to utilize four Nyx fighters and four Pytho bombers.

Let me know if this is at all an acceptable arrangement.

I'm happy we were able to come to an agreement, Miss Young. I'm sure Director Ruiz will be pleased that her pilots can now utilize these fine vessels.

We've already sent out the first 30,000 tons of deuterium; I'll send invoices your way once I have them all. I assume using this channel to transmit all invoices will be satisfactory? Or did you want us to send them via another transmission?

Sorry for the delay in transmitting the first batch of cargo invoices, I've attached them to this message. I'd like to extend the thanks of Director Ruiz for the Nyx-class fighters and Pytho-class bombers; I hear that she finds the vessels to be some of the best she has ever had the privilege of flying. Many of her employees share the sentiment.

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