Now look at that...Already trying to squeez me up !

Maybe I got your message wrong, but it seems to me that this is way out of line.

First of all, you are not the Banger but he is around, as you say. Maybe you should ask him about our past rerlation, then he'll tell you that never once there was problem between us.

Second, I do not see what you mean by endangering your bases. Giving your position (considered unlawful by all major houses, corpo and most of the illegal factions, and shot on sigth) and mine (considered neutral to quasi all because everyone uses our bases, goods, supply service and ships...) I would say that you are the one endangering our bases. Think about it, you always need a Junker around, and it is not a rare sigth to see some of yours crawling to Trafalgar with BAF on their tales to save their greeny skins. Your recent change of stance with the Corsair Empire (from friendly to neutral) will may have some consequence in the futur when you'll meet them.

Third, you are asking a sum that exceed many things :

* The profit I make with thoses trips
* The regularity of those trips.
* The possibility for me to find other bases. Basically I was just being polite, but I hack my way in nearly every bases for the reason I told you earlier. Furthermore, my demand do not concern your Guard system of course.
* The possibility for you to enforce your demands. So far at least.

And last but not least, usually isolated chaps like you are glad to have decent suppliers like us, able to cross all Sirius without being hit or pirated.

It is really a shame that after all that was done between us, the links that has grown bewteen some of my men abroad and some of yours in Islay, the mutual respect earned, we end up having a low level smuggler / pirate conversation.

For all that was stated above, I have to refuse your generous offer. But no hard feelings he ?! If you change your mind, give us a buzz !

I am pretty sure we'll be watching each other in the near futur...