To: The Brotherhood

[Farmers Alliance]

To: The Brotherhood Council of Elders
Source: Cape Soya Station, Tottori

Greetings,

First, let me introduce myself. My name is Professor Kennishigawa Geki - Ken for friends - and I currently happen to be in charge of the Farmers Alliance movement. You might be surprised that we're still alive, since our humble organisation went practically under the radar for the last two years. That was mostly because of a lack of a good leader for the Alliance, but since that changed, thanks to yours truly...

*Ken smiles viciously and adjusts his glasses*

...we might as well strengthen our alliance, no?

To the point. The Sundivine, one of our Raba armored transports visited Crete today with a sample load of our premium Kyushu Rice, straight from the fields of Planet Kyushu. The delivery contained the standard, non-flavored rice, however our facilities on Kagoshima also produce vanilla, strawberry, chocolate and pineapple flavored versions.

Now, I know that the Cretean Empire has been, is, and in the foreseeable future will be in need of food, the reasons aren't known to me and I'm not interested, however we as the Farmers Alliance might provide you with some of our premium quality Kyushu Rice.

There is a problem however. Our transport, Sundivine, was attacked on the way by some hungry Outcasts. We most assuredly would like to avoid such situations. If our Rice would fall into the hands of these Cardamine-snorting bastards, it would be horrible and disastrous. To remedy that, the Alliance would like to request unlimited usage of Cretean technology, of course in exchange for our nimble Black Dragons, swift Irezumis and matchless Mamorus, plus whatever amount of Rice you request.

Please respond as soon as possible, we'd obviously like to strike this deal quickly.

Cordially,
Prof. Ken Geki
Farmers Alliance

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[Pepe]

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Pepe "El Comisario" Ladron

Gracias for delivering finest rice in Sirius, Professor. *nods*

Our maximum sharing capacity is 5 ships for 5 ships and FA can always count on that. I wouldn't like to see my favorite pineapple flavored rice delivery floating somewhere in deep Sigmas. We will not take any of your ships right now, due to issues with FA power core maintenance we experienced lately. Our sausage-like fingers simply can't reach or handle some sensitive miniaturized parts. We will keep this agreement open of course, in hope we can solve those technical issues in future.

*Pepe nods again and reaches OFF button with his hairy macho hand*

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[Farmers Alliance]

To: The Brotherhood Council of Elders
Source: Cape Soya Station, Tottori

Greetings, Ladron-sama,

Your proposition for five Cretan ships is most generous. We will dispatch transports with Rice as soon as possible and will report the shipments through this channel. Let's say that our first contract will include 10'000 crates of Rice to be delivered to Planet Crete, if that proves to be insufficient, we can always increase them.

As far as the Alliance ships are concerned, our engineers on Cape Soya will be working hard to adjust them to fit your needs. I hope that they will finish their work sooner rather than later. Meanwhile I've been made aware that Alliance weapons are almost fully compatible with Corsair ships, so these are open to you at all times.

That will be it for now, until the first transports of RIce will reach Crete.

Cordially,
Prof. Ken Geki
Farmers Alliance

[Farmers Alliance]

To: The Brotherhood Council of Elders
Source: Cape Soya Station, Tottori

Greetings,

The Rice deliveries have been completed, Ladron-sama. Sundivine and Skyvoice completed delivering 11'645 units of our finest Kyushu Rice to Planet Crete this morning. We hope it's going to suit your taste.

一 | 二 | 三 | 四

Let us know if you're interested in more. Meanwhile, I'd like to discuss the matters of the ships. What sorts of ships do you require so that we can begin the construction? Also, what ships are you able to waive for us? The Alliance would be interested in four Centurion very heavy fighters and one Imperator gunboat. We can assist in delivering the materials for these ships if you don't have any laying around already. Our engineers at Cape Soya will probably be able to fit them to our needs.

May you stay in good health.

Cordially,
Prof. Ken Geki
Farmers Alliance

[Pepe]

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Pepe "El Comisario" Ladron

Gracias again for even more finest rice deliveries, Professor. *nods*

Your ships exchange list is approved.

Code:

- M7 Class "Centurion" Corsair Very Heavy Fighter ............ 4 pcs
- M42 "Imperator" Corsair Gunboat ............................ 1 pc

I really hope our ships will be in good hands, Professor. Our Apostatas hermanos (and hermanas!) are active in Kusari space lately. From you we expect nothing less than supporting them in battle and providing them a shelter in a case of need - with all the respect, of course. *bows*

*Pepe reaches OFF button with his hairy macho hand*

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