Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Rooibos
To: Premier Mehmed Selim, Crimean Privateers
From: Governor-General Commodore Elizabeth Hall, BAF
Mister Premier,
I have managed to acquire you the Letter of Marque. I will send the contract to you as an attachment. Please be compliant to its clauses with utmost strictness, or the Letter will be revoked.
Quote:
Letter of Marque
By Order of the Bretonian Crown
Crimean Privateers
By Order of Her Royal and Imperial Majesty, Carina I, by the Grace of her Forebears, Sovereign of the Realm of Greater Bretonia, Empress of Tau, of the Kingdom of the Near Omegas and of her other Realms and Territories Queen, Protector of the Independent Worlds of Magellan and Cortez, Defender of Justice, Head of the Order of the Bretonian Empire, you are granted the full protection of Her Majesty the Queen, and her will in the form of the Armed Forces. By donning the title of "Privateer", you cordially agree that you are liable for your own actions, and that you will operate within the terms of this contract.
As one of Her Majesty's Privateers, you will be expected to perform duties such as:
Cargo Interdiction
Tax on hostile elements
Assitance of the Armed Forces (limited)
Protection of Bretonian Interests (limited)
Failure to perform these duties will result in the removal of the title "Privateer" and your expulsion from House Bretonia. This will also mean treating you as any other buccaneer that threatens Bretonian space and interests.
Your targets will include:
Elements belonging to the "Corsair Empire"
Elements loyal to King Charles XI of House Gallia
Entities found trading with House Gallia (unless notified otherwise)
Entities found trading with the "Corsair Empire" (unless notified otherwise)
Entities deemed hostile by the House of Bretonia
You are expected to carry out these duties immediately.
Signed,
Queen Carina I Monarch of House Bretonia
Prince James Frederick Albert William Duke of Dundee
Lord Brigadier Sonya Callahan Administrator of the Bretonian Privateers, by appointment of Her Majesty the Queen
Commodore
Governor-General of Exeter
Bretonian Armed Forces
From: Mehmed Selim.
Security Encryption: CRUMPETS Message transmitted to Governor-General Elizabeth Hall.
Privyet.
Excellent. I'll be showing this to my men, and will be sure they follow the terms of this Letter of Marque with due care. Now, I have a lot of business to attend before the next operation, as I'm sure you also do.
For the reclamation of the Motherland and the safety of Bretonia.