To: Bretonia || CC: Bretonian Corporations || Topic: Requesting Use of Shire

[Scott MacFarlane]

Incoming Transmission LS819 41240883D
Encryption Level: SECURED T145
CommID: MacFarlane: NL:DH 8764501
Message Target: Corona Battlegroup
CC: Bretonian Trade and Transit Authority, BAF Admiralty (Commodore Piett), Liberty Navy COMOPS (Admiral Malrone), Liberty Navy High Command (Admiral Hale)
Message Source: Trade Combine Offices, Lancaster Station, Newcastle
Subject: RE: Continued use of requested shipping.

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Captain, if in fact that is still your rank. If not I apologize.

I also apologize for what will likely seem as a gruffly written response to your issue and request. There has been a ton of problems my office has had to deal with recently, including a message from an utter tool who gets off on blaming us for the actions of others, so forgive me if I am less than diplomatic today.

This news you transmitted on open coms, and to us directly, has come as a great surprise. In fact, it'€™s thrown my staff into an utter panic due to the possible political ramifications. I don'€™t know if you are aware, but I'€™ve recently been promoted to the position of Department Manager for Bowex'€™s Trade Combine. That involves our shipping assets as well, unless Colonial Authority and Services decides to take that off my plate. In the meantime, I'€™ve decided to handle this issue myself and not concern the Board with what should be, despite my staff'€™s panic, a minor technicality.

I'€™m going to require a couple of very simple things from you, laddie. First: What exactly are the circumstances of the Corona Battlegroup, as a whole, leaving the employ of the Liberty Navy and apparently becoming Liberty ExPat? Second: What are your current, official and un-official, relations with the Liberty government, its military, and vice versa. Third: As a new '€œZoner'€ or Liberty ExPat group, where are you planning to base yourselves? Lastly: It is my understanding that you will continue to exist as a research entity, however, are you also going to take the neutral stance typical of Zoner policy, or do you plan on taking Shires into combat?
Oh, and one more issue: My office has received the registered name of one of the vessels you purchased from us, but not the names of the other three. I'€™ll be needing those as well.

In addition: Before a decision can be reached by my office, I will need Admirals Hale or Malrone to chime in and offer their opinions on this issue, as well as Commodore Piett of the BAF. I have opened this channel to all three offices so that they may reply and/or voice their concerns if they have any.

Thank you for your patience. I assure you we will get this issue set aside for you as soon as is humanly possible.

Master Scott MacFarlane, Clan MacFarlane
Department Manager, Bowex Trade Combine.

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[Sylvie557]

Greetings Mr. MacFarlane,

I am sorry for all the grief our transition has made for you and your staff and I hope this message alleviates some of your panic. Now on to your questions. As for your first question, the reasons behind our split from the Liberty Navy can be found here. As for our relations with the Liberty government, we are still on good terms and the option to leave was one given to us by the Liberty Navy due to the fact they we planning on disbanding us as a LN R&D wing anyways. On to your next question, we hopefully continue having our HQ at Ames Research Station and will be sending the station's leaders a comms message soon. Lastly, we are not true Zoners, I will tell you that up front, as we will be trying to keep our affiliation with unlawfuls to a minimum. However, we will not use any transports for combat purposes outside of defending themselves should the need arise.

We hope this issue is resolved in a peaceful and swift manner.

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[FallenKnight]

Good day captain Jacob Gordon. It comes to my attention that the Corona Battlegroup is going to change their reputation in Sirius space. Every faction can decide when to take such a move, depending on their own goals, but here I see a little fragment that can evolve in to a real problem.
Before weeks I was reading your request to receive few Shires, to use them under the flag of Corona Battlegroup, and I couldnt hide my desire for this trading, between Bowex and CBG, to not happen. Dont take my words wrong but as you can see if you continue to switch your relations or possibly to become real Zoners, the permissions for the Shires, may be taken from your company. You had to inform Bowex of such future moves. If you did that I could assure you they wouldnt grant you the access to our armed transports. The real reasons for this may be cleared with the simple explanation that the Shires were given to a Liberty Research Corporation not to a Zoner Research Corporation.
I will give you a very good example of such trade between Bretonia and Liberty that happened long ago. Then we granted permissions to Liberty Navy to use few of our "Challenger" bombers. It happens that the Navy have used them against Rheinland forces during an operation and after that the Goverment of Rheinland asked us for a very good explanation of our actions. We were greatful that this old case ended peacefully but we cant let such things to happen again. I hope my example is good enough.
That is why I would advice you to decide on which side you are, Zoners or Liberty, and to make that decision as soon as possible. Using Shires under Liberty flag is one thing, using them under Zoner flag is another.
I know we can settle this with understanding so I am awaiting for your answer which may possibly lead to the end of this "conflict".
If the Corona BattleGroup stays under the Zoner flag then you have my dissent the Shires to stay under your posession.

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Discovery Bridges[Feedback] Baron Piett[Biography]

[Sylvie557]

Greetings Mr. Piett,

I understand your concern on the matter and that is why the Shires granted to us by Bowex will remained docked at their current locations until this issue is resolved. We want no ill will between us and Bretonia as they have been kind to our organization in the past and we hope that keep the good relations we have had between us. As for you question on whether we are a Zoner faction or a Liberty faction, the simple answer is we are neither and are instead our own entity. We do follow the Zoner philosophy to some degree as we want to remain neutral with all the lawful factions we can but the difference is that we will not tolerate piracy of other lawfuls and are not willing to work with pirate or terrorist organizations. If it helps we are willing to work out a new deal in order to retain the rights to use the Shires, maybe some sort of research or development project for Bretonia. However, we will not argue against you if you decide to revoke our rights to use the Shires as it is a privilege you have given to us and we will return the ships without conflict.


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//The only reason we are using the Zoner IFF and ID is due to their being no better option for the direction we want to go with our faction. In fact while we use the Zoner IFF on all ships we use the researcher ID on members of the research division and Mercenary ID on our snubcraft escorts.

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[Asgardian]

[Inbound Transmission]
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Admiral Jack Malrone


>RE: Corona Research Division

To Bretonian parties involved,

As clearly stated by Captain Gordon, the Corona battlegroup has had its funding cut - They are required to return all Navy property to CLASSIFIED as soon as possible. As such, they are in no way affiliated with the Liberty government or the Liberty Navy.

I would advise to treat them as you would any civilian organisation.


Admiral Jack Malrone

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[FallenKnight]

I see from admiral Malrone's report that Corona Battlegroup are requested to return all navy ships and are no longer part of the Liberty goverment nor the Navy.
Since the Bowex did trade you the Shires, when you were still affilated with Liberty, I would recommend you, captain Gordon, to re-contact their leader and renew your Shire request. It will be then up to their leader if he will let you keep the current Shires or will request you to bring them back to Bretonia.

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Discovery Bridges[Feedback] Baron Piett[Biography]

[Bowex]

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To: Corona Battlegroup
CC: Commodore Piett, Admiral Malrone
From: Janice Morgan, Executive Secretary
Message Source: Trade Combine Offices, Lancaster Station, Newcastle
Subject: Continued use of Shire transports

Captain Gordon,

My name is Ms. Janice Morgan. I am Master MacFarlane's personal secretary. My employer sends his apologies for not getting back to you personally, but several very important issues are taking up his time. Knowing how important this was to him and our Department, I have volunteered to communicate to you in his stead, yet under his direction.

First, to Commodore Piett and Admiral Malrone: Master MacFarlane would like to express his deep appreciation for your input. He knows that you are both busy men, and was touched that you both took time out of your busy schedules to assist him in this matter. Rest assured that each of your statements was taken into account before he reached any decision.

Captain Gordon: Master MacFarlane has made the decision to allow you to keep your Shires, barring any veto by the rest of the Board or the Director of Operations. There are, however, a few conditions:

1. The names of each of the vessels in question still has not been provided to this office. To insure the legality of this arrangement, those names will be needed and registered with the Bretonia Transit Authority.
2. Admiral Malrone has advised us to treat you as any other foreign corporation, and afford you all courtesy as a civilian corporation. Therefore, we require that your organization should behave in such manner. So far, you have done so, brilliantly I might add. We only ask that it continues.
3. We require that at no time do you sell technology or research materials to the enemies of Bretonia, or give them aid. We extend that request to cover our ally of Liberty as well, as many in Bretonia have begun to regard them as family, in a spiritual sense. We would not, however, require you to refrain from trading humanitarian supplies to anyone, including medical research as long as said research is made available to all parties equally for the benefit of mankind.
4. Obviously we would continue to require that you would not take any hostile action against Bretonia, or its allies. The definition of hostile action is of course broad, but includes: military action, economic, political, and espionage. Master MacFarlane wishes to convey that you may use the Shires to shoot as many pirate transports as you wish, however.

Master MacFarlane believes that these should be very easy requirements to fullfill, and is already confident in your honor, integrity, and intentions. As our relationship grows, he is confident that we will also be able to provide you with more materials and equipment in the future, if the need should arise.

Thank you for your time,

Ms. Janice Morgan
Trade Combine, Border World Exports

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[Sylvie557]

Greetings Ms. Morgan,

I have talked to the rest of the Corona Battlegroup Leadership and we have determined that your terms are sound and we agree to them. As for the names of the Shire, only two are in use at the moment whose names are CBT-Kronos (=CB=CBT-Kronos) and CBT-Valhalla (=CB=CBT-Valhalla) while the other two are currently in storage awaiting captains and names. We also wish to ask about the possibility of maybe acquiring one or two Shetland trains for hauling through less hostile systems. We did not ask for any Shetlands before because we were a Navy organization which meant our ships were higher targets and thus Shetlands, who are lightly armed, were not a good idea at the time. If this is too much to ask at this time for we understand.


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[Sylvie557]

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[Scott MacFarlane]

Incoming Transmission LS819 412410340X
Encryption Level: SECURED T145
CommID: MacFarlane: NL:DH 8764501
Message Target: Corona Battlegroup
CC: Bretonian Trade and Transit Authority
Message Source: Trade Combine Offices, Lancaster Station, Newcastle
Subject: RE: Shetland request

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Not ignoring ye, lad. We had to have some time to discuss your request. And don't worry about the legal panic ye caused my staff. Toadies panic over just about anything as toadies oft to do. It is their nature.

I think it would be best if we held off on new equipment requests until our relationship has a chance to further develop. Towards that end, I would like to know what work, if any, you lads have done in the field of say.. advanced terraforming technology, and if you'd be willing to consider taking up such a research project.

---MacFarlane

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