I believe you still remember us. I happen to have reports of what we could call "first official contact" and a trade deal afterwards. While due to our operational areas and distances between us, we do not see eye to eye much, aside from some traders going back and forth, I am, and by extension, Crayter Intelligence Service is in need of your assistance in a very specific subject that you are simply better than us. Ship and component construction.
Before we start, I believe that I should inform you of recent events that you may not heard of. First of all, Gallic Royal Navy is at the doors of New London right now. Which is just too near to where we are located. You see, we do not want to be bitten by a fiery bite and we have to make a dent on Gallics. As if that is not enough, Bretonia and Independent Miners Guild are at eachother's throats. And some of Crayter fleet assets went rogue. I hope you can see where all of that comes together. Long story short, Crayter Intelligence has to step in and stop both the rogue elements and after absorbtion of assets back and...convincing...crews again, we have to stop Gallic advance right next to us, which has potential to turn on us and just send us back to stone age, if not outright drive us extinct.
Our engineers at Sabah Shipyard had a brilliant idea of modifying a Zephyr-Class Mark IV Carrier to it's maximum potential. Mostly sensors, engines and some experimental technologies. Beyond-standard Jumpdrive and Cloaking Device included.
Where we need the help from you is, the engines and sensor array mostly. While Crayter Republic has hundreds of years of shipbuilding experience, our standard issue engines are mostly made with efficiency and easy maintenance in mind. What we need on the aforemented Zephyr is more pushing power and reliability in one package. As a one-of-a-kind modified vessel that belongs to Intelligence, which usually gets higher priority when it coms to resource distribution, higher maintenance should not be that much of a problem. We are not really asking to push a Deimos here after all, About the sensors, you can easily imagine that it needs to be able to spot things, before it can be spotted.
Think your engineers will be able pull it off? I am not asking if you are capable of modifying here, no. I am asking if you are willing to.
Omega, out.
Agent Omega
Squadron 205
Crayter Intelligence Service
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Nerasplicer Uwe Caile
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To: Omega From:U.C, Location undisclosed. Subject:Docklands alike.
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"Agent."
"We’ve heard crayterian ship technology follows conventions of modularity and compact power similar to our own.
We are willing to work on your ship. There are caveats and needs of our own. During the time when your ship would be operated on, we would have to reduce our maintainence capacity. We expect a large amount of combat damage to be sustained to critical Unioner power projection assets which will require critical maintainence over the same timeline of this ship’s service.
We’ve heard of the rebellion. We expect it will be short-lived given the temporaneous nature of the rift. Our price will be major.
We will rebuild you your vessel to the highest standards of unioner engineering, bar none. Powerhoused by MOX burning low-heat thorium reactors. We have our own experimental jump concept that may interest the Crayter Republic; a heat exchanger that phases low complexity compounds through the jump mesh before the entire ship can be quantsposed. The drive allows you to operate your vessels with water as the primary coolant source instead of supplementary coolant packs. The only negative is that you will require to be tanked off from another vessel during jump transfer. Water's thermal efficiency suffers exponential decline at extreme kelvin. It is, nevertheless, extremely cheap.
Given that the rebellion is operating in the Omegas for extended periods of time without local endorsement, they likely have a Argus. The Argus is resilient to asteroid damage and capable of surviving for long periods of time without refit. The force readiness expense of delegating room to your carrier will cost the Union the approximate worth of one battlecruiser. We expect you to make up the weight. It is rumoured that your military is steadily replacing your pre-contact-derived hulls with the Deimos battleship for direct action against the Gauls.
When the Rebellion falls apart, one of the Argusi are to go missing in recovery. We will take possession of the ship, granting the Crayter Republic diplomatic ambiguity against Federal reprisal. We will strip all Crayter technology off the ship, and rebuild its internal structure as a mobile staging ground. Credits are not a priority for the Union as of now. Ships are. A twenty million credit stipend wired to UN|Bank will cover the mooring fees, but that is comparatively low in comparison to the supplementary shipyard space we are offering you.
"Doctor Depperschmidtt will be able to cover the specifics of refitting the engines of your ship."
"Proximus Ardet Ucagleon."
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Hotspur.
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Hm. I am definitely interested in your water-cooled Jumpdrive technology. While we know Olympia's recent situation and were thinking of stripping it's advanced jump technology, we were going to face power problems. I will consider your unique technology as a canditate of replacement. Looking forward to hear the specifics.
You are interested in an Argus and yes, the rebellion who dubbed themselves Crayter Resistance Navy indeed posesses one. I believe that once we capture it or the captain returns the ship, Intelligence can arrange that one going missing indeed. I am satisfied with the terms and can surely arrange the needs.
Omega, out.
Agent Omega
Squadron 205
Crayter Intelligence Service
This message is highly encrypted using syndicliga proprietary encryption cryptography through intranet-publicneralink drops and are functionally untracable if no sender address is given. Abuse of Intranet functionality commands community service punishments as listed in regulation five three seven gamma six. security is assumed. Any deliberate or otherwise location triangulation method successfully employed against anonymous transmissions will receive either a one billion credit reward or immediate incarceration dependent upon disclosure and motive. The revanchist council requests that Arbeiters do not squander valuable neuralnet bandwith on the consumption of CNS articles, adult content, or gambling, and advise that the relevant arbeiters employ public terminals for such use, rather than the secure line. Communal enforcement may differ between Reichsarbeitergesellschaft der Alsterian and Landwirtrechbewegung cells. Consult your admin for technical support or contact your resident Neural Technology Help Specialist at www.totallypacifica@notAHacker.net. The Union reminds Arbeiters that "trolling" is not an acceptable standard of political debate, unless aimed at capitalists, fascists, militarists, etc, who lack the neurological prerequisites to engage in such discourse. Southern Unioners are encouraged to remember that the average Unioner's literary age is roughly analogous to a twelve year old on PCP, and are encouraged to avoid engaging in difficult subjects, and are suggested to stick to familiar subjects, such as the market value of cardamine, bundschuh-based footwear puns, and the general terrible quality of life aboard wedel mining station.
Have a glorious day, Comrade user. - Unity, your resident Neuralnet VI.
G.Riehl
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To: Crayter Republic Intelligence Agent OMEGA. From:Arbeiter Gunda Riehl, Vierlande Prison Subject:Altering the Deal.
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“'I'm gonna' have to hold you there. We've taken a knife to the jawline, I..."
"...We're worked to the fringes. The Hessians' are cutting away who we are. Stripping the good out of our homes. Burning the wreckage behind."
"I can't.... I can't expect you to accept us altering the deal."
"But we're without friends in our homeland, and that's how it shakes out."
"We need.... maybe four k', I don't know, I'm not a chemical machinist, of Barrier-grade Beryllium and Niobium dropped off at the Vierlande Hulk. They're gonna' smelt it into the alloys and thread fresh superconductors. Structural fields, Circuitry, you name it. Anything to thread the plates."
"Get us those stones and you've got yourself a deal."
"Listen, we're not ripping you off. Attached is the drive theory and project data for the Coolant unit. We're not blowing steam up your ass."
"Watch the lanes. We're fragile and ragged. For god's sake;"
"Don't trust the Hessians with the lives of your own. Don't. Trust. The Sirius Coalition."
Contract details; Crayter Republic Wrote:[/font]Requested materials = 4.000Units of Tau Beryllium. 4.000Units of Tau Niobium. Delivery location= Hamburg, Vierlande Prison. REWARD: Full Unioner release of Project BIFROST Quantum-Tunneling Transpiration Coolent Technology to the Crayter Republic. The use of Pacifica as a berth for Crayter Republic black-books projects.
The birdclock croaked when it saw the sun, tethered to a spring.
G.Riehl.
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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)
I see. I never trusted the Hessians to be honest. Not to mention them, GRI and IMG worked together at Aland from the reports we got.
What happened there is not important however. We can deal with a slightly altered deal, given your...circumstances. I will mobilize an ISE transport to deliver those materials.
Never trust that Heinrich or her goons. They will backstab you at earliest opportunity. Surprising how they did not betray IMG yet.
Omega, out.
Agent Omega
Squadron 205
Crayter Intelligence Service