Gunboat
While we have not yet finalized our decisions regarding our own gunboat design, I have purchased a Gallic Brigand Asco.
It works well for its 90% power, and has served us well so far.
Its name is [UC]-UCN-Vixxeon.
Colonial Remnant
About a month ago, we came into contact with a Colonial named Anaximander. Interested in forming a good relationship, I granted them docking access to our stations, and he made a report.
Since then, we have not heard from the Colonials until today, in Dauphine.
Apparently, their communications under this new regime have not yet been sorted out, and they were going to shoot me for being LaBrise.
After informing them of our change in administration, they were most understanding. I told them about my talk with Anaximader, and while they remained suspicious, they decided against blowing me away...
They presented me with diplomatic communication codes, so I could send a message to their president.
I will have that message finished when I am done with this.
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)
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