To: New GMG Board of Guildmasters | Subject: Important issues

[Stone Bros Ltd/GmbH]

Encryption: High, Business grade
Sender: Sean Stone, executive director of Stone Bros Ltd/GmbH
Sent from: planet New Berlin, New Berlin system, Rheinland
To: GMG Guild Masters
Subject: Important issues

Good morning, honourable GMG Guild Masters! My name is Sean Stone and I´m executive director of Stone Bros Ltd/GmbH, transport company flying under IMG ship license as affiliated member. I have seen your recent announcement and it confirmed information we got recently which suggests that there were some major changes in top positions of the Guild. For this reason we want to check if it´s really true and provide information about us to make sure any new leadership is informed about us and our activities in GMG space. Also, there are some unsolved issues we have with the Guild which we would like to finally finish.

Let me start with few words about our company. I hope you know it at least partially because we have long-term business relationship with GMG - precisely with Guildmaster Taro Katsuo - which is connected to Shuri base in Okinawa system, which our company built to current size almost solely and then had - actually still has - rented several modules there for our high-tech equipment factories. We also exported hundreds of thousands cargo units of helium-3 and h-fuel what over time became key part of our company´s economy, and built base for our workers on surface of planet Miura called Ishi Base.

Anyway, as I said, there are unsolved issues we would like to finally finish. First one is that several months ago we asked guildmaster Katsuo for permission for our company to become affiliated member of Gas Miners Guild. Unfortunately we didn´t get any answer and actually completely lost contact with Guildmaster Katsuo. If you want to understand our reasoning, let me elaborate little more about our company. So far, we has been focused on two main branches - transportation and development and sale of high-tech technology devices. And currently we have problems in both of them.

As for transportation, situation on Sirius market changed heavily in last two years and especially in last year. With advance of Gallic military into Bretonia and the damages this devastating war is causing, we lost majority of our clients in this house. And to make things even worse, there was another loss of contracts in Rheinland because of deteriorating economic situation. Moreover, the fact we fly under IMG license makes our business there even harder as we can´t land on bases of Daumann and Kruger corporations and buy goods there. Speaking about the rest - we never had strong position in Liberty because of local strong competition, with exception of importing helium-3, and Gallia is too far for us and also suspicious of Sirians. Last one, Kusari, is not much better because of power of giant Kishiro and Samura keiretsus what makes business of small and medium sized companies very difficult. Oh and Kusari embargo on helium export to Liberty made another considerable damage to company´s economy as well because exporting of Helium-3 from Shuri base formed an increasing part of our business over time.

To sum up the current situation - we already had to sell few ships and let go some employees, but unfortunately it seems situation won´t be better in near future.

As for development and sale of high-tech technology devices - our decision to try luck on the market with equipment like jumping drives or cloaking device turned out to be a trap so to say. This initially very promising field became quickly very competitive, leaving currently only small possible profit from contracts, if any. There is too much manufacturers all over the Sirius which we have to compete with. Moreover, despite our maximum effort, there are still technical issues with our produced devices because the development is still in progress.

But this investment plan was really expensive. Building of factories on Shuri, then their running costs and leasing fee, and finally our construction of Ishi base on planet Miura. In total, we invested almost five billion credits in the company business in Okinawa system. And we can´t afford to continue this way.

Saying it shortly, our company has reached the point where major shift in our business is necessary. We need to cut expenses where it is possible, and find new ways how to increase incomes. But in the same time, we don´t want to simply write off all the money we invested in Okinawa and call them wasted money. I doubt we could find anybody who would be willing to buy Ishi base for reasonable price and there are still some posibilites in production of high-tech devices if we find the way how to upgrade them and get upper hand over other manufacturers. We just need to change our business in Okinawa to work better way. Our company might be in danger as whole if we fail in business reorganization where we use what we have the best way possible.

Now to how we plan to do it. After long talks within company board, we decided to try to combine everything. As I mentioned, transport of Helium-3 and H-Fuel became increasing part of our business over time and currently is forming 69 percent of all our transport business in volume and even 76 percent in incomes. It´s also only commodity where demand in increasing in all houses except Gallia despite all wars there. Actually, probably because of wars.

Decision I´m talking about is not only to focus more on transport of these commodities, but to start to produce them actively and create supply chain. Despite Shuri base is in very good location for purchase of raw gas, sometimes storages are empty. We will need our own miners which will fill our own storages.

Result is simple - we need our own base in Okinawa, to which we could move our production facilities as we don´t want to gave up entirely in this field, but it will work with significantly lower running costs and the rest of the base will be in the same time serving as storage for raw helium which will be transported by our ships or will be sold to interested companies for profitable price. The best option would be of course to buy Shuri base where the facility is now and the base as whole is completely working the way how our future base should.

And at this point we are at unsolved issue number two. Over last several months, our ships continued supplying Shuri base on our own expense and we funded repairs and running costs because Guildmaster Katsuo asked us to do so. We also started negotiations about takeover of Shuri, unfortunately despite we reached agreement, we were unable to reach signed deal. For this reason we want to ask you to finish it on behalf of Guildmaster Katsuo as we believe you have right to do so. We invested not small money into this business and we can´t afford to continue in the uncertain waiting for Guildmaster Katsuo. The "frozen situation" about Shuri needs to be solved finally. It will bring positives for both sides - we can finally start making money there and Shuri will get major investments which are needed for maintanmance and upgrade of equipment. Our company is prepared to invest into base around 400 million credits immediatelly.

Anyway, this brings us back at our first request. From what I said so far about our plans in Okinawa, it may look like we are actually going to create competition for GMG. We don´t, we are not fools. We know it could not work this way as we are guests in Guild´s space. The change I described of course requires closer cooperation with GMG to keep your trust and show we want to cooperate with guild and don´t want to be competitor. If our plan will become reality, we will need to hire miners from your ranks and we are aware that we hardly can do that as your competition. On the other hand, we still would like to keep some independence regarding our decisions and mainly in what we transport because we still transport also other goods than just gases or fuel. Of course, I´m not talking about making any business which could be against interests of GMG. After all, we were generally treated as IMG members because we use their license to fly our ships and most of their enemies are enemies of GMG as well.

I hope I didn´t take too much of your time with this message, but I wanted to explain everything because this issue has utmost importance for future of our company. We will be looking forward to hearing from you and believe it will be positive. Have a nice day!

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