To: Outcast High Command | HIGH ENCRYPTION | From: The Blood Dragon Shogunate

[Cardinal]

Lord Hisano Kimura, Ambassador of the Blood Dragons.

The Blood Dragon Shogunate

==|ERROR: Extreme encryption and scrambling! Communications unreachable by non-recipients.|==

"Konnichiwa, leaders of the Outcasts. As you may or may not know, your trading company known as 'Williams Mordhauser Distributing' has been smuggling illegal goods and contraband through Kusari, which you already know, we do not like. Especially your trading of cardamine. Recently, we intercepted one of their transports and charged them a fee for smuggling through Kusari Systems. Soon after, they respond with a trap of two gunships in the heart of Kusari, and paid a trader to lead us to it. They put the crew of our gunship stationed in the system to intercept the recent smuggling issues in grave danger. This communications recording proves these hostilities."

*She provides an uplink to the communications recording here.*

"Not only have they committed crimes against the Blood Dragons by engaging us in the heart of Kusari with two ships fit for war, they directly insulted the Blood Dragons and the Shogun. This is hardly acceptable. Only recently have we found out you are also using this arm of a 'corporation' to smuggle cardamine to the Golden Chrysanthemums. This is a message from all of us here in the Shogunate: keep your people in line and informed. I would like a good explanation as to why we were not previously notified of their relations to you, why were the WMD were not notified of the alliance between us and the Golden Chrysanthemums, and we also want to know why the WMD were not told why we tolerate you."

-Lord Hisano Kimura, Ambassador of the Blood Dragons.