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To: Nicole Hunter
From: Armin Jansen, der Alster Union.
Subject: The attitudes of my subordinates.

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Professor - you are Libertonians, we are Unioners. We may have business connections, but you cannot expect personal niceties from those whose families have lived outside the law for centuries.

We cannot control the opinions of individual operatives. In the past, we could promote punitive punishment for agitation, however, we cannot afford to bleed manpower whilst Hessian battleships filter into the Koen system.


We can entice flight operatives to behave more respectfully - but the proof is in the profit. These are distrustful men and women, Hunter, but they are loyal to those they are close to. They will co-operate with the Lane Hackers as ordered, but you cannot expect them to hold their tongues.

The path to gaining their respect is more flight operations with the, nothing more, nothing less. I cannot change three hundred years of institutional attitudes.

Regards,
Armin Jansen.
First contact representative and Diplomat-in-Chief of der Alster Union, Pacifica Base, Bering.

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