To: The Lane Hackers

[Enkidu]

Incoming Transmission

To: Malprave.
From: Gunda Riehl.
Subject: Be nice. Mary's not coming to you on her knees, she's coming to you as an equal. This is an alliance between mutual, equal, parties. We are not going to fence with you.

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I'm just gonna' slidddde in right here and warn you not to insult the Dross, dorkslice, from the sanctity of your neuralnet terminal, nor to mention prom
verginity because you sure didn't get any. Likely because yer' arms are pretzles and you speak like a nerd. Go lift.


So, d'yall actually have sex or is it mostly jerking it to porn inbetween crap-talking on the dark web and handing tradelane cargo manifests to the real pirates? Fancy robot vibes don't apply.

Anyway, here's some porn for you, pointdexter:

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I'll be real with you.

The long and short of it is that we're smugglers, we'll always be better at meaningless trashtalking theatrics. We respect your reasons for salsa-ing the night away with the Maltese, act expectant that there's some logical reasoning behind our attitude towards the battlegroup. We wanted to see what Knight would do if she felt all sides were pushing her to hardball, hoping that she'd act off first principles and go with her gut, which would tell us what she really believed.

Seems to have worked. Relations with Harmony are stable, and we're back supporting them in combat against the Liberty Navy. We've even worked quite stably with some of yer' independent associates in the last few days. It's always reassuring to see the Hackers at our side.

Mary's not an expendable. She's a major player in the direktorate, and she's coming to you because we trust you, even if your insults are a load of wallop and not the kind you get from a cudgel. Fact is, we trust you as far as we do ourselves.


But if you call Mary "sweet" again, she'll remove your eyeball with a paperclip. Seen it happen, nearly had it happen to me. We came respectfully to you, you treat us with respect back. That's unwritten rule of an underworld that is based upon inter-institutional trust.

Stay on the level. No "Sweet Miss", no insults as to each other's organisational overstructure. It's never won you points with the Union before and it won't start now. Build the bridge.

Oh, if you need help crafting insults that arn't shambolically lame and yell "most likely to date the teacher" from your highschool yearbook, Mary can help you with that too, 'Prave.

For Rheinland,
Gunda Riehl,
Oberstarbeiter, Wedel outpost, Hamburg System.

Transmission Ended

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