To: Amalfi Directorate | From: The National Council, Benito Contari

[Foxglove]

Not a politician, Signor Valera? Refreshing directness.

Very well, the Council is pleased by your gestures of good faith, and admits that the Council itself might not have sent the most inviting signals most of the time. It is a sad state of affairs that we have had to deal with a lot of treachery and deceit lately - the 101st, the Oracles et cetera.

As for your request, there is only you as a serious applicant for the bounty board, which is currently closed and we do not see a reason to reopen it just yet. However, the Council is willing to compensate any and all terminations made by the Directorate targeting the groups listed in said bounty board with a flatrate payment of three million credits if proof of identification and termination is supplied to us in this channel. This would be an agreement just between the Directorate and the Council, can neither be delegated to third parties, i.e. claimants need to fly the Directorate's identification, and is valid for a period of three months, i.e. the end of the last day of June, after your own agreement to these terms, after which we can see about prolonging it.

I trust this is agreeable?

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