To: The Rheinland Government

[Bundeskabinett Sekretariat]

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PRIORITY: High
ENCRYPTION: High
IDENTIFICATION: Minister for Foreign Affairs Christina Lauritz
SOURCE: Hauptsitz des Auswärtigen Amts, Planet New Berlin

Dear Supreme Guildmaster Archos,

my name is Christina Lauritz and I hold the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs in the government of The Bundesrepublik Rheinland. I was entrusted to reply to your message.

The Rheinland government is very surprised and displeased to hear that The Core is attempting to claim any part of the Rheinland space yet again. In the past, your representatives were repeatedly told that The Bundesrepublik Rheinland considers the Sigma-15 system in its entirety as part of the Rheinland space, where only the Rheinland laws are to be enforced. Not to mention that during our last talks last year, only things that The Core requested was a construction of a border station at Norderney planetoid and a special regime for the area of 15 kilometres around the Omicron Rho jump hole. Any actions regarding planet Baltrum were never mentioned and on top of that, your request was denied anyway and there was no further communication since then.

Thus we are quite shocked to hear that you now not only claim part of the Rheinland space including a planet, not only you claim you "erected a border to secure your interests" and that this planet "falls under your jurisdiction", but you even threaten to destroy station of one of the Rheinland corporations which is, once again, built within the space of the Bundesrepublik.

To be honest, we are very confused by your behaviour, especially because - like you said yourself - we considered our relations as close cooperation. Just because Rheinland did not show interest in some area for some time, it does not mean it can be freely claimed by anyone. We doubt you have such policy regarding your territory, so you should not expect it from us. I hope you know that the Bundesrepublik is very sensitive to any attempts to touch its space, you can ask the Gas Miners Guild about it.

Thus, we would like to hear the explanation from you and we hope to hear that all this is just someone´s huge mistake and you take back everything regarding threats towards the Wichter Station or any claims to our territory. It would be very unfortunate and unwelcomed if there would have to start disputes between us, or even armed conflict.

Sincerely,

Christina Lauritz

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