To: OSI- || CC: Velvet, IRG, Zoner Administrators of Omicron Theta

[Wildkins]

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To all whom it may concern,

I believe we've gotten off on the wrong foot. I've come into my office today with a few reports flying across my desk, from both my organization and yours - and I hope to clear the air a little and negotiate something that might be more beneficial than biting words and empty threats that we can't necessarily take back.

Two days ago, the SFV Fireline Road commanded by one Aubrey McKnight - a fine delivery pilot of ours, so I'm told - made a food delivery as per a contract received from Gran Canaria's refugee centers. As the Colossus-class landed and began to offload, thousands - literal thousands, I'm told - of migrants flooded the docking bays, overwhelming the paltry security guards that the Bretonians had set up. They begged and hollered for passage aboard a ship clearly not fit for passenger travel, and our young pilot made a decision to do what he could in the moment.

Arriving a short time later at their preferred destination of Omicron Theta, the Fireline Road pulled into moor at Corfu Base to discover a very similar situation. The station, clogged with personnel, a wait time measured in the days for these starving, tired people to be processed and placed down on-planet. Aubrey, trained as with all of our delivery pilots in the basics of hydroponics, knew just from the smell of the air that the base's life support systems were stretched to their absolute limit. To put down on that base and let out those people would essentially be committing grand-scale murder.

Instead, he organized for the pickup and delivery of the persons roughly five-hundred at a time onto the surface itself, via our atmo-capable high-velocity delivery vehicles, aka "Hotshot" freighters. Of course, such a release onto the planet left them without official registry, and this is of something we've worked with your officials on Corfu to since correct, but ultimately we believe that such a course of action was necessary to save lives. Aubrey recommended the program be continued in lieu of our normal contracts with the IRG, and our adjunct office in Stuttgart agreed. A small loading and unloading dock, titled the 'Pygar Relief Center', was hastily constructed in orbit of Planet Pygar. The vessels Fireline Road and Salton Sea were re-directed to start full-time transportation of migrants to the dock, after being re-fitted with as many accommodations as possible to make the short trip as safe and comfortable as could be in retrofitted cargo transports. Hotshot freighters then regularly off-loaded the migrants down to the planet's surface, once the necessary intake data was collected and stored for eventual communication with your counterparts at Corfu.

This operation continued for some time, I'm told, before Velvet security officials happened across the operation and ordered it to immediately cease, and threatened to remove the dock by force if necessary. While I understand that this ad-hoc operation was made evidently in some violation of Zoner laws, ones that we did not intend to infringe upon in the slightest, I would make it clear that we did so with the best of intentions. Our operation here was run as efficiently as could be given our considerable expertise in logistics and shipping, while ensuring the accuracy of data collection for your immigration purposes and safety of the passengers during the dangerous trip in the Border Worlds. As I've been told, to-date our transports haven't even come across a hostile vessel or pirate, thanks in part to the efforts of our enforcement division and the security vessels we have since dispatched to the dock.

We are willing to reposition or deconstruct the dock if necessary, although we strongly wish to discuss alternatives to simply packing up and going home. Our assessment of your operations at Corfu are, while well-meaning, significantly lacking in resources comparative to the necessary demand from Gran Canaria. We believe that the most effective method of handling this is a parallel operation where we can cooperate in partnership without necessarily infringing upon Corfu or vice versa. To that end, we are willing to comply with any restrictions you deem necessary to this operation, be it the replacement of our cargo vessels with state-of-the-art liners (as I'm told, the liner Arcadia is already being outfitted at Stuttgart for such a task), or the repositioning of the base to a farther orbit from Corfu and Pygar. Of course, we will also be more than happy to take care of any fines levied for this installation's prior construction.

I'll last leave with a minor note - on the nature of our operation. Synth Foods works as a beneficiary, a rarity in its corporate brethren. Many of our employees, myself included, first joined the company out of a genuine desire to provide for others. To suggest otherwise, especially after our history with Sirius in general and Zoners in specific, is nothing short of an insult. To speak ill of our house of origin, Liberty, especially in their desperate time of war against the evil Gallics that led to this chain-reaction of despair throughout the Omegas is perhaps an even greater affront.

[25.05.2019 16:24:21] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: And remove this base from Orbit
[25.05.2019 16:24:38] Synth|Aubrey.McKnight: We'll see.
[25.05.2019 16:24:45] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: No, it will
[25.05.2019 16:24:53] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: Either decontructed, or destroyed
[25.05.2019 16:24:55] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: Your choice

[25.05.2019 16:43:50] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: I was willing to work with Syth if they wish
[25.05.2019 16:44:06] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: But now, i dont wish to see your ships here
[25.05.2019 16:44:12] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: Make sure that base is removed within the week

[25.05.2019 16:46:27] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: I FOUGHT for that planets Freedom DAMMNIT! WHILST LIBERTY LICK AT THE HEELS OF BRETONIA!

[25.05.2019 16:47:43] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: We had our home taken away from us by Bretonia
[25.05.2019 16:47:50] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: And Liberty could of stepped in
[25.05.2019 16:47:51] Velvet|Grey:: Protect us from the Gauls?
[25.05.2019 16:47:55] Velvet|BK-Kaldra: Von: But no, they did nothing
[25.05.2019 16:48:13] Velvet|Grey:: Please the Navy are too busy kissing there ass instead of fighting

I wish to work together with our long-time associates, partners, friends in the Zoner communities, but this kind of talk will get us nowhere. I understand the grave situation in the Omegas, and the terrible acts that Bretonia has conducted in the recent months - acts we have already condemned them for, publicly and privately. We wish to work beyond these boundaries, beyond the petty squabbles the Houses have made us so accustomed to...but if this kind of posturing is the method of negotiation the new administration has taken on, then that shall be that. We can very much take your officials at their word, and leave the migration process to your, ehm, capable hands.

With my sincerest regards,

Jay Stevens
C.E.O., Synth Foods Inc.

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