To: La Marine Royale Gauloise - CC: Royal Naval Coordination Office

[Lanakov]

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MARINE ROYALE GAULOISE

Nouveau message entrant.
Identifiant : Amiral Isabelle Montlaville de Chanteloup
Unité : Etat-major de la Marine Royale Gauloise
Destinataire : Omar Derche

Sujet : RE : knock knock.

03 juillet, 742 A.G.S.
Ile-de-France

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Chanteloup appears on screen with a VERY severe expression on her features.

Monsieur Darche,

You were right to take Vaillant's word with a pinch of salt. He gets carried away easily by his own ego, and this is something I have yet to solve.

Luckily for you, I was part of the people in the know in regards to the Voilé squadron. That you would only resurface now gives me pause, however. I wonder what has prompted you to try and link up with us only now. Have you finally run out of actual provisions, and had to make do with Sirian goop ?! Anyhow, I got carried away. Ego matters seem to be the menu du jour.

For your impertinence and self-importance, I would have gladly erred on the side of caution and disavowed you. But I've read the reports about the Vatan's activities in Roussillon lately, and more importantly, I'm in a decent mood. I'm willing to renew your clearance to make use of Gallic infrastructure so you can get more of our sandwiches... But I'm very much hoping to hear back from your unit with more regularity and transparency than before. I'm not wasting good sandwiches on self-important sloths. You're in luck, too : a new frequency has just been established precisely for that purpose. I strongly encourage you to use it.

I trust I made my stance clear ?

Chanteloup sighs with some significant degree of disdain, and the feed cuts.

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