To: PM Mehmed Selim; From: Cdre. E. Hall

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From: Mehmed Selim.
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Privyet.

These assets will all find a useful place in the roster. I am sorely short of command-grade personnel, but my core of loyalists, as well as any population your troops manage to convince planetside on Exeter, should be enough for the purposes of crew. Between what I have been able to assemble with the portion of the state budget I managed to smuggle out of New Moscow on open-market purchases, and these ships you're able to provide, we should have a fleet capable of supporting the Armed Forces and of performing independent operations.

We haven't really gotten around to naming our new state just yet, with all this logistics to do. What we HAVE agreed on, after digging in our Sol-era database a bit (and I will boast, the Coalition's sol-archives are second to none) is a name for our outfit/militia: the Crimean Privateers. The name derives from a peninsula on old Earth geographically situated between Coalition member states and with an ancient history involving predecessor nations of the Alliance that led to the founding of Bretonia, as well as Coalition predecessors. Privateers, of course, given the nature of Bretonia's sanctioning of our operations.

We also devised a provisional flag, though likely a permanent choice.

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Our next move is likely to secure a sufficient officer base to utilize all this effectively, be they exceptional candidates from our side of Exeter, defectors I am able to sway from the Coalition, or volunteers from Bretonia proper who make the choice to sign up with us rather than the military, for whatever personal or clerical reason might exist.

For the Motherland.

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