To: Fort Diamond. Subject matter: I guess you didn't expect us to find it.

[Enkidu]

Alster Unioners

Sender ID: Gunda Riehl
Tacname: Hellion
Positional group: Volenteer Flight Arbeiter, Union Raiders and recovery
Location: UN|Hellion, Bering System, beyond the Tanner Belt.
Branchgroup: Unioners

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The voice comes through irritated, estranged.

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Weisen, I know you've got a brain, look at it deductively.

You've built an inflatable modular structure with a Lane Hacker IFF Ident after lying over its purpose to the whole tanner belt. You want us to shoot it and we're going to call your bluff, because it's thin. You want to start the Bore-war of he-said-she cassius belli gut-busting bellicoseness, we won't play ball. Two flagged Lane Hackers already shot at us without provocation, so you've already got your damn war and you can quote me on that however you like - I'll be happy to provide the context for your intransigence.

Fact, is fact. You built this thing so far out into the black it's got no use to anyone. Calling it an 'asset' is a mean misuse of yer' credibility, not that I'd buy stock in it judging by its credit value. It's bait. A good fish doesn't ignore the bait - it drags the fishermen into the water behind them.

It's time to for us to see where you're going with all this.

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