To: Velvet Zoners Leadership; From: Bretonia

[Thunderer]

Message Class: Textual
Encryption: Assam
To: Velvet Government/High Command
From: Governor-General Commodore Elizabeth Hall, BAF

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Esteemed Ind Cosmatopolis,

There indeed is a "catch", as you called it. There is a terrorist organization that currently operates on Exeter and they claim to fight for the Zoners. They call themselves the GCA, or the Gran Canarian Army. Their ways are violent and have already produced casualties on both sides. Space is their area of operations too, and a few days ago one of their fighters joined an Enclave fleet, the same Enclave that glassed Leeds, in their attack against BAF ships. Luckily for us, their pilots have no formal training, so this one was shot down in less than a minute by one of our ensigns. If they continue like this, at best they will injure themselves, but at worst someone else too. I had rather that neither them nor anyone else has to suffer. I believe, or at least hope, that their movement will shrink in size if they lose support from enough relevant Zoner parties, and thus reduce the number of innocent souls that their demagogy can seduce to harm themselves or someone else. Furthermore, I wish all Zoners to know that if they want land on Exeter, they should use diplomacy, not weapons.

I am willing to sell Velvet a 7854 square kilometers parcel of unused land (a circle with a 50 km radius, in other words) of your choice on Planet Exeter for 50,000,000 credits, under the condition that Velvet publicly condemns the GCA and especially their violent and Un-Zonerly ways. This territory would be nearly completely independent from the Kingdom of Bretonia. The limiting clauses of our agreement would, for example, require all spaceships going to and from the independent territory to use the Bretonian docking ring/mooring fixture, ban Velvet from harbouring criminals and enemies of Bretonia, and alike. It is implied that Velvet would not pay taxes to Bretonia nor have to abide by Bretonian law within your territory, with the exception of the "harbouring criminals" clause and similar. Please tell me if you are still interested, so I can draft you a treaty.

Commodore
Governor-General of Exeter
Bretonian Armed Forces

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