Maréchal Laroux, I am very pleased to speak with you. So far it's been a truly humbling experience, it's pleasant for me to see those old Gallic traditions of holding negotiations still living. Thank you for making your position clear, it will clearly help to reach understanding. You point out quite a few fair points which would make negotiations more complicated, but it's very good that we found some common ground at a basic understanding of the situation.
My list by no means meant to impress anyone, but rather make it clear that I've been working for the good cause for quite an extended period of time. And while many Royal Navy commanders, even of the highest rank, have turned out to be traitors, I keep true to my word.
I welcome your decision to change target priorities in Bretonia and Tau-31. Our raiders will use Junker infrastructure to reach for New London as in the good old days. You see, to maintain this sort of operation in Tau-31, it would make sense to lift the pressure off two more Tau systems that we happen to "sandwich". I am speaking of Tau-44 which is temporary under Colonial control and Tau-23 which is now mostly taken by the forces loyal to Gallic traitors.
Behind this, there's a crucial thing for my people and 'national' interest if you wish to call it so. While Malta seeks for no territorial gains and is quite far from any colonial approaches, we fight for our commercial interest. As you know, our main export is Cardamine, and the Tau route is meant to deliver this gift to the markets of Liberty and Bretonia. As I understand, you share no love for neither Bretonia and Liberty so I figured Enclave forces could turn a blind eye on our runners, heading in this direction no matter the tonnage of the vessel would be. This will create more problems with their law enforcement and to some degree will level down their defense capabilities. In the light of new developments, it's may very well be in Enclave interests to boost Cardamine sales in said Houses, which happens to be our primary objective on the global scale of things.
Come to mention it, while we appreciated massive depression and neurosis in Sirius coming from Gallic invasion, it surely raised the Cardamine consumption, but outright depopulating planets with the billions of people is making our consumer base thinner. I understand that there must have been some tactical or strategic necessity in doing so, but it had a negative impact on the business.
- Loyal Subject of his Majesty Charles XI,
Dona Enma de Loyola of Malta