To: any Hogosha organization | From: Ile-de-France Shipping

[Hogosha Alliance]

The Nikkyo Consortium

I bid you a good day, Mizushima-san.

Allow me to introduce myself briefly, before we will proceed to business talks. I am Masaru Sera, President of the Nikkyo Consortium and first Spokesman of the Hogosha Alliance, an alliance of several Syndicates pursuing to form a strong front against intruding forces, may it be the Outcasts or business rivals.

Ile-de-France Shipping was wise to contact the Government and now contact us about this matter, as ignoring our standpoint would have had severe consequences.
Now, Ile-de-France Shipping might be just what we need though. As you, a Kusarian working in a Gallic firm, certainly noticed, the Gallic people can be extremely wary towards outsiders, similar to us. This led to issues with the promotion of Artifacts within Gallia at first, seeing IDF wish to haul and promote their sale in Gallia could function as a door-opener to us. Once the good people of Gallia realized their aesthetic value, presented to them by their own people, it will be easier to re-initiate our agenda at a later point.

Naturally, from a business perspective, we cannot allow Ile-de-France to mindlessly flood the market and cause a crash before any of us both managed to truly benefit from the wealthy's interest. In order to avoid this, we would like to propose Ile-de-France a small plan:

• The Hogosha Alliance will transfer additional workforce to the Luxury Liner Hawaii, Ile-de-France shipments coming from Corsair space carrying Artifacts of any sorts are asked to dock there and let our workers assist you in evaluating each Artifacts value. Additionally, our workers can provide custom made display cases, which can easily double an Artifacts value.
  Less valuable Artifacts could be sold on a market aiming at the Gallic middle-class for example.
  We have specialists for this tasks, so it will not be very time consuming. This measure will assist you in marketing Artifacts more efficiently.
  
  
• Ile-de-France Shipping accepts to pay a monthly fee of 120.000.000 credits to the Hogosha Alliance for our expertise and willingness to permit outsiders to take a stake in the rather new market of Gallia.
  
  
• The Hogosha Alliance will aid Ile-de-France Shipping merchant vessels throughout Kusari and its bordering worlds against criminal entities. This service is included in the fee above.
  
  
• This business deal is a trial and would start on the 01/07/827. The trial phase ends on the 01/10/827. A new, possibly more permanent agreement shall be reached after this trial phase.
  

With best regards,

- Masaru Sera, President of the Nikkyo Consortium, Spokesman of the Hogosha Alliance

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