To: The Council of Elders | From: Custodi

[CorsairCouncil]

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Sender: Chino E. Chavez, Enviado Extraordinario
Recipients: Dia Augustopolou
Blocked IDs: everybody else

Topic: Status of the empire

Crete Planet, Omicron Gamma

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¡Distinguidos Senora Augustopolou,

First of all it good to have news from you. We didn't have news from Custodi for years and it's heart warming to see you. For the first point, we are aware that the group called Deterrence expect to do some change within the empire. While the council encourage initiative, we are not, at this moment, in the possibility of telling if this is a big joke or simply a self-centered egomaniac dream. The orginal deal with Kusari, was overview by Senor Rodriguez. For years, he been working to, he hope, make a deal with Kusari. The first step was done years ago when Kusari governement removed our pilots from the "wanted" list. The original idea was, for the brotherhood, to get rid the Samura's middlemen and distribute the artifacts within the Kusarian space. The governement in place decided the deal should be for all the corsairs so, the elders in place, Alberto Rodriguez from Brotherhood, Luciano Vasquez From the brotherhood and Hector Beltran representing the non-affiliated corsairs had to push the deal to the empire.

Obviously, the leader of Deterrence didn't quite liked the deal. The Elders offered them seats so many time they can't keep the count. Since they never appointed any Elders, the council concidered they we're allowed to speak in behalf of the whole empire. Seem like someone got offended by this but i shall point out that the elders closed their eyes when they built this awful facility in front of Crete or welcomed the unioners within in the empire without prior request about the status between then empire and those gringos.

If you ever have interest into have a Custodi representative within the council, by tradition, the elders agreed that your current vacant seat to be reinstated. This way, we would once again have a council worthy of this name. The council comfirm that Ambassador Nikita will receive all due respect he deserve. The council would be happy to have advices from him.

For Elder Rodriguez, he was fast on reply because he wasn't fed the right information by my PR personnel. I apologize for making such mistake. If will make sure he get the right informations and fix his error. I deeply regret that my error led to this. I didn't nor, i'm sure, he him wanted to insult you or your population.

The Council of Elders is and will continue to be the only acting entity representing the empire. With your support and the support of the Brotherhood, the empire is as strong as ever.

Respetuosamente,

Chino Ernesto Chavez

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Enviado Extraordinario
Consejo de Asuntos Exteriores
Planet Crete, Omicron Gamma

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