To: Wichter Station Administration

[Petitioner]

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Name: Augustus Howe
Identification: The Platform, Black Flame
Encryption Access: HIGH
Location: Battleship Klaxon, Sigma-15
Subject: Wichter Access

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Friends in the ALG,

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with the captain of your gunboat Schneesturm in the vicinity of the Norddorf. He invited me to reach out to you to arrange for mooring rights at Wichter itself for the Klaxon; which I am sure your man has already informed you of, and thus needs little introduction. Unfortunately, the Klaxon is in a sorry state.

In the final year or so of the existence of the Insurgent Navy, the Klaxon received exactly no service beyond occasional replacement of water filters, and despite their generosity, the Bundschuh have not been much better equipped to service a ship of our size. Your field agents suggested that some sort of deferred payment scheme or "alternative" compensation methods would be appropriate in this situation. I do hope that they spoke on good authority, as our recent deployment to Omega-7 to defend the Guild operations in the system was unfortunately not met with much in the way of financial compensation.

Still, I feel that reaching out now, more than ever, is prudent given that we are directly allied in the struggle against the Outcast-sympathizing colonizers of Norddorf Refinery. If the Klaxon is to be of much assistance in forcibly evicting the refinery's inhabitants, some measure of urgent repairs are called for. Please let me know how we can make this work; as a provisional proposal, the Klaxon is fitted with a large amount of advanced equipment which, while in dire need of maintenance, holds many secrets that may be of interest to ALG's engineers or to Division V.

Thank you for your time.

Cmdr. Augustus Howe
The Black Flame
“Iudicium per ignem”

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