.:j:. JUNKER CONGRESS MESSAGE DUMP

[Rudo]

[font=Courier New][color=#99FF99]COMM ID: Arbiter Hannibal Bishop
LOCATION: Yanagi Base Command Centre

Salutations;

The GMG will be addressed on this matter. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Keep in mind that Sigma-13 has eyes. Helgoland has the ALG, who are a Rheinland company and would take interest in the fact we trade goods and sell lodging to factions running counter to their interests. The GMG, as you have discovered, have an eye on Yanagi as well.

To put it bluntly: Loitering in the perimeter is bad for both of us. It makes our relationship conspicuous; which endangers not only the station but our whole trade operation as well. We Junkers can move your Cardamine to planetary markets, and set up stations in such convenient locations only because people remain unaware of the depth of our partnership. A Maltese warship in the station's perimeter only makes you easy to find, and brings our business relationship more spotlight than either of us would want.

Self-defense is also not forbidden. Surely the Outcasts, of all people, are aware that no law will protect someone when they're directly confronted with heavy firepower and an enemy force. Thank you for placing the lives of the Junkers and your fellow Outcasts aboard Yanagi above the safety of your craft, but logically you are entitled to try and save yourself. We will not bind you with red tape when your life is at stake.

I must in turn urge you to keep a distance away from Yanagi when not moored for resupply and repairs. As you have discovered, it is a landmark at which one is easily found. Being seen there is also dangerous for us both. I will be passing this request along to the Dons, and to... other parties who use Yanagi in turn. This will not be backed with force, but surely you see the logic in it for all.

I hope our salvage teams recovered all your crew alive, and did their job in the recovery of your crippled ship.


To continued good relations and shared profits;

- H. Bishop

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