Universal Shipping: Complaints and Damages Department

[aeris]

Good day.

Today, at 1330 hours near planet Manhattan I intercepted Dutchess Shipping vessel GrandDuchess, after
discovering she had four Junkers in her cargo. The Junkers had asked for some H-Fuel in order to get home.

Instead of helping people in need or ignoring them, the GrandDuchess had opened fire and captured the
helpless pilots. When I demanded their release the GrandDuchess commanding officer Sofia Westwood
ridiculed me, and ransomed the Junkers to a nearby Ageira base. I recieved more ridicule upon asking
reparations, and were violently attacked upon firing a few warning shots.

This is unacceptable.

Our average trading routes create profit at approximately $350.000 per minute. The destruction of four (4)
Junker vessels, obstruction of profit and encapturing four pilots for hours has caused damages of several
dozens of millions in loss of profit. Until opened fire upon, I asked only damage control of $500.000 for each
wrongly treated pilot, asking nothing for my own profit. As you can see in this complaint, my offer was quite
hospitable.

I will now repeat my original damage claim and add to it my own damages GrandDuchess created:

4 destroyed Junker vessels and obstruction of profit:
a $500.000 to the amount of $2.000.000
Re-ransoming 4 Junker pilots at twice the price of 1440 credits:
a $2.880 to the amount of $11.520
Forced chase of Junker-enslaving vessel, 2 minutes:
a $350.000 to the amount of $700.000
8 fired Reinforced Cruise Disruptor missiles to keep target from fleeing:
a $2.000 to the amount of $16.000
Forced retreat under threat of violence and obstructing trade route for 5 minutes:
a $350.000 to the amount of $2.450.000
Vessel damage control:
a $2.570 to the amout of $2.570
Restock of 65 Nanobots:
a $200 to the amount of $16.000
Restock of 287 Shield Batteries:
a $200 to the amount of $57.400
Slander, mistreatment and enslavement of faction allies:
a $2.000.000 to the amount of $2.000.000

Totalling the amount of: $7.253.490 payable to arris. I will make the required arrangements to
forward restitution to the pilots and families in question.

If these damages cannot be compensated, I am forced to collect it from vessels either flying for Universal
Shipping privately, or belonging to it's daughter company Duchess Shipping. The collecting will continue until
the damages are fully covered: naturally, this scenario would include additional damages of $350.000 per
each minute spent on collecting instead of profiteering, in addition to a 5% daily interest (calculated from the
total accumulated debt).

This complaint is CC'd to US daughter company King of Fighters, as it seems Duchess Shipping is quite a
young daughter corporation, and might not have the means to provide for this debt in time. I would also
like to ask you to police your own, so that us Junkers wouldn't have to. We would be much more interested
on agreements about escort and military operations instead of this travesty.

For now, this unfortunate situation concerns only Duchess Shipping, me, and the captured four pilots. I beg
you to understand, that any bounties, military interference or refusal might escalate into reports to fellow
independent Junkers, to the Junkers Congress, and targeting of all Universal Shipping vessels until all
accumulated damages, interest and loss of profit (calculated per attending Junker each) have been
repaid in full.

I expect you to open diplomatic channels to recover from this unfortunate situation within the reasonable
time of 48 hours (or 1500 hours on Saturday), or I am forced to conclude you have failed to reach an
agreement with me, and must continue with the proposed emergency method of receiving compensation.
Transmission records and video feeds of the situation are available on request.

Yours Truly,
arris (Junkers)

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Case File: arris