INCOMING TRANSMISSION
TARGET ID: Xeno Alliance Leadership, Ouray Base, Colorado System
COMM ID: Amy Carmichael, Director of Liberty Operations for the Junkers Congress
LOCATION: Rochester Base, New York System
ENCRYPTION: High
I'm sick to the teeth of this pointless turf war. I've had enough, you hear? Enough of Xenos disrupting our scrapping and trading operations, enough of Junkers getting drunk off their faces and attacking Ouray in CSVs. This whole conflict is a waste of time and resources. We could get a lot more done, a hell of a lot more, by not fighting and working together than by constantly harping at each other and shooting at each other every five gorram seconds. The Junkers could be valuable friends for the Xenos. We could supply you with food, safe harbour, arms, whatever, and keep in mind we generally don't give a good gorram what you do with them so long as you stay out of our hair. But instead, we're both too busy fighting each other to even remotely consider the possibilities that NOT fighting could offer us.
That's why I'm proposing a mutual non-aggression pact with the Xenos. I know there'll be screamed objections from both sides, but I for one want a bit more peace and quiet in Liberty. Here's the deal. If you agree to it, the following terms will apply:
No Junker vessel will attack a Xeno vessel unprovoked.
No Xeno vessel will attack a Junker vessel unprovoked.
No Junker will come within 10k of any Xeno base without prior permission from the Xenos.
No Xeno vessel will come within 10k of a Junker base without permission from the Junkers.
Junkers will be permitted to bring foreign cargo into Liberty, provided they do nothing to antagonise Xenos in the area, including verbal taunts, flaunting their cargo or firing upon Xeno ships, and provided they adhere to the 10k exclusion zone around Xeno bases.
Xenos will be permitted to mine the Dallas, Jersey, Pittsburgh and Detroit debris fields for scrap to support their operations, provided they do nothing to antagonise Junkers in the area, including verbal taunts, "skimming" scrap mined by Junkers or firing upon Junker ships, and provided they adhere to the 10k exclusion zone around Junker bases.
Any Junker or Xeno vessel who provokes either side by attacking them or entering their space without permission is fair game for attack on that occasion only.
Now I'm willing to negotiate here because, once more, I am fed up with this pointless bickering. Agree to these terms, and we Junkers can get on with our scrapping and trading, and you Xenos can get on with your... *consults file* "driving those foreign" - sorry, I'm not familiar with this next word - "from Liberty". So please, accept my olive branch and let's turn this open and unprofitable hostility into an indifferent and profitable neutrality, hmmm? If not, well... more migraines for both sides, I suppose.
Who knows, maybe I won't be too optimistic in saying that we could eventually work with each other if we gave it half a chance. This is only the first step.
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