To: <"Professor-Provocateur Yoshida">
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Mister Yoshida.
I was just about to wire the money from a personal, secure and obscure neural-net account of mine, but I was promptly informed that one of my Operatives had already forwarded the payment of their own volition and out of their own initiative. The Alliance will accept responsibility for the undue hostilities, clearly I hadn't been quick enough in getting all of my men in line. If anything, this incident has revealed a critical flaw in our communication system to me, one I'll be rectifying immediately.
Moving on to business, the Legion's long overdue for a rude awakening. They've lived in a wonderfully comfy shell of idealism. You're damn right we should take back what's ours, not just in terms of stealing our thunder back, but by reclaiming everything that isn't bolted down. Their ships, their guns, the luxuries they idly enjoy, they owe it all to the tireless and unquestioning assistance of the Alliance over the years. Without you and without us, there wouldn't be a Legion.
I want the Commonwealth burned out of the history books. We were thrown to the side once by Liberty, a second time by the Commonwealth. There will never, at least in my lifetime be a third occurrence of such historical duplicity. But before we cherish the burning skull being reduced to rust and ash, we need to acknowledge some key problems with cutting the Legion out of our diplomatic circle after being reliant on them for so many years.
Chief of these problems is hardware reliance, if half of Serpentis and a bulk of my operatives weren't using "Prosecutors", I would have no qualms with telling the Legion to go stick itself silly. If we snap ties and openly declare hostilities, we lose two things. One is the know-how and parts required to maintain said Prosecutors and the other being the element of surprise.
We have engineers capable of working with the Libertonian engineering of the ship, but every-time I ask someone to take a look at the consoles, engine system and internals, they look at me as if I'd stuttered. The problem is simply the fact that we can't jump over the hurdle that is your Intellectual Property still present in the Prosecutor. If you can help us clear that obstacle, then you'll be paid back for such a gesture in kind.
One mode of repayment would be some information that you could perhaps put to work, I really doubt a B.M.F science vessel hanging around in Kansas near a shady station would be especially wise for Bretonia's P.R given the current optics that are at work. The second would be knowledge of a crucial Legion outpost that bridges the gap between our territory and theirs logistically.
It's in perfect striking distance from us, and a Trojan Horse would work rather nicely.