Incoming Transmission from Scarborough Station, Newcastle
To: DSE and DHC Priority: Urgent Topic: Hangarage Prices
Message Contents:
Good morning! My name is Peter Hudson, an employee of Borderworld Exports, or Bowex for short. I come to both of your groups today in a dire situation. Bowex has been undergoing a major task to construct one of these new Civilian Carriers to join our fleet of ships. Everything has been going well so far until one of our war time convoys were jumped and attacked by some Lane Hackers last night. Scarborough is currently being cleared to make room for these transports as they are currently at high priority.
With that said, we are currently looking for hangarage prices at ether of your shipyards, namely Baltimore Shipyard or The Ring to carry on construction of our carrier. We do not have a time scheduled on this anymore seeing as it has been completely messed up for us. Hence, we are looking for weekly prices on your larger hanger spaces. We'll provide all of the tools and materials needed, we just need a space to work in.
Source: The Ring, New Berlin system. Comm ID: Hanna Richter, DHC Secretary
Good evening Mr. Hudson,
your offer has met with warm welcome by the Board. Although as of now The Ring is overloaded with ship construction, we're sure at proper price we could postpone construction of some civilian vessels in one of smaller docking bays.
The Board wishes to voice our surprise though, that we received such offer from Bowex, while your Armed Forces refused our earlier proposal to construct some warships for Bretonian Navy. An astonishing move, given Bretonia's war situation, I must personally admit...
But, returning to business, dear customer, we estimate that currently leasing minor drydock at The Ring and necessary aid in liner construction would cost around 50 Million credits a week - estimate which is just initial number, and surely will increase together with raising costs of construction and finishing costs. While construction itself shouldn't be too complicated, we reserve right to involve our good partners from Republican Shipping in the process - we'd like to see at least part of material deliveries being done by them.
If those purely initial and orientational estimates are agreeable for Bowex, please let us know.
Incoming Transmission from Scarborough Station, Newcastle
To: Ms. Richter Priority: Medium Topic: Hangerage
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Ms. Richter, it is a pleasure to meet you.
I'm afraid I have not been told anything about yours and the Armed Forces attempted arrangements. Anyway, thank you kindly for your offer. Our other recipient has not got back to us and there for we will consider your offer instead.
50,000,000 credits per a week is a very reasonable for the size of our task and we welcome it with warm hearts. However, I do have to mention a few things. All of the resources we use will be exported from Bretonia, into Rheinland and then onto The Ring. We will also provide our own work force and equipment as well.
One last thing. Bowex wish to keep the supplying of the carrier to ourselves as we have very tight schedules. We can't rely on other companies that we've not had much contact with to aid us with our experimental project. We will not know whether they'll miss deadlines or bring the wrong commodities. I hope you understand where I am coming from.
If all is fine, then please provide a Neural Net Bank Account for us to wire the credits over.
Source: The Ring, New Berlin system. Comm ID: Hanna Richter, DHC Secretary
Good day Mr. Hudson,
it is saddening news our trusted Republican partners cannot take part in supply process. While I'm sure Bowex shippers will keep construction site supplied in a timely fashion, decision not to use our experienced engineer teams is even more surprising.
Drydock 7, one of the smaller drydocks which was designated to handle the task, was used by us to repair used and build new Hegemon-class mining vessels. Constant pirate attacks, breaking of active parts on ships, this all causes our mining fleet is in constant state of repair and rebuild.
Decision to lease Bowex one of repair drydocks caused us schedule repair problems. We will ask Republican for help in that matter, but that will take some time. As of now, we are forced to ask Bowex to find us a few Hegemon vessels. They may be used, but must be operational. As many as possible, but no less than five ships.
There's also urgent need to house your crews at The Ring and give them at least minimal on-site drydock presentation and training. We are waiting for contact with Bowex personnel responsible for technical issues.
Incoming Transmission from Scarborough Station, Newcastle
To: Ms. Richter Priority: Medium Topic: Hangerage
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Ms. Richter,
I'm afraid upping and upping your requirements just isn't going to work. We simply can't afford to to do what you have asked. BMM are currently busy with their mining operations and as I've already said, our hangers are just full so we can't build anything, otherwise we'd carry on with the construction of our carrier there!
It's a shame to say that we're going to have to deny the deal and move onto the other company we have contacted.
Thank you for contacting Deep Space Engineering. My name is Michelle Dunn, administrator at Baltimore Shipyard. May I first start off by extending my apologies for the delay during our corporate reshuffling.
We're always happy to accommodate Bretonia's businesses - especially during this time of conflict where we can't afford to be divided. Anything to help on all fronts - from military to industry - bolsters us all. Therefore, we would be willing clear your vessel at our hangars so long as you can cover the nominal upkeep costs of 10 million credits per week. Since you will be sourcing your own materials and manpower, this makes the arrangement significantly easier - so long as they are not restricted goods without prior approval by the government, and you can provide all the necessary security clearance for your incoming transports and personnel. Given your corporations long history and reputation, I do not foresee that being much of a problem.
Let me know if that arrangement is suitable or if you have any further questions.
Regards, Michelle Dunn
Administrator
Baltimore Shipyard
Source: The Ring, New Berlin system. Comm ID: Hanna Richter, DHC Secretary
Good day Mr. Hudson,
That sudden change Bowex's intentions is surprising. Construction of a carrier, even auxiliary one, isn't an easy thing, and, unlike some groups like Independent Miners Guild or Zoners which over the last two decades started fielding capital ships suppousedly from their own "newly built" shipyards, we in Daumann have certain restrictions about constructing capital ships. We realize well it's complex, time-consuming process and initial cost estimates are often exceeded during construction.
Bowex's unwillingness, or lack of flexibility perhaps, in helping its long-time partners prepare construction site for Bowex project, was something unexpected.
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Incoming Transmission from Scarborough Shipyard, Newcastle System.
22/05/822 A.S.
To: Michelle Dunn, DSE. CC: Board of Directors, Peter Hudson. Priority: Medium. Topic: RE: Construction allocation.
Message Contents: Ms Dunn
It is a pleasure to hear back from you. Mr Hudson is temporarily unavailable, so I have taken over the proceedings as his direct manager. None of the goods we will be importing for the construction would infringe upon the laws of Liberty, therefore security concerns should not be a problem.
The keel of the ship has already been laid down at Scarborough, where it is currently moored in a semi-complete state. The basic superstructure is finished, as well as enough of the propulsion drives to enable it to traverse jump gates. Consequently we would like to tow it to its new berth as soon as possible - how soon could your drydock frame be prepped to accept it?
In any case, I have forwarded your very reasonable offers on to the Directors, who hope to make a decision as to your offer within 24 hours. We should be able to let you know whether we wish to make use of your facilities at that point.
Yours in service to the Realm
Andrew Peterson
Trade Department Manager
Borderworld Exports
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Incoming Transmission from Scarborough Shipyard, Newcastle System.
22/05/822 A.S.
To: Hanna Richter, DHC. CC: Board of Directors, Peter Hudson. Priority: Medium. Topic: RE: Construction allocation.
Message Contents: Ms Richter
It is a pleasure to hear from you. Mr Hudson is temporarily unavailable, so I have taken over the proceedings as his direct manager. There has been no sudden change in our intentions; our intentions were, and still are, to obtain drydock facilities to complete the construction of the aforementioned vessel.
The only surprising factor was the sudden request for us to provide 5 hegemon class miners. As Mr Hudson explained, that is currently beyond our capabilities and consequently, we are forced to view your offer as economically infeasible and to explore other options.
We would have been more than happy to allow you to submit our work crews to whatever training or orientation programs you felt were necessary. Alas, that was not the issue we were concerned with. As it happens, we have received a counter-offer from a 3rd party for the lease of drydock facilities at a sum of 10 million credits a week, with no other strings attached.
Should Daumann wish to match this offer, we would naturally be prepared to re-examine The Ring as a viable option. Beyond that, we do still greatly appreciate Daumann as a long term trade partner - this decision is only business. We greatly anticipate future cooperation with DHC, and the mutual profits that will entail.
Yours in service to the Realm
Andrew Peterson
Trade Department Manager
Borderworld Exports
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