I was asked to contact you on this frequency regarding a request for certain piece of software made by Tomas Mendes from The Crimson Cross for our sisterhood."Munen puts on her best friendly smile showing clean, straight and inviting teeth. She bows, moderately respectful. "I assume you require more information about what exactly is needed now, do you?"Her eyes spark intrigued."Please, let me know what it is and I shall get you the needed details from one of our leading engineers.
May Amaterasu's light shine upon the Professorship."
The reason why I wanted to speak with you are the sudden changes within the Sisterhood just when I thought we were on the right track to get to know each other better. It was my tradition to always meet personally all subsequent leaders of Golden Chrysanthemums movements within Kusari, but recently other projects in Liberty consumed almost all my attention and time.
It was quite a surprise for me to hear that Hana Ken-san is no longer leader of your movement. Over two months ago she contacted me and we arranged a meeting in Shikoku. For your convenience I attach a transcript from our discussion.
I personally expected that after absorbing everything what we have talked about the Sisterhood will make a contact to discuss strengthening the cooperation between us, specifically to arrange new Cardamine convoys to Leiden. Instead there was a silence followed by an communication from our dear Outcast allies relying your request.
I will be honest, Musou-san. My colleagues were puzzled. Why did you choose to not contact us directly in the first place? Is there something about your request you are not telling us? Or maybe you simply do not share your predecessors sentiments towards our group? And finally, are all our preliminary agreements with Hana Ken-san invalid?
Once these questions are answered we will gladly discuss with you terms of our help with regard to your request. As a token of trust I rely you access to an early beta version of our archive containing previous communications and arrangements with The Golden Chrysanthemums. Archive is still at the early processing stage so it does not contain all resources related to The Golden Chrysanthemums, but it should suffice for start.
Mr. Wolfgang Weisen-san, I offer my sincere apologies for leaving your kind offer unattended. The warehouses at Leiden contained some interesting and unique commodities for the Hogosha, and I'll be sure to recommend that our associates take Leiden in consideration when plotting their voyages to Galileo and Liberty.
As for the payment you have offered, we would take greater interest in acquiring some information about some matters previously inquired, but as we have heard no news regarding them, we will be glad to take this compensation instead. You may send it to the [HA]Kaigai.Ginko .
Perhaps we may find some way to reinvest this money into your services in the future. We'll see.
Until next time, may the Fortunes bring you wealth and prosperity in your affairs.
"it is a pleasure and honour to be able to finally talk to you. Arigato for sharing these insightful informations; and I can relate to the obligations overshining the more pleasurable things, such as a meeting in person with a friend.
My mind perceives the concept of 'true friendship' as one involving receiving -and- giving. The Lane Hackers were always excellent in doing both in the past which led to our current friendship." Her voice and expression are friendly. "Thus I agree with you and our former Hatsuyume: This relation has to be cherished by the both of us. And as long as we both fully commit to such task we will succeed and this concept will flourish and prosper even more.
Which leads me to your questions, I suppose. The sisterhood contacted the children of Malta from the Crimson Cross based on a misperception. As you are aware I wasn't present at the meeting you mentioned between yourself and Hana Ken. I had only limited insight and was led to believe that the professorship wasn't willing to exchange any active support with each other until we had proven the stability to be worth the expenses. I expected to be contacted by you, once the time arrived. Believe me, if I would have known that this is not the case I wouldn't have wasted either of the involved parties' valuable time." Her face cringes in displeasure for a moment, but she quickly regains her positive countenance. "Anyways, now we are here, hai?
The software will be needed in the process of restoring the bridge of a Battleship our movement managed to capture and will be used to make it fully operational. I would be delighted if I was capable to shed some light on the exact technicalities, but when my sister in charge of this project started to talk about it... it made me quite dizzy to be honest. I don't possess the expertise in such matters to do so myself. I can get you in contact with my sister if you happen to wish so.
As I already mentioned to two of your familiars, Goro Yoshida and his traveliing companion when encountered near Ainu: We agree on joint operations in our shared space. Namely: Shikoku, Galileo and Kepler. Aside from that I couldn't find any actual agreements made between you and Hana Ken in the data you provided nor in our own. I assume that was the mentioned agreement then, hai?
'The Orange Dream' and its dwindling flow to Leiden Base is caused directly by the current market situation on it. I already mentioned to Mr. Yoshida that it is 'bad' during our short meeting as well. 19 Sirian credits per unit are hardly a supportive offer from your brokers towards us and it is not very helpful to our cause to say the least, I mean no offense.
And yet, in these past months when we traveled down the Yume no Kusari from our depot to pick up ammunition and weaponry from Morioka Base for further use in the core systems of Kusari and our fight, we brought 'The Orange Dream' with us and shared it with you - essentially as gifts - as sign of our good-will and respect - every time." She raises her eyebrows a bit accompanied by her head very slightly bobbing.
"I hope that clears up the questions you had. If you don't mind, I have one on my own. This 'Orange Treaty' you and Hana Ken talked about... what is it -exactly-? What part would the Golden Chrysanthemums play in it? What are its benefits to us? Since the Liberty Rogues have already proven in the past that their concept of 'true friendship' only contains them being on one of the sides I mentioned earlier - the receiving one - I wonder what may lie within it so it would be even considerable by me and my sisters to shackle us to those savages in any shape or form. You must understand that we have a low to non-existent broad-mindedness for people who try to take advantage of us. We have no desire to repeat any mistakes by bonding us to those who seek to do so."
Munen leans forward to end the transmission but stops in motion like her mind was struck by some sort of mental spark. "Ah, another question if you don't mind, Hunter-san. In the transcript you shared, you mentioned 'allies' in Kusari. And I apologize if this is caused by a linguistic insufficiency on my end. But - in case it isn't - who are those multiple allies, if I may ask?" Munen smiles genuinely and leans forward once again. She bows and pushes a button.
You ask about our multiple allies within Kusari wondering who they are?
Nicole laughs pleasantly for moment.
You. Even before Taisho Ai Takeda sought a formal alliance with The Lane Hackers we considered Golden Chrysanthemums our natural allies within Kusari. It is your Tea House where our professors first encountered Blood Dragons, back then your closest allies, and developed understanding with them, which in years turned into a reliable friendship. Now small wings of Lane Hackers operate in Kusari using both your and Blood Dragon installations as their remote bases of operations, as per multiple past agreements and negotiations. It is very sad though that during last years we have worked even more with the Blood Dragons than the Golden Chrysanthemums due to numerous internal instabilities within the movement. Though, truth be told, time was not kind for the Shogunate as well.
As for the Orange Treaty I believe you have mistaken my intention. All I wanted to do was to prepare a ground for Sisterhood of Dreams to receive this opportunity. While Liberty Rogues are brutes and savages there are many ways to deal with them. I believe you have majorly two options. You may either escalate tensions which may lead to an open conflict or use your influence to coerce them into obedience. Joining the Orange Treaty, should it ever happen, could be an opportunity to do it - nothing more and nothing less.
As for the flow of Cardamine to Leiden this is exactly why we waited for a contact from our dearest Golden Chrysanthemums. Should you decide to provide us with a batch of 20 000 metric units of Cardamine we will subside it by 5000 SC per unit, amounting to 100 000 000 SC in total. I believe this should suffice as an incentive to Golden Chrysanthemums.
Finally, we can naturally dispatch our team of software engineers and technicians on one of our Equivocator to the battleship in question. There is no point in discussing details when each Equivocator is capable of establishing direct connection with our research complex on Airdire Hideout. The closest window for this operation starts today in about 9 hours. The next one will have to be scheduled on a later date.
Payment has been wired anonymously to the designated bank account. Regarding the information, I believe there is a small misconception about it. As Mr Yoshida said, we do not own the information you are looking for. On top of that, such information was never offered in exchange for artifact shipments.
"Your generous offer is most appreciated, Hunter-san. Our transports will of course always try to continue to prioritize our dear friends from Liberty. Once the requested amount was shipped to Leiden Base you will be informed." She returns a pleasent smile. "I will try to dispatch guidance for your 'Equivocator' in time. In case this guidance doesn't make it I will now disclose the location of the Battleship, carrying the name 'Matsuda' (to honour Yuyu and her teachings), to you:"
"Our sisters are already excited to work together on this project with one of yours and are eager to gain and exchange knowledge with each other."Munen bows.
for one I wanted to thank you for the swift help yesterday and assure you your people are taken care of very well." She bows respectfully. "And then I wanted to inform you that 22540 units of 'The Orange Dream' arrived at Leiden Base.
Please transfer the financial support towards our cause you offered in exchange to: "~*~Empress'.Purse", arigato.
As you probably have been told the rendezvous point was set to Raiden Bend in Galileo where our Equivocator met with your scouts and escorts. The journey was interrupted by the Bounty Hunter Guild presence, but we arrived safely at Matsuda nonetheless. Leiden Equivocator is a prison liner we have acquired after battle for Red Deer station in Alberta. Since then we have highly modified it installing among others our Spyglass Network Array, support docks, improved armor and cloaking technology. All of these improvements allow it to serve us as remote base of operations and deep intelligence craft capable of retaining direct channel with our research hubs at Airdrie and other bases. With the resources of our entire Research and Development at your disposal you should quickly achieve your goals concerning Matsuda artificial intelligence core.
Sayonara,
Nicole Hunter
P.S. Credits have been wired to your designated neural net account.
Konnichiwa Lane Hackers. I bring you the most recent developments in our activities.
Two shipments of Artifacts, with 3100 and 2900 units respectively, have arrived at Leiden in the past days.
At the same time, we loaded the first shipment of the requested Counterfeit Software, and send it packing to Kabukicho. Thank you for having those ready on such a short notice.
We also took the opportunity to acquire some smuggled Light Arms from your vendors, for operations in Kusari.
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