We would like to retract our previous statement after complete obliteration of your fighter wing during your raid on Leduc Station and inquire what can we offer in exchange for complete return of Ageira's property you have acquired during boarding of said station.
The attack on your installation was a regrettable but necessary act. We'd have even warned you but that'd have risked the goal of our operation.
We could luckily clear some suspicion we had on your organisation yet not all. You have done us some serious harm though while working with a Navy you should no longer trust.
Military hardware like that is hard to come by but what we retrieved from your installation might be worth far more than that.
We are willing to offer appropriate combination of services, monetary compensation, information on relevant subject or usable scientific data for your cell if you agree to return our data-drives in the state they were without copying them or decoding sensitive information.
As to us working with Liberty Navy so close, as your actions reveal, is a necessity. We are peaceful civilian corporation that researches innovative ways for humanity to advance and as any major scientific revelation is first granted to be tested by most trusted military organisation to further enhance Liberty's capabilities to defend against invaders.
You treat this situation rather calm. I am surprised in a positive way. Now I am sure you understand that a cooperation with the worst enemy of them all will not place you in a good light. Though of course one can hardly expect a businessman to go to war. While I would prefer if the Navy would not see and test this technology first hand I believe it is too late for you to get out even if you wanted to.
I'll admit our own specialists tried some rather basic ways to read the files and came no further than to find out about business relations or the future testing location for your... "supergate".
Now while I am sure that a company such as yours could easily acquire the neccessary money to compensate this, it doesn't have as much value to us as it might to you. We can hardly spend it conveniently. As such I am more interested in what it is your company could supply us with. You mentioned usable data. Unless you're having scouts of your own I'm not quite sure what you want to offer. We can hardly use the construction plans for a docking ring or things of that kind.
We are not talking about intelligence data, that is certainly not our specialty. We have vast knowledge about various technological marvels around Sirius, be it our products, competitors' or altruistic grey market scientists' technology. We have laboratories and super computers that you just cannot imagine in your wildest dreams. And thus we have expansive collection of various tested and yet untested devices.
Do understand that you don't have much to bargain with though. We know our encryption put in place is impregnable and you have no chance to decode it yourself unless you run your own supercomputer for few decades. But as you can imagine, we want neither PR nightmare, nor sleepless nights over even the tiniest chance you might hack our protocols. And thus we are looking forward to your demands.
We can't seem to gather much from the data at hand. Yet. But it seems you've gathered more than just data on the gate itself. Seems like Ageira doesn't only think in bigger terms but also in smaller ones. Now we can't crack the actual details but I'm fairly certain that Jump Drives aren't out of the question for you anymore.
This is the kind of thing that we could actually use. Am I right in my assumptions, Mr White? Or is there anything other useful you can offer me?
We are rather disappointed that you have attempted to extract data from our hardware and at the same time surprised that your organisation managed to scratch the surface of our less-encrypted data. As such, our request to not decode was obviously broken, but that is to be expected from a terrorist cell. Therefore we cannot offer you a working product or our own prototype for obvious reasons. However we can provide you with sufficient amount of scientific data on thorough research and testing we conducted with grey-market Jump Drives we have in our possession. This is the best offer we are ready to provide and we would advise you to take it to prevent any more combat operations in which our operatives proved to be better than yours.
You can't have honestly expected we wouldn't see what we got there. If we didn't it could have been anything from a super weapon to your kids school project.
As I said we didn't get far but I can also understand that you're rather uncomfortable about the whole situation.
But your offer seems reasonable, that is if the data can actually be used to perfect the grey market designs.
How do you wish us to confirm that we destroyed the copies and where would we bring any physical drives?
For our side of the bargain, we'd like you to place a crew less Mastodon in a remote spot with the data. We'll retrieve it from there.
I am sure this won't be a problem for a corporation of your size and prestige.
There is not a chance in a million light years that we will be handing over a transport of such size and value over to your organisation. And trust me, we know when our data has been copied. We are not newcomers to such ransom situations as yours. We can arrange a face-to-face meeting where we will perform an exchange of previously agreed possessions.
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