To: Interstellar Beacon | From: Anthony Latif

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COMM ID: Anthony Latif
LOCATION: Norfolk Shipyard, New York system
ENCRYPTION: Medium

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Dear Administration of the Interstellar Beacon,

I am Anthony Latif, an independent businessman. I had the pleasure of reading your advertisement, and I think you're what my company needs right now. Interstellar Cartography Group is a small corporation of Liberty origin and holds a single civilian carrier for our work. For a long, our ship was enough for regular operations. However, we are interested to take a step beyond. Our order is simple - one Jump Drive MK3.

We are ready to pay you extra cash if you can order resources delivery yourself. Due to our logistics capacities, we can not fulfill deliveries ourselves.

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[Interstellar Beacon]

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Raul Golden appeared on screen

We have no problem taking orders from your group since at the moment our facilities are free from a queue. And while we could try negotiations for logistic services, we are in need of more details to do it. How much extra 'budget' can you add to perform the logistic part?

Raul Golden closed the video channel.

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COMM ID: Anthony Latif
LOCATION: Norfolk Shipyard, New York system
ENCRYPTION: Medium

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Dear Administration of the Interstellar Beacon,

Splendid. 250,000,000 SC is the maximum what we can spare for this project. This sum doesn't include the rent fee.

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[Interstellar Beacon]

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Opening channel access to [*USI*]

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[Interstellar Beacon]

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Raul Golden appeared on screen with calculations running in his semi-holographic tablet.

Greetings Universal Shipping Incorporated!

There araised a client willing to build Jump Drive MK3 at our facilities. After compiling the contract with credits per unit for every required cargo, we received the next contract we can suggest on our part to fulfill his order. We wonder if you find it is being satisfactory enough to take.

Contract1_for_Jump_Drive_MK3.xls

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Resource	Amount	Credits per unit
Reinforced Alloy	90'000	700
Gravity Field Stabilizers	5'000	10'000
Critical Temperature Alloy	15'000	2'400
Industrial Hardware	21'000	1'000
Robotic Hardware	15'000	1'000
Argentium Silver	20'000	2'400
Magnetic Superconductors	15'000	1'150
Total sum:	in credits	250'000'000

Credits can be paid as usual immediately when receiving materials, or we can pay full payment to the account of your choice.

Best regards, Raul Golden.

Raul Golden closed the video channel.

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[Interstellar Beacon]

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Raul Golden appeared on screen with concentration in calculating things araised in the last moment.

Greetings USI again.

Last moment changes appeared, another person is willing to use our facilities at the same time with quite generous payment for a second jump drive. Wiring his credits to summarized contract, we offer the next new proposition. We wonder which contract you would be able to take. We should clarify that the new contract covers materials for both jump drives.

Contract2_for_Jump_Drives.xls

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Resource	Amount	Credits per unit
Reinforced Alloy	200'000	825
Gravity Field Stabilizers	10'000	10'792
Critical Temperature Alloy	25'000	3'677
Industrial Hardware	51'000	1'000
Robotic Hardware	40'000	1'223
Argentium Silver	55'000	3'910
Magnetic Superconductors	30'000	1'508
Total sum:	in credits	725'000'000

And in which way do you prefer payment? immediately for each arrived materials, or full payment in one transfer?

Best regards, Raul Golden.

Raul Golden closed the video channel.

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COMM ID: Anthony Latif
LOCATION: Norfolk Shipyard, New York system
ENCRYPTION: Medium

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Dear Administration of the Interstellar Beacon,

It seems like Universal Shipping is still silent. I presume the construction is not yet started? If it is so - please, change my order to Jump Drive MK4. Let me know how much extra should I contribute to the shipping contract.

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[Interstellar Beacon]

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Raul Golden appeared on screen with frown on his face

Mr. Latif. We make negotiations, preparations, and put everything in order to complete our device constructions. Changing anything in the middle of it will make huge losses to any participating party. If you can't decide what you wish... all right. Our company will find usage for extra Jump Drive MK3. Usually, we take 'insurance' credits in advance to prevent situations like this. It looks like it was a mistake to deal with you without it. We would not repeat it.

If you want actually to order JD4 construction, that would be fine, but it would be new proposed negotiations with trading companies in any case. We would not withdraw our contract which we already proposed to USI. We aren't changing our minds every day and minute.

Raul Golden closed the video channel.

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• -- Encryption: Standard
  
• -- Name: Julios Camios
  
• -- Subject: Contract Request

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Greetings Mr. Golden,

Appologies for the delayed reply, We've been busy with other matters. Our schedule has cleared up, however, and we will therefore be more then happy to take on this contract of yours. Seeing how the second offer seems to be a more complete order we'll be happy to take on this task. As for payment simply set the prices for payment upon delivery so that each of our employee gets their fair share of the metaphorical pie, based on the effort put into it.

We'll begin these deliveries as soon as possible

Julios Camios
Vice President,
Universal Shipping Incorporated

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[Interstellar Beacon]

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Raul Golden appeared on screen smiling and having faith in stability when dealing with Universal Shipping Inc. Raul wishs to be always reliable as well in relation to them.

Splendid, Julios Camios.
We just finished the last preparations to start receiving the materials. Everything should be in order to start construction.

Raul Golden closed the video channel.

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