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Sender:Alliance Commander "Cobra" Recipient:Fiorella Arianna de Marco Subject:Re: Preparations
Signora de Marco.
There's a place called Marlton, at one point in time it was meant to be the capital city and a hub for all the industries Houston was home to before the Dallas incident. Fairly low profile, lax on law enforcement and largely home to people that are sympathetic to us now. I'll have an easy time getting there without drawing any attention, so it's the ideal spot to meet up and go from there.
Sender ID: Fiorella Arianna de Marco Recipient ID: Damien 'Cobra' Morreti, Commander of the Xeno Alliance Subject: Meeting on Houston Signor Morreti
I believe that I will have the nearest window for such a visit in two days. Other opportunities are more distant and they might interfere with the harvest and other matters related to our little business.
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Sender:Alliance Commander "Cobra" Recipient:Fiorella Arianna de Marco Subject:Don't tread
Your business is your own.
But anyone who treads in muck is expected to not bring it into the home of another. Especially not when we've acted with all due diligence towards the associates of your enemies.
I trust you understand why it's a grave insult to consort with foreign interlopers within a system the LFR claims, and I expect that this will be the first and only slight of such a magnitude.
Sender ID: Fiorella Arianna de Marco Recipient ID: Damien 'Cobra' Morreti, Commander of the Xeno Alliance Subject: Ontario Intruders Signor Morreti
I would advise you to keep these subtle threats for yourself. Ontario is the LFR territory and I am not one of yours - thus, I am not there to decide and enforce who is and who is not welcome there, am I correct? Your matters are your own.
Yet, for the sake of our still fragile relations, there might be a measure I could employ in situations like these for the satisfaction of both of us - I can send a warning to your own emergency frequencies and then you can decide whether they are worth scrambling your ships or not.
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Sender:Alliance Commander "Cobra" Recipient:Fiorella Arianna de Marco Subject:Don't tread
Yes, Ontario is ours and you aren't one of us.
With these pointlessly obvious assertions aside, allow me to respond by saying that I don't care. If your presence in our territory draws unwelcome attention, it becomes your responsibility to, at the very least, announce it. You can turn tail and leave after the fact, it doesn't matter to me or the rest of us, but keep this courtesy in mind when you're in someone else's home.
I would readily do the same if I were in yours, so by all means employ your measure.
Sender ID: Fiorella Arianna de Marco Recipient ID: Damien 'Cobra' Morreti, Commander of the Xeno Alliance Subject: Favor Signor Morreti
I would like to ask you for a favor, yet I would like to discuss it in space, privately, without any NeuroNET communication involved. I will be waiting in Ontario, come al solito, then we can move somewhere else for more privacy.
Come at your convenience, Signor Morreti, I am aware that you are a busy man.