To: BAF Admiralty Board

[lionel]

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Konnichiwa Admiral Sir James Ralston or appointed official,
I hope this note finds you and your staff well.
Commissioner Chief Inspector Miranda Bailey sent me your way for our request.
We have just recently submitted payment to BPA for licenses to bring commerce into Bretonia. I believe that business is sorted.
However, we have the remaining matter to have our contracted Jump ships approved to enter Bretonia.
As you know our home systems are a long way from Bretonia and we would prefer to utilize jump technology for our transports.
We are willing to pay fees for our hired jump vessels. Please send me a quote that will allow passage and direct jump insertions into Bretonia for our entire GMG transport fleet, GMG escorts, and hired vessels.
We currently have a contract with several Zoner vessels to facilitate our jumps and surveys. I would be glad to send vessel call signs through a more private channel.
Arigato for your time.

yoropiku,
Hoshi Tanaka
Guild Master, Gas Miners Guild
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[arvg]

Comm Id: The Duke of Norfolk

Target: GMG Representative.

MESSAGE AS FOLLOWS:

Zoner warships are banned from entering Bretonia.

Any such intrusion will be an open declaration of hostilities from the Zoners, contract or not.

The GMG are requested and required to find alternate means of transportation through Bretonia that doesn't involve Terrorsts, Free Radicals, Political Activists, or turncoats that have abandoned Bretonia in her time of need.

Norfolk

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[lionel]

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Konnichiwa Duke of Norfolk,
I am taken aback from your response. I thought we had a mutual understanding with GMG'€™s continued support to Bretonia.
We have opened our doors to all of Bretonia'€™s corporations to further your fuel needs, even in the past with Kusari'€™s previous leadership preposterous policies.
Our Helium-3 station currently honors docking rights and passage for Bowex transports and any other Bretonia vessel that applies through the formal channels.
I would like to assure you that these few Zoner vessels and their crew have been employed by GMG for some time. They have been a vital piece of our concurrent research and validation teams. I hired the Captains personally and liken them as GMG family.
Respectfully, I ask again to consider GMG the use of these vessels to complete expedited transits into Bretonia.
Bretonia and GMG both prosper from our continued cooperation.

yoropiku,
Hoshi Tanaka
Guild Master, Gas Miners Guild
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Comm Id: The Duke of Norfolk

Target: GMG Representative.

MESSAGE AS FOLLOWS:

Zoner warships are banned from entering Bretonia.

I will not allow enemies of the crown, dissidents, and traitors from bringing vessels of monumental destruction anywhere near our colonies.

You will find another way. This is not a negotiation, nor a debate, nor is it open for further discussion.

My men are under orders to defend our nation against aggressors, and don't bother feeding me the line of Zoner neutrality, anyone with armed warships, independence agendas, and who have betrayed their own houses in their time of need Can Never Be Trusted.

You have shipped fuel for years through conventional means, you will continue to do so.

Permission remains from now until the End of time, DENIED

Norfolk

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