Taget ID:To whom it may concern. Target Location:Sirius Sector, Prime cluster, Liberty house, Border worlds, Galileo. Encryption:Encrypted. Sender Contact :Masayume Minori Rei. Subject: Old deals.
"Hail, Professorship. It’s been a while enough.
Until the last wave of Ion storms scrubbed every supercomputer between here and heaven, we had quite the working relationship. We intend to restore said relationship with the minimum of disruptions.
Steadily our cardamine convoys have been spreading back into the Liberty border regions; you’ll be experiencing the direct impact as soon as our transports are able to reclaim contact with the Leiden cell.
You remember the old deal; we hand you the base elements of the universe all crushed together into fusile h-fuel along with the odd pre-packed, vacuum-wrapped, radiation-sterilised cardamine pallet fresh from the Maltese topsoil, and you hand us counterfeit software and enough guns to keep the orange tree growing. All the regular niceties.
If the professorship is looking towards more… hm, vigorous operations in parallel, such can also be arranged. Before the storms rendered communications impossible, I believe we had some personal affairs to attend to. Most notably concerning a certain protégé who had spiked your focus.
Again, we thank you for your engineers impeccable work in normalising the Matsuda’s VI core in the absence of our primary shipwright - they have been slaving to our leisure for a number of months and doubtless Kusari wears on them. Whilst we will be disheartened to see them leave, it would litigious to deny you your own people, and can arrange transport back to Leiden whenever you feel the leisure.
We have yet another, if secondary request. Some of our pilots have expressed interest in the… unconventional… adaptations the professorship has made in the Border Worlds Line to suit their own objectives, and are keen to see how they square against our own derivatives of Maltese technology in our own Flora line. We pride ourselves on maintaining the best space superiority fighter this side of the law, and are intrigued to see how our vessels square. Merely something to consider - we understand your darlings are your own and you may not be open for quid pro quo technical exchanges. It is your ship after all."
"May the light bathe your cause."
-Minori
THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)