Location: Planet New London Sender ID: Chelsea Jenkins Recipient ID: Martin McKinsey, APM
Dear Mr. McKinsey,
First off, please allow me to introduce myself quickly: My name is Chelsea Jenkins, and I am representing Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. Today I wish to establish contact with your organization to discuss a very delicate topic that has been lately beginning drawing the Service's attention. One that ultimately requires cooperation with APM to yield fruit.
Now, let me elaborate what I am talking about. We are aware that Core and thus APM are not averse to business calls from House organizations, especially when it concerns purchases. May it be your vessels or any other fabrication made by AP, you have proven to be willing to share your tech for the right prize. Some of this tech has partly alien origin, which is exactly what has caught our interest. The weapons we are currently equipping our crafts with surely suffice and do their job just as well as expected, but I believe you know yourself, maybe more than anyone else, that development should under no circumstances come to a full stop; our forces must not allow themselves to fall behind in the competition of technological advancement against our enemies. It can happen any day, so we better are geared up.
Knowing that APM holds a monopole when it comes to Nomad Hybrid Weapons, we are approaching you with the request to purchase a certain number of said weapons for them to be installed in our crafts and put under testings. To be specific, our desired purchase would include both a dozen of Adapted Nomad Cannons and Blasters, as they can be found in APM's catalogue. If you have them in stock currently, name a price that would suit you and SIS will pay for it, in order to ensure this deal would be benefitial for both parties. If you don't have them in stock in the required numbers, please name an approximate date when you believe you do.
I must sincerely apologise for my late response - there have been certain matters that required my complete attention, though I hope you do not take this as that your call is not of importance to me, quite the contrary! Thus please accept my words of apologies.
As I am sure you know, AP Manufacturing finds it an all time pleasure to conduct business with The Crown and its subsidiaries. I am however rather surprised with the matter you present. I know the AP-line catalogue by heart, may thus assure you that no "alien" based or adapted equippment is issued there. Suppose APM would be constructing such devices, it would be rather foolish to present them publicly on sale.
For a moment let us disregard whether of not any sort of hybrid technology is at dispopsal. Please exceuse me if I am not up to date with the rules of conduct inside the SIS, yet I would expect such conversation to be initiated by the Intelligence High Command, unless of course you, Ms. Jenkins have the proper authority? - if so, I hope you undetstand my restraint towards this matter, but as you may also know, security is one of the hallmarks of my office.
I shall gladly continue this discussion and expand on it as soon as you provide hold of your ranking title or authorisation by the SIS High Command. Until then I shall be looking forward to your response.
Location: Planet New London Sender ID: Chelsea Jenkins Recipient ID: Martin McKinsey, APM
Dear Mr. McKinsey,
Apologies accepted. Frankly, I was already believing that the message got jammed on its way to the Omicrons. As it happens, I was proven wrong here, and I am glad that I was. It is a pleasure to now finally be in contact with you, Mr. McKinsey.
To be frank, I can fully understand your concerns, as Her Majesty's Secret Service as well usually assigns great value to security matters. I am sorry if I worded it a bit ambiguously, but do not worry about my missing authorization from my High Command to contact you, as there is no reason to. I thought the phrase "I am representing Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service" to be already enough of an indication to show that I have indeed got the consent of SIS directorate to establish contact with and purchase products from your organization.
With this issue being resolved, I believe nothing stands in our way to conduct business anymore. In case you should have more concerns, I would ask you to word them, however, before we strike a deal under possibly false assumptions. If there are however no more concerns, I would like to have ascertained if the technology the Secret Service takes interest in can be found in APM's arsenal or not. If so, we will spend more time to discuss the specifics of a deal. If not, the correspondence with you still has been a pleasure.
I am pleased to learn that my view on certain security related aspects is at the Crown's heart as well. Now we know a wee bit more about each other - sufficiently to proceed I suppose.
To the matter at hand. As stated before, our sales catalogue does not issue any sort of technology which would put its user at risk. I am not sure in how far your agency is acquaintented with the dangers of toying with materials of alien origin. AP Manufacturing did however take a taste of it - you may believe my words when I say that the results are not pretty for someone who does not know exactly what he is doing.
Please do not take this the wrong way Ms. Jenkins - I do not attempt to play dumb or pretend we do not posess samples of alien tissue. My predecessors have made that fact public to selected research institutes a long time ago. Naturally, if you wish to order a new batch of such materials, I shall gladly arrange a shipment to the usual delivery location in Newcastle, given that all required permissions will be covered by your administration.
Other than that, AP Manufacturing does not offer any kind of fabricates that derive from alien technology at this point. I am deeply sorry to tell you your intel was off in that case or perhaps misintepreted. Still, my offer as presented in the above stands at your disposal. If it pleases the SIS, we will gladly take this business call to the next level.
I exchanged words with Director Weber earlier this evening regarding a common future of SIS and AP Manufacturing, in a purely business related manner that is. Since you have been appointed to carry out this venture, I propose we pick up where we left off. The situation too had evolved in your favor since our initial talk.
To cut long story short, AP Manufacturing might just have the technology your agency seeks. The following specifications are classified and thus I am obliged to inform you that upon reading this very first sentence you on behalf of SIS (which you legally represent) are bound to the utmost level of secrecy:
Adapted nomad cannon
Hull damage per shot: 944
Shield damage per shot: 472
Range: 699 m
Projectile speed: 600 m/s
Refire rate: 3,03
Energy usage: 189
Adapted nomad blaster
Hull damage per shot: 690
Shield damage per shot: 345
Range: 699 m
Projectile speed: 600 m/s
Refire rate: 4,00
Energy usage: 134
My question is which kind of the two above mentioned hybrid ordnance you wish to utilize and in what number? Also, we would require to learn beforehand in what way (specifically) would the SIS put them to use? - I hope you understand that I do not mean to come across as nosy, but merely wish to lay grounds for a customized license, made to measure for optimal conditions to your agency.
Location: Planet New London Sender ID: Chelsea Jenkins Recipient ID: Martin McKinsey, APM
Dear Mr. McKinsey,
It has been a while. First of all I must apologize for not having reacted on your last message in an inadequate timeframe, however I was assigned to a different assignment that sadly commanded all my attention for a while. Nevertheless, I am still the person to contact in those business matters between SIS and APM, which is why I found this communique on my desk again. Not to mention it's a pleasure for me to get into contact with you once more.
I find it interesting that you have contacted my boss, but I can't and wont resent you for it; Hedging one's bets is one of the first tenets people teach you in intelligence seminars, after all. And since the matter I was asking you about is a rather delicate one, I take your point that you wanted to assure yourself first before handing over any of the mentioned technology. You may rest assured that I grasp the principle of secrecy, and that I will do anything but spilling out what will be discussed from now on. I am no amateur.
To move on to the business, as I've already stated in my beginning message, SIS would like to order each one dozen of both hybrid weapons, which would add up to a total order of 24 specimens, 12 Blasters and 12 Cannons.
You do not come across too nosy to me, the desire to learn about the usage of one's own producs is actually only prudent. The weapons will - at least for now - not be utilized in direct combat against Bretonia's foes, but will rather function as samples in a testbed of our own. We want to identify ways in which such unnatural weaponry can be used in the future, most of all. When the time has come and we have broadened our knowledge about effective usage of it, it will be tested and used in a realistic combat situation. I hope that could shed some light into the darkness for you.
I contacted Director Weber because this transaction is of greater political significance then we - you and me - would care to admit. As much as AP Manufacturing wishes to consider the cooperation with the Crown's subsidiaries pure business, I am bound to represent the interests of The Core High Command and Imperium Omicronis nonetheless.
On a side note, I do hold a certain admiration for your way of pressing matters at a punch, so to speak. Believing that it is key to your profession, I too seek similar qualities in some little birds of my own.
To the matter at hand. Since your initial request has not changed, AP Manufacturing is sure to provide the SIS with the requested ordnance in the right amount at any given time, once we reach an agreement. Naturally, your agency will be free to conduct performance tests of their choice as long as those are in observance to intellectual property rights hold by AP Manufacturing and The Core respectively. This means merely that the weapons may not be disassembled, altered or otherwise tampered with.
I may assure you that the alien tissue implemented in both of the above mentioned weapon types already utilizes its capabilities at best efficiency for any sort of offensive application. For our engineers this particular technology holds no secrets for some time now - otherwise we would not have this conversation Ms. Jenkins. What we offer here is a ready-to-use product, a "plug-and-play" if you will, as Dr. Rosenberg likes to call it in his whimsy.
I admit that so far AP Manufacturing had not attempted mounting either type on anything else then our very own ship line, therefore should you come across any sort of compatibility issues, I am sure we can provide proper assistance and perhaps solve them together with your gifted minds.
The cost of obtaining the license for utilizing both nomad hybrids in the joint amount of 24, for an indefinite period of time, would in this case be 24.000.000 S.C. due beforehand (//Core|Bank.1, proof of payment required) + the usual handling fee upon pick up.
I strongly entertain the prospect of this being the first step to a fruitful, long term cooperation between SIS and APM.
Location: Planet New London Sender ID: Chelsea Jenkins Recipient ID: Martin McKinsey, APM
Dear Mr. McKinsey,
Pressing matters at a certain punch, or as I like to call it, confining oneself to getting straight down to the nitty-gritty, is a necessity in my line of work, and so I take it is it in yours. Work is performance per period of time, and work is what is getting me paid and is ensuring the safety of my home, thus please bear with me if I don't hold a coffee party over the Neural Net. That would be quite cliché anyway. I am sure we could work something out if you want one, though.
I'm digressing, though. May I voice my sincere doubts the "plug-and-play" method of your Dr. Rosenberg will be applicable in our case, but only testing will tell. If we should indeed run into compability issues with our Bretonian ship design, we will know whom to call. Bretonian artistry of shipbuilding might be of more or less ill repute, but for now I will stay optimistic that no non-amendable issues will arise. This is what our testbed I told you about is for, after all.
The only question that is still left unanswered would be the means of transporting the alien specimens from the Omicrons to Cambridge then. Proof of payment can be found here, for the record.
I've got a feeling this could very well be the beginning of a tremendously fruitful relationship, Mr. McKinsey. Celebrations might be in order.
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