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It'll be a show alright, a real crowd pleaser,
As for lightin' the candle? Well we ain't exactly got the means to fire 'em so we'll let you have the pleasure of givin' Liberty a good sluggin'. Ted and Jasper have already given them names "The Tax Return" and "Bering or Bust" but there'll be plenty of room for you guys to add your own carefully chosen words yeah? Anyway they're both ready for pickup from Providence, just let Ted know when you want 'em.
To: The Rat Pack. From: Sascha Lattke, der Alster Union, leader of the Pacifica Cell and de-jure commander of all Unioner Arbeiters in the Bering and Puerto Rican regions. Subject: Closing time.
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Exemplar. You deserve your reputation as the finest weapons traders in the colonies.
The initiator and projector warheads will be loaded into a pre-existing home fleet defence asset. We have torpedo casings and a suitable projector already pre-engineered an is presently being drilled into the hardpoint of the carrier vessel, the identity of which we will not reveal until after the device has been demounted once more and the device used. Secrecy and rapidity in execution, are our allies.
If these devices were detonated in atmosphere, they would be sufficient to rob a small pre-spaceflight nation of life. Now, they will save an equivalent number of lives if they prevent the continued militarization of the independent worlds. We will wreck the gate.
Be advised, it will be difficult to estimate the ramifications to the local area immediately following the gate's crippling. Spacetime distortion effects, toxic coolant leak and even potential dark matter output from the disaligned and electronically braindead jumpgate will make the area surrounding the blast zone a potential navigational hazard. This will not be an event without its costs. Whilst the danger is comparatively minor, we stand the risk of a veritable Texas incident, should the gate event horizon impartially phase through the subspace intraverse. We will do what we can to prepare, as subtly as possible.
For now, we must make exchange of the warheads. I do not doubt your hospitality, but pacifica is a safer locality for the exchange than Providence.
It is a strange irony. The Gas Miners Guild recently used similar devices to plunge my homeland into atrocity. Now? We will save our respective homelands from themselves, with the exact same tools.
To the future, Jimmy - and competent craftsmen.
In solidarity, in peace, I remain yours.
Sascha Lattke
Cell-Lord, Chort's Forge, Westphalia.
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What can I say we've got high standards to keep,
But yeah, I'll get Ted over your way with the hardware while I try to smooth things over with the Rogues. I'll be damned if we didn't forget about them in all this madness.