To: Temporary Autonomous Zoners | From: Your friendly neighbourhood ex-Raiders

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Identification: Minister Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Ministry of Relations

To: Those Bafflin' Baffinites
CC: Johnathan Jones, Aquila Defense Systems

Subject: We require additional pylons
Encryption: Zounds and gadzooks!
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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Greetings, your popelinesseses,

It has been exactly far too long since we last spoke. You may remember several years ago my people were living southbound and down of Magellan around the time those cheeky Gauls showed up and started putting radioactive holes in everything, and at the time, our two organizations were friendly-like and then some. It seems I've lost the phone number for that nice Brettonias chap though, so I'm not quite sure who wears the big robe nowadays.

To make matters succinct, we had to hide from the baguette brigade for a while and dropped the ol' Vagrant Raiders name for good. And now we've flipped latitudes and are deep in the Taus making tea and swapping war stories with some of the Crayterians, where we can keep our people safe. But this brings some logistical problems. Namely, holy moly is it ever hard to get a modular station built up in the far reaches of the cosmos.

But, we know our wonderful friends, and though it's been a while, we still consider the disciples of Eris to be firmly within that category. And we were hoping we could contract you and yours to deal with some of our logistical issues. Namely, there are a lot more crates of metal and magnetoquantum doodads and gewgaws than we have ships to carry them.

If'n you're looking for some work of the laid back, easy going, fly around and get paid kind, please let us know and we can arrange to whatever scale you're interested in and compensate you fairly. If you're not, that's fine too. You're just at the top of our list for "chaps and/or chap-ettes we would prefer to give our liquidity to".

Your friend in boisterous verbosity,
Harold Kane
Minister of Relations, Natio Octavarium

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Comm ID: Mad John Rackham
Location: Ambassador's Office, Shasta Orbital Skyhook, Baffin System
Encryption: High

To: Minister Harold Kane
CC: TAZ, Jonathon Jones


Harry!

Great to hear from you! Got yer change of address at last! Hidden under a pile of administration in my in tray, we're hoping all is well and you've found adequate domestic help fer your new home...Cleaning contractors must be difficult to find in that neck o' the woods.

Anyway, I'm Temporarily blessed with haunting the Shabbiest Robe amongst the TAZ, so I'll be able to help. Brett, for whatever reason, has taken a sabbatical, he left Baffin muttering bad news about the future, hopefully he'll return when recovered.

In the meantime , I remember the Vagrants, we had a great relationship. So ya fled for your own safety and reformed? That's what survivors do. If you're sipping tea with the Crayterians that's OK with us, maybe I can join you for a brew? Come and have a look at yer construction works?

By the way, we're still no friends with the Royalist baguette bashing thugs either.

And the good news is, that luckily, we have spare capacity to supply yer base. Although maybe not at a massive pace, we're still a relatively small bunch in the scheme of things. So it would help if you could set out your needs and proposed payments? As ya know, a Bonus for the Pueblo Bonito Temple Repair Fund would be greatly appreciated by Eris.

5's and 3's

MJR

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Identification: Minister Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Ministry of Relations

To: Mad John Rackham and the Temporary Autonomous Zoners
CC: Johnathan Jones, Aquila Defense Systems

Subject: We require additional pylons
Encryption: Zounds and gadzooks!
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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John!

Boy howdy is it ever good to hear from you.

I'll give you the long and short of it: We've got ourselves out in somewhere that's so nowhere even Gallia wasn't interested in it. So while we're safe from being thwapped in the noggin by an angry man with a case of wine and a Valor we've got more of a logistical problem more than anything else. The solution, of course, friendship.

Friendship, and credits.

Now, we've been out of the "hiring contractors for modular base construction" game for a while but we're in need of the following:

• 100,000x Industrial Hardware
  
• 40,000x Heat Sinks
  
• 40,000x High Performance Alloy
  

Monetarily speaking, we can do you for 200% over your operating costs on the supply commodities, plus a flat three million bonus per five thousand units delivered. Altogether, if your people choose to fully complete the contract, that will be 156 million credits paid out by the dockmasters and 96 million credits of bonuses transferred upon submission of delivery receipts, for a grand total of 252 million shiny little Sirian credits. If you want to give a certain commodity a trial run to determine whether or not this is a good fit, that works too (and in that case, we'd prefer the industrial hardware, as those are a bit tricky for us to acquire in bulk.)

And if you want, we can put together a list of additional materials we'll need to continue our construction. Assuming this contract works out for you, of course.

Regardless of whether or not the TAZ accepts this contract, we'll make sure the dockmasters accept y'all with open arms. You'd be more than welcome over for a spot of tea any time.

23's,
Harold Kane
Minister of Relations, Natio Octavarium

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Comm ID: Mad John Rackham
Location: Ambassador's Office, Shasta Orbital Skyhook, Baffin System
Encryption: High

To: Minister Harold Kane
CC: TAZ, Jonathon Jones


Harry,

Yeah, great to catch up and know yer still alive and kickin'. Never doubted you!

Anyways, thanks fer the offer of a contract to supply. We'll accept it and reckon there's enough room in the deal to put a turkey on the table come Christmas. But we ain't quite sure about timing, as we may have to run some units from Newcastle, via Brunswick Shrine in Baffin, due to the restriction on transport size in House space. Having said that, a fall back solution is that we could deposit the materials you need at Brunswick for you to pick up for yerselves, Hagbard has set you up with access to the station - An option for ya to think about...? We could offer a price for providing Brunswick Shrine as a collection point for yez?

But we're going to trial some test runs with Industrial Hardware first, with Whale transports at 5000 units a pop, per your contract note. This may take a couple of days to resolve any planning and logistics issues, so please bear with us.

By the way, you've done a mighty fine job of hiding yer base, care to PM me the Coords?

Let's review options for additional materials later.

Looking forward to that brew ....

2's & 3's

MJR

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Identification: Minister Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Ministry of Relations

To: Those Bafflin' Baffinites
CC: Johnathan Jones, Aquila Defense Systems

Subject: We require additional pylons
Encryption: Zounds and gadzooks!
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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John,

Sounds lovely. Starting with the industrial hardware will take a weight off our shoulders that we've been carrying for the past four years. The station's near Minato Harbour, in orbit of Planet Borneo. We've cleared the defenses so any TAZ vessels will be accepted for docking. Let us know if you have any other transponders you want Santa Kane to add to his nice list.

If you have to run any smaller transports due to house law, we can collate receipts, no worries. We'll pay your bonuses out as soon as you hit the 5000 unit marks -- just throw your receipts on the channel and our Quartermaster will transfer the cash wherever you want it.

Your friendly neighbourhood not-a-Crayterian,
Harold Kane
Minister of Relations, Natio Octavarium

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ID: Hagbard Celine

subject: melbourne

Location: in space

Encryption: maybe Level: lousy

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Kallisti mr. jones,

in short: the [TAZ]Digger.Fish delivered some of the stuff ya asked for:

when?	what?	how many?	the oh yes
22.04.825	Industrial Hardware	15.000	1, 2, 3

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Hagbard Celine

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Identification: Minister Tobiah Nitzan
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Ministry of Finance

To: Hagbard Celine, TAZ
CC: Aquila Defense Systems

Subject: Payment
Encryption: It's probably public record anyways
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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Kallisti, Mr. Celine.

The Ministry of Finance has recorded your delivery receipts for 15,000 units of industrial hardware and has paid out your bonus of nine million credits to the accounts of [TAZ]Digger.Fish. We look forward to continuing to pay you for your services.

Attachment found: Receipt

Regards,
Tobiah Nitzan
Minister of Finance, Natio Octavarium

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Comm ID: Mad John Rackham
Location: Ambassador's Office, Shasta Orbital Skyhook, Baffin System
Encryption: High

To: Minister Harold Kane
CC: Tobiah Nitzan, Jonathon Jones, TAZ


Harry,

We've concluded our exploratory deliveries and tha TAZ are happy to continue if you're satisfied with our services? Both Hagbard and I took payloads on our test runs, for which I see he's already Invoiced.

My deliveries are set out below, a total of 13640 Industrial Hardware Units on the ship [TAZ]Law.of.Fives

Industrial Hardware 1
Industrial Hardware 2
Industrial Hardware 3
Industrial Hardware 4

We'll continue with Industrial Hardware for now, shall we?

2's & 3's

MJR

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Identification: Minister Harold Kane
Affiliation: Natio Octavarium, Ministry of Relations

To: Mad John Rackham
CC: Tobes, ADS, TAZ

Subject: Pylons under construction
Encryption: I'm fairly certain at this point people know what we're up to
Location: Melbourne Station, Tau-44

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John,

Glad to see it's still comin' in. Always nice to see TAZ faces around the lonely parts of Sirius we tend to call home. You're more than free to keep the hardware train a-rollin' and to move onto the next one when you're done.

Including that run you're at 28640 units delivered. Tobes is away from the office right now, being dragged around Tau-44 in the back seat of an experimental Scimitar one of our engineers has put together. And since there's no back seat in a Scimitar, you can probably hear the screaming from Shasta. When he gets back a few hours from now he'll send you your bonus -- I'll mark down that you're 1360q from the third bonus for that run.

P's and Q's,
Harold Kane
Minister of Relations, Natio Octavarium

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