Our alliance business
Caramba, another pair of pretty eyes *shakes head slowly, not looking at Lily's eyes at all*
Your message finds us in best possible moment, pretty senorita. All our crews are safe at Athos, as we managed to repair her basic systems. Gracias for asking. *with a drop of irony*
There are three little thingies we would like to talk about.
1. Of course we know where BC Carillon is. It's somewhere close to Athos, blocking Leeds jump-hole in case we let someone pass by. We could send a scout to reveal ship's exact position. We can also do it together with Gaian patrol, as we always did with pleasure.
2. As Athos now is in Brotherhood's hands, we should ask you nicely to pick up Gaian pilots from here. They were captured by Custodi captain during el war, but they were treated nicely thanks to our First Officer, señor de la Cruz (who is Athos's captain now and ready to fully cooperate with you). We would now like to hand them back to GG forces ASAP. They have food demands strange to us, like eating huge amounts of vegetables. They are just few, but left us with no beans and cabbage in our fridges and just few carrots. We can even give them a Titan or two, just take them out fast, por favor.
3. Athos is repaired enough to sneak (or even punch through) to closest place where she could be fully repaired. Would she be welcome to that hidden base in New Castle where our tech exchange link ends? I mean, you are making your shiny cruisers there and patching a tech-exchanged battleship made of scrap shouldn't be a problem for you there. Si?
*gives away his best heart stealing smile, while pressing a button with his hairy macho hand to end comm. Button cracked overwhelmed with so much charm*
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These are most excellent news. We are, in fact, seeking its exact location. However, a join scouting party would not be optimal for what we have in mind. We'd like to request that the Brotherhood dispatches one of its patrols to locate the ship and its escorts, if possible.
In the meantime, a pickup of our pilots will be arranged soon.
Our alliance business
Si si senorita, we are big pals to each other. *smiles*
There you can copy data from our patrol to Carillon. El ship is at C3 in Dublin, in Hood asteroid field as we speak. *uploading photos and coordinates*
Senora, your kind message is missing reply to subject 3. Bad connections?
*gives away his best heart stealing smile, while pressing a button with his hairy macho hand to end comm. Button cracked surprised by so much Latino things in just one message*
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Our connection is perfectly fine, and I shall adress this point now. We are fairly confident in suspecting that the Brotherhood is already aware of how inconvenient your alliance with the Royalists is, given their utter and humilitating defeat. I'd like to propose something to reinforce our relations, and mend the damages the Custodi have done to our alliance. I will say, I am a practical person. I do not require such shows of camaraderie to take place. But the same cannot be said about the Guard's rank and file, and even though us higher ups have been hard at work, as evidenced by our recent technology exchange, the distrust among the common pilots remain. And because of it, there is only so much we can do to bolster our alliance.
With that in mind, our proposition is simple. We want the Athos to mobilise and destroy battlecruiser Carillon, as a gesture of friendship towards your Gaian allies. Your fleet will be reinforced by a number if Guard fighter and bomber craft, to soldify the symbolism of the operation. In return for the operation being carried out, regardless of its success, we will dispatch two cruiser battlegroups to escrt the Athos to, and grant berth at, Torshavn Spaceport. Our engineers there shall aid you in restoring the ship to its full operational capacity.