:::Transmission:::Online / Activated :::Sender ID::: Director Ratchet :::Receiver ID::: Gaians Near and Far :::Subject ::: Introductions and Salutations :::Encryption::: High :::Location::: Trafalgar Station - New London
Salutations!
I trust you are keeping busy and well.
I believe introductions are in order, I go by Ratchet - I've recently been appointed as a Director of the Junker Congress and charged with overseeing our Bretonian interests.
Please do feel free to reach out to me directly if there's anything we can assist with, I'll be staying at Trafalgar for the time being, I encourage anyone in the area to stop by and enjoy some Junker hospitality.
As always we're around if you need anything, for I have no doubt there's potential for some mutually beneficial opportunities.
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[14.03.2021 12:15:25] BRR!-Buckfast: How about 10 millon pal!
[14.03.2021 12:15:37] BRR!-Buckfast: Your Majesty The Rich Director!
[14.03.2021 12:15:45] Gateway|-GSX-Triebfeder: Thats more like it
[14.03.2021 12:15:56] Gateway|-GSX-Triebfeder: Very Well you may have the Honour of my credits
Her chin rested in the palm of a hand. She looked bored, perhaps needing of a distraction due to how quick the response came.
Real odd timing. Ah know you junker lot are all this tribe or that tribe, but generally all that comes from y'all folk is heat an' angry messages. The last one got real angry at us, slandered our cause, lied, and had folk shoot at us. Let's hope the Congress or whatever won't be the same.
Speaking of, what do you want? Nobody just sends out formal little greetings an' invitations without desiring something. Ah don't much care to play diplomatic politics, so be blunt. Speak your mind.
In th' meantime, stay out of Edinburgh. We don't need yet more "sightseers" or entrepreneurs in ah warzone muckin' up targeting patterns.
:::Transmission:::Online / Activated :::Sender ID::: Director Ratchet :::Receiver ID::: Mary Ward :::Subject ::: Introductions and Salutations :::Encryption::: High :::Location::: Trafalgar Station - New London
Well then Straight to the Point 'ey? I can respect that.
Alrighty I'll say it plainly then - we're interested in making some credits in Bretonia - preferably through mutually beneficial means rather than being "entrepreneurs in ah warzone muckin' up targeting patterns." as you so colourfully put it.
So to that end, I ask you is there anything that comes to mind? Something beneficial or pertinent to your cause perhaps?
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[14.03.2021 12:15:25] BRR!-Buckfast: How about 10 millon pal!
[14.03.2021 12:15:37] BRR!-Buckfast: Your Majesty The Rich Director!
[14.03.2021 12:15:45] Gateway|-GSX-Triebfeder: Thats more like it
[14.03.2021 12:15:56] Gateway|-GSX-Triebfeder: Very Well you may have the Honour of my credits
Your mockin' aside, do we look like ah corrupt credit-droolin' corporation? Gaians Inc. perhaps?
No. An' you not knowin' that shows how much you actually care 'bout what we stand for. We stand against corporate greed, not for greed. Ah swear, what part of our movement do people keep mistaking? Is it the ecological conservation part? The against BMM ruinin' yet more Bretonian lives with their unregulated operations? Planetform literally ruinin' worlds for profit when th' process kills off a lot of natural life and ruins the world for the future just t'make ah quick buck now?
Really. I don't get it.
She looks exasperated until she shakes her head, looking more evenly at the camera.
But you want t'make credits. Okay. Swell. New London has loads of scrap for you t'clean through for your operations. That'll never get old. It's been there f'decades if not centuries. Makes travel dangerous at times. Did you know micro-debris is ah real hazard in New London?
Ah don't know what you people do otherwise. M'well aware Trafalgar is ah fence location, somethin' we sometimes use if we can't sell pilfered cargo off ourselves. As for what is pertinent to our cause? We take donations. Credits, supplies, oxygen, whatever. You don't get ah tax write off for it, so I doubt you actually care t'do that one.
If you're just here f'credits, pretty sure your little slide into th' black market with Trafalgar is more than enough. Otherwise, you're th' one contactin' us? Maybe try to sell, ah don't know. Services to us? It's kinda weird to contact someone askin' if they want t'start ah business deal without sayin' what you're bringin' to the table.
.:Incoming Transmission:.
.:Comm ID: Rick Tiltman:.
.:Topic: Biting the hand that feeds:.
Ms,Ward,
I have been monitoring this communication, and I have to say I an wholly disappointed. In the past the Gaians and the Junkers have shared a very lucrative and quite positive relation. Perhaps you misunderstood our offer when Director Ratchet said
"we're interested in making some credits in Bretonia"
This wasn't a one way implication, no, this was suggesting that whatever agreements we would reach would be mutually beneficial as they always have been. I somehow doubt that a terrorist cell known for dragging asteroids into trade lanes to hit oncoming liners (no matter how many filthy rich snobs are on it) has a very long list of investors interested in risking their public image to support you.
Call me crazy, but I'd think terrorists would have a literal shopping list of things they want but can't get.
Also, ain't that the pot calling the kettle black telling my Director that they are mocking you and then turning around and telling us to go and do exactly what we've been doing for years with no help from you lot. You complain an awful lot about the state of Bretonia's scrap fields but I have never seen a single Gaian lift a damned finger to even try to fix it. Instead, you just blow up more transports and stations adding more damn metal to these fields, then blame Bretonia's industry.
Admittedly, I could be entirely wrong, you could be some student who got radicalized at a college frat party and just doesn't understand the complexities of the Sirian Black Markets, so let me give you a quick lesson. You see, its been radio silence from your organization for the better part of 2 years since I last saw a member of The Gaian Guard and that Nemesis group. So, I told my Director to reach out, see how you lot are doing, make sure everything's good and no ones dead and more importantly, see if you guys needed anything. Instead of a warm reception all we got is a woman on a power trip, who hasn't identified what if any cell she's even affiliated with, or why we should even care what you have to say. For all I know you could be a member of the Gallic National Intelligence, or the Bretonian Intelligence Service.
Let me emphasize, I don't want problems with you or the Gaians, all in all I actually am quite fond of the Gaians and I personally did several pro-bono jobs for the Gaian Guard in my time. You want a cleaner and healthier environment, that's a movement I can get behind! I will assume you and your cell are rather young and new on the scene, you are trying to flex your muscles and show who really rules Bretonian Space.
Since that is likely the case here is some free advice:
Careful who you snap at, this isn't school, no teacher or some other member of faculty is going to come running when other people snap back at you.
I'll give you another chance to change your tune and start acting with some decency and respect, I suggest you take it
Oh boy another one. Just as demeaning as the last.
Firstly don't act like ah father figure with your disappointments and shame talk. You piss faces reached out to us trying to dig business out of us without a lick of what you may be offering. What are you, high school canvassers knocking on m'door who ask to be given ah deal without a word of what you're trying t'offer?
You reached out to us. Ah don't have to reach into my pockets and pull out "help" for you. You've still not offered anything beyond "mutual credits" which ah explained is a piss poor understanding of how starting ah business deal works.
You're demeaning, mocking, an' outright insulting. Piss off. Maybe your crappy takes work out in Liberty or something where all anyone cares about is greed. Ain't fly here. Don't try to walk into this house and take ah dump on our struggles. Your lot can piss off if that's th' case. You want business deals to try an' make your credits, learn your clients before dumpin' on their way of life an' what they do.
Demeanin' little stain, all you've done is insult an' pretend we need your little congress. We ain't. Plenty of junkers who've been here from th' beginning who we'll work with as always.
Careful who you belittle. They might have ah spine.
M'feelin' generous. Maybe you missed th' whole point of our cause. Maybe y'missed standard etiquette practices of how to hold a conversation. Maybe you ain't know that when being the initiator of ah situation the onus is on you t'make the clear offers of what you want an' maybe don't insult your clients.
One chance. Start over, say what you want, lay it out, or get lost.
Data Packet Delivery Successful Sender:Adam Weaver Encryption:YES Subject:Gaians Near and Far
Greetings Ratchet and congratulations on your new appointment as Junker Congress Director in Bretonia.
I am Adam Weaver head of Logistics for Nemesis.
There are always projects in need of supplies and goods needed to maintain our struggle, Junkers have always been a reliable trade partner in the past.
I will make sure our leader is aware of a new point of contact for junker operations in Bretonia.
We will be in contact if there is anything we require from your group, we are also open to any opportunities that may help us further our own goals.
.:Incoming Transmission:.
.:Comm ID: Rick Tiltman:.
.:Topic: You chose this:.
Mary,
Kittens are cute aren't they?
They can barely hiss, growl, let alone meow at all yet some try to act aggressive, in their own hubris they think they can take on a human. The reality is that it is only in our infinite wisdom and mercy that we do not snuff out their little existence simply because they nipped us with their small fangs or scratched at us with their tiny claws. Unfortunately for you, you are not nearly as cute, and I suspect you might have the bite of a diseased rat rather than a harmless kitten.
Mr.Weaver,
It has been some time since Congress and Nemesis spoke, its always good to hear from a friendly face in the region. Perhaps it best if we take this into slightly more private comms, I am sure Director Ratchet would be more than happy to assist you in any way possible.