* ID: Celcius Abonwood
* Location: Nichols Trade Centre
* Subject: The Final Answer
* Encoding: Secure
To Karl, from Johnny's Office. Zoe of the Kyushu Rice Syndicate and " Kusarian Freelancer of no fixed name"
Your.. "communication" has been handed down to me from my esteemed CEO Bob Kelso. You may address me as Director Abonwood.
I have had the misfortune of re-reading through the communication transcript's to try to ascertain exactly what it is your trying get across, as Company Director Kelso decided that having laser hair removal was a far more worth while use of his time.
However I have, after much coffee and migraine medication, deciphered your message's and worked out what it is you have tried to say.
Number 1: You are asking if we have Pilot Training Simulators? No we do not, we are a trading company, not a military academy. Pilot's are trained through practical tuition.
Number 2: You are asking if we sell Ships and Freighters. No We do not. We have never Sold ships in the Companies history
Number 3: Can we facilitate movement of goods. Yes we can, that is our purpose. The Detail's of What We move and how we move it however is between us and our clients.
I trust that answer's those questions.
Now to address your communication.
Omicron Supply Industries do not do business with any Karl, Zoe or Freelancer who happens to send us a message, and we especially don't make contracts with those who make about as much sense as a House annexing a peaceful planet.
We also do not do business with those who are, or appear to be untrustworthy. and you appear sketchier then an artists pad after a cardamine hit.
So i shall offer this advice, free of charge.
Next time when you contact a company. First: Do your research. OSI has never been a pilot training company nor a producer of ships. Ever. We are a trading company. Second: Establish who you are clearly. Third: Establish What you want, clearly. Forth: Do not send an entire crew to say the same thing over and over. After all the definition of Insanity is trying the same thing over and over expecting different result's Fifth: If your being sent to represent someone, be sure you do a good job so as not to potentially spoil relations.
I know only a small amount about the Starfliers, but if your who they send to conduct business they are not a group I can see OSI working with. SO my final word, and that of OSI, on this is.
We will no longer be dealing with you from this point forward. If the Starflier's whom you represent wish to do business with OSI, they need to contact us directly, rather then rely upon a Rice Farmer, a Freelancer and some guy who spends time in someone else's office.
Regards
Celcius Abonwood - Board of Directors - Omicron Supply Industries
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Sender:Karl, from Johnny's Office's Cleanup Crew Recipient:Halpert Kennedy Subject:
Re:Opening of canal, and proposition of collaboration
Director Abonwood,
I see our attempted cooperation with your company has gone the wrong way so much I doubt there's only 360° in a compass. Jokes aside...
Greetings, Director Abonwood. Pleased to meet you. I am Karl, handling this attempt's salvage. I am mostly in charge of getting contracts and maintaining contacts with our clients, and I am also specialized in HUMINT (human intelligence).
I agree with you wholly. But this way of proceeding is our modus operandi to deal with any kind of organization before starting actual negotiations. Our lives are virtually permanantly in danger and we cannot afford to have more information about our Office on the Neural Net, or to individuals, for no reason, so we use agents, specialized in handling these, and appear as representing shell companies or organizations. Now that we have explained this, we hope that you can read about us more, and see why this really has been a mishap in communication, and we again, wholly agree that it is our fault in not conveying the right information correctly, and appearing shady, while the need for it was non-existant.
On behalf of the whole Office, we deeply apologize for this, and hope you will understand this really is a quidproquo rather than malevolance or anything with a future motive - well, now: at the beginning, as we said, we cannot afford to be fully transparant to any companies, or individuals for our own safety, not even the Office's safety, our lives' safety.
As for the business replies:
We can understand for the Starfliers, but they contracted us to find it, as they have other matters at hand I presume, and since searching is our job. We have thought you would have pilot training simulation stations, at least for your pilots, but I suppose there is no better training than actual flying.
Since the beginning of this mishap, we have since found a contractor for the Starfliers, and have been paid by them for our services, so this is no more relevant between us. I really wish we could start again.
A shame you do not sell ships, we thought you would, but alright. It is not a problem anymore for us, as we have found a reliable vendor for Borderworlds Line ships, though, they are indeed, Borderworlds, and built in - borderworlds. We have asked this question since you are a hauling company, so we deduced that you may have decomissionned vessels, that we are ready to purchase. Namely, we do have one ship, a Borderworlds Armored Transport. Name the price and we will come get it. Our reconnaissance Eagle from our Blue "Squadron", will come deposit the money in cash, and take the ship with two pilots.
Now, for the hauling, you would have been perfect contractors, and we would have been perfect clients, this single sentence is one of the reasons we received a message from our Boss, Johnny, conducting business at the edge of Rheinland. We need to haul supplies across systems, for our ships. Our Office, is effectively overextended, and our flagship cannot meet all of the agents' needs in the sector. We are effectively operating at this very moment, in all five Houses.
Now, as our last word for now, we hpê. Please reconsider cooperating with us. We are open to talks at a neutral place if needed. We can send an unarmed ship to Gran Canaria with me alone if needed, or a talk organized aboard an Orbital Spa & Cruise, as a third party for arbitration - we will pay the fees of both the rooms and the arbiter by OS&C. We apologized, and recognized that the core of the problem in this matter was us. Please accept our deepest apologies, and please reconsider doing business with us, or at least, wipe the slate clean with the information about us we gave you -- we are not a law enforcement agency, nor am House intelligence agency. Our agents are all ex -Police officers (that is why M. Kelson have thought we were a law enforcement agency or an intelligence agency - it's because we are forced to use the same tactics) that have quit to protest corruption, or outright police brutality or even collusion with enemies - this is as far as I can tell you, but I am sure some Houses would like some of us in jail for going AWOL. From their home Houses, and wishes to make Sirius safer.
We are not looking to be vigilantes, but that's the closest we are to right now. But we need money, and logistics to function. So we make contracts, mainly for individuals, and we avoid bounty-hunting as much as possible, as it poses an ethical problem among us. So far, we have realized none, despite receiving and being able to do as much as 10 right now.
So I reiterate one last time, on behalf of the Office, please accept our apologies, and please let us start on new grounds. We even agreed to pay your company a fee for all the commotion, or as a gift, but we do insist - If you agree to start anew, to hand your company a gift, such as a contract for less than what it would cost us to perform. But we really are motivated, and desirous of starting over. I hope you understand, as we are merely a small company. Please excuse us for our shadiness, our lack of seriousness, and amateurism.