"Greetings, Sirs and Madams of the Xeno Alliance. My name is Jack Jakes and this is my lovely wife Susannah. We come to you with a bit of a request. But first, let me tell you a bit about us.
Me and Susannah here used to run a small contraband sell-spot in the bad side of Houston under the guise of a Casino. How did a couple of young, law-abiding folk get into this sort of lifestyle? Well, you could say that we succumbed to greed, I guess."
"The casino we ran had been in my family for quite some time. We tried to ignore our clients' backgrounds, they did a little gambling, had fun and we made a decent buck in the end of the month."
"One day, this wealthy Junker folk came to us. After some chit-chating he made us a proposition. If we turned the place into an undercover contraband drop-off point, we got a cut of the profits. Criminals and other nasty folk were regular costumers of the casino, so the man thought he had a viable market."
"And indeed he had. For several years we ran the place. The Junkers brought us the stuff, dealt with the costumers and kept the police off our necks. Not like there were many of them around, but still."
"This all changed when the war with Rheinland started. The Navy started moving in to Texas to defend the system and suddenly Houston was swarming with lawdogs. The business started getting less and less profitable until our suppliers decided to pull the plug."
"Those wretched Junkers sold us out to the police and as if that wasn't enough, they put the blame on several lost shipments of Cardamine on us too. They basically turned everyone in Liberty against us."
"Fortunately, Susannah had something planned for an occasion such as this."
"I rigged the casino with explosives. As soon as we got word that the LPI were on their way to arrest us, I tore the place down. Left nothing but burning rubble."
"We headed to the docks and managed to steal an old Universal Shipping Gull. So here we are now. We got nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Then we heard one of your propaganda transmissions."
"We can certainly identify with your cause and we would just love to see the Junkers pay for what they did to us. Our past may be a bit too incompatible with your ideals, but we are changed. We see the mistakes that we made and we know that things much change. Liberty must see that."
"So, our request is this... Will you take us in, let us flash your colors? We will help to the best of our ability. The only thing we have is this Gull. We can carry cargo for you, we can bring you supplies... Anything to help your cause.
We will await your response."
// Just to clear something out, this is not an application for the XA, just a request to use the Xeno ID and IFF.