From: Leopold Frundsburg
Location: Karl's Paste and Grill, Planet Stuttgart
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Guten tag Military command und governmental representatives,
As you know, the Rheinland Military and Government are the best in all of Sirius. On top of that, you clearly employ some of the best engineers known to humanity.
You see, this is where this communication comes in. The other day, I was attempting to destroy the ship of one of those dirty LWBs. I had nearly done so, but then he was able to escape. I think the issue was, clearly, that civilian made weapons are clearly inferior. If I were using some of the type the government uses, I am willing to bet said farmer would be floating in space or sitting in Vierlande right now.
So I would very much like to request the usage of the wonderfully crafted Firekisses and Hornvipers for me and my associates, the Stuttgart Landsknechte. We are very loyal to Rheinland and all it stands for, from the shipyards in Hamburg to the long growing tradition in Stuttgart. We are glad to pledge our allegience to serving the nation through the protection of its commerce.
SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Zentraler Hauptquartier der Flotte,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin System. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00]Medium, port RM-CH-HC-23-D.
The Rheinland Military High Command is reviewing your request at the moment, but I would like you to remain patient as the process might last longer than anticipated. Currently, we have very severe administrative issues to deal with, but once being done I will ask my secretary to reply to your request. In the meantime, please reveal more information regarding your group's background, such being your primary goals, location of headquarters, other supporters, whereabouts of members, whatever other information may be useful for making our decision beneficial for both sides.
since Herr Frundsburg is currently conducting further negotiations with Synth Foods INC. and is thereby fully occupied, I will try to answer your questions.
We already have produced an informational brochure about the Stuttgart Landsknechte, to give our potential costumer an idea about who we are, I think you will find most of the information you need there.
The primary goal of our organisation is of course to fulfil our primary contract with Synth Foods, which includes keeping Rheinland and the Stuttgart System in particular clean of the angry farmers of the Landwirtrechtbewegung.
We do however, also realise the possibilities and benefits that a cooperation between our group and the Rheinland authorities and other coorperations will bring.
We therefore are availiable as escorts for any and all Rheinland-coorperate transports traveling between the Vaterland and Rheinland or Bretonia.
We are also making an efford of keeping our beloved home clean of other lowlifes such as Revolutionaries and pirates, on our own if necessary and in assistance of the Rheinland Federal Polizei and the Rheinland Marine if our help is required.
We are also more than willing to assist in the defense of the Vaterland from the Libertonian agressors if requested.
We are also in the process of negotiating a contract with the law-abiding Junkers of New Berlin, whose crutial cleanup services in the New Berlin System are threatened by the increasing agressiveness of the Bounty Hunters Guild and the Kusari criminal organisation called the Hogosha.
I hope that this will provide you with a better idea of who we are and why permission to use Rheinland-crafted weaponry would be most beneficial for both of us.
We also assure you, that these weapons would never be used against the Rheinland Authorities and the coorperations of the Vaterland, nor in any other activities that are violating the Laws in Rheinlands sovereign territory.
We humply request that you put some faith in us and give us the possibilitie to prove ourselves.
SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Zentraler Hauptquartier der Flotte,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin System. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00]Medium, port RM-CH-HC-23-D.
The Rheinland Military High Command has decided to grant you the usage of twenty (20) R7-n Hornviper II-class tachyon cannons.
The terms of usage are the following:
Quote: 1. The Rheinland Military always reserves the right to withdraw and seize the granted equipment if RMHC sees fit for this action.
2. You will NEVER work for any Libertonian corporation, Navy, Police or any other Libertonian affiliated organization or corporation.
3. You will NEVER work for any corporation, organization or house Rheinland is at war with.
4. You will obey all Rheinland articles within the Rheinland laws and obey any order given by either the Rheinland Federal Police or the Rheinland Military.
first I'd like to thank you for the faith you have put into our oganisation and I promise you, we will not disappoint you!
I have however two minor questions regarding the condition of our agreement:
Quote:2. You will NEVER work for any Libertonian corporation, Navy, Police or any other Libertonian affiliated organization or corporation.
3. You will NEVER work for any corporation, organization or house Rheinland is at war with.
Does Synth Food count as a Libertonian coorperation? Since Synth Foods HQ is located in Liberty, and they are our main employers at that time, this is a question that needs to be adressed.
Quote:grant you the usage of twenty (20) R7-n Hornviper II-class tachyon cannons.
Does that also include the usage of the Hornviper I? Since some of the ships we field are quiet old, and lack the power to support multiple state-of-the-art weapons, we might need some of the less power hungry but older version of this weapon system as well.
Thank you again for taking the time to consider our request and answering these two minor questions. Other than that, the Stuttgart Landsknechte completely agree with these terms of usage.
SOURCE: [color=#FFCC00]Zentraler Hauptquartier der Flotte,[color=#33CC00] New Berlin System. [color=#33CC00][font=Impact]ENCRYPTION: [color=#FFCC00]Medium, port RM-CH-HC-23-D.
For the time being, you will be approved to use the weapons in defense of Synth Foods vessels against Rheinland outlaws and pirates and/or operating under Synth Foods contracts against Rheinland outlaws, pirates and terrorists or foreigner pirates operating in Rheinland. As soon as that criteria may change, you will be notified.
The Hornviper class one and two tachyon cannons are both clear for you to use as long as you manage to stay within the altogether quota of 20 approved pieces of weaponry.
now that we've been operating in Rheinland for some time quiet effectively and aiding the Federal Polizei on several occasions with a high rate of sucess we'd like to take our relationship with the Rheinland authorities one step further.
We'd like to kindly request the permission to use 20 Firekiss Plasma cannons/turrets for the use on our ships. We'd gladly provide compensation for any kind of inconvenience this request and the manifacturing of said weapons may cause.
The Rheinland Military High Command has reviewed your request and following a throughout discussion and the consideration of your past operations conducted in service of the Rheinland government, we have decided to [color=#009900]approve you the usage of 20 Firekiss plasma cannons, with considering the same criteria as what stands with the use of Hornvipers.
There is however, a minor problem which you are obviously aware of already. These pieces of weaponry are restricted to the most well-equipped military patrol and assault wings for a reason, which is that they are rather hard and expensive to manufacture. That, plus the re-registration codes, the modification of firing ports and entry papers to Braunschweig will require an expense of 1,000,000 credits/piece.
In summary, for 20 pieces of weaponry, we will have to request 20,000,000 credits to be submitted to our bank account, [RM-ARM]-Behemoth-001, a sum that should cover all the required expenses in one sitting.
Please notify us when the required cash has been transferred to our bank account or if any sort of trouble emerged in the meantime.
Thank you for your understanding and we wish you luck with your future endeavors.
thank you for allowing us to use the best Rheinland weapon engeneering has to offer.
We have gladly provided the necessary funds to produce and aquire the weapons, the credits have been transfered as we speak:
I hope we'll meet each other in space sometime, its always an honor to fight alongside the Rheinland military!