In an effort to save lives, and to normalize the relationship between the Empire and the occupants of Port 9 the Corsair Council would like to offer the following treaty ;-
1. The occupants of Port 9 ban all war ships from any faction and of any type docking with the Port.
In this instance 'war ships' is defined as Fighter/Bombers/Gunboats and all Capital class ships ' the one exception to this is Zoner war ships, which we will agree to on the basis that you should be able to defend yourselves if the need arises
2. The occupants of Port 9 agree to re-open the docking facilities for all Corsair trade ships.
Trade ships being defined as any ship not specifically designed for military use
3. The Napo cloud is to be considered as Corsair sovereign territory, and Corsair laws are to be recognized throughout Theta ' except on the Port and the surrounding 5K of space. The Empire reserves the right to enforce Corsair Laws within the 5K of space only with regard to the apprehension of recognized Corsair enemies endeavoring to avoid Corsair justice.
'Corsair Enemies' being defined as all those shown as 'enemy' on the info card (Outcasts, Hessians, GMG, Blood Dragons, GC, Mollies).
4. The Corsair Empire is permitted to maintain (at the Empires expense) a small customs office for the express purpose of monitoring the above agreement, and to ensure that no contraband goods pass through the Corsair ZOI.
In exchange for the Zoner occupants of Port 9 agreeing to this proposal, the Corsair Council agrees to immediately remove Theta from under Martial Law, and to re-establish all previous trading links.
Signed by the Council of Elders
Corsair LawsCorsair Court Our forces combined, no-one shall stand before us. Our enemies shall be burnt and cast to the wind, our troops marching forward over their mangled corpses. True we stand alone, with wolves circling, but our isolation lends us our strength, for we are one and they are divided.
The days of Darkness are no longer, for we are the Corsairs and we are fear incarnate! Viva los Corsairs, the Empire shall rise!
The blood of the Hispania runs in our veins. The blood of our enemies shall wet our hands.
"the proposal is being reviewed, please do not expect a hasty reply too soon as we shall check the validity and the possibility of a counterproposal - which will take time.
Take all the time you need, but understand that there will be no cease-fire, nor end to the blockade until such time as you accept that agreement.
Corsair LawsCorsair Court Our forces combined, no-one shall stand before us. Our enemies shall be burnt and cast to the wind, our troops marching forward over their mangled corpses. True we stand alone, with wolves circling, but our isolation lends us our strength, for we are one and they are divided.
The days of Darkness are no longer, for we are the Corsairs and we are fear incarnate! Viva los Corsairs, the Empire shall rise!
The blood of the Hispania runs in our veins. The blood of our enemies shall wet our hands.
}at the background: sounds of an overpopulated vessel{
'Ragge 'sairs, salutations elders,
We heard from our familias that you left them alone without beeing pushed too hard. We heard that there were no rapings or mass-murderyz on the port ninez 'n around it.
And we would like to thank ya for that.
It means a lot and shows out clearly that you did not want war or real bloodrain.
Now we've received your tranzmission after one of us sent it out form the port- And we have to say that we would like to live with it-I mean your offer.
We the samsarians has more than a dozen commoner familias on that port- so we would be grateful if we could evacuate our old and too young members from there.
I have sent one of our ships to Theta, the Samsara'sDance- what is a geisha yacht. It could move out our people from the port unless the nation wants us there as hostiges-what is not suggested since they are really only commoners and none of them is important for else than the familia. Else than for us. if you need hostiges i will send an important family member instead of the innocent civilians and workers-or even myself.
Since there are dozens of our kind on your homeplanets and other bases aswell you know us- the samsarians well. You know that our children rarely cause any trouble-oh well at least not more than any other born 'sair and work hard for their family and even for yours when its needed. You have embraced our girls, and we adopted your boys. There is no need to treat each other with harsh words or hot iron- and since you have never done that before-I mean you never caused us trouble and problems: I ask you only for a permission to move in and out when we have to remove our blood from the port up to a maximum of 2 turns.
See I do not even send aquilons or juggz there. Only a flyin miracleshop-I hope you will let us garther our family.
Would you allow us to do as I said?
Would you accept our word that we will not cause you any trouble if ya let us move threw?
Please honored elders. Reply us as soon as you receive this message.
Till than: take care and Kallisti
We will pray for you and the familia
yours faithfully:
Lakatos Mozes Dzsattaka Artiszof
Speaker of
the Samsarians
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Napo cloud i agree it is yours. Is the doorstep to your home. But Theta should be open system to all to pass. About FP9, what some new rules of NFZ like the one on FP11? And what about Corfu?
Look ... one idea... why you guys don't built a base on Napo cloud? Full of weapons sytems and well prepared to have on alert some squadrons? Isn't that a good idea? You have the base you want to protect your main system. And even can put some mines making just a passage that can be easely defended!
Napo cloud i agree it is yours. Is the doorstep to your home. But Theta should be open system to all to pass. About FP9, what some new rules of NFZ like the one on FP11? And what about Corfu?
Look ... one idea... why you guys don't built a base on Napo cloud? Full of weapons sytems and well prepared to have on alert some squadrons? Isn't that a good idea? You have the base you want to protect your main system. And even can put some mines making just a passage that can be easely defended!
Mario, captain of the Taurus
This is not a negotiation, the time for such things is past. This is our demand for a cease fire.
Corsair LawsCorsair Court Our forces combined, no-one shall stand before us. Our enemies shall be burnt and cast to the wind, our troops marching forward over their mangled corpses. True we stand alone, with wolves circling, but our isolation lends us our strength, for we are one and they are divided.
The days of Darkness are no longer, for we are the Corsairs and we are fear incarnate! Viva los Corsairs, the Empire shall rise!
The blood of the Hispania runs in our veins. The blood of our enemies shall wet our hands.
"in that case i misunderstood this message. - if that is a non-negotiable demand for surrender. me, my ship and my crew will not submit to these terms - which are from our point of view, utterly unacceptable. the bright side of that is - that we will need no time to consider this proposition - cause in its current state - it is unfortunately - unacceptable.
it may have been a basis to negotiate reasonable terms - but since you made clear that "the time for that has passsed" i am afraid that we may not get to an understanding there.
we would rather completely block the jumphole in theta with a part of the ancient minefield from 74 - so that no traffic at all can pass anymore
E. Tate"
ooc: some points of the proposition clash with possible future plans for the system in any case. - from a developers pov
// It would be handy if the dev's future plans for all systems in the mod were made public then, so players can adjust their RP accordingly, Jinx. Don't on one hand follow the admin edict of "everyone's free to RP their factions as they please" and then chain people with a dev railroading edict. Do one or the other: If it -needs- to go in one way, the admins need to step in, and do so before it gets further out of hand.
Wide awake in a world that sleeps, enduring thoughts, enduring scenes. The knowledge of what is yet to come.
From a time when all seems lost, from a dead man to a world, without restraint, unafraid and free.
Mostly retired Discovery member. May still visit from time to time.
Elder Valentine, I can assure you Ms. Tate does not speak for Freeport 9. At this time, I am the only one who speaks for Freeport 9. However, I am still in deliberations with various Zoner leaders, and hope to have a decision soon.