I am truly happy to hear from you again. It has been a while since our last meeting and I was quite anxious to see how your career will develop. I am afraid I have to ask your forgiveness. I am pretty much sure you are a kind and gentle person, but there is simply no polite way of telling you what I have to say.
First of all you were mislead by Mr Yoshida's exquisite manners which could have led you to believe that The Watchers might be an important partner or even an ally for The Lane Hackers. I feel really bad for telling you that this is not really the case, at least not now. For decades The Lane Hackers maintained presence in Bretonia and frequently exchanged Tachyon bolts with your more aggressive predecessors, for instance a group calling themselves Nature Last Hope. When recently The Watchers emerged from the internal struggle and chaos that reigned amongst Gaians after NLH dissolution, we have investigated your movement to assess its threat potential to our operations and formulate our strategy to deal with it. Since the assessment was that you are majorly a harmless group lacking adequate numbers, combat and special operations training to pose a significant threat to us, instead of eliminating your ships and assets whenever possible we decided to ignore you as long as you do not interfere in our operations.
Please, do not mistake my intentions. It is neither my will to mock you, hurt your ego nor boost mine. On the contrary, I believe that only understanding of our perspective will allow you to make fully aware decision of what approach to take from now. You have basically three options. First, you may take affront and step into path of aggression escalation. Secondly, you may decide to simply ignore us and due to limited overlapping of operational zones we may barely see each other in future.
Finally, you may decide to carefully consider all the points below and rethink your approach and long term goals concerning our mutual stance. First of all, while a permanent ceasefire with Gaians is a low priority for us due to reasons stated above, it would be impractical and imprudent to deny such possibility for no apparent reason. You do need to know, however, that The Lane Hackers control a significant portion of Alien Artifacts market in Liberty thanks to our business partners in Kusari. It is our long lasting practice to destroy any Alien Artifact shipments going from Rheinland or Bretonia border, obviously with the exception of our closest allies, simply to not spoil the market. The higher the price and demand in Liberty the higher our profits as intermediaries, so the incident you mentioned was strictly business - a genuine conflict of commercial interests.
Now, at this point I do not believe any closer or warmer relationship between our organizations is possible or beneficial. We have too little to offer each other and too much to lose having practically no mutual friends. I do think that neither your Gallic masters nor Corsair benefactors would be happy to see you shaking hands with us. With that being said, it is within our interest to chill your relations with the residents of Omicron Gamma and thus weaken their influence in Bretonia. Therefore, while we do not share your environmental zeal, we are willing to benefit from it by providing you with intelligence on Planet Cork, a habitable planet nuked into ashes by Corsairs in their war against Mollys. If for pragmatic reasons after seeing and confirming provided evidence you would still be willing to stay under Corsair patronage, I see no other way of warming our relations than to broker similar agreement concerning Alien Artifacts trade as with our partners in Kusari.
I have laid out several paths you may take, Flora. Please enlighten me which one is most to your liking.