I am Elizabeth Branwen, General Secretary of State Affairs of the Colonial Republic. I'll be direct: Your attempts of hacking and obtaining a false declaration from one of our representative may have worked with our patrols but they're not working with me. You find yourself and your company in illegality. You have no rights to access Tau-44 system and you have no rights to trade with any colonial installations. There's no doubt that the transmission you presented is faked. Now, that I told you what's going on, I think you should stop making contracts and signing them yourself, Mr. Jethro.
One more thing... an informational note actually: Tau-44 is closed to all traffic and an announcement about this matter will be made in the next days.
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So that's the way you want to play it? Fine, you cant be trusted to keep your deals? We are going to make sure all of Sirius knows it. I think it will pretty hard for the CR to make any friends when the IND start to tell all of our many many friends about what has happened here. We will make sure you are not welcome in the Omegas or the Omicrons or Kusari or Liberty or Rhienland. You can have your fun in Tau44 and Bretonia, you wont be able to go anywhere else. Lies will only bring you pain Colonials.
Perhaps this situation might benefit from some overall insight into the workings of these 'deals'. Merely an informal message.
The rather old grant of passage, given by the then Minister of Commerce, did not officialise it within the Colonial Republic Databases and as such, was never legal.
This was a fault of the previous administration's failures, something which Ms Branwen is excellent in avoiding.
However, there is also the possibility that the transmission was never made by the Minister and that it was infact a fake, created to take advantage of the Republic during chaotic times.
This is a possibility that, while terrible, we are forced to act upon.
Whichever the case, I extend my apologies for the discomfort this may cause however the fact remains that the contract or deal, or whatever you wish to call it, was never valid and was not valid during the most recent issue.
We dont care, when you slander the IND, when you try to get us into trouble with the Bretonian authorities when we were just trying to ship you goods, you will feel the repercussions of that. We have friends all over Sirius, and we will make sure they know that you dont stand by your deals. I am sure you will find it harder to sign contracts with people when all of Sirius knows that when push comes to shove you will lie about those contracts as it suits you. We have no respect for those who do not honor thier agreements. There will be a blowback from your government's decision to accuse the IND of false crimes. You will regret your choice.