"Err... D-doctor? Doctor XiaoBei? The transmitter is ready for you t---" "You take care of it! I'm busy!" "Fine... Do I have to do everything around here?" "I heard that! And yes, yes you do!"
Greetings, Independent Miners Guild, and Colonial Remnant shipwrights! My name is Doctor Will Foetsch, assistant to Head Scientist XiaoBei, of the Sirius Coalition. I come to you with a request, one which will hopefully satisfy both of parties. I realize you have specific channels for this type of request, but we require more secrecy than can be offered there.
As you may, or may not know, we recently lost our science and reconnaissance vessel. According to the Ministry of Truth, it had to do with a mission involving Jayce Brooks. Things tend to go bad when he touches buttons and switches. Suffice it to say that the Kerimov was destroyed in an orgy of blood, violence, and fire.
Since then, we have gone without a science and deep-space reconnaissance vessel. Our Typhoon-class Command Destroyers usually fit the bill well for short times, and specific missions. However, our recent actions in the (CENSORED) systems, we require a vessel designed for long-term, autonomous operations, far from resupply. We require a vessel capable of defending itself from the (CENSORED) threat often encountered in the deep Omicrons. We require a vessel with long-burn engines, exhaustive fuel reserves, and the armor capable of shrugging off the most intensive radiation.
After much searching, Doctor XiaoBei and I (mostly just I) stumbled across this:
This, as you of course know, is an Argus-Class Battlecruiser. The information in our databanks state that the vessel is designed for deep-space operations, often going beyond the outer reaches of known systems, far from resupply, often for months at a time. This vessel suits our purposes perfectly. Myself and Doctor XiaoBei went to the Premier personally for approval, and we were met with a resounding "Yes!"
Now, I understand that the construction of a vessel such as this is an undertaking of extreme importance, and the costs of producing one of these vessels would normally be prohibitive to a group like ours. However, with the complete backing of the Premier and the Ministry of Plenty, the shipbuilders of Mykolaiv Research Station are prepared to clear their schedule for the construction of this vessel.
We are -not- asking for the vessel itself, no no. We are asking for more detailed schematics than what are currently available to our engineers, and permission to use a vessel of this design. Our shipbuilding facilities are just barely capable of producing a vessel of this size, but with our current schematics, we are unable to move further in this venture.
In exchange for the vessel's schematics, we are willing to pay in the range of 100 million Sirius Credits. In addition, since this is a deep-space research vessel, we are willing to share all of the research data collected, excluding information regarding (CENSORED) and (CENSORED).
Due to the sensitive nature of this technology to both of our factions, should you feel the need to requisition the vessel for your own military use, it will be available to you. However, the likelihood of the vessel being within range of your installations is slim, but it remains nonetheless.
Should you require anything more of us, within reason, it will undoubtedly be provided.
The design is obsolete and utterly ineffective. I had them all phased out. What possible purpose might you have for one, I have no idea. Nevertheless, the schematics are in this message's attachment.