To: Administrator of Valkyrie Production Facility
From: Guild Master Taro Katsuo
Location: Gas Miner Naha, Sigma-13
Konbanwa...
Nothing remains out of sight forever. Though your base may have avoided detection for quite some time, we've finally been able to pinpoint the exact location of your station, or as we consider it to be, a direct violation of our laws and the gravest of insults to our sovereignty. By building this station in the system of Sigma-13, GMG industrial and private space, without any attempts of seeking a construction permit from us, we have ultimately decided to evict you from GMG space and to demolish your station, by force if necessary.
To add injury to insult, we've even seen enemies of the Guild docking on your station, while our own pilots were denied so during their reconnaissance.
We are already mobilizing our Paramilitary forces to besiege the Valkyrie Production Facility. I suggest that you as the administrator of the station evacuates the crew and salvage any technology, credits or resources before our forces turn your illegal hideout into another wreckage floating aimlessly in Sigma-13.
Any non-GMG| vessel approaching the station with sufficient cargo to delay the destruction of Valkyrie Production Facility will be treated as invaders of GMG space, and subsequently destroyed. You'll not be receiving any special treatment from us, no matter who you are. Your station certainly isn't the first base that we'll have wrecked, and just as sure it won't be the last.
You have been warned.
Guild Master Taro Katsuo,
Sayonara!
GMG TERRITORY LAWS Wrote:...
2.4 Pilots associated with the following group(s) are banned from GMG Territory due to their crimes against the Guild and/or its allies, and are to be classified as criminals:
GMG pilots are authorized to use deadly force to eliminate criminals in GMG Territory and in space there treaties with exceptions exist. Harbouring of these criminals is a crime.
4.4 Construction of non-GMG Space Stations are prohibited unless prior authorization by one of the five active Guild Masters.
Space Stations denying access to GMG| vessels will immediately be considered as illegitimate constructs.
...Incomming transmission...
From: Valkyrie Production Facility
Sender: Dr.Geoff Lynchpin
Greetings honorable Guild Master. My name is Dr. Geoff Lynchpin, and I am the co-founder of Valkyrie Production Facility.
It is with no little shame that I contact you. Finding myself looking down the barrel of a gun so to speak is not pleasant in the least. I know you have both the firepower and the resolve to see my station blown to bits, but I ask of you one small unearned favor, not to take us off your sights, but, to not pull the trigger until we can talk.
First of all I must apologize for all the clandestine activity. It is with good purpose that we kept ourselves secret. Perhaps you will give me the opportunity to explain in the future.
As to the other two charges those have very honest explanations that will only take a brief moment to explain.
As to the 'harboring' of that Hogosha fellow. Let me tell you, I am glad to see the last of him. He learned of the location of our station once when we were purchasing supplies in Kusari. He threatned to disclose our location to some very undesirable groups of people, if we did not grant him a safe docking permit. There is no need to grant that any longer, and bid him good riddance.
And about you not being able to dock, it just so happens that it is by coincidence that you could not. Earlier that day, we were discovered by a group of Unioners, who claimed Sigma 13 was their soverign system, and demanded to be allowed to dock. WE refused them outright and locked our docks down to any unknown vessels. If you would happen to come back to our station today, we would of course grant you immediate docking rights.
In all honesty, we chose to build our facility in the nebula because of the quietness and seclusion it offered us. We built it far from any active gas mining, and in fact far from any minable gas whatsoever. And also suitably far from any activity in the system, as we thought to be out of sight and out of mind. It worked for quite some time, and we were left in peace to conduct our research and experiments unhindered. In hindsight, I see we should have contacted you much sooner, and for this I am sorry.
I want to thank you for the warning to evacuate our personnell. I assure you the last thing we want is any sort of violence at all.
But I must know, is the destruction of our station absolutely neccesary? It was our sincere wish here, to at some point to contact you about some cooperative business efforts, in the hopes that we could forge a solid business partnership. To that end we have been saving credits to pay for liscencing fees, and taxation.
Were you to agree to spare our station for a short time, we would of course pay any reparations, taxations, and fines you would impose on us. I assure you, we have never meant to threaten your sovereignty here in Sigma 13, nor have we ever wanted to be anything less than friends.
Our station is fully equipped to ship/receive/store any commodity including H-3 should you decide to use it.
In addition we are in possesion of a ship with a jump-drive. With this ship we can help you to deliver vast quantities of goods to any of your customers or your facilities without fear of pirates in the lanes.
Dear guild master, though I do not know you personally, I do know you by reputation to be both reasonable and a shrewd business man. You would not be a master in your guild otherwise. I beg of you to hear me out, and let us come to a peaceful, profitable accord. Please just the chance to talk, before you pull the trigger.
...Incomming Transmission...From: Valkyrie Production Facility
Sender: Dr. Geoff Lynchpin
Greetings again Guildmasters. I looked into our docking protocol and discovered that there was a small glitch in our system. Any ship with the transponder signal GMG| is now cleared to dock. If you let me know when you could find it in your schedule to visit, and how many would be in your entourage, I would love to personally give you a tour, introduce you to our staff, and answer any questions you may have about our purposes. And of course you must surely wonder why we would come into your system in such a stealthy manner. And I would love to explain our position over dinner. We have a lovely cooking staff, and a well stocked, if somewhat small, pub on station.
I am awaiting your reply with trepidation.
Dr. Geoff Lynchpin