Hive-Pirate Negotiations

[Snowflake]

Thank you Kody. I assume you are still planing to chat with Hercules right?

[Snowflake]

I will see if I can find time to chat with Hercules in addition to Voltaire since Kody will not be doing this for us now. Would somebody else be interested in this round of communication?

[Snowflake]

Since it seems that nobody was able to really talk to the PEACE I've written a message to the PEACE. Please read it and comment. I will send it out once I got approvement from you, the people.

Dear Cap’n Hercules,

Seeing that it had not been successful for us to establish contact through MSN channels I decided that I should take another approach. The topic is sensitive but we are running out of time so I feel that waiting will not be beneficial to either of us. Please be assured that we the Hive has the best intentions toward PEACE, our pact brothers. And please forgive us if any of the suggestions below has violated the spirits of the courageous and fearless captains.

It is the consensus in the Hive that we are not happy to see a war between the two pact brothers of the Hive. It will be a great loss to the Hive as well as all people in the planet if any of the factions is denied their rights to live and develop. The Hive has determined that it will offer help to the PEACE in its hardest time.

What is still a question is how the Hive could do its best to help PEACE while maintaining its integrity. Two basic approaches have been proposed. According to the first approach, the Hive will be able to provide limited help to the PEACE through trading. The PEACE has techs that the Hive desires, such as Adaptive Economics (and perhaps Doc: Initiatives and others). The most needed tech that may help the PEACE we believe are HEC (+3 armor) and Doc: Loyalty (defense perimeter). We do not have HEC however we do have prototyped units with +3 armors. It is proposed that if the PEACE sent us Adap Eco and a cruiser, we could upgrade a foil that is currently rather close to your territory to plasma and transfer it to you with the tech Loyalty. This is normal tech trading that has been observed among all factions and by doing this the Hive considers it has not violated its agreement to the CCs by assisting its enemy faction. Although, it is expected that the CCs is likely to think differently.

Another approach would perhaps enable the Hive to assist the PEACE to the maximum degree. If the PEACE is willing to become a submissive faction to the Hive, the Hive will then be free to adopt all means to stop the CC aggression since now an attack to the PEACE will be an attack to the Hive. We then can apply political pressure to the CyCons to honor the pact agreement and stop the their aggressive effort. We can also ask the other pact brother of us, the Drones, to assist you with military techs. We are also planning to request a ruling from the planetary councils to condemn the war. In other words, we will help you using everything that we have, techs, production abilities, energy credits… This will mean more integrated development of the two factions in the future. However, the PEACE will still be an individual team where you make independent decisions regarding the development of PEACE in your own private forum, with perhaps a Hive ambassador being accepted in your forum.

We the Hive values the captains of the PEACE team as honorable and courageous warriors who will fight to their last drop of blood. We understand that the second proposal would be a hard decision for you to make. However, we feel that it may be the best way for us to give you the fullest assistant. It will give us rights to counter the CyCons while not violating the integrity principles that we have upheld for so long. We would understand if the PEACE feels that it is not ready to enter such an agreement and opts to interact with us on ground of the first suggested approach.

We look forward to hearing from you.

With regards

Comrade HongHu
On behalf of the Human Hive

[Jamski]

We wait for an answer.

-Jam

[Snowflake]

I'm sending it now.

[Micha]

Now I´m very curious what they say... submissive... such a wonderful word...

[Snowflake]

Hercules PM:

Comrade Honghu,

Thank you for your communique. It is being warmly considered by the council of captains.

(my own computer is unconnected atm but hopefully will be back tomorrow - actually it better be.)

btw please advise of status of Comrade Enigma within current Hive faction.

My reply:

Comrade Enigma is a valued Hive member, who is very motivated and capable. He will become one of the main turn players in the upcoming turns. Currently the Hive is (again) undergoing reconstruction of the government so no official position is assigned to anybody. Therefore, while communication of Comrade Enigma may represents his own suggestions at times, his idea will become the official one of the Hive if it gets approved. So please feel free to work with him to come out with the best deals for both of our factions.

[Jamski]

Excellent.

-Jam

[Snowflake]

Looks like the first proposal may not work for the foil is actually quite far away from the PEACE.

[Micha]

Good. We were aiming for the second one anyway

[Snowflake]

Email from Hercules

Greetings dear Comrades of the Hive.

We welcome yer communications

After consultation with the captains council ( much xenorum swilling) we
bees minded to trade Adaptive Economics for Res ( 3) is it? and then SFF
when discovered. Least that's what I understand to be what yer saying,
But we can discuss the detail bewteen now and the next turn I suppose.
Are the Drones on board with the deal or parts of it.?

The Submissive option was ' dirked' by the good captains.

We look forward to more detailed negotiations.

May your Hive children be fertile

Cap'n Hercules

[Snowflake]

Looks like the "submissive" idea didn't fly. May be we could wait some more. When they are hanging on the last few bases they may feel differently. However they would be less of use to us also.

I think perhaps a better idea is to suggest them directly negotiate with Drones to get HEC and/or SFF and let Drones have the adaptive eco and PEG. Any thoughts?

[Snowflake]

My post at Drones embassy:

Since they have rejected the second proposal and the first proposal doesn't really work without Drones, I'm thinking perhaps I should suggest to the PEACE to directly negotiate with you. You could obtain Adap Eco from them and build PEG before the CC has a chance to grab it. What's your opinion about this buster?

[Enigma_Nova]

No I don't think so.
I'd rather the CyCon have the PEG than the Drones.

We'll probably conquer the CyCon, and get the PEG (or at least see it burn).
The Drones (while our permipact allies) are still powerful, and stand to gain more power if they get that SP.

I am, after all, planning to be a selfish player and take SPs and land right from them.
(Cyborg Factory? Uni land? Just to name a few...)
I'd rather they not have the nescesary power to fight us.

We should string the CyCon along, because Hive vs. CyCon + Drones will not be easy... we'll need to conquer one without the support of the other. (Personally leaning towards Hive conquers CyCon)

[Snowflake]

I don't understand why it would be Hive vs. CyCon + Drones. I thought it would be Hive + Drones vs. whoever.