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Sep 2, 2004
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Loic de Fourgéres, senior partner of Crusading Advocates LLC phones the new CEO of ENDTech.
"Per Mofaz, congratulations on your appointment. I imagine you have quite a bit of work to do get things running smoothly again as your predecessor has been away for more than a little while. I guess there are some fires to fight and some messes to clean up. Actually, I am calling about one little mess that he left for you. He was not respectful of the implicit and/or explicit contracts that ENDTech had with its employees when he laid them off without respect for their personnel records or seniority, and in addition, tried to impose an American-style amount of severance pay (just two weeks pay), rather than following prior company practice and Eutopian custom (one month pay per year of service). The case was before the Federal Tribunal when it was declared a mistrial (when people started throwing things at eachother) just before the prior Commissioner of Justice resigned. Now that the new Commissioner of Justice is in office, my firm, which is representing the dismissed workers in a class action suit, is prepared to recommence the hearing. This will take up much of your valuable time and mean additional legal costs for ENDTech. Therefore, I thought it would be in everyones' best interest if we came to a quick, amicable, and relatively inexpensive settlement. The amount I will suggest would be less than a quarter of what the severance element of the claim would have been and drops all other claims that could have added 50% to the cost if awarded. My clients would be prepared to accept two additional weeks of severence pay, plus of course their legal costs, which I have tried to keep at a minimum. You could attribute this to the actions of your predecessor, so it wouldn't reflect badly on you at all. Would this be agreeable, or should we repeat the hearing at the Federal Tribunal, paying almost as much in legal costs and taking the risk of a much larger potential settlement going against ENDTech? Feel free to consult with the President, in his capacity as MDIS on this matter if you wish.
 

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Sep 2, 2004
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A call comes in from Crusading Advocates LLC
"Is Per Mofaz available? I wanted to ask him whether he had had a chance to consider the settlement offer."
 

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A note arrives from MDIS...

From: Truman, MDIS
To: ENDTech
Status: Classified

Pers from ENDTech,
We still don't have a replacement for the vacant position of CEO of ENDTech, but I would like to ask you to look forward. We need new developments.

I will try to inform you about a Indo-Russian Fighter. This is a fighter, of course... but India and Russia do not have to money to complete it. The plan of Tulp was to buy ourselfs in the project so we can develop it ourselfs and we don't have to pay so much. We will also get new technologies and our industries will have work.
The plane is at this point all Russian. It is the Su-47 Berkut.

Here is some information from Tulp:

"This plane will be able to compete with the newest European planes and maybe the new American ones as well. Espacially the for-swept wings greatly improve the fighters abilities. However the Russians are thinking of forgetting that concept and building the fighter on a more conventional basis because of the costs. We have good contacts with the Indians since a long time ago. We should try to get on board togheter with the Indians to build the fighter on the for-swept wing concept. This will provide us with a excellent airplane, a reliable source of spareparts consisting of ourselves and in the long run it could be very profitable as well. This could also form a basis for further cooporation between us and the Russians and Indians."

Here is the file I got from Tulp
http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/s37/

Here is a picture:
img3.jpg


The president asked me to check if it was possible to develop our own type of fighter... based on one of the populars (JSF, Mirage, Typhoon, this Indo-Russian).
The President would also like to see Unmanned Flying things... for patroling and securing areas. Of course with a camera and some munition... They should be remote controlled.

Please report when you got something

Regards,
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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Major Braxton arrives at his new office and admires the good job the redcorators had done on the office. As it now resembled something like a Victorian study than the rather drab looking office it once had been.
He walked over to the large mahogany desk that dominated the room. and set behind it and read the mass of papers that had accumated apon it. After reading the document left to him by Mr Truman, and through the intercom told his secratary to contact Mr Truman
 

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Sep 2, 2004
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A message arrives from the President
Major Braxton,

Congratulations on your appointment as CEO of ENDTech. It is a vital post, but one that I am sure you will fill admirably.

I don't know the exact date, but I believe the production run of the Gorgon II tanks to fill the initial MDIS order must be drawing to a close. Depending on how their planning goes, there may be an additional order, but I wouldn't necessarily expect for that to be the case. Rather than lay off your workers, I have spoken to the Tilapian Ambassador about selling them an acceptable number of Gorgon II tanks. They would not need, nor would they be entitled to get them with our secret battlefield information and communication display built in, but otherwise we would produce for them the same tank as we do for ourselves, including the laser rangefinders. Leave in the plugs to attach the Magic Wall battlefield display system, as who knows, they might become our tanks again in the future, or they could plug in whatever normal communication gear they wished.

When I hear from the Tilapians, I will put them in touch with you to arrange the details of their order, should they chose to pursue the matter. Before then, they will want to know a price. I know the original cost was 3.5 million ducats each for the Gorgon II, but we have had some inflation since then, but they will not be getting all the electronic gear. What price should I quote them?

Regards,
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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Major Braxton adresses the workers of the ENDTech factories
" Hello all of you as you know I am Major Braxton the new CEO of ENDTech I would just like to laid out one rule "Quality of the work you all do is fantasic, I do not want to see any change in that aspect unless it's for the better, with that said, I want the very best from you all because when you build these things you are not only building them for pay but you are building them for the future of the country. So keep up the good work thank you."
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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Memo: R&D

Cancel all work on the production and development on the UAV'S and start work on downsizing the engines of the Gorgon II tanks.
 

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Truman walks into Braxtons' office...

"This information is Top Secret, sir. Please close all communication and doors.
Major, I just found this is the archieve.

ENDTech Archieve said:
Under the direction of Tilly, ENDTech developed and produced prototype UAVs which are currently being tested in Western Eutopia. These are recon UAVs with some weapon hardpoints. They are ready for full production.

There is also something about a sonar system that should be worked on. That project is half complete. It's named: SOSUS.
Please finish it as soon as possible because we are going to need it in a further state of the Navy. I can't tell you anything more about this."
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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Will do but their might be a few delays I must go on some urgent bussiness ( I have a school retreat on tomorrow but shall be back in 2 days)
 

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Sep 2, 2004
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A note arrives from the MTIA offices.
Major Braxton, Ret., CEO
ENDTech

Ed,

The Tilapians have placed an order for 300 of the Gorgon II tanks. They were most concerned that they could be in some way sabotaged, despite my assurances that they would be exactly the same as what ENDTech delivers to our army, excluding, of course, the MAGIC WALL battlefield display unit and communications equipment. To allow the sale to go through, I therefore agreed to a couple of harmless steps to calm their concerns. They will be sending some inspectors. Don't worry about secrets, the inspectors already worked on the Gorgon II project. Also, as we are still producing some tanks for our army as well, I said they could decide at the point just before the communincation gear was installed whether a particular chassis would be one of the ones that they would take or one we would keep. If we screw this up and they rescind the order, that will throw hundreds of your employees out of work, so let's look on this a three-fold opportunity:
  1. To help our economy by filling this export order
  2. To begin to establish our reputation as an international arms manufacturer
  3. To put some tanks back in our future army for free, when, by diplomatic means, we will eventually be able to re-unify this island
The sales proceeds will be paid into an MTIA account, on which ENDTech will be able to draw to the amount specified, Ð2.8 million per unit. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly. You are doing great work for our country and improving its future.

Regards,
 

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A offical letter arrives from MDIS, delivered with a seal...

From: Truman, MDIS
To: Braxton, ENDTech HQ
Status: Classified

Braxton,
First, I would like to ask you to secure all your messages to my ministry. Make them classified etc.
Second, I would like to ask you to design and make a prototype of a Supply and/or Transportship. We are at the middle of a damn ocean, so we will need it. Take a look at the Dutch 'HMS Rotterdam' and the Italian 'San Giorgio'
Third, how far are you with the UAVs? How about the test results from West-Europe? Are they ready to be produced by ENDTech?
/Truman
 

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Sep 2, 2004
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President and MTIA Loic de Fourgéres arrives to meet with ENDTech CEO Major Braxton, Ret., and MDIS Truman to discuss the tank sales to Tilapia.
"I'll just wait in the conference room checking my e-mail until Per Truman arrives."
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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Braxton walks into conference room

"Hello! Per Fourgéres how are you? Would you like some coffee it has inproved greatly over the sludge my predecessor's drunk even though I am a tea person my self?"
 

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Eutopian Chess Champ
Sep 2, 2004
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You know from my visits to your tea room that I drink herbal teas, or decaffinated tea. If you don't have that water would be fine. How are you settling into your new post? While we wait for the MDIS to get here, you can brief me on some of your other projects. We hope to be able to buy a squadron or two of advanced fighters, hopefully with some ground attack capability. I would be interested in supplementing that with some really fast UAV capable of carrying one or two decent air-to-air missiles. I think there is also a potential to develop much more highly automated ships for the navy, like a destroyer with only about 70 crewmembers. We can't afford to build a huge conventional force, so we have arm smarter, not bigger. How is the preparation for the production of the replacement for the M-113 going? I think is called the Hydra. Has the MDIS given you an order yet? Also, do you think you could modify some cargo versions of the DC-10 to be aerial tankers, so we could give our airforce in-flight refueling capacity, now that we don't have our aircraft carriers anymore?
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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Sorry i forgot I have been so busy lately ypur tea shall be with you in a minute, as for the new projects half of the things you have metioned I have never heard about before. The reason behind the lack of infomatiom is either that I have a lot to learn or that Truman has been retaining infomation. But enough about that lets talk about the projects the UAV'S are going well though I have had to send a message to Truman though outlining a few of the faults of the UAV'S.

Also we have been reaseraching a SOSUS system which the americans have installed in the ocean to defend against submarines.
 

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Sep 2, 2004
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SOSUS, yes I think I read about that in a novel, the Hunt for Green September. Hardly the best place to learn about such matters, but I can see that it would make sense for us to deploy around our coasts. How far offshore would want it too stretch? 12 miles? 200 miles? How much would it cost?
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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That is the part which I am worried about Per Truman did not give me a estamate of how far he wanted it to go out off shore, but then he did say I was a development so their is no real need to know an exact number yet.
 

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Sep 2, 2004
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Well if there is just one line of sensors then it won't make that much difference if it is further offshore or not, but if there is a set every 100 kilometers, then going out to the 200 mile limit that some countries claim would cost three times as much as a close to shore array.
 

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Oct 30, 2004
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But if the shore away went futher out the countries would have more time to prepare for defense against the submarine would they not?