Dear Robi and citizens of CDZ,
We are glad to hear you are doing well, it's been a little while since we've had much to discuss but only because these have been peaceful and prosperous times. Thanks for letting us know about Metal Casting. Our people continue our growth, technological discoveries, and settlement as well, and we can't say we are anything but pleased with how advanced we and our allies are becoming. We are closing in on Calendar, as agreed with our mutual allies, and of course you too are welcome to request it any time as soon as we are done - it's a vital tech with all the plantation resources we all have. We think the current situation otherwise involves AMAZONs teching Monarchy and Sirius might have Currency in the near future, that is all good news as long as we're on the same page.
In other matters, while we do not believe this has ever been officially established as part of our alliance, we feel it couldn't hurt to inform you what we know of world wonders and religions moving forward - namely, the Q are rather happy where we stand, and don't intend to compete with our allies, if you are after wonders like The Pyramids or Colossus or perhaps a more interesting choice from the current era. We can't guarantee you won't have competition from civilizations like the Mavericks (India) though, so just a heads up.
Meanwhile, there's a final concern that's come to our attention and is perhaps most urgent right now, if we could do justice in explaining it, as it requires cooperation from all of us so we don't move forward doing something recklessly. Namely, we feel it's in the interests of the members of the ETTT to hinder the exploration and contact between the MERLOT and Maverick civilizations. We intend to deny a MERLOT workboat passage past our borders, a galley available if necessary, and we believe that Sirius will be blocking off another boat around the northern passage. However, these efforts come to naught if we can't block out all boats from both of the civilizations - and Mavericks have another workboat coming around too. We would rather not see anyone unnecessarily embroiled in war - we wouldn't want to stomach war with Mavericks right now and MERLOT as your neighbors you probably do not want to overly anger, the same goes for our mutual allies I think. However we are alright keeping MERLOT at bay from going too far, but we do need your help if we intend to block off the Maverick boat - when it gets around to your borders it would be great if you could keep them closed and not let them through, thus they won't reach MERLOT's waters either.
Something for your consideration - as always, if there is much to discuss, we welcome your envoys when you see fit. But on the particular matter of what to do about MERLOT/Maverick workboats, it would be great to have a quicker response so we can be sure of our final decisions (feel free to coordinate with AMAZONs too, we are coordinating with them and Sirius as they have enemy boats up north to deal with too).
Ambassador Earthling
It is unfortunate though the juicier land appears between us and CDZ, the MERLOT and Maverick petals are weaker. We have one good clam site easily on our side of Mavericks but yeah, as far as I'm concerned we'll get Mavericks eventually and right now no need for extreme pressure on them.
