The Martial Unity

"Commissioner Derun," Rui smiled as her image popped upon his comms display.

He had been issued a premium comms device that allowed him to communicate with the Martial Union reliably despite being a great distance away for the duration of the mission, for mission-related purposes only.

"Squire Quarrier, good of you to contact me, I just finished the report that your diplomatic team filed. Good job, your execution as a diplomat was better than had been anticipated." She smiled ruefully. "It's a shame that the diplomatic missions failed, engage with them a bit more, and increasing your offers by a certain margin is the only option left. And if that fails… then I'm afraid we will have to question whether this mission is even worth pursuing in the first place."

Rui raised an eyebrow at those words. "Is the Martial Union willing to give up on obtaining those techniques?"

She considered his question. "That's outside of purview, officially at least. However, the Martial Union is cognizant enough to distinguish which avenues of approach are worth investing in, and which aren't. There have been numerous attempts at negotiating for the techniques of the G'ak'arkan Tribe. Granted, those missions failed for foreseeable reasons that could be rectified on our end, and you managed to avoid those reasons for the most part, it seems. Yet you failed to achieve any success at all beyond that. It is clear that talking to them over and over again is not going to help."

Rui smiled. "Those were my thoughts exactly. However, I am quite convinced that any further negotiation is meaningless toward actually convincing them, actually. I would rather not spend any time on it. I certainly wouldn't rely on it."

She raised an eyebrow at that statement. "It seems you do not intend to go for another negotiation session."

"Not any serious one, anyway," Rui nodded. "As I said, it's futile."

"Then what are your intentions?" She asked, curious.

and direct in demonstrating the power of our techniques the way

what would that

a part of the island, self-sustain, and flourish purely on the merits of our techniques," Rui simply

"Excuse me?" She frowned.

through and through by putting ourselves in their situation and environment, and demonstrating that the techniques we are offering perform far

widened, as she considered

to make sense, in theory

utility went was nuanced and multi-layered. Pure numbers on the parameters

impossible to predict the entirety of all direct and indirect benefits and impacts a new widely adopted technique might

and objectively as numbers

was offering was a way to convey both the explicit and the implicit value of the techniques that the

widened as she shrewdly understood exactly what Rui was trying to achieve. "That's actually a great plan, better than any

amazed expression. "You came up with

Rui nodded.

the diplomatic negotiation with the G'ak'arkan Tribe?" She couldn't help

as I considered the various