Gloria's Adventures.
In reply to Gloria Flake (msg # 16):
"Is the Shamshir technically ours, or the Dissidents? Personally, I would feel more comfortable with the dissidents taking ownership and arming it up. Plausible deniability is much greater then, and as far as Vilani governance are concerned, they are just a bunch of dissidents living beyond the Vilani borders, and therefore not at the same threat level as hostile and technologically advanced barbarians. Giving them that might, in fact, make them more comfortable in breaking away.
Kalishnikov Enterprises is a free trader, and they are welcome to subcontract to the Dissidents to build up their military, free from Terran Military control. Andrew?"