Status report PAST DUE - please explain 4/5

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Dearest &quot;Partner&quot; Orav

I'm sorry for all the misunderstandings. You're right, I wasn't clear. Let me be clearer: we are not your slaves.

&quot;Draw my own conclusions?&quot; Don't give me empty threats. We don't need you. You've thrown more money at Terranova? Good for you. We're up to fifteen percent on our algae yields now, without your help.

Let's be frank. You're a hundred years away from us, at a minimum. Probably closer to two hundred, given the amount of time it would take to fund another ship to make this distance. You can't bring any force to bear on us in any reasonable amount of time. You're trying to enforce agreements that were made before either of us were born, and which provide no real benefit to our side. Did you think these people signed up for this sacred journey to make money ? Are you that out of touch with what we want?

Let's face it. We're going to do what we're going to do. If you want to help us, I'm sure some kind of trade deal can be worked out once future generations get our colonies up and running. If you don't want to help us, well…it's been fun. We're on our own already, and we have no illusions about that.

Litvin

P.S.: While ideally I would also like to tell Tech/Sing to go to hell, I suppose you can tell them that yes, we certainly have no intention of making our automatons any smarter than they need to be. We're not crazy