Mark wrote:My dear Klingon ambassador, how exactly do you suggest that designs that are bought and paid for, and now under Cardassian manufacture, with full liscensing, be revoked?
One would think the simple reverse of the way you got everything in the first place.
Of course if that would be to hard for you, I'm sure I could find a great many Klingons to help rid you of the troubles. *Spoken in a sarcastic tone in the mid of laughter and a rather large smile.*
Remember that you are not feeding an honorable cause of any sort, you are feeding a Barbaric race of slobbering idiots with pinecones stuck to their foreheads. We took them in in a time of need, and all they do to repay us is to stab us in the back. We were keeping an eye on the Kazon as a whole, however our intel was very poor, and not due to a lack of trying.
So remember, your honor in this matter is at stake, we will not bash you as a people, or attempt to tarnish your records, we are just stating that you would be feeding a dishonest, backstabbing race, that only wishes to conquer, which although it is something the Klingons are known for doing, and have gotten quite good at it, they wish to do it through backstabbing, treachery, and deceit. They are the most dishonorable race the Ferengi have dealt with, ever.
So although you wish for the Cardassian building of ships to halt, you providing this worthless scum with continued support will not bode well for you, in the long run you will end up looking worse than the Kazon themselves for providing such a race with support.
To the Cardassian Union:
We have had a fairly strong and long standing relationship as a people, and we would wish this to stay. Just keep this in mind.
To the planets of the Ferengi Republic who have fallen away:
We wish not to alienate you as people, we still hold you as our people, not by law, and not by tax, but by a union of tradition, and of a sense of duty, to you the people, to uphold your rights, and your well-being. We are sure that you were pushed into this by the Kazon, but to know that half of our planets would revolt against us is quite disheartening, that you would side with worthless garbage that we allowed in as a favor to them, that will not happen again for a very long time if ever, and that decided they wanted to enslave the Ferengi people. They obviously have the income to do what they please and once they no longer need you as a people they will enslave you just as they have enslaved previous people. And know also that you cannot trust a word they say, they speak to you as friends now, but what about once they have achieved their goal, they will look at you as a roadblock, they will tax you very hard, and they will limit everything of yours they do not care about your well being, they care about theirs. And that is all.
Just keep this in mind as a people.
We thank you all again for your generous assistance in this matter.
Currently the Ferengi will not release it's full list of allies to all as these are open channels and the Kazon could very well use them. So if anyone would like any more information go through our secured private channels, and I will share what information I find pertinent and reasonable to release. Only our allies will ever know the location of their forces, for their safety of course, so do not request that information, it will be summarily denied.
Also it has come to our attention that the Kazon fleet has a sponsor of sorts, or at least some way of making a profit. We are unsure of who it is, and if you discontinue your funding of them, no questions will be asked, and there will be no penalizing them, we would like the funding to stop as they are unworthy of any funding. We hope sincerely that it is not one of our close allies, and would be very disappointed if it were.
The Klingon government had no objection when Cardassia first purchased Starfleet designs. Only now as they are being taken to task for selling military hardware to civillian rebels do they feel they should speak up about a mutually benificial trade agreement between long standing allies.
But now, it feels empowered to decide a significant portion of Cardassia's defenses should be surrendered. Ships that were built in Cardassian space, by Cardassian hands, with Cardassian materials. I'm sorry, but such a suggestion is simply out of the question. And any attempt to impose said intent against us would be construed as an act of war. One in which we would not hesitate invoke our mutual defense treaties.
Of course, there is a large difference between selling design specs to a recognized goverment, with whom several treaties are already in place, and selling warships to rebels.
I am, of course, quite sure that they were stripped of their cloaking technology. I would never question the integrity of our Klingon friends, and they have signed an intergalactic treaty, that they would not provide cloaking technoligy to races that don't already have it.
But, one must of course wonder how they were able to get several hundred ships from the Klingon Empire across the quadrant undetected, to arrive in Ferengi space. Without a single ship being detected, by Gorn, Romulan, Cardassian, or Federation sensors no less.
They say that in the Army,
the women are mighty fine.
They look like Phyllis Diller,
and walk like Frankenstein.
No one stated that they have several hundred of them. Our D'Kora class are outdated by anyones standards, only a few B'rel would have been meeded to take on several of them. I don't believe they have several hundred, I in myself believe they only have a few outdated ships as the Klingons claimed.
I would like to ask the Klingon High Counsel how many ships they did hand over to the Kazon? Just out of curiosity.
We sold ships through Ferengi commerce. Who they are for after that is hardly our problem. Hearing a Cardassian talk about "selling arms to rebels" is more a joke then anything else unless you forgot your own recent history. Unlike yours our sales were fully legal, contracts valid and payments confirmed through Ferengi Credit Services. As to your objection to your fleet, this again is hardly a concern. If the Federation and Klingon Empire agree to begin arms control, you will abide. If we don't agree on a course of action then you nothing to worry about. What you want in this matter is meaningless.
*To the Ferengi Ambassador*
It is not the place of your kind to question or determine our honor. You lack of honor removes this right from you. If you wish for information on the Kazon and their supporters, we suggest you speak with those on your council funding them.
*To all present*
The Klingon Empire is honoring its alliance to the Federation and as such our forces will take no part in the coming conflict. The Klingon Empire respects the Federation stance that this matter is an internal affair of the Ferengi Alliance.
How would we as the Ferengi be financing the Kazon, all of our credit is meticulously accounted for, and besides the buying of their ships we have offered them no income.
To the Klingons
I believe that as one with seemingly no honor we have a very valid claim to your lack of honor. As we have no honor, then you doing what we would validly do would put you with us as having no honor.
Nickswitz wrote:How would we as the Ferengi be financing the Kazon, all of our credit is meticulously accounted for, and besides the buying of their ships we have offered them no income.
You've just admitted to giving them income. So take a simple guess as to where they may have put some of that money.
Nickswitz wrote:I believe that as one with seemingly no honor we have a very valid claim to your lack of honor. As we have no honor, then you doing what we would validly do would put you with us as having no honor.
Your forked tongue and twisting words had better find their way to silence or the Kazon will be the least of your worries little Ferengi.
So then I am assuming their payment to you was somewhere around 400,000 credits?
And we twist no words, merely state them as you put them. But we will leave that for another time, as we realize angering the Klingon Empire is a foolish place to put ourselves.
EDIT:: Wrong amount given...
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Nickswitz wrote:So then I am assuming their payment to you was somewhere around 200,000 credits?
*The Klingon Ambassador cracks out laughing!*
Maybe one of their payments!
Nickswitz wrote:And we twist no words, merely state them as you put them. But we will leave that for another time, as we realize angering the Klingon Empire is a foolish place to put ourselves.
Yet you still have to spit out your words... Shut your mouth or our fleet will do it for you.
We only provided them with 400,000 credits from the transfer, and therefore they must have had assistance from another faction somewhere in order to purchase the ships if it was over 400,000.
