[i]“As to the former, that is acceptable.”[/i]

He made a gesture and the contract updated with the agreed upon wording. After that, he pursed his lips and almost seemed to shrug in resignation as he felt that there wasn’t no longer a meaningful path forward with respect to what it seemed they actually wanted in regard to the latter—which was, in his estimation, the sharing of intelligence and top-secret technologies. To the UFP, as far as the public record was concerned, to which his security clearance was limited, the Ragnarov Fleet were an unknown quantity.

After a moment he spread his hands and said, [i]“As I stated earlier with respect to the sharing of scientific information, these are things that can be negotiated at our leisure on a case-by-case basis. Much of the items you delineated are accessible via our extranets.”
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He glanced around the room and took in their expressions. Obviously, this was a moment of impasse, but hopefully they were satisfied that it wasn’t closed permanently. With that settled, he asked, [i]“Are there any other matters you wish to raise or shall perform the signing of contract ceremony?”[/i]

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