Chapter 217 Negotiating with the Chiefs (2/2)

"Enough with the side chatter," said the bull horned chief "I want to hear from the man himself"

"Thanatos will establish a sentinel state using the currently torn down Haven as his main jurisdiction," said Aldrich "You all already used Haven to ferry your goods, relying on Casimir to be your distributor

However, you do all this under constant threat of capture and surveillance No doubt, most, if not all of you have bounties on your head

But if you affiliate with a sentinel state, you essentially have an entire govern you You would be under my protection To har me

There would be retaliation And you've already seen the army that Thanatos can field There's far, far more where that came fro Aldrich more seriously now

"Cities can always be rebuilt There will be no shortage of co to build it back if they think they can have Thanatos on their side," said Aldrich

"There are only so many entities you can make deals with You make a deal with one, you lose deals with others And most of us nomads deeply distrust corps," said the dark skinned chief "Many of us are here because we left corp control Or we are refugees from the Corpowars, as is the case with ed to sanizations, and corporations with his diplomatic skill That was how he built so much up in the first place

That hy you all supported hiin with He still has those skills," said Aldrich

"What about the Dark Six?" said the bull horned chief "You gonna fight them too? Cause they're real pissed off to the point I think a little talking ain't gonna do the trick"

"And, ifto take over Haven as well to salvage their Blackwater project," said Zena "If Thanatos wants to do this, he would be co directly with the Dark Six, and they have companies and influence of their own"

This was true, thought Aldrich If the Dark Six were against hi Haven, then he needed to basically enter into a bidding war against their collective resources, and they had quite a few decently sized companies and politicians under their thu of a Council of Fortune member, no?" remarked Casimir

The room fell silent That was how influential the Council of Fortune was As a colobal superpower easily on par with the Panopticon and Alterhule one of its council e scale war as the Corpowars and the millions dead from them showcased

The companies the Dark Six oere plenty, but none of theitih, possible next heir of Sheshanaga Biotechnology, has publicly voiced his desire to invest heavily into Haven, pledging specifically to aid Thanatos in his declaration to rebuild the variant torn city," said Casione and voice now reduced to quiet

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Aldrich smiled internally as he watched the silent and shocked expressions on the chiefs' faces He had been wondering whether Aarav would ood on his word Looked like the man would be as useful as he claimed to be