Maria had to admit that she didn’t expect that Altona would send a prince over for the informal talks. She interpreted the gesture as a sign of respect for Samantra and a show of commitment for the talks.
The talks would take place in the Oak Palace, the building of the Samantran secular government in one of the most exquisite rooms. Maria was joined by
Talya Samarin, the CEO of Umarov Real Estate Trust, which today would act as an informal economic advisor to Maria. The two in fact served the same interests, that of the Umarovs, it was only that Talya was more open about it.
The room where the meeting took place.
Maria and Talya both stood up when the guests were entered the room. They approached them, greeted them, presented themselves and invited the guests to take a seat.
Once they were all settled, Maria began by saying:
“Your Highness, had I known the government would sent such an important representative we would have scheduled the meeting at a much later date and organized a state visit with military honors included as appropriate for Your Highness’ military background” even though in reality she was glad that was not the case since state visits took a lot of time to organize.
“I am aware of the irony of the situation. Samantra is a nation with no nuclear background and it wants to expand its use aboard. So first allow me to explain how we have come to this point. I am sure you might have heard of the Great War Era and the nuclear bomb dropped by the Achkaerin on our greatest friends and allies at that time, the Ardian Empire. What the Allies could not defeat by the strength of their men they defeated with the merciless and coward act of the nuclear bomb. I will not bore you with our nation’s history but ever since then the Samantran public is reluctant to accept nuclear energy. While opposition was subsided significantly it’s too late for us to develop our own domestic nuclear energy providers and the Samantran public is still reluctant to accept nuclear plants near their communities.
Still we in the government understand the opportunity of nuclear energy and we want to make use of it in our approach with the developing countries of Mundus. This is why we have invited you here, to see what solutions we have to build affordable nuclear reactors in developing countries such as Zimalia, how much they cost and if they could break even and how we can supply them with uranium.
But before we begin getting into the details, I would like to first address the elephant in the room. Samantra does not trust the empires of Achkaerin and Rokkenjima, we believe they honor their names are imperialistic to the core and jealously guard their privileged place under the sun. This is one of the reasons why we have no intention to join MAEA and we seek partners that also do not seek to join. So Your Highness, does Altona intent to join MAEA?”
Maria waited to see what the guests would reply. She didn’t really expect Altona to have intentions about joining MAEA and she just being diplomatic. Her message for the guests was to make clear from day one where Samantra stood on the two imperialistic powers and have Altona understand the risks.