Han Niba read through everything and nodded in satisfaction.
Great Xia could not let the Kona Civilization lead it around by the nose.
Taking whatever Kona offered was not cooperation.
That was letting someone else call the shots and surrendering the initiative.
The second half of the document contained the most critical prerequisites.
[Furthermore, to verify the authenticity of your technological data and demonstrate sincerity in cooperation, we ask that your civilization first deliver one verifiable key technology.]
[Great Xia of Blue Star remains at the stage of defending its home territory.]
[Any military operation across star systems must undergo strategic assessment at the highest level.]
[Verifiable gains at each stage will help us commit military forces over the long term and ensure that future cooperation is not interrupted by an imbalance of risk.]
[If you accept the above adjustments, Great Xia can immediately begin evaluating plans to construct an outpost on the Kona Satellite.]
[Furthermore, we previously sent a catalog of technologies and materials Great Xia can trade.]
[You have yet to respond. Please confirm whether you received it in full and state your intentions regarding an exchange.]
Han Niba scanned it again from beginning to end.
It neither showed excessive weakness nor closed the door on further discussion.
It gave the Kona Civilization room to back down while also laying out Great Xia's bottom line.
He glanced at everyone, then spoke in a low voice after confirming that they all had no objections:
"Let's go with this. Send it over to Commander Lin Mo."
"Yes!"
The communications desk quickly compressed the reply into a communication shell data packet.
The packet was then transferred to the Pangu node at Lin Mo's battlefield terminal.
On the front line in Equator West Zone Three, a Custom Communication Shell was loaded.
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