161 161 Expansion XVII

When the news of Grand Trading moving into Liberty reach the public on Earth, many were scared that Grand Trading would stop operating on Earth. As Grand Trading becomes a household name, countless people and businesses were depending on it. Just the VR alone has 80% of the world population using it, so when they heard that Grand Trading would not stop doing business on Earth the whole world rejoices, but many are still worried that sooner or later Grand Trading like all company that decided to leave Earth would soon stop operating on Earth. So United Government (UG) gives Grand Trading a very favorable tax incentive, not like Grand Trading needs it but nevertheless, Dianna accepted it.

Dianna also reassured the citizen of Earth that as long as Earth would not close its door to Grand Trading, Grand Trading would continue to operate on Earth it's just that 80% of credits earned by Grand Trading on earth would be converted into resources. And many governments on Earth are very happy to accept it. Only Human Federation Alliance(HFA) is not very happy with it. But Dianna or Arc couldn't care less what HFA thinks...

Today Dianna was having a meeting with Commander Markos and Admiral Ford along with Lisa and Vice Admiral Sheila, there were also some representatives of the top Elders of GFA, they are here to discuss the cooperation with Grand Trading regarding the Drones and Energy Shield.

Unfortunately, for them Dianna is far more formidable negotiator than Arc, After all, this is her specialty giving Commander Markos and the rest a headache, especially Commander Markos as he was very familiar with Arc and knows how to negotiate with him and to him, Arc is already a good negotiator but when he negotiates with Dianna he found out Arc was just a novice and Dianna was a Grand Master. If they know that if not for Arc asking Dianna to cooperate with GFA and was only on easy mode. They would have all puke blood.

In the end, Dianna was able to get another 100 sq kilometers of land on Liberty she was also able to get many rare materials from GFA, giving Commander Markos a headache he can't help cursing Arc for being away...

After negotiation, GFA was able to get a contract of 100,000 combat drones and 10,000 energy shields, every two months as well as many energy weapons as for the payment Dianna asked for several things, like 100 sq kilometers of prime Land in Liberty as well as some rare Materials, but one of the requests almost made the representative of HFA pass out as Dianna was asking for the HFA Space Elevator.

In the End, HFA didn't Agree so Dianna Asked for Ten times the amount of resources and some other things, which made all the representative of top Elders cursed but no matter how much they negotiate Dianna didn't budge, she just said if you don't like it there's plenty of buyers out there willing to pay. And I only prioritized orders that have a contract, I can give you a regular price, but you would have to wait after all the other contract has been fulfilled.

Making them all cursed Even Markos can't do anything about Dianna. Even Lisa who has a great relationship with Dianna couldn't do anything, Dianna only said: friendships and Business are different matters, making Tiffa almost giggles. In the end, many elders cursed HFA for being too greedy and greatly took advantage of Earth for a long time making Grand Trading who was Earth Born Enterprise hated them and because of that GFA and the rest are getting caught up with it. As among all human superpowers in space, only HFA are greatly siphoning Earth resources without giving back.

So, in the end, they decided to decreased HFA shares on Ganesh resources if they don't want to give up their space Elevator on Earth.

In fact, Arc didn't really need the space elevator as they already have the tractor beam, but it can also be said that space elevator is more energy-efficient than tractor beam, unfortunately building a space elevator needs the right area to build and on Earth, there are only a few places to build it and HFA knows it and build a space elevator there. And so even though some human superpower has the capability to build one, they can't because there's no more ideal place to build it.

It took them a long time to deliberate but in the end, HFA refused to give up the space elevator, Dianna and Arc know that there's no way HFA would give up the space elevator as they have so many secret places on Earth and without the space elevator they have no way to really hide it. But even though Arc and Dianna know that HFA would not give up the space elevator they still included it in their demands just to isolate HFA from other elders of GFA.

The HFA refusing to give up the space elevator and Dianna asking 10x more because of it annoyed the other elder to no end, so they collectively make a vote to cut a huge portion of HFA shares of resources from Ganesh making the President of HFA furious, but there's nothing he can do as he was the one who decided to not hand over the space elevator, that is very cheap to build. If there was another place on Earth that's ideal for building a space elevator he would give it up no question asked. But unfortunately, that wasn't the case, so he has no choice but to take a hit. And what's worse Grand Trading who they think is nothing but an upstart company that got lucky now has the power to contend or even surpassed many human superpowers, their revenge is getting farther and farther away.

When Dianna heard the vote to take a huge portion of Ganesh's materials away from HFA she couldn't help but give a smile. But instead, the representative of HFA is staring Dagger at her, but she didn't care, over a hundred Shadow units are protecting her and Tiffa 24/7, so she doesn't have any problem in regard to security. And she's not weak either.

Overall it's very successful negotiations for Grand Trading. GFA also promised to pay in advance, so Dianna has no worry of lack of materials to build combat drones, and with the amount she got from GFA, she could build millions of drones with materials to spare. And she even got 100 sq kilometers of prime land in Liberty. She has no plans for it yet. Mia was very busy building and designing a City in the old Maharlika country. That's Her next big project.

Dianna also promises to deliver all the orders One month after the payment. And since GFA are in so very need of the Drones, they made payment in just a few days the contract was signed...