As you tune into the newsfeed, the emblem of the Triumvirate Coalition Trade Guild fades onto your screen.
The image fades out again, and you are presented with a live news feed from the main promenade of the Mercury Space Station. Standing there are Consul Estel Andros, Director Krug Cabal and Chairman Aurelian Wynterlake, and a crowd of the station's population are gathered around them. Aurelian steps forward with a smile and begins to address the crowd
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. As you know, the trade guild has been working hard since its inception to formalise its place within the Coalition. It has only been a short while since we stood before you and began the first tenative steps to creating our guild, and the abundance of support from the community has been absolutely delightful; thanks to the myriad trading talents of our numerous members, the Guild has been able to provide a wide selection of items, and a smaller selection of ships, to the wider public.
These strong first steps have given us an excellent foundation on which to build, and it is with that in mind that we now wish to push the Guild into its next stages. Many of our members have come up with various enterprising ideas to present to us, and some delightful opportunities for investment and profit await us. The Guild is now set to grow into a more homogenous body of traders working together, and not just a collection of talented people each with their own separate and unique things to sell, and we feel the time has now come to set in place a structure for that to happen.
With that in mind, the founding members have recently agreed on a completed charter to present to the Guild. This charter, which sets out our regulations and internal structure of the guild, as well as declaring the rights and freedoms afforded by guild membership, has now been posted in the Guild holo-threads, and we ask every member, current and future, to read it, and sign it, and so agree to abide by the codes of practice set therein. Though there is a heavily legalistic side to the document, it has been our intention to create a more firm structure in which we can all operate, and we believe this is the first step in encouraging a sense of teamwork and common ideals within the guild. Thank you.
Aurelian nods with a smile, and returns to his place beside Consul Andros and Director Kabal. As the crowd starts to ask questions, the screen fades once more onto the emblem of the Trade Guild, before the broadcast ends.
