Communicator Identification: Yoko Mori
Source: Independent Ship Ichihara
Encryption: NOU-23H
Beginning voice transmission...
Hi. It's been a while. Like... over a decade. I don't know if you remember me, but a Zoner named Hans said you were still around and I should talk to you. I'm, um... I'm a Freelancer who used to be on decent terms with the Discordians and floated around the Geode sometimes, and I, well... I understand some things happened to the Zoners in Pennsylvania, and that my mom might've been caught in the crossfire. I guess I'm wondering if we could maybe talk about any information you might have on everything that happened? If you're willing, please use this channel to reply.
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*incoming transmission*
Comm ID: Doc Holliday
Location: Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
To: Yoko
Miss Yoko,
I have been scratching my head trying to remember who you are but I am at a loss. It is obvious that you remember me so you have the advantage. Much has indeed happened the Zoners in Pennsylvania much as it has happened to them in Gran Canaria.
No offense but before I start telling you things, how about refreshing my memory who you are.
Communicator Identification: Yoko Mori
Source: Independent Ship Ichihara
Encryption: NOU-23H
Beginning voice transmission...
Just a freelancer who used to float around Baffin, honestly. I did mostly intel work - a lot of scouting for people, mostly in Kusari, though I don't think I ever worked for any of you directly. So yeah, I don't blame you at all for forgetting. I've kept to myself for a long time, something I didn't really plan on ever changing, and we barely knew each other to begin with.
You're just one of the few names I could find who'd both know how I can figure out what's happened to my mom after Erie fell and probably doesn't have an agenda, and I'm honestly a bit desperate. I have, um, a bit of information from one source, but I don't trust them. If it's helpful, I can tell you what they said and you can confirm or deny it? I... do realize I'm asking a lot, though.
Communicator Identification: Yoko Mori
Source: Independent Ship Ichihara
Encryption: NOU-23H
Beginning voice transmission...
Okay, thank you. Um, basically, me and my crew ran into this guy from the Technocracy of Auxi... um. Auxesia? I think that's right. Anyways, we ran into this person while stopped at Freeport 14 for repairs. He told us that apparently the Commonwealth was invaded and destroyed by Liberty and that Guadalajara was bombed. He said that many of the refugees of Guadalajara fled to Erie, but that Liberty invaded Pennsylvania too, took it over, and put many of the residents of Erie - including most of the refugees - in big labor camps. My mom isn't responding to any messages on any channel I know, so I'm trying to figure out how much of this is true, whether she's alive, and if so where she is and whether she's trapped in one of these labor camps. It's been a really stressful few days. It was bad enough to find out what happened to Leeds, since that's where most of the people I knew from my time in industry lived. If my mom's dead too, then I have no one left outside my partner and the rest of my crew.
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*incoming transmission*
Comm ID: Doc Holliday
Location: Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
To: Yoko
Ah yes, the Auxesians. I have a good repour with them and treat them as respected friends. He spoke some of the truth. I say some because I personally do not know of labor camps. I DO know that many small villages around Erie live in relative quiet and those living their intend to keep it that way.
Some insurgents somewhere, somehow, attacked and destroyed a Liberty satellite and the Liberty government used it as a reason to start attacking Zoners. Planetside, the patrols were spotted but were not engaged so as to not provoke them further. They were after Insurgents who hid among us, NOT the locals themselves. I know because I walked among the locals and saw these patrols and watched them myself. If Liberty has labor camps, we know nothing of them as Liberty would keep them away from Zoner populations.
IF your Mother is living on Erie anywhere, I would not know. A lot of people here like the quiet and keep to themselves and the families they have created here. I would invite you to Erie to look but I would not know where to begin looking. Erie is a big planet with a lot of small hamlets and villages scattered about. As to Leeds, I am sorry. What happened there was tragic. I lost a crew there but that pales in comparison what others lost.
Overall, Zoners have not been treated well and for really no good reason. Liberty is but the most recent group to take unjust action against them. Before them, Bretonia occupied Gran Canaria before exterminating a lot of people trying to make a peaceful living there only to leave the planet for Sprague and the Newcastle system. We even recently had problems with the Corsairs in Theta but came to a peaceful resolve there.
Yes, much has changed. Let me know if you need anything else or even somewhere to call home.
Communicator Identification: Yoko Mori
Source: Independent Ship Ichihara
Encryption: NOU-23H
Beginning voice transmission...
Outside agitators, huh? I guess things really have changed since the Discordian days. Well, thanks anyways. I'll keep looking and asking around. Maybe someone has a list of refugees who made it to the planet.