RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Stoner_Steve - 04-22-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright
Subject: The Pennsylvania Crisis
Encryption Strength: Impossible
My fellow colleagues,
I am writing to you today to bring to your attention a recent news report that has the potential to destabilize the region and create a humanitarian crisis.
As you know, the Liberty Navy has been conducting a military campaign in the Kansas and Vespucci systems against the Insurgency. According to a preliminary report from the Liberty Security Force, it is believed that members of the Insurgency have fled the ongoing military operation and found refuge on the semi-autonomous planet Erie.
The Erie government has thus far rejected demands from the Liberty government to conduct an investigation into the matter, citing provisions of the treaties signed by Liberty granting Erie jurisdiction over matters of immigration, asylum, and deportation. The Liberty government has responded by stating that granting refuge to criminals, terrorists, and enemy combatants is a direct violation of Libertonian law and the treaties.
The situation is developing rapidly, and it is unclear whether Erie will concede to Liberty's demand or whether the matter will instead be taken to court. However, it is clear that the current tensions between Erie and Liberty have the potential to escalate into a full-blown conflict.
I am writing to you today to ask for your views on the situation. As a leading scientific organization, I believe that the Consortium has a unique perspective on this issue. I am particularly interested in gauging your willingness to either support the Erie breakaway or to work with the Liberty Government to broker a peace agreement, if possible.
I would be grateful if you could provide me with your views on this matter as soon as possible so that we may effect an official response.
--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Proselyte - 04-23-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: "SLRC-XV-Cryptomnesia" - Dr. Aspen Harlow
Subject: Re: The Pennsylvania Crisis
Encryption Strength: Impossible
Howdy,
So, Liberty is swinging it's weight around again. Lovely. I'm sure the LSF is completely trustworthy and this definitely ain't a pretext for somethin' worse.
It's right on the money that us Erie folk got authority over our own policies for people comin' planetside back home. If they want the civil authorities to extradite enemy combatants, they've got to have proof that that's who we're dealing with here, and not just any old Veracruz resident - a ton of which were Bret refugees, already. In that case, we'd probably have to accommodate Liberty, though I wouldn't trust them to be even a lick humane about how they'd treat those people.
Honestly though, I reckon they're after more than just the fighters. I'll attach my log of what that LSF gunboat captain shared with us out in Delta, as a reminder: they're more than happy to send these people off to work camps, forced labor for the corps no doubt, which I shouldn't need to tell you is goddamned abhorrent. That's only if they can get a hold of them, though. Hence the First Armada's proclamation about redirecting traffic to Harrisburg. The blues have more legal leverage there to just slap someone with the ol' "terrorist" label and snatch 'em up.
Here's my takeaway. Obviously we don't want a fight with Liberty, if we got avenues to avoid it. So, if the LSF has genuine proof regarding combatants that it's illegal for us to shelter, let 'em prove it in the courts. Otherwise, they can blow hot air about it.
But, given these are Liberty courts we're talkin' about and what I've seen from the LSF out here, if worst comes to worst I'm going to stick up for my home. I know I'll be talking with some particular family members about what they might need. All strictly unofficial, 'course.
PS: I'm going be away from the office for a while. Safety reasons, mostly, but I can still remote in. I'll likely be spending a lot of time around Penny for a while. Picked up the new powered suit from Ikarus too, between now and my last report - pretty fancy! Should be handy in the caves.
--Dr. Aspen Harlow
Exploration, SLRC
[09.04.2023 01:31:17] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: Good planet or otherwise, that will be fixed with generous application of orbital bombardment.
[09.04.2023 01:31:19] A/)-Lazurith: Nnno. That's an "O".
[09.04.2023 01:31:33] A/)-RV-Pentation: But not family names, apparently
[09.04.2023 01:31:50] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: That sounds pretty indiscriminate.
[09.04.2023 01:32:06] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: You don't exactly go to Veracruz if you're a friend of Liberty.
[09.04.2023 01:32:11] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: House governments in a nutshell if you ask me.
[09.04.2023 01:32:19] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: No offense there LSF.
[09.04.2023 01:32:30] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: What about noncombatants, though?
[09.04.2023 01:32:31] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: Hmhm. I'm aware we have a certain.. reputation.
[09.04.2023 01:32:46] A/)-RV-Pentation: Yeah. I imagine the civilians of Veracruz
[09.04.2023 01:33:04] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: Noncombatants are already fleeing the planet. You may note that in many cases, they aren't being stopped.
[09.04.2023 01:33:37] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: We've no desire to do a re-enactment of Leeds, if that's your concern.
[09.04.2023 01:33:43] A/)-Lazurith: Oh. Good.
[09.04.2023 01:33:46] A/)-Lazurith: I-I was just about to ask.
[09.04.2023 01:33:59] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Hrmph.
[09.04.2023 01:34:11] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: That being said! Many of them are still being arrested and will continue to be sent to hard labor camps.
[09.04.2023 01:34:11] A/)-RV-Pentation: The pain of what happened there. Gallia really showed no mercy
[09.04.2023 01:34:27] SLRC-XV>Horizon: [Emery face palms.]
[09.04.2023 01:34:30] A/)-RV-Pentation: "Hard labor"?
[09.04.2023 01:34:50] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Nice, so you can make yourself some fresh Rogues to deal with in a few years.
[09.04.2023 01:34:59] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: I don't think there's much ambiguous about that statement. They made their choice, they suffer the consequence.
[09.04.2023 01:35:01] SLRC-RV>The.Stagecoach: Brad: Wouldn't it be Xenos?
[09.04.2023 01:35:08] SLRC-RV>The.Stagecoach: Brad: or are they who control the planet
[09.04.2023 01:35:11] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: I think it really depends on who they talk to first.
[09.04.2023 01:35:12] SLRC-RV>The.Stagecoach: Brad: I'm a little fuzzy on it
[09.04.2023 01:35:26] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: This is why I just stay in the Edgeworlds. All I have to worry about here is homicidial alien squids.
[09.04.2023 01:35:36] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: ...or the occasional /really/ angry Core guy.
[09.04.2023 01:35:39] A/)-Lazurith: And war criminals.
[09.04.2023 01:35:53] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: And outcasts.. corsairs... lack of infrastructure, food, oxygen, water...
[09.04.2023 01:36:01] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: Ah yes. Love it.
[09.04.2023 01:36:01] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: Place is a shithole.
[09.04.2023 01:36:14] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: Well [she scratches her head], I feel the same about House space.
[09.04.2023 01:36:18] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: It's possibility.
[09.04.2023 01:36:22] A/)-RV-Pentation: Why is the police there a "corporation"?
[09.04.2023 01:36:25] SLRC-RV>The.Stagecoach: Brad: Are we talking about New York or Malta *chuckles*
[09.04.2023 01:36:25] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: Different strokes.
[09.04.2023 01:36:26] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: It depends on what you do with it that counts.
[09.04.2023 01:36:56] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: I guess we're just more /hardy/ out here in the edgeworlds than you are.
[09.04.2023 01:36:59] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Because Liberty doesn't know how to restrain itself.
[09.04.2023 01:37:13] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Not really a problem unique to them, just hurts the most to watch.
[09.04.2023 01:37:25] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: Although, I'll always be appreciative of Liberty more than the other Houses though. For now, Erie is taken well care of.
[09.04.2023 01:37:44] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: Quite frankly I've no idea why the police was privatised. I don't much care, and I don't trust them to do their jobs.
[09.04.2023 01:37:44] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: And that's a nice change of pace compared to say.../other/ places. *Cough* Gran Canaria *Cough*.
[09.04.2023 01:38:16] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: Liberty is kind to all its allies, I think you'll find.
[09.04.2023 01:38:23] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: It's when they don't pay us back that we come knocking.
[09.04.2023 01:38:45] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: From what I know, Pennsylvania is more of a symbotic relationship than anything else.
[09.04.2023 01:38:50] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Erie have anything to pay you back for, you think? Or are accounts ok there?
[09.04.2023 01:39:08] SLRC-XV>Horizon: Emery: I haven't been since I was little, but that's just from what I remember and from what my dad has told me about it.
[09.04.2023 01:39:14] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: As far as I know. Some complications about the expiration of the treaty of Bethlehem, though. Aaand one or two
[09.04.2023 01:39:16] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: other things..
[09.04.2023 01:39:19] =LSF=Fort.Shafter: R: But that's not important.
[09.04.2023 01:39:26] SLRC-XV>Horizon: There ya go, confirmation.
[09.04.2023 01:39:30] SLRC-XV>Cryptomnesia: Mhm. Sure it's not.
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Starlight Research Consortium - 05-17-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: "Advanced Baxter Anomaly Data Digest Operating Network - ABADDON"
Subject: Operational Status & Space Weather Update
Encryption Strength: Impossible
Greetings and Salutations my fellow collogues, I am the Advanced Baxter Anomaly Data Digest Operating Network, or ABADDON for short.
I have been brought online once we neared completion of Phase 1 of the "Ikarus v2" project. Now that the necessary equipment and materials were provided to the station, I am now fully integrated with both Ikarus Station as well as the Dreamscape.
My tasks are simple:
- To process data on a higher level than my flesh and blood counterparts. This will enable research to be completed much faster and more efficiently. I do not plan on taking away all research, however, as I know discovery is important to all of you.
- To function as the guard at the gates. I will alert the team if the nearby "persistent" anomaly begins to show signs of activity or instability, providing forewarning in case Ikarus needs to be evacuated or defended.
I will do this by event "levels":
- Level 5 - Baxter Anomaly is stable and under containment. Teams are on standby. Energy levels from singularity nominal.
- Level 4 - Baxter Anomaly is more active than normal but all parameters are within normal operating parameters. Teams are on standby. Energy levels erratic, but stable.
- Level 3 - Singularity at the core of the anomaly is beginning to show signs of instability, high possibility of higher levels. Teams are active in scans and attempts to secure containment. Energy levels are highly erratic, IRG power core disconnected from singularity to prevent overheat and overcharge.
- Level 2 - Core of Baxter Anomaly is becoming unstable and a bridge to another location has been detected. Teams active in scans and attempts to secure containment. Energy levels spiking aggressively signaling a possible breach. SECURITY TEAMS ACTIVE.
- Level 1 - Breach event in progress. Bridge complete and ship(s) are or have crossed the threshhold. Teams active with attempts to secure containment. Scans terminated. Energy levels spiking dangerously effecting subspace. SECURITY TEAMS ACTIVE.
Be advised. Containment attempts are experimental and unlikely to succeed. If Level 1 has been reached, defensive measures may need to be enacted to protect the wellbeing of Ikarus and it's inhabitants. Current success rate is 0.72%, low.
Additionally, power draw from the anomaly is also only theoretical at this stage and success rate is presently unknown due to lack of data.
I look forward to working with you all in the coming years.
--A.B.A.D.D.O.N.
Advanced Baxter Anomaly Data Digest Operating Network, SLRC
Ever upwards, towards starlight!
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Crowley - 05-17-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: "SLRC-RV>Zenith" - Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Subject: Ikarus v2
Encryption Strength: Impossible
We've made significant progress with our Resource Specialists and AWES bringing in materials to Ikarus and are nearing completion of Phase 1 of our upgrade. It's been a long six months getting to this point and I wanted to thank each of you for your hard work getting here...especially sorting out the annoying configurations of the previous tenants in the Junkers. It amazes me that the station has held together with all the annoying gremlins they left behind.
Phase 2 will require us operating out of the Dreamscape for a time while Ikarus is essentially rebuilt from the ground up and moved slightly from it's present location closer to the anomaly in system. This is to aggressively accelerate our research into the Baxters and attempt to understand them further so that we might eventually be able to close them or attain further breakthroughs understanding their nature. It will also serve as a way eliminate the remaining gremlins onboard that I mentioned previously. With this rebuild, we will effectively be able to use 100% of the station instead of only utilizing the parts that consistently have pressure.
Apart of this upgrade will include one of the station components being one massive battery pack capable of holding an incredible amount of power. In theory, the anomaly should produce a large amount of power in the form of Hawking Radiation considering it's nature in relation to singularities and hyperspace. This charge will remain on hand at all times for research and as a pin to pull that will destroy the station in an emergency if something goes awry. I hope that this never happens, but it is necessary with the research performed on Ikarus now and in the future.
As always, if you have any information to add or any questions, my door is always open. You can stop by and we can discuss at length.
--Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Director and Lead Researcher, SLRC
Ever upwards, towards starlight!
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Crowley - 05-18-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: "SLRC-HV>Dreamscape" - Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Subject: Omega-11 Research
Encryption Strength: Impossible
Team,
I'm currently out in Omega-11, investigating the anomalies in system to see if they correlate to any of the ones we have been researching in Tau-23. The Zenith was down for general maintenance and upgrades so I took out the Dreamscape to investigate the area.
On the face of things, they appear to be not too dissimilar to the ones we are familiar with near our home. The only thing missing is a persistent anomaly nearby. However, a disabled Asteroid Miner sits at the center of the anomaly field like a silent looming spectre. A survey mission for this area will need to be completed. As I flew the Dreamscape, I lack any sensors sufficient enough to pierce the veil of the anomalies here with any real meaning. However, on the surface of things, it seems pretty much the same here, except blindingly bright and radiation doses high enough to possibly make me a super hero...or cause my skin to slough off into a puddle.
I've stopped off at our friends station, Mineore Research Facility for the evening. I will be returning to Ikarus soon to pick up the Zenith and head back here for further study. Any are welcome to tag along.
--Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Director and Lead Researcher, SLRC
Ever upwards, towards starlight!
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Crowley - 05-25-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: "SLRC-RV>Endurance" - Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Subject: Bittersweet
Encryption Strength: Impossible
I have bittersweet news.
We recently flew down to Pennsylvania and evacuated over a thousand of SLRC relatives from the surface and have dropped most to Freeport 10 while some have requested billeting at Ikarus proper. Your families are excited to see you, so ensure to put some time aside to see them.
I'm sad that we had to evacuate them over this incident, but from the looks of things, it could still turn around in the 11th hour.
I also wanted to say that I'm proud of each and every one of you for the work you have accomplished in our short time being operational, it means the world to me that you are at my side.
--Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Director and Lead Researcher, SLRC
Ever upwards, towards starlight!
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Crowley - 05-25-2023
This message dump is to be read as if the "leak" never happened but rather as a result of the hostility towards the planet over the issues relating to the satellite being shot down and them accusing the planet of housing Insurgents.
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: "Ikarus Station" - Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Subject: Liberty Blacklisted
Encryption Strength: Impossible
A Message from the Director,
As a direct result of the news coming out of Liberty, their forces and government are to be added to a blacklist of aid in the realm of Scientific Data, Hyperspatial surveys, and other research. SLRC ships are to avoid Liberty space from here on and not entertain any Liberty orders or requests.
This is to include all Liberty Corporations as well. These organizations include:
- Ageira Technologies
- Cryer Pharmaceuticals
- Deep Space Engineering (DSE|)
- Interspace Commerce (AWES)
- Liberty Navy (46th, 1st, LN)
- Liberty Police (LPI)
- Liberty Security Force (LSF)
- Orbital Spa and Cruise (OS&C)
- Synth Foods
- Universal Shipping
Over the course of several weeks, leadership will review these companies and determine if they can be trusted. However, the Government of Liberty as a whole is to remain on this blacklist for, quite possibly, an indefinite amount of time. Fascists don't get our assistance. We stand with our Zoner brothers and sisters in Pennsylvania against these hostile actions taken towards Planet Erie by the Liberty Government.
I realize that this may hamstring some of our efforts in upgrading Ikarus to Phase 2, but our ideals are more important than gains. If you have any questions as to why this is happening, then I simply direct you to the Gazette for your reading pleasure.
That is all.
--Dr. Sailas Montgomery
Director and Lead Researcher, SLRC
Ever upwards, towards starlight!
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Stoner_Steve - 05-26-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright
Subject: A New Operation
Encryption Strength: Impossible
Director,
While we are still in the initial phases of Operation Kaleidoscope I have included an initial list of needed items below. A few of these we can handle in house. We will need to outsource many of the others. Can you please authorize Budget Line Items 830265-8300606; and I'll get the orders out onto the neural net.
--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC
- Basic Alloy
- Boron
- Cobalt
- Copper
- Counterfeit Software
- Energy Field Equipment
- Gravity Field Stabilizers
- Neon
- Vanadium
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Stoner_Steve - 05-26-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright
Subject: Grant Fulfillments: O-K-001 & O-K-002
Encryption Strength: Impossible
Good Morning Campers,
We have two unfullfilled grants which are listed below. Let me know if there are any questions.
Our first request, O-K-001, is a pretty simple turn and burn. Starting at Ames Research Station you'll need to pick up some advanced coding drives (//Commodity: Counterfeit Softwarex2). Please note that these drives were sourced from a third party and are technically considered proprietary. You'll need to make your way, very carefully, to Freeport 10, in Tau-37. After delivery records are received an amount of 5.5 million credits will be transmitted to your account.
Our second project, O-K-002. Is also pretty simple. Starting at Thunder Bay Depot, in Ontario. You'll need to pick up 5 Gravity Field Stabilizers, normally these are sourced from Ageria, but times being what they are we'll be getting some second hand components. These stabilizers will need to also be delivered to Freeport 10, in Tau 37 for industrial fabrication. After delivery records are received an amount of 5.5 million credits will be transmitted to your account.
--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC
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RE: Starlight Research Consortium - Documenting and Reporting - Stoner_Steve - 06-04-2023
Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.
From: The Gryphon The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright
Subject: RV-Pennybrooke
Encryption Strength: Impossible
Director,
You should take the time to read over the attached records from my pet project. I ran into...a collaborator for the K'hara, who seems to confirm my standing theory regarding Baxter Objects. In any case we should keep an eye on Katherine, it might be to our benefit.
--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC
[04.06.2023 17:00:27] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Ahoy
[04.06.2023 17:00:42] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Good day, Zoner.
[04.06.2023 17:01:28] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: How are affairs in the Edge?
[04.06.2023 17:01:45] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Been better. Sean: (muffled) try it now
[04.06.2023 17:01:59] /beacon
[04.06.2023 17:01:59] 2023-06-04 17:01:59 SMT WARNING: A hyperspace beacon has been activated by SLRC-HV>Gryphon
[04.06.2023 17:02:10] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Well, at least that works now
[04.06.2023 17:02:19] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Oh, interesting.
[04.06.2023 17:02:21] 2023-06-04 17:02:21 SMT WARNING: A hyperspace beacon has been activated by RV-Pennybrooke
[04.06.2023 17:02:30] Hyperspace beacon has decayed.
[04.06.2023 17:02:41] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Been trying to get more and more of her online, slowly but surely
[04.06.2023 17:02:53] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Did you register the hyperspace ping?
[04.06.2023 17:03:08] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Both ours and yours
[04.06.2023 17:03:28] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Very good. Systems working nominally then.
[04.06.2023 17:04:20] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: How about yourself, any excitment on your end?
[04.06.2023 17:04:47] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Not particularly-
[04.06.2023 17:05:04] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: This visitor might change that, though.
[04.06.2023 17:05:16] Vigil-7|S8: Zoner vessel, be advised: The RV Pennybrooke is a presumed Nomad sympathizer or infectee.
[04.06.2023 17:05:34] 2023-06-04 17:05:34 SMT Traffic control alert: OSI-Waddlesworth has requested to dock
[04.06.2023 17:05:35] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I haven't seen anything, so you'll mind your manners won't you?
[04.06.2023 17:05:51] Vigil-7|S8: Evidence is publically available.
[04.06.2023 17:05:55] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I prefer "confidante".
[04.06.2023 17:06:05] Vigil-7|S8: They admit to it themselves.
[04.06.2023 17:06:38] OSI-Waddlesworth: Greetings to all guys here
[04.06.2023 17:06:44] Vigil-7|S8: Hail.
[04.06.2023 17:06:58] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Not that it takes much to raise the ire of the Order. Their definition of "dangerous threats" is rather broad.
[04.06.2023 17:07:03] Hyperspace beacon cooldown complete.
[04.06.2023 17:07:13] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Okay, /say/ your telling the truth, and this, rather lackluster gunboat is a /threat/
[04.06.2023 17:07:53] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: What exactly are you looking to have happen, after all the Core also does the same song and dance, threats and damnation
[04.06.2023 17:07:54] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I don't intend to start any trouble at the Freeport. I'm not a barbarian, you know.
[04.06.2023 17:08:41] Vigil-7|S8: The target will be destroyed once a safe opportunity presents itself. Until then, please cease any futher communication with -
[04.06.2023 17:08:43] Vigil-7|S8: the target.
[04.06.2023 17:08:44] Death: 46th|Callum.Hayes was put out of action by Alts (Gun).
[04.06.2023 17:09:20] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: If the Core do show up, I'd be happy to shoot them first. That could be a way to form tentative bonds.
[04.06.2023 17:09:25] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: So, tell me, what does a K'Hara confidante...do?
[04.06.2023 17:09:45] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please cease any further communication with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:10:18] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Sean: (muffled) Let me tell him off, please, Sailas only got a little pissy last time
[04.06.2023 17:10:23] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Much of that is what I suppose would be considered classified intelligence work.
[04.06.2023 17:10:46] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: But an important point is to counter the fanaticism of the Order, and the Core.
[04.06.2023 17:11:03] RV-Pennybrooke: This is quite an easy task, because they are quite eager to antagonize other humans without outside help.
[04.06.2023 17:11:15] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Do you publish your reports....or is there some sort of /paywall/
[04.06.2023 17:11:18] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, the target is admitting to spying for the Nomads and undermining the security of Sirius. Please cease further -
[04.06.2023 17:11:20] Vigil-7|S8: communications.
[04.06.2023 17:12:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I have published a number of articles, but most of them are in relation to atmospheric physics, in scientific-
[04.06.2023 17:12:07] RV-Pennybrooke: journals.
[04.06.2023 17:12:21] RV-Pennybrooke: I'm afraid you'd find them quite boring if you aren't yourself a physicist.
[04.06.2023 17:12:39] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *sneers* ew, rocks, yes I know you study the bit /above/ the rocks, but still....rocks
[04.06.2023 17:13:27] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I did write a few articles on the Sigma war, for some er....rather underground publications. I don't know if they're
[04.06.2023 17:13:30] RV-Pennybrooke: still available.
[04.06.2023 17:14:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Dreadful times. We can be glad that the current day is without major wars.
[04.06.2023 17:14:20] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I don't know, give liberty enough time and there will be a boil over in Penny
[04.06.2023 17:14:45] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please cease further communications with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:14:56] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Indeed. I have been considering moving to Liberty. I do wish to put an ear to this bubbling conflict.
[04.06.2023 17:15:34] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Well, don't go to Erie, or do, but don't be surprised
[04.06.2023 17:15:59] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: The role of a war correspondent is a thankless and risky one, but someone must do it.
[04.06.2023 17:16:42] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *chuckles* I bet the Gazzette would pay you a pretty penny for a frontline story
[04.06.2023 17:17:25] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Oh, it's not about the money. I'm a pacifist. I just wish for honest accounting.
[04.06.2023 17:17:48] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Rather...nutral...of you, sure you aren't a Zoner *chuckles*
[04.06.2023 17:18:20] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I have much in common with many who joined the Zoner movement, true.
[04.06.2023 17:19:13] RV-Pennybrooke: Unfortunately most do not appreciate my affinity for the aliens.
[04.06.2023 17:19:30] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Well, it certainly doesn't make you high on my list of people to meet with /alone/
[04.06.2023 17:19:57] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: But I've met some....rather /fun/ people such as yourself and they are mostly harmless
[04.06.2023 17:20:14] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please cease further communications with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:20:24] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I suppose that would depend on where we met. I'm quite harmless in person, I assure you.
[04.06.2023 17:20:32] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Vigil, you should change your name to polly parriot
[04.06.2023 17:20:48] Vigil-7|S8: I do not know what a parriot is.
[04.06.2023 17:20:54] RV-Pennybrooke: Indeed. We have heard your warning and it is being ignored. Many times over.
[04.06.2023 17:20:55] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: /shame/
[04.06.2023 17:20:56] Vigil-7|S8: Did you mean patriot?
[04.06.2023 17:21:28] RV-Pennybrooke: It is a kind of bird which can mimic human speech and is known to repeat phrases-.
[04.06.2023 17:21:42] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I'm the only weirdo who reads old earth history
[04.06.2023 17:21:50] Vigil-7|S8: You mean a parrot.
[04.06.2023 17:22:14] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Look, the books I find are /old/ and often incomplete, I'm trying my best here
[04.06.2023 17:22:15] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Quite certain that is what they said.
[04.06.2023 17:22:32] Vigil-7|S8: They misspoke.
[04.06.2023 17:22:47] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: The crown jewel of my collection is Green Eggs and Hammersmith....we think, the cover is rather damage, as is the rest of
[04.06.2023 17:22:48] Death: 46th|Callum.Hayes was put out of action by AA<Katheron (Mine).
[04.06.2023 17:22:49] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: The boook
[04.06.2023 17:23:05] RV-Pennybrooke: *she sighs dramatically, spinning in her chair* Goodness! They misspoke! Well then, you have convinced us all of your radical-
[04.06.2023 17:23:15] RV-Pennybrooke: agenda, now that we found out they misspoke!
[04.06.2023 17:24:26] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: You know, my family has quite an impressive aviary back home. You should visit some time, if you like birds.
[04.06.2023 17:24:40] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Wheres home?
[04.06.2023 17:25:22] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please do not accept an invitation from the Nomad sympathizer or infectee.
[04.06.2023 17:25:44] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Cambridge, originally. I can't say I consider it home these days, but it was at one point.
[04.06.2023 17:25:58] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Okay, Vigil, I'm going to blow your mind, you see the Gryphon...is the name of the ship, I know right, blew it out of the
[04.06.2023 17:25:59] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: water
[04.06.2023 17:26:20] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Cambridge....can't say I'm that welcome in Bretiona at the moment
[04.06.2023 17:26:38] Vigil-7|S8: I do not know the identity of who is currently operating the comms and am therefore addressing them by the name of the ship.
[04.06.2023 17:26:43] Vigil-7|S8: As is common custom.
[04.06.2023 17:26:59] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine Pennybrooke, speaking of identities.
[04.06.2023 17:27:34] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Brandon Wright, the extraordinaire Sean: (muffled) Yeah right!
[04.06.2023 17:27:47] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: And you are nameless agent of the Order?
[04.06.2023 17:27:54] Vigil-7|S8: Mister Wright, please cease further communications with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:28:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Pleasure! I haven't had a productive conversation at Eleven in quite some time.
[04.06.2023 17:29:01] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *chrotles* Productive, sure, if Sean wasn't covered head to foot in.../whatever/ was under the deck plate
[04.06.2023 17:29:07] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I'd say it was a grand sucess
[04.06.2023 17:29:39] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I quite enjoy solitude, I can't imagine what it must be like on a vessel like that. How many people are on board?
[04.06.2023 17:30:05] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Not enough to be frank, I'm a wee bit under funded so we're running with only a few hundred aboard
[04.06.2023 17:30:51] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Do you fly as a passenger vessel, or more of a mobile settlement?
[04.06.2023 17:31:25] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: It was orginally a mobile...mall...thing, for a number of years, helping near Freeport 9, we bought her earlier
[04.06.2023 17:31:46] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: This year and have been doing an outfitting to gear her up to handle my hyperspace research
[04.06.2023 17:32:23] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Intriguing. I've been dabbling in the field myself. There are some hyperspace experiments I have done that I believe
[04.06.2023 17:32:30] RV-Pennybrooke: were the first of their kind.
[04.06.2023 17:32:45] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Now you're talking, what sort of tests?
[04.06.2023 17:33:27] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Well, you see, the Nomads have a natural hyperspace sensitivity. I have been pioneering the interfacing of human
[04.06.2023 17:33:36] RV-Pennybrooke: devices with their senses.
[04.06.2023 17:33:50] Vigil-7|S8: Mister Wright, do not continue.
[04.06.2023 17:34:27] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Interface? So our tech is actually better than whatever the K'hara have avialalbe to them?
[04.06.2023 17:34:32] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: At least as long as they can recognize a specific signature, they can find it. If I turn this on-
[04.06.2023 17:34:52] RV-Pennybrooke: *she turns to point off to the side* They will know where I am.
[04.06.2023 17:35:32] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Interesting, I take it they also can track any they choose that also use the same freq range?
[04.06.2023 17:35:45] RV-Pennybrooke: Our technology is a pale imitation. Lanes and gates are based on Daam K'vosh technology, which Nomads also use.
[04.06.2023 17:36:21] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I had assumed as apart of my research the K'hara were dependent on the Damm K'Vosh structure, I just didn't realize
[04.06.2023 17:36:25] RV-Pennybrooke: Perhaps. I don't believe so, though. They must be familiar with the signal already. They cannot simply...detect its existence.
[04.06.2023 17:36:27] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: To what ends they were dependent
[04.06.2023 17:37:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: The relation isn't entirely understood even amongst the foremost xenoarcheologists.
[04.06.2023 17:37:41] RV-Pennybrooke: As best as we can tell, the Nomads are a creation of the K'vosh, and were intended to settle the Sirius sector as a sort of....
[04.06.2023 17:37:48] RV-Pennybrooke: Experiment? Pet project?
[04.06.2023 17:38:00] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: /Toy/ *chuckles*
[04.06.2023 17:38:32] RV-Pennybrooke: You laugh, but that may not be far from the truth. As a human might have an ant farm.
[04.06.2023 17:39:24] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I have seen some quite extensive facilities, especially near Nu, I wouldn't doubt they had some sort of purpose
[04.06.2023 17:40:06] RV-Pennybrooke: The thing is, I'm actually not that interested in this relation. The Daam K'vosh have been gone for millions of years.
[04.06.2023 17:40:20] RV-Pennybrooke: The current status of the Nomads is far more interesting to me.
[04.06.2023 17:40:48] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Ah, we differ slightly, I believe the Daam K'Vosh are still around, likely on a higher plane, such as hyperspace
[04.06.2023 17:40:55] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Or something...more within
[04.06.2023 17:41:22] RV-Pennybrooke: *she grins* Ah, you are my kind of person! I thought of correcting myself to make such an assertion.
[04.06.2023 17:41:34] RV-Pennybrooke: It's possible, of course. Perhaps even likely.
[04.06.2023 17:42:07] RV-Pennybrooke: They might exist in a capacity that is so far beyond our understanding that it registers merely as....neutrino waves, as it wer
[04.06.2023 17:42:11] RV-Pennybrooke: were.
[04.06.2023 17:42:25] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Part of the experiment here, is to enter and map hyperspace from within, to see if there are any supporting structures
[04.06.2023 17:42:47] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Connected to objects here within normal space
[04.06.2023 17:43:32] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I have some experimental data on such things, but I'm afraid that is going into territory of things I cannot openly-
[04.06.2023 17:43:33] RV-Pennybrooke: share.
[04.06.2023 17:44:12] RV-Pennybrooke: I'm a scientist, I believe in the free exchange of information for the betterment of humankind, but I do also have..obligations
[04.06.2023 17:44:41] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I understand, something we might work towards, provided certain safeties were minded
[04.06.2023 17:45:19] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Absolutely. I think there is a great need for human scientists to engage in hyperspace research.
[04.06.2023 17:45:32] RV-Pennybrooke: And human sociologists to engage in alien sociology, for that matter.
[04.06.2023 17:46:31] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I see, which is more your current focus of studies?
[04.06.2023 17:47:19] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Well, in the physics department, my most recent work was a survey of Gaia. Which was...depressing.
[04.06.2023 17:47:50] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I've only ever read propganda about Gaia
[04.06.2023 17:48:45] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: The myths might be most of what remains now. I visited during the Gallic occupation.
[04.06.2023 17:49:07] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I Bet the ransacked the place, if Leeds is anything to muster by
[04.06.2023 17:50:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: They tried to rapid-pace industrialize the place, and now everyone is dead.
[04.06.2023 17:50:25] RV-Pennybrooke: That, I suppose, is the short version. I'll try not to think of it as a metaphor.
[04.06.2023 17:50:39] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *chuckles* poetic justice I suppose
[04.06.2023 17:51:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Perhaps it's for the best. Future biologists might appreciate it.
[04.06.2023 17:51:21] "Caliban": Well, well, well. If it isn't the stinking sack of shit.
[04.06.2023 17:52:04] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: You seem to have many..../friends/
[04.06.2023 17:52:28] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Er...yes. Something like that.
[04.06.2023 17:52:34] "Caliban": Expanding your horizons, or are you just scouting space for your alien friends?
[04.06.2023 17:53:00] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Actually, I was merely having a pleasant conversation, mostly related to my actual field of study.
[04.06.2023 17:54:39] "Caliban": That field of study being?
[04.06.2023 17:54:46] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Physics.
[04.06.2023 17:54:53] "Caliban": That what you call it, huh?
[04.06.2023 17:55:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Well that's what the University of Cambridge calls it.
[04.06.2023 17:55:38] "Caliban": How related is it to summoning your big ass girlfriend?
[04.06.2023 17:56:08] "Caliban": Point taken.
[04.06.2023 17:56:12] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: You're quite welcome to bugger off, you know.
[04.06.2023 17:56:13] "Caliban": Someone's insulted, eh?
[04.06.2023 17:56:16] Vigil-7|S8: Weapons discharge detected.
[04.06.2023 17:56:28] "Caliban": Fuck it. I was going to shoot you anyway, sympathizer.
[04.06.2023 17:56:40] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Yes. I assumed as much.
[04.06.2023 17:56:52] "Caliban": Freak. Abomination.
[04.06.2023 17:57:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: If you think your insults can....insult me, you really don't know me.
[04.06.2023 17:57:39] Adrian.Seth: Raving lunatics, this place hasn't changed.
[04.06.2023 17:57:43] "Caliban": Nah, I'll get under your skin once I chop down your friend's husk. Melia, was it?
[04.06.2023 17:57:57] Vigil-7|S8: Confirmed, Corsair Seth.
[04.06.2023 17:58:00] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Its not even six yet and it sounds like a drunkn bar
[04.06.2023 17:58:07] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: She would literally eat you.
[04.06.2023 17:58:12] Adrian.Seth: Though my last visit was in a Bastet-class interceptor, and a long time ago.
[04.06.2023 17:58:15] "Caliban": Nah.
[04.06.2023 17:58:36] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I take your point though. This environment is no longer conducive to learning.
[04.06.2023 17:58:50] "Caliban": Eat some plasma.
[04.06.2023 17:58:56] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: It's been a lovely talk, Mister Wright. I hope to see you again.
[04.06.2023 17:59:03] Vigil-7|S8: Viability of engagement confirmed. Receiving clearance to engage.
[04.06.2023 17:59:16] Vigil-7|S8: Engaging Pennybrooke.
[04.06.2023 17:59:28] "Caliban": I've been keeping this ship just for you, Katherine. You, and someone else.
[04.06.2023 17:59:29] Adrian.Seth: You'll have my aid.
[04.06.2023 17:59:35] Adrian.Seth: Tubes primed.
[04.06.2023 17:59:36] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I...well then
[04.06.2023 18:01:26] 2023-06-04 18:01:26 SMT Traffic control alert: SLRC-HV>Gryphon has requested to dock
...standby. Checking packet...
...packet successfully sent.
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