You honor me with your words, Overseer. I have informed my brothers and sisters of your need for fresh meat, as for the 'artifacts' -- that will take at least some time to obtain depending on which kind do you actually need.

One such artifact was in our possession until not so long ago -- a rare gem indeed, rumored to have belonged to the Creators of old, but has since been traded off to our cousins in Kusari. I can put a bounty on such trinket, should my kin find another. We'll see what turns up.

If you're looking for the other, more known variety of ancient artifacts, then I can reach out to one of my contacts within the Corsair Empire. They should be able to help us with those. Which do you choose?

I have just been told that Seven has gone shopping in Omega-7 for whatever and whoever he could find that fits your request. Somehow, someway, that unreliable booze swinger has managed to fetch you about a hundred bodies -- scientists, he says.

As it turns out, there was a higher number of them meant to reach Bretonia with the help of a Bowex shipping vessel. By the time CNS gets to breathe word about this incident, details of this encounter will become muddy at best with a lot of speculation. And of course, the bodies we stole will be long, long gone.

You will find these capable minds on Kaarst, in Omega-58. The Food Rations to keep them alive are on the house.