While I gravely enjoy watching massive asteroids fly by here, has anything come up yet? You people are often poorly suited to that information sharing thing, you know. It's been nearly a week and if there's been no developments to finding the Bird other than some rogue you all care deeply about, I should move on to other avenues to get those issue sites closed.
Oh, and I've changed ships, should you see me in space again.
Bare patience. We have yet to conclude our findings within the Shrine. All I can assess so far that the outcome is not positive, some kind of psychic reaction happened between the girl and the Rogue. Supposedly caused by a Nomad called Shozak.
We have drones scouring the area within Bering in the meanwhile. There is no further information at the moment.
Keep an eye on the sites in the meanwhile whilst we work towards figuring out clues regarding these anomalies.
Sender:Omer Darche, Pollux. Recipient:Auxo Network, Technocracy of Auxo. Topic:Research.
I know things are a bit tense right now, but we have no real part other than observation and calming nerves of the kiddos and onlookers until more is figured out. Going to follow through something I mentioned prior. I was hoping for a jumpstart on it.
The anomalies. The singular-point gravitational variants is my main focus due to the current situation. However, they aren't easy to study due to high amounts of traffic. Kepler is out of question for the moment, even though it has the highest concentration of these. The Badlands gravitational anomaly near the Pennsylvania Gate is also out of the question due to it's high patrol count.
I was recently shown a variant that seems to shift and move from it's previous sector, however there's a high number of researchers and installations already in place. Hard to slip by to study. I was hoping your people might know of more remote happenings of stable phenomena we can study. Any information would be of help.
Sender:Omer Darche, Pollux. Recipient:Auxo Network, Technocracy of Auxo. Topic:Research.
Perfect. Exactly what we were looking for.
As for the Badlands, yes. There was Sentinel activity near it, as well as some jump shenanigans caused by the navy. It appears the navy has learned how to "active" these rifts, at least when they are currently activated by the Light. It's a complex situation actually, details don't matter too much other than understanding that the libertonian navy is a disgrace in terms of logistical and strategic understanding. They took the word of freelancers and followed orders of freelancers. It wasn't the best sight.
Sidenote, do you trust Aria and Kimiko? They seem to be involved in a lot of this, though I don't know them personally all that well.
Oh. They have figured out how to piece two clues together. How entertaining. Whether the Order is going to get more involved from now on remains to be seen.
Sender:Omer Darche, Pollux. Recipient:Auxo Network, Technocracy of Auxo. Topic:Research.
Aria was formally from your lot, or some such. Yet there's some spite there. We want to work with her, yeah? But trusting her in these sensitive matters including the Bird and the rifts is something we want a second opinion on.
For the other, we know very little about them other than their... Strange connection. Would you happen to know more? A general idea of how to handle jobs with them. We've already asked them to do a surveillance job for us.
Oldies such as Aria hold some nostalgia for the rebellious ragtag of Generation One era. Rose tinted glasses of the our more worse times. No matter.
I cannot determine much beyond that Aria seems to be heavily invested on finding Revenant too, I believe they may have been friends back then, so I hold no worry in them terminating her upon discovery. I cannot say if they are capable of maintaining a shut mouth in regards to the Sentinels. I would first gauge on how much they know before exploring such areas.
Aria has some level of competence. As for Kimiko... Not a clue.
I do not know that Freelancer too much, but they're likely invested for similar reasons, that or a business interest. They seem to be a believer of a type of anarchic philosophy, though I do not know them too initimately. I believe they may know about the Sentinels already.
You could always test the waters and send her on some dummy missions.
[05.05.2024 00:45:37] Red.Beetle-1: Greetings, Technocrat.
[05.05.2024 00:45:45] A/)-Leviathan: You wanted to talk?
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[05.05.2024 00:46:05] Red.Beetle-1: Indeed, it seems my signal reached you.
[05.05.2024 00:46:19] Red.Beetle-1: Though I don't think we ever met before.
[05.05.2024 00:46:48] A/)-Leviathan: Not personally, no. Though my counterpart has informed me of you.
[05.05.2024 00:46:54] A/)-Leviathan: I am Leviathan, Revenant's other half.
[05.05.2024 00:47:07] Red.Beetle-1: I've met Revenant and Lazurith in the past. Pleased to meet you.
[05.05.2024 00:47:15] Red.Beetle-1: I hope you can assist me in my search.
[05.05.2024 00:47:31] A/)-Leviathan: What're you looking for?
[05.05.2024 00:47:42] Red.Beetle-1: I assume your colleague already informed you?
[05.05.2024 00:48:29] A/)-Leviathan: Somewhat, but I need to hear it from you. Trust, but verify.
[05.05.2024 00:48:42] Red.Beetle-1: I'm still trying to meet Lucas.
[05.05.2024 00:50:29] A/)-Leviathan: Hm...
[05.05.2024 00:51:02] A/)-Leviathan: Well, I don't know anybody named Lucas. If I did, it would likely be information that's too dated to be reliable.
[05.05.2024 00:51:16] Red.Beetle-1: Lucas Gerald.
[05.05.2024 00:51:21] Red.Beetle-1: The captain of the Vatan.
[05.05.2024 00:51:24] A/)-Leviathan: Ah.
[05.05.2024 00:51:29] A/)-Leviathan: Yeah.
[05.05.2024 00:51:38] Red.Beetle-1: So Revenant lied.
[05.05.2024 00:51:43] Red.Beetle-1: Of course...
[05.05.2024 00:51:45] A/)-Leviathan: No?
[05.05.2024 00:51:55] A/)-Leviathan: I just said - Dated info.
[05.05.2024 00:52:05] Red.Beetle-1: Yet, you know him.
[05.05.2024 00:52:13] Red.Beetle-1: She said she never heard about him before.
[05.05.2024 00:52:16] A/)-Leviathan: Roughly ten years back.
[05.05.2024 00:52:25] A/)-Leviathan: My knowledge is separate from Revenant.
[05.05.2024 00:52:35] A/)-Leviathan: What she does is her own affairs, same with who she speaks to.
[05.05.2024 00:52:42] Red.Beetle-1: It matters not, tell me anything you know about him, please.
[05.05.2024 00:52:50] A/)-Leviathan: Though The Vatan - That's a vessel I haven't seen in eight to ten years.
[05.05.2024 00:53:16] A/)-Leviathan: Last I had seen, they were engaged in a scuffle within Leeds, against some Royalists during the Gallic war.
[05.05.2024 00:53:31] A/)-Leviathan: I might even have a dated record of that one. Let me open up my archive.
[05.05.2024 00:53:50] Red.Beetle-1: Fine, let's try asking about someone you might know...
[05.05.2024 00:54:11] Red.Beetle-1: I know it's a capital vessel from the former Royal Navy.
[05.05.2024 00:54:38] Red.Beetle-1: The GNI was concerned enough about this knowledge that they attempted against my captain's life.
[05.05.2024 00:55:04] A/)-Leviathan: Indeed. Though, what the GNI doesn't know is that the Vatan actively engaged Royalist vessels of its own accord.
[05.05.2024 00:55:19] A/)-Leviathan: I never met this Captain personally, so I can only draw assumptions from the situation as I understand it.
[05.05.2024 00:55:31] A/)-Leviathan: Likely, like a few others, they resisted the order to burn Leeds.
[05.05.2024 00:55:35] Red.Beetle-1: The GNI is likely, as plagued with infiltrators as it can be,
[05.05.2024 00:56:40] A/)-Leviathan: As is any House agency, really. Ripe for insertion and waiting to be corrupted from within.
[05.05.2024 00:56:45] Red.Beetle-1: The odds Lucas Gerald and the agents I've met are puppets of alien lifeforms is higher than you'd think.
[05.05.2024 00:56:58] A/)-Leviathan: Really?
[05.05.2024 00:57:03] Red.Beetle-1: Yes.
[05.05.2024 00:57:32] A/)-Leviathan: Well, I assume you've got some evidence to bolster that claim. Not that I don't believe the Gallics to be immune to -
[05.05.2024 00:57:38] Red.Beetle-1: They will be disposed of unless they cease hostilities against me, and my captain.
[05.05.2024 00:57:45] Red.Beetle-1: I have evidence, of course.
[05.05.2024 00:57:54] A/)-Leviathan: infiltration, but I can't act on nothing.
[05.05.2024 00:58:09] Red.Beetle-1: The question is, what would it provide if I showed it to your organization?
[05.05.2024 00:58:28] Red.Beetle-1: There's one thing you should know.
[05.05.2024 00:58:40] A/)-Leviathan: Another piece of intel in regards to who can't be trusted? The archive we maintain is passed out to informants.
[05.05.2024 00:58:50] A/)-Leviathan: Compromised individuals tend to get uprooted via means of slow exposure.
[05.05.2024 00:59:07] A/)-Leviathan: Word reaches the right parties, they stop being a problem.
[05.05.2024 00:59:18] Red.Beetle-1: I... /We/, have zero concerns about alien schemes. We will but react against hostilities if needed be.
[05.05.2024 01:00:02] A/)-Leviathan: Listen, you've picked the right person to come to about this.
[05.05.2024 01:00:16] A/)-Leviathan: Typically I'm responsible for sending containment teams to clean up and wipe out war forms around the area.
[05.05.2024 01:00:29] A/)-Leviathan: If there's potential that the Gallics you mentioned are compromised, that information is invaluable to everyone.
[05.05.2024 01:00:36] A/)-Leviathan: And beneficial to your safety if it falls into the right hands.
[05.05.2024 01:00:52] Red.Beetle-1: The Maquis seemed as interested, but for the wrong reasons.
[05.05.2024 01:01:00] A/)-Leviathan: Aliens don't care who exposed them. They're not vengeful. They don't have time to react when their cover is blown.
[05.05.2024 01:01:28] Red.Beetle-1: Well... I'm afraid this is not the case for us.
[05.05.2024 01:01:47] A/)-Leviathan: I've been at this a /long/ time, pilot. Longer than The Technocracy walked its first steps.
[05.05.2024 01:02:18] A/)-Leviathan: You could try your luck with The Order, though.
[05.05.2024 01:02:35] Red.Beetle-1: I had in mind reaching to them.
[05.05.2024 01:02:45] A/)-Leviathan: Odds are they've got the same intel I do.
[05.05.2024 01:13:37] Red.Beetle-1: I want us, me and my captain, to be left alone by the alien lifeforms.
[05.05.2024 01:13:52] Red.Beetle-1: And Lucas Gerald is the key for that.
[05.05.2024 01:13:57] Red.Beetle-1: Or so I've been told.
[05.05.2024 01:14:04] Red.Beetle-1: ... By Shozak.
[05.05.2024 01:14:10] A/)-Leviathan: Who told you such, and why would they need- Ahh.
[05.05.2024 01:15:12] A/)-Leviathan: I would be careful trusting that one. They'll use you to any means to accomplish whatever ulterior motive they're cooking.
[05.05.2024 01:15:41] Red.Beetle-1: My captain only made questions, and it answered.
[05.05.2024 01:15:58] A/)-Leviathan: Next time he comes knocking, go ahead and ask him about me. I've heard his answers are quite colorful and flattering.
[05.05.2024 01:16:06] Red.Beetle-1: By now, however, I have my reasons to believe he was just decieving us.
[05.05.2024 01:16:18] A/)-Leviathan: You'd be wise to trust that intuition, friend.
We'll talk more soon. I still have a lot on my plate right now.
Sender:Omer Darche, Pollux. Recipient:Auxo Network, Technocracy of Auxo. The warning was good. Update for you.
Whatever that thing is, is fully mechanical. Artificial, likely. Too smart for a simple logistical robot. I had someone get in contact with it. It made wild claims, saying we were stalking it's captain, some William of the Iron Brawler. Kept talking about Thuringia. It also had the audacity to threaten us. I don't know where it got its information, but it is wrong regardless. Also, it hosts a Lane Hacker ident.
I've a feeling that thing will become a problem. It is lying about what it is doing in Inverness.
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