Akabat, The Order war council

[Omicron]

Admiral Golanski listened to Eistochter, acknowledging her concerns about importance of hybrid tech over bigger threat out there. He nodded hearing inquiry about infestation within ranks of Liberty government forces, having had prepared material that they would find acceptable.

“Good question, miss Eistochter. You are right in assuming that fusing human and nomad technology is nothing new. Hybrid hardware was committed originally by Nomads themselves, adapting more potent technology for their infested thralls. While design became almost seamless over the years, it is nothing more than a tool. Adapted equipment is avenue tried and developed by The Order with good dose of success. The Tundra on other hand... is an autonomous being grown into the ship itself. Whether it is actual Nomad entity or… artificial construct, we have yet to discover. This topic will be expanded upon later on, when we will treat about Omicron cluster itself. Now, one of our operatives present in this very room can testimony for purity among ranks of Liberty armed forces branches. Agent Stone, present your findings.”

A girl with a black uniform stood to answer the Bundschuh officer. Her uniform looked as it has seen better days but was still in acceptable shape. She took a small electronic storage device, handing it to Golanski so he could put them into the system for everyone else to see. There were three images in total, all sporting Liberty ships with D9 identification: First showed two Guardian fighters benefitting from fire support provided by Nomad ships. Another unveiled Liberty gunboat class warship near a Nomad cruiser. Finally, Nomad battleship - assisted by its own escort and couple of D9 vessels - laying waste to Liberty Naval Overlord-class dreadnought in the Cortez system.

“Liberty is far from clean, from my recent operations within outer rim of Liberty such as Coronado and Cortez. I‘ve seen several ships flying under an… well, broken IFF’s. Liberty is a hotbed of activity; as a matter of fact I ran into various incidents including Division 9 of Liberty Security Force. From what we gathered so far, it is not farfetched that this particular group became Nomad’s most notorious asset within Liberty itself. They are often frequented by infectees of other houses, so far noted Kusarian and Maltese branches - such as former Contari Lance pilot decloaking right into my wing during patrol in Baffin system. Division does not limit itself to Liberty and independent worlds either as they dared to follow us all the way to our Omicron strongholds.”

She puts an image out of a D9 guardian fighter near Order installation within unspecified location. Pattern was the same: usual ship under pretense of Liberty Security Force operative.

“This pilot, branding callsign of Wild Fox told me he could give me physical proof that the LSF high command is infected; while I never received evidence, disturbing fact is that this vessel came to us just a several hours after the LSF primary fleet itself communicated with us on the same topic of infectees infiltrating branches of Liberty government agencies.”

Drawing close, Admiral thanked her for co-operation. Hoping it answered Freya’s question, he was ready to continue on with next house he wanted to cover within scope of this council.

Kusari

Interactive map of Sirius moved on to galactic northernmost of the colonies, the House of Kusari. Highlighted was star system of Tohoku, neighbouring homes of all Kusari individuals gathered in the room. Hokkaido, Chugoku and Okinawa were all within single jump range, first in line against Nomad forces concentrated around local Nomad fortress. Heaven’s Arch, called also Tekagi’s Arch dominated the exploited part of Tohoku. Additional data flew to guest terminals, branding it as base of operations for both Nomads and infected forces in whole of Kusari. Stormed multiple times over the years, most notable raid was performed by Blood Dragons during course of Nomad War. During 817-818, three campaigns were set in motion by The Order to overthrow threat from Arch prior to fall of Toledo. The closest to victory became the final campaign, succeeding in sending combined Order-Dragon troops deep inside the station itself.

“Kusari is a troubled region for our operations as we kept encountering near impossible odds that set us back significantly. If it were not for Aoi Iseijin - a term coined by Kusarians on what we know as Kusari infected branch - we were engaged by KNF. From all militaries, this one proved to be most aggressive to our cause and are known by us to be heavily proliferated by Nomads. Let it speak for that Aoi itself is composed of several actual KNF battlegroups worth of personnel infested since Nomad War. Officially an unit within Kusari fleet named Hanta Isejin, this particular branch was designated to stop Nomad threat within their own borders for almost full eighteen years. I believe I do not have to stress out how incompetent their fleet is, and that we cannot trust them.”

Admiral paused, seemingly frustrated by Kusari state of affairs. Information provided displayed various cases of infectees operating under false flag of Hanta Iseijin, incorporating captured elements of different Kusarian factions later on. Familiar ships of GMG, GC, Hogosha, Dragons... Everyone could become a victim. He then re-affirmed himself looking at his Kusari guests, continuing his speech.

“If there is someone within Kusari itself capable of fighting this menace, it is you.”

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