We have recently noticed an increased Nomad activity within Liberty. This activity has a tendency to be highly spontaneous and uncoordinated, while the encounters range from hostile through indifferent to even moderately friendly. Several days ago I have encountered a non-aggressive morph in Badlands. The same entity attacked our two Bactrians in Cortez just two days later completely unprovoked. The same morph was spotted in Alberta by Airdrie Interceptor, while just two days ago during Mr Nick Nack's operation two different morphs showed hostileattitude at Pennsylvania Gate near Badlands in New York. I have been told that Mr Yoshida along with Mr Trigger have encountered a Nomad battleship accompanied by several smaller specimen in New York, while Mr Nick Nack has reported another sighting of a Nomad Cruiser. Yesterday, during our harassment of the new LPI base at Fort Bush another morph has helped us during combat, while today with the help of Mr Trigger and Mr Scorpius I have put an end to a Nomad cruiser stalking me for past couple days in Badlands.
Let me use this opportunity to stress out how important is that you all strictly follow our operational protocol during encounters with the Nomads and their infected Wilde slaves.
Any contact with Nomads and Wilde is to be avoided. Avoid combat if possible and prioritize escape. All encounters with alien lifeforms should be forwarded to the Professorship without any exceptions. Failure to do so will result in your swift termination as a traitorous alien spy that you must be, spineless punk.
Remember that even those cute little Nomad morphs are not pets! They are potentially dangerous creatures. If you do not have enough wits to mania interrogate them until they overload their Mindshare with cognitive dissonance, rob them of their Liquid Cardamine or make someone else to do the mankind service and kill them, leave on the assumption that otherwise you will end up as their puppet.
I attach several surveillance logs showing proper security measures to be taken during encounters with alien lifeforms as well as possible scenarios of proper responses to their presence. As you probably know Nomads communicate with us by altering our brainwaves in a way that induce more or less faint images or concepts. Therefore, for obvious reasons the surveilance shows only what is happening in my cockpit. Use this knowledge and expect regular alien infestation scans.
That is all,
Nicole Hunter
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Surveillance log: New York, Badlands, The Superbomber, 15th August
Nicole Hunter enables internal recording and inhales a dose of Cardamine. Then she activates an analog barrier which disengages most systems except lifer support and engines. Nicole Hunter: What news do you bring? Nicole Hunter enables self-destruction mechanism and resets its timer once it reaches several seconds. Nicole Hunter: We weaken the Liberty Navy for our own interests not yours. Nicole Hunter: Mr Scorpius, please maintain 5 click distance. Vladimir Scorpius: Yes, Professor. Nicole Hunter: If my bio-scan will turn out to be uncertain you have the right to terminate me. So what brings a specimen of K'Hara to me? Nicole Hunter shakes and starts to breath very deeply to regain control. She then targets the Nomad cruiser, locks on it and unleashes its entire Supernova potential. Nicole Hunter: Stop now! Stop! Stop! Nicole Hunter looks like it required a great determination for her to say anything before she calms down. Nicole Hunter: We have a stalemate here. A balance of power. Nicole Hunter: It is your existence will cease here if you try to invade my mind again. You cannot be certain whether your minion will manage to destroy me on time without your support. Nicole Hunter: A balance of power and risk on both sides. A situation your kind rarely sees. Nicole Hunter: Now, what news do you bring? Was it Miss Corino who sent you after me? Or you are just an expression of the Hive's curiosity about this weapon? Nicole Hunter: Indeed, it is a technology level you have never achieved. Another argument for your limitations. Nicole Hunter: Its source lies in Omega-5. Ronneburg, it is the name of it. This I can tell you. Nicole Hunter: Now you need to pay the price for this information. My scanners detected a Cardamine of the highest purity. I think it would be proper for you to give them me. As an apology for intruding my mind and as a payment for the information. Nicole Hunter quickly opens an encrypted channel to an Order operative within the System. Nicole Hunter: Good evening. Are you looking maybe for a quite large blue jelly? Prim Claark: Alright, I am free. Nicole Hunter: Do you have more operatives available for a gunboat class ship? Prim Claark: I'm only available agent in this region but I can try and gather more people, Hacker. Nicole Hunter: Lost it. The gunboat cloaked and cruised away. Prim Claark: Last known location? Nicole Hunter: Sector D7. Prim Claark: Alright, entering Badlands.
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Surveillance log: New York, Badlands, Nicole Hunter's Rapier, 25th December
Nicole Hunter: Reveal yourself.
Nicole Hunter: You surely have access to the Hive's knowledge about myself.
Nicole Hunter: So you are a juvenile form. What is your purpose?
Nicole Hunter: You should know that my knowledge about your kind is above standard.
Nicole Hunter: And I know very well that this "peaceful nature" is only a temporary trait.
Nicole Hunter: Perform following thought process. There is Entity A, B and C. Entity A and B have an alliance. Entity A is aggressive, while B is lenient. B meets C and knows B is allied with A. C is wise. What C's stance towards B supposed to be considering it's wise?
Nicole Hunter: Please elaborate. Why neutrality is the best long term strategy.
Nicole Hunter: Good argument.Indeed trying to get as much information from you would make me better prepared for what is to come at some point. This approach makes sense for you as well. Though I must say that it would be in both yours and mine best interest to feed each other with misinformation.
Nicole Hunter: Cannot argue with that. However, flaws are the motor of our evolution. In constant struggle we are forged.
Nicole Hunter: As far as I know your kind did not evolve at all for centuries. You remained exactly as you were created. Accumulated experience though your "species" for a lack of better word stayed the same.
Nicole Hunter: Really? Wasn't the war that broke away over two decades ago a best example of a scenario when a change should be in order? Perfection of replication is at the same time a curse of stagnancy.
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Surveillance log: New York, Badlands, Mactan Retaliator, 1st January
Nicole Hunter: You may reveal yourself now.
Nicole Hunter: You are certainly an adult specimen. Though you are far smaller than the Harbinger.
Nicole Hunter: Do not try to subdue me. Nicole Hunter instructs her crew to initiate highest security protocol and inhales another dose of Cardamine. Nicole Hunter: I do have a different view on what enlightenment is.
Nicole Hunter: I do understand that you're linked with the juvenile specimen of your kind I encountered several days ago.
Nicole Hunter: I believe I am capable of comprehending you regardless.
Nicole Hunter: Two standard solar days ago a kin of yours attacked me and our initiate near Pennsylvania Gate in this system.
Nicole Hunter: Three standard solar days ago another of your kin attacked two of our Bactrians in Cortez unprovoked, when they were trying to avoid any contact and withdraw.
Nicole Hunter: So you insist that our purpose is to entertain you or die?
Nicole Hunter: As far as I've been told they were conducting operations completely unrelated to your presence and decided to withdraw on your first sight. What is your rationale for this hostility?
Nicole Hunter: Similarly to your juvenile form pilot of Airdire Interceptor lacks our greater understanding.
Nicole Hunter: I hope you understand the concept of equality. I lack the same with regard to pilot of Airdire Interceptor as you towards being you called Enki.
Nicole Hunter: The problem is that you are in no power to do so. You can guarantee lack of aggression neither of your "lesser forms" nor the "greater ones". Am I mistaken?
Nicole Hunter: Indeed - we do understand the potential of Cardamine. This does not mean we intend to become your slaves or that we appreciate what some of our dear Maltese allies have done in the past.
Nicole Hunter: Are you capable of speaking on behalf of entire of your Hive? Nicole Hunter quickly contacts Leiden Retaliator on secure channel. Trigger: Should I approach you under cloak? Nicole Hunter: Yes, and uncloak near me. Trigger: Alright, going under cloak. Nicole Hunter: Your general stance towards our species and your previous deeds do not suggest it would be in our best interest to stay indifferent. Answer yourself a question. Our long term goals are not convergent. More so, we view you as a grave threat which indeed you are. You do not ally with someone who planned to annihilate you in the past and is not doing it now only because of temporary weakness.
Nicole Hunter: I have heard it so many times. The specimen Enki was also indifferent in the past but suddenly decided to change his stance. We have learned enough about you to know who you are and what you do and what you are capable of. For the time being your infiltrators amongst the government and military forces are the biggest threat. You are weakened and as long as you stay in the deep Omicrons we will be indifferent to you.
Nicole Hunter: We will be even indifferent to you here in Liberty. As long as you do what we have done with regard to you - avoid us. To send you this message - to avoid us - we will destroy this corporal "husk" as you call it.
Nicole Hunter: Be on your way "Spirit". Open fire. Vladimir Scorpius: Totally logical.
Trigger: Roger that, I am going in.
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