Defending the Delta

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These log entries are created in secret and aren't available to any other entity.

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Log - Ezrael Vertiga

Omega-49 feels nice, but Maren and I felt we needed to visit a special place. The place where it all started. Omicron Delta. Nostalgia drove us there, as I wished to see the sun of Delta with her beautiful belt shining on Freeport 11. It's the place were we meet each other, and it was the place were we became friends. So Maren took the Sweetheart and I choose the Hoffnungsschimmer, since Omicron Delta was now said to be a silent place, now that the Core and the Zoners stopped attacking each other - or at least we heard nothing about it so far.

The flight itself was okay. Romantic chat about how it happened, how we met. Was nice. And then, in Omega-47, she already felt the Guardians in Delta, being angry. She said as long as we stay away from them, it would be okay. And I just said I had not intention to get close to them. I better should have heard... Nancy and Leon were on the Hoffnungsschimmer as well, Nancy sleeping and Leon watching the flight via PDA-access to the 3D-cameras. When we arrived in Delta, he joined our comm channel from Nancy's room, where he had sit all the time while Nancy was in bed. I didn't quite get it, but something went wrong with the tranquilization of Nancy, and for some reason she's temporary paralyzed, not even able to move her arms and legs. She's totally relying on Leon, Maren and the Kishiro Service Robots. And on me, of course.

In Delta, we approached the Freeport 11, as it somehow felt like a distant home. Thallia was here, too, and we didn't know that. She had a meeting with Hans von Goeben, one of her collegues from the Ingenuus Research Group. Auxesia was in Delta, with more than a full wing of ships. A Saracen, the Artemis, the Redshift, the Serpentis and the Specter. They really pissed the nomads off, as they talked that loud, everyone in Omicron Delta could feel the nomads. What then happened...

3D-Footage of the event - 4 megabytes

The Marduks encircled us while they were cloaked, then they changed it. While everyone was about to panic, they shot the freeport with heavy force, like the Core did. Maren and Sans Valeur did their best to protect the Hoffnungsschimmer, as she said. I bet she talked to them in mind. However, she said we can go, so we tried and got away, hiding behind Tuvalu, tryint to calm down, as anyone else would have died. The Commune arrived in Delta right after that, but we're out of their range. Everyone was going insane. Maren was about to leave me, as she thought she would bring me in danger. But that's not true. She always kept the danger away from me, delivering the Lane Hacker message on her own, shielding me from nomad supporters and themselves, as well as doing great as a girlfriend. I had to convince her very hard to stay with me, because, I couldn't live without her anymore.

Leon was mad and panicked, sending a comm to all over sirius, showing pictures of the attack on the freeport, while he got responses from the weirdest people. Everyone acted like Marduks firing at the freeport was a normal thing, and that braindead girl, Enma Loyola, was at the freeport during the attack and still claimed Leon picked the wrong side - as if we got attacked. It's fucking freeport. What's wrong with that girl? So I checked something, because I heard that name Loyola earlier. In fact, she's one of the nomad supporters I encountered multiple times in Delta, as she and others attacked the Apahanta and the ships we had to protect, be it the Zoners or the expedition's Mako. She was there... Loyola. I need to be careful about her. Unpredictable, maybe mental ill, according to her reaction on the attack.

The other reactions were made by the Core and Captain Jessebelle Fillian. Captain Jess. She's still alive, it seems. I wonder how long that will last.

Leon has calmed down in the meantime, after punching me into the face and the belly, as I was the one who decided to go to Delta, without asking them for permission... nobody had thought that would happen. However, I won't take the Hoffnungsschimmer again to any dangerous space. I can't risk Nancy's and Leon's life that easily again. This time, I was just selfish and dumb.

We escaped Delta and returned to Omega-49, and during that flight, I felt a bit strange, as I was happy. More and more happy. I felt invincible with Maren at my side. So many times I cheated death. So many times luck was on my side. Lady luck, it seems, is my fiancé, Maren von Westefeld. Back on the Hoffnungsschimmer, I had to hold her for some minutes, and then we looked for Nancy and Leon. He already had punched me at that time, right after I left the bridge. Then he returned to Nancy, and so did we. She was still sleeping, so Maren woke her up, while I talked to Leon again. He was obviously in fear, sitting down in front of Nancy's bed, hugging his legs, shivering. Poor guy. That's something he really didn't deserve.

And then, we told them. I tried to be straight with it, but Nancy needed some time to get it, so Maren and Sans Valeur talked to her in a mindmeld, and according to them, everything is okay now. It's just Leon who is still bugged and scared by those three marduks. He told us to leave the room, so he could get some rest with Nancy, so we did. I'm now here in my room, and Maren is looking after Thallia, since she is already back on my ship, but I don't know her status. I hope she's okay, as she was in the center of the action in Delta...

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