Defending the Delta

[Sombs]

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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

That was it about Auxesia. Now, what all else has happened? We had a certain reaction onboard after our return from the Eidolon Wraith. Nancy, who seems to... really hate me now, was offended by the way we didn't tell her about us leaving the ship for this examination. I just left her a little notice.

However, I already got used to her behavior to me. It's really a shame. I doubt there is a way to fix what is broken between us. Maybe it's better this way.

Anyway. While Nancy is mad at me, Valery however offered to do what she had offered a while ago already. Having the knowledge of the mindshare, she said she could try to upgrade the cloaking device of the Corvo, with the help of the Nomad Power Cell Maren once brought to us. It was a time-consuming process. I mean, I helped her with the construction. We basically only build some sort of adapter for our normal cloaking device. Like, she told me what exactly to do and I did it, not knowing what I did. We ended up with a... metallic thing, that, to my eyes, didn't make much sense. Like, I know very few about engineering, but that thing was just a bunch of metal pieces welded together. The thing is, it basically was literally this. It was just a foundation for the real deal. For the next step, Valery brought Nancy down to the engineering, to have her spit on the thing. Yes, spitting. Since Valery is still inside Nancy, she made her spit some weird nomadic material onto the thing and told her to smear it all over it. It was a weird thing to see, actually.

Days later, the substance eat into the metal, and it looked more and more like something the Core would cut into slices in the laboratories of Durban Station. Assuring me it could work, Valery told me to try it out later, after inserting the Nomad Power Cell into the device and connecting it with the engine and the cloaking device. That, basically, is how one incubus and one human created a hybrid cloaking device. A working one. I tested it when Maren, Nancy, Valery and Sombra were on Canaria, leaving me and Mittens alone on the ship. It works. I tried it for an hour, flying around in Cayman, passing some Reaper ships that didn't see the Corvo. However, I didn't want to push it too far, so I returned the ship to our hiding spot in the Flare Nebula and waited for my crew to return.

I took the time to write a communique to the Oracles, as they could be able to help me with another problem: The Core.

I think I already did a log about my first encounter with the old devil Cordelia Lyell of the Core. Well, I had a second meeting with her, and it was a catastrophe, as it seemed they wanted to trap the Apahanta. I didn't think of the new Jump Hole to Omicron Rho in the Minor nebula, close to Toledo. So they forced the Apahanta to return to Alabama. There was a small window of opportunity for me to escape from them, building up just enough distance to prevent them from stopping the cloaking device of the Apahanta. It was really, really close, but we were able to slip away.

Second Core encounter in Omicron Minor

[Transcription]

Then, something surprising happened. I contacted Lyell again, and this time, we worked something out. Like, we had a final meeting, this time somewhere remote. The Junker Station in Omega-55, in a bar. Only a few people there, and a nice girl behind the counter. This time, I was thinking I was in a better position than her. She came with two guards, one staying outside, the other staying close to her. Mortimer. So she took a seat, guessing I wanted to record this conversation, and had a stun blaster with me. Tricking me once again, she bluffed when she took out a little device, saying it would generate an EMP field, just to make sure this wouldn't get recorded by anyone in the bar. Fucking Bitch.

So we talked, once again. No weapons, no recordings. Of course she played her cards in a way that would just aim for embarassing me, like she always did. In the end, we finally found the foundation of a deal. To solve this solution now, she put my name on the list of the costumers of APM, which will make sure it will look to the Core like I legally purchased the Apahanta. In return, she wants me to provide her in-depth dossiers about the Church of Malta and the Faith of Tarxien. Never heard about the latter. So, I had no other choice but to contact the Oracles, one again. And now, we have a special guest here. A woman I already know from a little trip to Manhattan - Oracle Marie Mercier.

Her appearance here is a bit troublesome, as she not only managed to find us here, deep inside the Flare Nebula, where not even the Reapers found us, or the Auxesians. No, she also managed to dock with the Hoffnungsschimmer without anyone of us noticing. That happened one hour ago. I woke up, hearing Sombra screaming and shouting, so I grabbed the stun blaster and ran to the hallway, seeing the door to Sombra's room was open, and there she was. Marie Mercier. She actually only wanted to wake up Sombra, so she could ask her where everyone was. Marie was surprised herself nobody allowed her to dock. I just looked up the docking logs, and this time, it was Nancy's fault, it seems, as she didn't send the lock signal to the docking bay when she left the ship with Valery...

Anyway. Everything is alright, more or less. Marie is here now, and she wants to take a look at the 'spirit' and how we treat her. If it's okay, she will provide me the data on the Church and the Faith of Tarxien. That's a step into the right direction. Maybe we once will be able to return to a normal life.

Sombra calmed down again, and Marie and her were talking for a short while, while I took the opportunity to slip into some pants, as I was completely nude when I encountered Marie. We then went to the canteen, talking a bit about how things are going here. She wasn't aware of Valery having left Maren's body to fix Nancy, and I told her about Valery projecting a real human image as an avatar, so to say. I think it impressed her to see how real this projection was.

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