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

I think I didn't add a new post to my journal for two months or something like that, so I guess it's about time to reflect everything, get my thoughts sorted and collected. Much has happened again, and thinking I have finally managed to solve one problem, two more problems are popping up and forcing me to be extra careful once more.

Where do I start though... the current situation in the Omicrons is heated again, as the Core and a few Zoner groups are, well, at war, again. There was a ceasefire for some months, but two idiotic captains have managed to break the ceasefire and start a war again, resulting in a massive NEMP bomb going off on Freeport 11, rendering it disfunctional and everyone who didn't get evacuated is by now probably already dead. I heard they were able to bring most people to Gran Canaria. Good enough we left the planet after the christmas holidays to celebrate New Year on Curacao. However, as the Core was not only fighting the Zoners in Omicron Delta but also entered Omicron Kappa, I was forced to relocate the Apahanta temporarily, hiding it deep in the Peloponnese nebula while we somehow had to ensure the cloaking device can be brought online again, as the IRG teams are still tinkering with it. They better get things done soon, though. It's three months already, and I have invested much money.

That however wasn't the only relocation of the Apahanta in the recent months, as the IRG teams weren't constantly working on the Apahanta, which allowed me to take the ship for a few flights. And what intersting things have happened in that time. Outcast pirates have placed a NEMP bomb in New York, temporarily disabling the jump gate to California. A jump hole forming in Omicron Kappa and New London, connecting those two systems for a bit more than a day. As a result, ships got massacred in Kappa and mass graves were brought from the Omicrons to the houses. That wasn't the only new jump hole connection, though. I brought the Apahanta to the Kepler system, where right above Ames a jump hole had formed, leading into Rheinland space, however not into populated one.

An abandoned depot was there, guarded by very angry nomads. Marduks. Maren somehow managed to enter that station and showed me the data she was able to extract, although everything is very cryptical. Looks like they were working on different things, and Leon said there were data about a new engine type included. He and a few other people on the Apahanta are currently taking a closer look at it. Maybe we will be able to upgrade the Apahanta's engine to something more efficient.

Nice and fine, but that birdch Raven was of course around when the Apahanta left the rheinlandian system to get back to Kepler, and during one moment of carelessness, she managed to have the Eidolon Wraith scan the Apahanta, so she was we got stuff from the depot, including the remains of a nomad vessel that was shot by the other guys that were spooking around in that system. To be fair, I think it's better to return those remains to where they belong instead of having Raven get her hands on them.

She is becoming more and more of a problem. A static antagonist. I was hoping she'd stop it with those hostilities once Maren and I were scanned and declared non-infected on her ship, but it seems like nothing has changed. I was playing daredevil for one day, moving the Apahanta from Omega-49 through Bretonia to get to Kepler again, so we did that, making sure nobody would find the Apahanta in space where it isn't welcomed. I have no idea how they found out, or even if they did, but Bretonia's security patrols were surprisingly active that day, following a ghost from New London over to Cortez and even Magellan, where I made I leap of faith and moved to Vespucci, simply because Bretonia doesn't dare to go there, and I can at least say I'm a citizen of the Commonwealth... who just happens to have a battleship. In Vespucci, we were alone, and so we moved on through the southern regions of Liberty, staying unseen. We eventually reached the Freeport in Bering, as moving up to Kepler again was too dangerous for the moment. Later, we brought the Apahanta back to Kappa using the shortcut through Rheinland. Nobody saw us there either.

However, that virago of Auxesia again tried to destroy my reputation. There was another AFC jump race in Omega-3, and the Eidolon Wraith and the ship of Admiral Hall, the Sovereign, where there as well. She somehow knew that the Apahanta was in Bretonia that day, but she had no clue for it. She was spreading rumors, as she had heard a bretonian admiral got something but nothing real. So, with Hall being present, she confronted me on a public channel, asking me why the Apahanta was in Bretonia and all that, and in the end dared to warn me, as if she was the bretonian law in person. Her megalovania is getting bigger and bigger, and that's a real problem. While Maren just wants me to settle down with her finally, I can't do it yet. And thus I have to prepare myself and teh Apahanta in case of Auxesia actually trying something against us. Gathering information, learning about their weaknesses. I noticed Raven got defensive when I mentioned her raids on Liberty in front of Hall, so maybe I should try and find out more about their diplomatic relations with everyone and their mother. Maybe Nesrin can help me here once more. Which reminds me...

Since Auxesia was demanding it so badly, I allowed them to send a team on the Apahanta while it was moored at Livadia. They sent a ship called Adraste, Osiris-class. Venator Dryad led the investigation, and apart from her being a rather rough and professional Auxesian, she seemed to be more of a scientist than actually being a warship captain. But, well, doesn't mean much, given that I am a biology teacher and not a trained warship admiral. But looking at the statusof the Apahanta, I seem to do not that bad. No losses since our defection. Auxesia seems to need to repair their capitals more frequently, given I witnessed them getting heavily damaged in New York and Manchester. Doesn't prevent them from sneaking around everywhere the Apahanta is dispatched, though.

Ergh, I really shouldn't think about it, not right now. Bretonia didn't contact me for a fine or something else so far, so I guess they don't have any proof of the Apahanta having been there. That's good, yet I don't want to risk too much with them. After all, I'm still looking for a chance to have them granting us shelter. I'd even join the fight against Gallia, if necessary. I mean, I'd do everything to prevent the frenchmen to start an assault against Curacao. In that case, I might actually would throw the Apahanta against them, if really necessary. Let's just hope that won't ever happen, with Bretonia, Liberty, the Commonwealth and the weird Crayterians protecting Curacao.

Uh... I'll make a short break here and check whether Maren is still sleeping. She usually wakes up pretty fast when I'm not providing her my chest as her pillow. Funny, actually, as I noticed how she coughs wildly once she salivated into her mouth and then wakes up for a moment, drinks a bit of water, then puts her head against onto my chest in a way that allows the saliva to leave her mouth. Like, I can't remember when I woke up without a wet chest in the morning. Sometimes even the belly.

Anyway, back in a few. Don't continue without me, log.

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