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**Zephyranthes** · 04-23-2018, 03:33 AM,

INCOMING TRANSMISSION

NEURAL NET ID: Curator Firmitas
SECURITY CLEARANCE: Absolute
ENCRYPTION LEVEL: HIGH
PRIORITY: High
FREQUENCY: THELETOS
DELAY: N/A
TOPIC: New Zoners in town - Prospective affiliates?

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MESSAGE

A routine recon mission in Coronado was surprisingly fruitful.

During my transit from Barrier Gate back to Inverness, I discovered a small fleet of Zoner-ID'd ships in the vicinity of Planet Baja, Going under the flag of "The Arcana Group", their force consisted of one Oasis-class Passenger Liner and three escorting Kestrel-class freighters. The Arcanists, as I will call them, were outfitting their ships with equipment better suited to deep space operations and most likely preparing to ship out to the Edge Worlds. The only other known contact they have had has been with the Discordians, judging by a snippet of systemwide transmissions I intercepted. They don't seem to have well-formed opinions of two of our main rivals, the Order and Core. They mentioned the supplying of Freeports as part of their MO. Attached to this report is a communications log of our dialogue.

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[23.04.2018 01:51:43] [TAZ]Zonenrandgebiet: Hagbard: 23's

[23.04.2018 01:51:59] Arc|Hierophant: You as well, friend.

[23.04.2018 01:52:11] A/)-Blaze: F: Talking people, huh?

[23.04.2018 01:52:39] [TAZ]Zonenrandgebiet: Hagbard: better than shootn people

[23.04.2018 01:53:00] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Coronado's busy today.

[23.04.2018 01:53:03] Arc|Hierophant: Quite.

[23.04.2018 01:53:20] A/)-Blaze: F: Huh, that's interesting.

[23.04.2018 01:53:30] Arc|Hierophant: Life tends to be.

[23.04.2018 01:53:49] A/)-Blaze: F: Haven't seen Zoners here recently, save for the Discordians.

[23.04.2018 01:54:22] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: ... Can I help you?

[23.04.2018 01:54:46] A/)-Blaze: F: Just a curious wanderer of the Independent Worlds wondering what your situation is. Sorry if that's too personal.

[23.04.2018 01:54:58] A/)-Blaze: F: Heavily escorted liners are... interesting.

[23.04.2018 01:54:58] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: We're just travelling. I was helping some of my associates get re-equipped.

[23.04.2018 01:55:11] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: And I'm not sure a flight of Kestrels counts as heavy escort.

[23.04.2018 01:55:49] A/)-Blaze: F: More than is usually afforded to them.

[23.04.2018 01:56:22] A/)-Blaze: F: Seems more like... a flotilla, actually.

[23.04.2018 01:56:33] A/)-Blaze: F: You guys nomadic in operation?

[23.04.2018 01:56:33] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: And what would Zoners be using such a flotilla for, exactly?

[23.04.2018 01:56:38] Arc|Hierophant: I like that word. Flotilla.

[23.04.2018 01:56:56] A/)-Blaze: F: Well, wandering from place to place with their families, seeing what could help put food on the plates.

[23.04.2018 01:56:57] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: We travel, we trade, we explore. "Nomadic" has unfortunate connotations.

[23.04.2018 01:57:03] A/)-Blaze: F: Doesn't it, though?

[23.04.2018 01:57:53] Arc|Hierophant: We're nomadic, but we're not nomadic nomadic.

[23.04.2018 01:58:05] A/)-Blaze: F: Maybe... roving? Wandering?

[23.04.2018 01:58:10] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: That's a better fit, aye.

[23.04.2018 01:58:32] Arc|Hierophant: Not particularly associated to any singular place at any given point in time.

[23.04.2018 01:58:48] Arc|Hierophant: Excessive verbiage, but that is the way

[23.04.2018 01:58:51] A/)-Blaze: F: I guess this region is just one of your temporary stomping grounds, then?

[23.04.2018 01:59:00] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Aye, that's the way of it. 

[23.04.2018 01:59:05] Arc|Hierophant: A stopover of sorts.

[23.04.2018 01:59:11] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: The Gate's the best place for a lot of the equipment we needed.

[23.04.2018 01:59:19] Arc|Hierophant: The Baffinites are good folk. Nice tea.

[23.04.2018 01:59:43] A/)-Blaze: F: What kind of equipment, if you don't mind me asking?

[23.04.2018 02:00:06] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Replacement scanners, armor plating for deep-space operations, shields for the same...

[23.04.2018 02:00:32] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: The Edge is a dangerous place these days, even moreso than the rest of Sirius. We need to be ready if we head out to 

[23.04.2018 02:00:34] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: Freeports 9 or 11.

[23.04.2018 02:00:45] Arc|Hierophant: Your standard Zoner fare.

[23.04.2018 02:00:54] A/)-Blaze: F: Deep space explorers, I imagine, then. Omicron operations might mean you deal with Nomads.

[23.04.2018 02:01:12] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: That would be what the guns are for.

[23.04.2018 02:01:53] A/)-Blaze: F: Figures, yeah.

[23.04.2018 02:02:05] A/)-Blaze: F: Say, what do you know about, uh... anti-Nomad groups?

[23.04.2018 02:02:21] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: I know that they shoot Nomads, if that helps.

[23.04.2018 02:02:27] Arc|Hierophant: Presumably, they do good work.

[23.04.2018 02:02:32] A/)-Blaze: F: Which ones?

[23.04.2018 02:02:39] A/)-Blaze: F: I'm guessing Core and Order.

[23.04.2018 02:03:07] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: We supply the Freeports.

[23.04.2018 02:03:14] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Anyone welcome there is fine with us.

[23.04.2018 02:03:20] A/)-Blaze: F: A fair stance.

[23.04.2018 02:03:50] Arc|Hierophant: We just avoid trouble.

[23.04.2018 02:03:58] Arc|Hierophant: It's easier for the universe that way.

[23.04.2018 02:03:58] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: No, Corwin, now is *not* a good time to bother me about the plumbing.

[23.04.2018 02:04:04] A/)-Blaze: F: Well, if you've ever got any interesting... information about goings on around you, you might be interested in dropping-

[23.04.2018 02:04:15] A/)-Blaze: -us a line. Look up Auxesia on the Neural Net.

[23.04.2018 02:04:24] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: We'll keep it in mind.

[23.04.2018 02:04:39] Arc|Hierophant: A presumably fairly noble cause.

[23.04.2018 02:04:56] A/)-Blaze: F: Well, we don't like genocide, and we don't like idiots waving toys around that could cause it.

[23.04.2018 02:05:16] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Yeah that's reasonabl- enough cracks about my cooking you twat

[23.04.2018 02:05:29] A/)-Blaze: F: *Chuckles* Trouble with the crew?

[23.04.2018 02:05:36] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Somethin' like.

[23.04.2018 02:05:39] Arc|Hierophant: Cabin fever.

[23.04.2018 02:06:00] Arc|Hierophant: *whispers* Also his cooking is average at best...

[23.04.2018 02:06:08] A/)-Blaze: F: Well, I won't hold you from getting on to your next destination. You got a name on the Neural Net for your group?

[23.04.2018 02:06:23] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: There's not much documentation out there about us as yet, but we're the Arcana Group.

[23.04.2018 02:06:45] A/)-Blaze: F: Arcana. I like it. Real mystical vibe.

[23.04.2018 02:06:49] Tip: Are you a new player? Discovery Freelancer is not the easiest game to get your head around. If you have any questions of any kind, do not feel discouraged or embarrassed to ask them on our forum or simply approach other players for help.

[23.04.2018 02:07:29] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Right, everyone's got their drive system checks done?

[23.04.2018 02:07:35] Arc|Hierophant: Indeedy.

[23.04.2018 02:07:41] Arc|King.of.Cups: done a while ago

[23.04.2018 02:07:43] Arc|Seeker.IX: Aye.

[23.04.2018 02:07:46] A/)-Blaze: F: Safe skies. The Covenant'll be watching out for you all.

[23.04.2018 02:07:49] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Great, you know the route

[23.04.2018 02:10:10] Death: V___GER_2 was put out of action by AD|Mal.Di.Ventre (Gun).

[23.04.2018 02:10:28] Warning!

[23.04.2018 02:10:28] You have entered a CONTESTED TERRITORY.

[23.04.2018 02:10:28] Any PVP deaths suffered by non-generic IDs in Cortez have a reduced cooldown time of 30 minutes instead of the standard 2 hours.

[23.04.2018 02:10:28] All other server rules are in place.

[23.04.2018 02:10:35] Arc|Hierophant: Howdy again.

[23.04.2018 02:10:40] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Thrust issues.

[23.04.2018 02:10:48] Arc|King.of.Cups: and trust issues

[23.04.2018 02:10:51] A/)-Blaze: F: Want me to contact some technicians?

[23.04.2018 02:10:58] Arc|Rotella.di.Fortuna: B: Nah, I think we can get through it.

[23.04.2018 02:11:00] Arc|Hierophant: Think we'll be fine.

[23.04.2018 02:11:02] Arc|Hierophant: Thanks though.

[23.04.2018 02:11:05] A/)-Blaze: F: Alright. See you around.

[23.04.2018 02:15:11] 2018-04-23 02:15:16 SMT  Traffic control alert: A/)-Blaze has requested to dock

-=FOR THE EYES OF THE INNER PHALANX ONLY=-

These newborn Zoner conclaves are the perfect breeding ground for sympathizers to our cause. We would be wise to pursue further diplomatic relations and possibly induct them into our Affiliate Network for intelligence and resource gathering. Our eyes and ears in the Zoner area of things have been lacking as of late and could do with some refreshment. Who knows, we might even find some hopefuls looking to join a more worthy cause, as well.

Recommend establishment of diplomatic relations ASAP.

- Firmitas

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