Defending the Delta

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Apahanta Intranet ID recognized
EZRAEL VERTIGA



Personal Audio Log





The Wild and new income

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Things are pretty messy, still. Maren is weird, Nancy is angry. The latter mostly about me doing things with the SIS, trying to clean her name. She is not a fan of it at all, not trusting the SIS. Who can blame her, really. Intelligence groups are always rather hideous. I do think Miss Perry is reliable, though, and what she suggested is in no way risky for me or Nancy. A simple scan of her, right infront of Perry, and it could clear her criminal records. What I do understand is her fear of getting caught after it. The SIS obviously can't pull off such a thing as long as Nancy is under my protection - simply because I am too much of a possible danger. A battleship packed with the ability to show up at any point in space, unseen, with heavy weaponry and weapons of mass destruction, and the fact that I know some of the SIS' plans, for example about recreating a Munich in Gallia. One transmission sharing this information could fuck them over majorly. It could also be my ticket for getting in touch with Saint-Yves again. Or the nice lady I met during the Vault raid.

But I shouldn't think about such things at all. Bretonia and Liberty are protecting Curacao. Sadly without much success, as the Carcassonne is getting closer and closer. I really hope they don't attack Curacao. Really. Even now that Maren and Nancy are both banned from Liberty and probably, by extension, on Curacao, I still want to settle down there again. It's my homeworld. My home. The only one Maren can't take from me.

After the talk with Nancy I was also talking to Valery, as she is currently in Nancy's body in the attempt of fixing her health issues. She apologized for having threatened me. That kind of surprised me, as I expected her to care less about it. I guess she is turning more human after all.

In the meantime I was doing the interviews with all applicants Paige sent over to the Apahanta. They are competent and I will probably hire all of them. One of them didn't get this was not a joke. The poor girl thought she was going to a porn casting, considering I am known as actor. Only during the... interview she realized it was more than just a setting. Quite funny. At least we're increasing the numbers of the human crew now, from ten to 25. Still not much and they need to get used to the Apahanta first, which is why we will need to avoid combat situations for a while, but with the help of the 300 remaining KSRs the ship should at least be operable.

Speaking of combat situations, though...

Yesterday, we found ourselves in an uncomfortable situation. A Bismarck-class warship was erecting a blockade in the Cambridge system at the gate to Omega-3. They made an announcement on the public channels, claiming only rheinland-identified vessels may pass from now on. I quickly relayed the message to the BAF and they sent a response fleet for the RNC-Bielefeld. The Apahanta remained cloaked, scouting merely for the BAF. I sort of embarassed myself, to be honest, as I only later found out it was Admiral McIntire on the Victoria. Didn't recall his voice. Called him Captain. He didn't mind it, though.

The RNC-Bielefeld appeared to be equipped with nomad weaponry and wasn't hiding that fact at all. That was the moment where we had to bail out. I still don't know whether the ship was using Rheinland-researched nomad equipment or whether it was a ship of the Wild. In the latter case, interfering would have meant my death, by Valery. So we remained in the distance and just watched the BAF and Crayter doing their magic. The Bielefeld had an entire battlegroup with it but the combined fleet managed to deal with it without losses, apart from two snubs.

This was the second time I saw the Sparta-2 showing up. An Aquilon-class Carrier, by now equipped with our sweet guns from the catalogue. I now can say almost dying on the Titanic back then in Omicron Chi was definitely worth it as I made a huge amount of money from it by now. Like, very, very, very huge amount of money. I've sold weapon blueprints to Battlegroup Harmony, Admiral Richard of Crayter, the Sparta-2 and today to the Corinth, a Fearless-class Destroyer. And I made a very good deal with the Captain of the MNS-Galicia, who bought our three Thumper-type turrets for a fucking billion credits! I mean, they were expensive in the production, but man, with all the deals I made in the last months, I made over one point five billion credits profit. With the selling of the Titanic to that weird scientist guy of Cauldron, I made two billion credits simply by salvaging.

Two billion credits. That's what I paid the Core for the restoration of the Apahanta two years ago.

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