Absolution

[Sombs]

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The comment on Gran Canaria left Commander Aguilar rather unimpressed while Gwen rose an eyebrow. The annex of Canaria through Bretonia was not exactly considered as surprise, given the proximity to Bretonia. Gwen herself didn't even mind it. Some people simply didn't mind it.

The scanning process of his crew was done surprisingly fast, and Ezrael was quite glad there weren't any blind passangers around. The only possible issue now was that they might have forgotten to remove something troublesome from the database. Before this started, he was pretty sure about it. There were no traces of Maren, nothing about the Hoffungsschimmer, nothing about Valery. Nothing that would hint Sombra's affiliation with the Apahanta, and nothing that would tell them about his daughter. There were comms left in place, like those to Generalmajor Anna Heinrich and former Guildmistress Taruko Ishibashi. There were also some archived databank entries about weapons, research files and the outdated list of identified infected ships. At this point Ezrael had to continue his role as unprepared captain, and it demanded him to get upset about the intrusion.

"Maybe I am naive, but if I was an agent of the Wild, I wouldn't take a ship filled with dangerous information to the Order to let them simply take a look at it, so why bother. My crew is clean, and if anything you'd probably find some really good videos of me doing what I can do best," Ezrael sounded, slightly agitated. He watched the Order team walk towards the airlocks, then glanced over to Commander Aguilar. "Sherry, you should go with them before they accidentally trigger the defenses, or the self-destruction. That'd be an overkill."

The woman with the chestnut hair nodded and made a move to slowly follow the agents. Ezrael sighed, looking at Solandros again. Even with this bit of theatre, being at the mercy of these bold people was rather straining. "What is there to discuss about the battle in Tau-31? I take it you are aware of the scenario and what circumstances lead to it? Two of your capital ships found in New London, one carrying a Nomad Power Cell. The Captains refused to cooperate with the Bretonians and provoked a militaristic reaction. We were around, bound to a contract with Bretonia to defend them against common enemies, which at that point included the Order, because of the siege on Freeport 11, where we defended the Zoners as they were the ones supporting our desertion from the Core." The Curacaoan gave him a questioning look. "If anything, I'd rather like to understand what the hell the Order was doing with a Nomad Power Cell in Bretonia, why they refused to solve the issue peacefully and why the Order insisted in engaging the Zoners at Freeport 11 and Port Carthage. But I guess I'm not in the position to ask for more than your conditions on dropping the bounty, apart from stripping and watching you browse through our porn achives."

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