LNS-Scotland

[Lemon]

These are the tales of Liam Milne of LNS-Scotland

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The marvelous ambiguity.

Is a phrase I will try to hammer into the head of my crew. if you want to eventually join an expeditionary force to unfamiliar territories, you better embrace the unknown!

And within minutes of our training exercises in the Independent worlds that's exactly what happened. In the system of Vespucci we have encountered a truly strange spectacle of unknown ships to us that identified as such:




NOT EVEN THAT SMUG XO EVANS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE!

[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: A-xe-sia?
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: Evans! Explain!
[] LNS-Scotland: Evans: no clue sir, never seen these around Liberty
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: I believe this might be first contact! Whom are we speaking to? None of us recognise your faction not even smartass Evans here!
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: In your face evans!

There was something ... odd about the way these ships responded to us. Almost as if lacking intelligence they communicated in almost a robotic unresponsive way .

Log of the bizarre repetitive unresponsive communication

[] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Entity known as LNS-Scotland, you must depart this system back to Magellan immediately.
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: greetings
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: I believe this might be first contact!
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: to whom do we have the pleasure to speakl
[] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Repeating; entity LNS-Scotland, depart to the Magellan system immediately.
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: Hello!
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: whom are we speaking to?
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: none of us recognise your faction
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: not even smartass Evans here
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: in your face evans
[] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Final warning: Entity LNS-Scotland, depart to Magellan. Immediately.
[] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Entity is not engaging vectors to the anomaly. Initiating encouragement proceedures.
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: pardon?
[] A/)-Augur: I means move before we move you.
[] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Depart immediately, entity LNS-Scotland.
[] LNS-Scotland: well
[] LNS-Scotland: you fire at us
[] LNS-Scotland: proceeding
[] A/)-ACV-Eidolon.Wraith: Recognising hostile vectors. Responding with response code red.
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: well
[] LNS-Scotland: Cap: this was bizzare
[ LNS-Scotland: Cap: why wouldn't they talk to us?
[] LNS-Scotland: Evans: no clue sir

The bizarre behavior continued. First they fired a "warning shot" that actually was AN APOCALYPSE TORPEDO designed to wipe life out of entire cities!




We then initiated defense procedures, outnumbered, with a crew still trying to come into terms with one another, in an unknown territory.

And then inexplicably THEIR BATTLECRUISER FLED THE SCENE. Only to be replaced by a small vessel that might have been a gunboat?

Well, needless to say I have had enough, and my crew must know when to go on the offensive, and when to retreat. These ships might be some derelict vagabonds that congregate in the Independent worlds as life in The Houses is too complex for them, or simply unmanned drones only programmed to respond. Either way it was not our crew's place to destroy their small vessels when there was no real threat, and I have ordered my crew to depart without further shots being fired to avoid a potential incident.

Now it's time to do more research about this group, but more importantly I hope my crew learned the lesson of possible ambiguity they might face, and that violence beyond standard defense is not always the answer.