Vinny's Notes

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..."Welcome, Vinny"...

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I suppose noting down a few people I've met along the way was inevitable.

Well...uh. Where should I start? I suppose from the start, as any normal human being would. After all, things happen in a certain order. Hah! Order...the first person on my list would be an Order Operative, as amusing as it may be.

Eliza Fischer is the very first person I've met in the Omicrons. Years ago, at the very least. She was also quite possibly the first woman I've had a more lengthy conversation with, despite the circumstances. I still miss her, even though her tone had more of a "piss off or I'll kill you" tone. After all, I called her a terrorist. Truth is I didn't know any better at that time. I want to find her one day and say that I'm sorry. That I'm sorry for the piece of trash I was back then. Show her how much I've changed since I wanted to be a hotshot and take on the world all by myself. Well, me and my Falcon. R.I.P Falcon, by the way. Wherever you are, Eliza...please be well.

John Silverstone would be the next on this list, I suppose. It would've been the guys on Team Six that I was with during that expedition. I forgot their names, though. Either way...John fu*king Silverstone. I like to believe he wasn't a bad guy after all, and that he still isn't. He introduced me to Raven and a few others. To that I somewhat owe him. We had our highs and lows...but I suppose the friendship was still there. Until he ratted Raven and Cobra out to the authorities. I fell in the crossfire. I suppose I have to thank him for the fact that now everyone and their mother within the Navy, Police, and LSF knows that there's a freak in Hudson doing god knows what. That is why I was kicked out of Liberty, as well. Why I now have to sneak around instead of going from point A to point B like a human being. He's a Bounty Hunter now, I suppose. One that I've heard he wants to kill civilians - me, for instance. I should probably steer away from him, just in case.

Raven. Boy there's so much about her that I don't know, yet I do at the same time. John introduced me to her back at Ames. Funny, she offered me 500,000,000 Credits to just give her the materials I've gotten from the Dyson Sphere. That was when we first met. Sometimes I wonder how things would've turned out if I accepted the offer and walked out with cash in my pockets and live the life of my dreams. I suppose I'll never know...since I denied that offer. Over few weeks - or months - we've been collaborating I've started to find myself in her personality. Or she would find herself in mine. I like to believe that we stick with one another out of common goals, curiosity and the fact that we're blackmailing one another with our lives. Leader of the Technocracy, wanted by all, known person to somewhat commune with aliens...and a friend. Both of us have jumped into the mess people call Kepler. Sometimes I wonder if either of us will get out of this alive. I hope it'll be her, at the very least. I'm spent, either way...

Damien Morreti. The Cobra. Leader of the Xeno Alliance, elite fighter and a man who knows how to use words to get people to his cause. Also the one who offered all the help he can provide to my safety in Hudson along with the Technocracy. I will never be able to thank him enough for the help. The Xenos are up there in the top leagues of being a thorn into Liberty's side. I wonder what will come of Hudson once he expands his operations. I've come to defend him at times. Him and his fighters, like Locke, or "Ridgenose" who's the so called landlord of Hudson. I don't have much to say beyond the fact that I trust him and the Alliance over other entities such as The Order and so forth.

William Storgen. He's up there in the Overwatch's hierarchy. He sounds like a good man, honestly. I haven't met him all that often, but I suppose a busy man such as him doesn't have the time to allocate to civilians. He's dedicated to The Order's cause. And I can see that. Pure goals and all that...just sometimes misplaced, warped. He wants what's best for humanity from what I've seen. I often wonder if he'd accept other ways of defending humanity. Ways that don't include obvious aggression against the Nomads. There will be a time when both of us will either have a standoff, or shake hands and go on our own paths when all of this drama blows over. He knows I cooperate with the Technocracy to an extent. So far he seemed to understand that, so...that's that.

Viper. I got to know her at first as a scientist. We met a few times, talked about things, albeit her advances to uh, me, were noted. Maybe a bit too aggressive at that, but I can't expect much from an operative of the Buro - well, a scientist, at that. Now? She's the Director of the Buro. She saved me before from the Sentinels, and so far has given me safe harbor on stations owned by the MND. Maybe with her I won't risk that much to be outlawed from Rheinland, too. If that would even happen. She's alright, and all. And since Raven seems to be friends with her, I suppose she's my friend, too.

Cortana Clarke would be the last on my list for today, at the very least. There's so much memory an entry can take. Either way. She's probably the one person I know least about. Raven told me she used to be part of The Commune. And I remember that bunch well from the time I was nearly contracted by one of their bomber. She offered me a "job". An opportunity, rather. We were supposed to work together on hybrid technology, more specifically on an organic type of shield that mimics what the Nomads have developed. Their "veils". Raven also told me that she might be wanting to build an abomination, something similar to a ship called "The Tundra". I suppose there's that. Nothing good can come out of this, but she promised to share some of the schematics, if not all. Of the research, that is. I need to get in touch with her soon, either way. Things had been delayed enough as is with the latest expeditions.

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...message.end->"People, Part 1"

...logging.off->"Farewell, Vincent :)"