AWES Intel Reports

[All Worlds]

SECURE PRIVATE MESSAGE
TO: CEO Don Vega, All Worlds Enterprises & Securities

FROM: CIO Jack Gibson, All Worlds Enterprises & Securities

SUBJECT: AWES Intel Reports - Classified: TOP SECRET

ENCRYPTION: MAXIMUM - LINE IS SECURE
SOURCE: All Worlds Enterprises, Shikoku

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Good day Don,

Things are going well, with some construction efforts reaching milestones.

There is one concerning report I've been investigating regarding crew involved in an encounter with Alien craft in the Frankfurt area. The crew report strange sensations during the encounter that subsided afterwards but left lingering mental effects that forced us to place them all on indefinite leave pending psychological assessment. The ship required a whole new crew to resume its supply duties.

I've posted the log of the encounter below. I'll work on a protocol to avert these affects with our science team upon further examination of the affected crew.

A Close Encounter

[02.07.2022 22:49:48] AWES-Persistence: contact!
[02.07.2022 22:49:58] Vagrant.Nephele: "A mind resurfacing..."
[02.07.2022 22:50:06] AWES-Persistence: Hostile on scanner
[02.07.2022 22:50:25] Vagrant.Nephele: "Cowardice wins over curiosity yet again"
[02.07.2022 22:50:35] 2022-07-02 22:50:34 SMT Traffic control alert: AWES-Persistence has requested to dock
[02.07.2022 22:52:26] AWES-Persistence: Are you hostile then?
[02.07.2022 22:52:47] Vagrant.Nephele: *A weird could be heard*
[02.07.2022 22:52:57] AWES-Persistence: Or will you engage this mind in conversation? [02.07.2022 22:53:05] Vagrant.Nephele: *Disharmonious and strange at first, both too loud and too silent*
[02.07.2022 22:53:21] Vagrant.Nephele: *In time it gains sense...some kind of harmony* [02.07.2022 22:53:46] Vagrant.Nephele: *In the silent sanctum of your mind, a cry, or a song, begins*
[02.07.2022 22:53:57] Vagrant.Nephele: "Hostile"
[02.07.2022 22:54:24] AWES-Persistence: Our crew usually responds with anxiety to a ship of your type
[02.07.2022 22:54:26] Vagrant.Nephele: "Hostility/pride/anger all drift away driven by the waves of endless, pitch black Void"
[02.07.2022 22:54:57] Vagrant.Nephele: "A Scar burns deep within the Radiance, yet the Light used to shine on a different path"
[02.07.2022 22:55:39] Vagrant.Nephele: "It is a True Stray now, Darkling, a Light Unbound, all conflict lost meaning to it"
[02.07.2022 22:56:00] Vagrant.Nephele: *A song changes, the tone becomes sad and somber*
[02.07.2022 22:56:23] Vagrant.Nephele: "It hid beneath this fallen husk, one ruin drawn towards another"
[02.07.2022 22:57:09] Vagrant.Nephele: *Something akin to a thought given shape forms inside your mind, like a curious little mouse, sniffling around*
[02.07.2022 22:57:37] Vagrant.Nephele: "It slumbered too long, Darkling, many cycles past, It needs answers...what have changed?"
[02.07.2022 22:57:54] Vagrant.Nephele: "The Void sings of passage...but of which one?"
[02.07.2022 22:58:11] AWES-Persistence: Hmm... definitely curious...
[02.07.2022 22:58:46] AWES-Persistence: This Void you speak of drives your actions? [02.07.2022 22:59:13] Vagrant.Nephele: "No more than a sky would lead *yours*"
[02.07.2022 22:59:37] AWES-Persistence: Ah [02.07.2022 22:59:37] Vagrant.Nephele: "Endless seas molded *ours*...twisted *ours*"
[02.07.2022 23:00:05] Vagrant.Nephele: "Now *ours* heed the signs, read the flow, observe the waves..."
[02.07.2022 23:00:45] Vagrant.Nephele: *Faint steps could be heard subconsciously, in the back of your mind*
[02.07.2022 23:02:04] Vagrant.Nephele: "That /husk/ of *yours*...what does it carry, towards which purtpose does *yours* haul this dead mass?"
[02.07.2022 23:03:53] AWES-Persistence: This dead mass helps make the 'larger mass' perform tasks at the place of our peoples [02.07.2022 23:03:55] Vagrant.Nephele: *The form is driven closer to the wreck, some of its mass start to cling to the Konstanz, drawing shining patterns on the dead
[02.07.2022 23:04:21] Vagrant.Nephele: shell of a ship*
[02.07.2022 23:04:45] Vagrant.Nephele: "To build more husks, more flying tombs, flooding the Void with Darkness"
[02.07.2022 23:05:08] Vagrant.Nephele: "In cycles past, it would prey on *yours*"
[02.07.2022 23:05:43] AWES-Persistence: In cycles future, what should we expect? [02.07.2022 23:06:45] Vagrant.Nephele: "It does not know the answer, The Light dimmed, the question which should be asked..."
[02.07.2022 23:06:57] Vagrant.Nephele: "...what shall awaken in the absence of it"
[02.07.2022 23:07:22] Vagrant.Nephele: *The form lets go of the wreck and slowly drifts towards empty space*
[02.07.2022 23:07:36] Vagrant.Nephele: "No a warning, Darkling, not a prophecy"
[02.07.2022 23:07:49] Vagrant.Nephele: "Just a doubt, coming from a Stray"
[02.07.2022 23:07:53] AWES-Persistence: understood.. I think
[02.07.2022 23:08:22] Vagrant.Nephele: *The songs slowly calms down and dissapers, but the strange feeling of something lurking in the back of your mind*
[02.07.2022 23:08:30] Vagrant.Nephele: *Persists*
[02.07.2022 23:09:02] Vagrant.Nephele: "Immortality does not equal eternity, nor protects from change"

**An RM small attack craft charges into the area via the tradelane, then leaves without communications, just after the ship vanishes off radar.**
[02.07.2022 23:10:57] AWES-Persistence: and what would I tell him...
[02.07.2022 23:11:12] AWES-Persistence: onward we go
[02.07.2022 23:11:19] AWES-Persistence: somehow changed...

Visual Data

No luck in engaging GC's help in the Kusari area . In fact they seemed so focused on their hatred of one sole Samura miner in one of our latest Security Records that I'm not sure how long term strategies would work here. Disruption by existing chaos caused in Kusari by their drug operations will have to suffice. I don't plan to continue pursuing this line of communication any further.

There are still a few avenues of diplomacy I've yet to tap to see how we can help each do our undercover efforts to advance the business. Hopefully they bear fruit at best, or seed some directed conflict, at the right groups, at worst.

Until our next encounter,

Jack "Ghost" Gibson,
Chief Intelligence Officer
All Worlds Enterprises & Securities

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