The Wayfarer

[Caliban]

[entry log#8]...

[terminal location: Personal Quarters]...

[recording]...

〔IDENTIFICATION〕: Ego

〔SUBJECT〕: Frankfurt, July 829 A.S

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I knew something was wrong when I heard the BDM was looking for me. But in the Omicrons? They must've had intel on. Someone must've sold me out. I should've left the second that Order Agent told me the damn Direktor of the Buro was out to find me. Damn it all...f*ck. Sh*t. The Dunlin isn't ready for a long trip, so I'll have to make do. Sigmas are the closest, then Kusari, then Tau-29. I will be spending the rest of the day reworking the Valkyrie's transponder. It should earn me a bit more time. I lost my old ship to a mentally insane technocrat. Now my name, because of the Buro. F*ck it...what's one more mask to wear?

I've ordered all crew to wrap up and set course for Sigma-13. Newport seems like a decent place to hide. I'll be moving to the Taus after.

I have to.

Omicrons, July 829 A.S

[15.07.2022 17:50:27] Rebecca.Edwards: Was going to give you like a drink or some food to say 'I'm sorry for earlier' but I guess I can't really do that.
[15.07.2022 17:50:48] Ego: ...solar panels.
[15.07.2022 17:50:53] Rebecca.Edwards: They give you energy!
[15.07.2022 17:50:57] Ego: Right.
[15.07.2022 17:51:22] Rebecca.Edwards: [ she looks at the red blinking light on her console ]
[15.07.2022 17:51:26] Ego: What about the individual that's watching us right now? Is he also getting energy?
[15.07.2022 17:51:34] Rebecca.Edwards: Maaaybe?
[15.07.2022 17:51:51] Rebecca.Edwards: If you show yourself, I'll give you a bottle of whiskey!
[15.07.2022 17:51:54] BDM|U-175: Minna: Do you wish to know more?
[15.07.2022 17:51:56] Rebecca.Edwards: or beer, rum...
[15.07.2022 17:52:16] Ego: I want to say that I'm surprised. But the Order already warned me of you.
[15.07.2022 17:52:24] Ego: As stupid as that sounds.
[15.07.2022 17:52:35] Rebecca.Edwards: hello MindNumbingDivision.
[15.07.2022 17:52:44] BDM|U-175: Minna: And what did the Order tell you of *us*. Pray tell me.
[15.07.2022 17:53:21] BDM|U-175: Minna: How courteous of you, Edwards.
[15.07.2022 17:53:23] Ego: Now why would I be the one to spoil the fun?
[15.07.2022 17:53:35] Rebecca.Edwards: Enjoy!
[15.07.2022 17:54:22] BDM|U-175: Minna: Because a woman made all the way out there to hear your story, perhaps. I know you worked with a certain other-
[15.07.2022 17:54:33] BDM|U-175: -individual from the Buro. Or suspect you did.
[15.07.2022 17:54:46] Ego: I didn't work with anyone in the Buro.
[15.07.2022 17:55:14] BDM|U-175: Minna: You're speaking to it's Direktor. To *me* you can tell.
[15.07.2022 17:55:26] Ego: Ranks mean nothing to me.
[15.07.2022 17:55:52] BDM|U-175: Minna: I only know the essence of some things. But to do anything in your favor - I'd like to know details. Context.
[15.07.2022 17:56:38] Ego: And what can you do in my favor if I give you some information I have no hold of.
[15.07.2022 17:56:45] Ego: Come on. Tell me.
[15.07.2022 17:57:02] Rebecca.Edwards: You could offer him some drinks~
[15.07.2022 17:57:43] BDM|U-175: Minna: Offer you asylum. My knowledge implies you've got some enemies. And no, Edwards, I heard the part with his inability-
[15.07.2022 17:57:57] BDM|U-175: -to consume organics. To put it simply - eat, drink, et cetera.
[15.07.2022 17:58:17] Rebecca.Edwards: It's about the gesture, right?
[15.07.2022 17:58:39] BDM|U-175: Minna: Perhaps. But the gesture's pointless if it's not appreciated.
[15.07.2022 17:59:49] Rebecca.Edwards: Well... even if I don't know how to handle some gifts myself, I still appreciate a gift.
[15.07.2022 17:59:58] Ego: Right. And you'd just so happen to be able to fend off the Auxo. Or The Order. Or the Nomads that plague Liberty.
[15.07.2022 18:00:38] Ego: Offering asylum to a random individual roaming Sirius for his own reasons. Thinking he's someone you're looking for.
[15.07.2022 18:01:06] Rebecca.Edwards: Maaaaaybe she just wants your ship.
[15.07.2022 18:01:15] Ego: She can try.
[15.07.2022 18:01:22] BDM|U-175: Minna: We've got our ways. I, personally, even more so. Frankly, there are places far more secure that the most secure places-
[15.07.2022 18:01:25] BDM|U-175: -in the Omicrons.
[15.07.2022 18:01:38] Rebecca.Edwards: What if he likes being around?
[15.07.2022 18:01:40] Ego: I'm sure there are. But knowledge of those cost dearly.
[15.07.2022 18:02:10] BDM|U-175: Minna: This Valkyrie is likely of the old series. I'm not interested in it.
[15.07.2022 18:02:25] Rebecca.Edwards: hmmm~ you're intelligence right?
[15.07.2022 18:02:35] Rebecca.Edwards: I guess you want information, like from... databanks?
[15.07.2022 18:03:09] BDM|U-175: Minna: Don't care either.
[15.07.2022 18:03:33] Ego: So clarify if you don't mind. What exactly are you looking for?
[15.07.2022 18:03:58] BDM|U-175: Minna: You and your story, nothing else. My offer still stands, too.
[15.07.2022 18:04:18] BDM|U-175: Minna: I'll admit, you're wise to stay on the move, movement is life, as the saying goes.
[15.07.2022 18:04:43] BDM|U-175: Minna: But it's not going to play in your favor forever.
[15.07.2022 18:05:01] Rebecca.Edwards: he doesn't remember anything though~
[15.07.2022 18:05:37] Ego: You'd be hearing of a Freelancer that started his career from the Omegas.
[15.07.2022 18:06:09] Ego: You'd be hearing about how his friends slowly vanished one by one, because of some fucking relic.
[15.07.2022 18:06:19] BDM|U-175: Minna: And yet you're bearing an unregistered Military grade vessel, albeit old.
[15.07.2022 18:06:39] BDM|U-175: Minna: Yet, you acquired quite a few enemies, got backstabbed by those you'd trust.
[15.07.2022 18:07:03] BDM|U-175: Minna: And now you're on the run, like a hunted, wounded hound. Wounded, but miraculously still alive.
[15.07.2022 18:07:05] Ego: I flew two Valkyries. One belonged to a person I loved. The second one is this. Memorial to that person.
[15.07.2022 18:07:50] BDM|U-175: Minna: I see. A sentiment to the deceased. Guess I'd slip it into records past the usual bureaucracy.
[15.07.2022 18:08:04] BDM|U-175: Minna: A man wouldn't lie of such sensitive matters.
[15.07.2022 18:08:51] Rebecca.Edwards: I dreamt of owning a valkyrie...
[15.07.2022 18:08:56] Rebecca.Edwards: can I get one too?
[15.07.2022 18:09:07] Ego: Ask the Direktor over there.
[15.07.2022 18:09:11] BDM|U-175: Minna: Debatable.
[15.07.2022 18:09:21] BDM|U-175: Minna: What use you'd make of it?
[15.07.2022 18:09:31] Rebecca.Edwards: I'd fly it around~
[15.07.2022 18:09:33] Rebecca.Edwards: see the stars.
[15.07.2022 18:09:35] BDM|U-175: Minna: We're not just casually giving off military-grade hardware left and right.
[15.07.2022 18:09:48] BDM|U-175: Minna: And this man, by far, has much more solid reasoning.
[15.07.2022 18:09:49] Rebecca.Edwards: Well, in my dream it was a gift from the military!
[15.07.2022 18:09:53] Rebecca.Edwards: [ she giggles ]
[15.07.2022 18:10:09] BDM|U-175: Minna: ...dreams don't always come true.
[15.07.2022 18:10:15] Rebecca.Edwards: 'wrapped in ribbons'? I think the transponder said yes.
[15.07.2022 18:11:19] BDM|U-175: Minna: Say, Ego... that, I suppose, what you're called nowadays.
[15.07.2022 18:11:34] BDM|U-175: Minna: You mentioned a relic. What was it? Do you not remember, too?
[15.07.2022 18:11:44] Ego: That's something I'm not going to share.
[15.07.2022 18:12:15] BDM|U-175: Minna: You're in your right. Again, I'm not here to scrutinise you for information.
[15.07.2022 18:12:31] BDM|U-175: Minna: Or forcefully take you with me, in that case I'd not waste my breath for chatter.
[15.07.2022 18:12:39] BDM|U-175: Minna: I'm quite a straightforward person, you see.
[15.07.2022 18:13:01] Ego: A conflicted one, too.
[15.07.2022 18:14:04] Ego: And that offer. I will respectfully decline it. I do well on my own.
[15.07.2022 18:14:19] BDM|U-175: Minna: Perhaps. Let's say... I've got some hints of who you could be. Which societies you were observed in before.
[15.07.2022 18:15:03] BDM|U-175: Minna: Xeno Alliance. Technocracy of Auxo. Quite the curious amount.
[15.07.2022 18:15:58] Ego: I don't see why the Xeno Alliance would care about me. The Technocracy is a different story. I nailed their leader to one of-
[15.07.2022 18:16:02] Ego: -Bering's asteroids.
[15.07.2022 18:16:09] Rebecca.Edwards: ew...
[15.07.2022 18:16:27] Ego: Deserved.
[15.07.2022 18:16:51] Rebecca.Edwards: uh.. okay.
[15.07.2022 18:17:03] BDM|U-175: Minna: That's the bits I've collected from my sources. Regardless... I'll leave you to your own devices. For now.
[15.07.2022 18:17:20] BDM|U-175: Minna: But probability we'll speak again is high. Don't die until then.
[15.07.2022 18:17:32] Ego: Yeah. Right.
[15.07.2022 18:17:38] BDM|U-175: Minna: I'd be very upset if you did.
[15.07.2022 18:17:47] Rebecca.Edwards: ow she likes you.
[15.07.2022 18:17:55] BDM|U-175: Minna: Nonsense.
[15.07.2022 18:18:46] Ego: She probably went for the Omicron Rho Jump Hole.
[15.07.2022 18:18:53] Ego: I'm leaving.
[15.07.2022 18:19:00] Rebecca.Edwards: where to?
[15.07.2022 18:19:12] Ego: It doesn't matter. I'm leaving.
[15.07.2022 18:19:22] Rebecca.Edwards: do you know space around here well?
[15.07.2022 18:19:32] Ego: Well enough to find another way back to Rheinland.
[15.07.2022 18:20:21] Rebecca.Edwards: hm can I fly along?
[15.07.2022 18:20:28] Ego: I'd appreciate if you didn't.
[15.07.2022 18:20:51] Rebecca.Edwards: I did say sorry~
[15.07.2022 18:21:09] Ego: You will realize eventually that I trust no one.
[15.07.2022 18:21:22] Ego: Not you. Not that Direktor. No one.
[15.07.2022 18:21:29] Rebecca.Edwards: you;ve trusted people before~
[15.07.2022 18:21:35] Ego: I was a fool.
[15.07.2022 18:21:58] Rebecca.Edwards: You're reminding yourself of it though.
[15.07.2022 18:22:34] Ego: I'm going to give you a stern warning to leave. Go back to Omicron Theta, Delta. Anywhere else.
[15.07.2022 18:22:54] Rebecca.Edwards: do I frighten you?
[15.07.2022 18:22:56] Ego: I don't normally shoot civilians. Don't tempt me to turn you into the first victim.
[15.07.2022 18:24:30] Rebecca.Edwards: You miss her?
[15.07.2022 18:24:37] Ego: Leave.
[15.07.2022 18:24:43] Ego: This is your last warning.
[15.07.2022 18:25:01] Rebecca.Edwards: [ she clicks her tongue ]
[15.07.2022 18:25:13] Rebecca.Edwards: please?
[15.07.2022 18:25:37] Ego: Leave.
[15.07.2022 18:25:46] Rebecca.Edwards: why so aggresive?
[15.07.2022 18:26:11] Ego: Just...get out. Fuck off. Evacuate.
[15.07.2022 18:26:22] Ego: Don't follow.
[15.07.2022 18:26:37] Rebecca.Edwards: We're eh...
[15.07.2022 18:27:23] Rebecca.Edwards: we're not that different... in a way.
[15.07.2022 18:28:24] Rebecca.Edwards: I know what it's like to ... well wake up and not know who you are.
[15.07.2022 18:29:28] Ego: We're much more different than you'd think.

[recording complete]...

... [saved]

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