Büro des Marinenachrichtendiensts Carrier Saar, Frankfurt System
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BDM Operational Report Archive
22/9/834
Extended Operations Report
In the process of attempting to maintain Rheinland superiority in the Earhart system, I encountered a Nomad ship. Interrogation was attempted, and may have been partially successful. I have no metrics to compare to to judge the quality of an interrogation directed at an alien.
Relevant information: Nomads do not have control over Earhart structures. There are possibly other such structures which Nomads hold no control over.
[22.09.2024 21:13:49] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Alien organism sighted.
[22.09.2024 21:14:34] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: ***(Amused)***
[22.09.2024 21:14:48] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Can communicate.
[22.09.2024 21:15:00] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Neat. Disclose information on the nearby structure.
[22.09.2024 21:15:16] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **{Shadowlings} ~Yet disrupt Our intent~**
[22.09.2024 21:15:36] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Confirmed. That is what disruptors do.
[22.09.2024 21:16:36] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~You desire to [Dance] with Us~ *(Curiosity, amusement)***
[22.09.2024 21:17:00] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Not specifically. I'd rather actionable information first.
[22.09.2024 21:17:49] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~You swim within Our seas; yet You demand Our thoughts~ *(Mocking)***
[22.09.2024 21:18:08] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Where else but aliens to ask information about alien constructs?
[22.09.2024 21:18:53] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<the amusement seems to emanate significantly, along with the glowing from its core. it almost seemed playful>**
[22.09.2024 21:19:57] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: I will never understand how idiots claim to reason with these things.
[22.09.2024 21:20:10] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Listen. Slowly this time.
[22.09.2024 21:20:21] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<a vision flashed between the pair, a vision of the previously observed demise of a craft not unlike your own, against-
[22.09.2024 21:20:36] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: -several flashes of green orbs, and a freightercraft>**
[22.09.2024 21:22:11] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Yes, yes, you saw that, very neat.
[22.09.2024 21:22:34] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: That does not answer what the structure at the center of this space is.
[22.09.2024 21:23:37] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<the form rests in relative silence for a moment, pondering the query>**
[22.09.2024 21:25:12] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<it considers all options, deep in thought, yet it chooses to disclose nothing to the agent>**
[22.09.2024 21:25:57] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: These animals genuinely frustrate me...
[22.09.2024 21:26:04] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Look. Rock. Why?
[22.09.2024 21:26:15] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~You shall never [Understand] that which remains beyond Your [Grasp]~*(Amusement)***
[22.09.2024 21:26:39] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Uh, yes, that is why questions were invented.
[22.09.2024 21:27:09] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: How are these the "highly intelligent predators" the Order is so afraid of?
[22.09.2024 21:27:23] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~You shall depart from Our seas; [Cower] elsewhere~**
[22.09.2024 21:27:40] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: I think not.
[22.09.2024 21:27:50] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: This is Buro territory now.
[22.09.2024 21:28:24] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<The glow of the craft intenisfies, ready to fight if it came to such. Yet there still remained the seemingly endless-
[22.09.2024 21:28:35] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: -amusement that welled up and out from its core>**
[22.09.2024 21:28:54] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Artificial intelligence will never hold a candle to Natural Stupidity...
[22.09.2024 21:29:50] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Alright. Primary interrogation failed. Secondary interrogation, then.
[22.09.2024 21:30:47] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Lets put a little hurt on it, see if that reminds it how to disclose information.
[22.09.2024 21:31:07] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: ***(Amused)* ~We shall dance~**
[22.09.2024 21:31:25] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<it glows brighter, anger surging>**
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[22.09.2024 21:43:48] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Alright.
[22.09.2024 21:44:00] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Willing to disclose information on the alien structures now?
[22.09.2024 21:44:36] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: This IS an interrogation.
[22.09.2024 21:44:56] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: ***(Amusement)***
[22.09.2024 21:45:21] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: You can be amused all you like. Disclose information on the structure.
[22.09.2024 21:46:05] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~You seek that which remains beyond Your capacity of control~**
[22.09.2024 21:46:19] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Yes, yes.
[22.09.2024 21:46:30] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: That is precisely why I'm asking.
[22.09.2024 21:46:39] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: It's within our grasp.
[22.09.2024 21:46:52] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: The structure is right there.
[22.09.2024 21:47:35] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~yet You remain without~**
[22.09.2024 21:48:11] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: That doesn't change the fact that we remain WITH the structure.
[22.09.2024 21:48:50] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: I'm certain you've noticed, right?
[22.09.2024 21:49:00] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Humanity is everywhere.
[22.09.2024 21:49:23] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: If you care so much about what the structure is, then who better than humanity to maintain it?
[22.09.2024 21:49:36] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **{Shadowlings} ~seek control that of which They remain [Unable]~ *(Amused)***
[22.09.2024 21:50:29] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Right. So either we control it with knowledge, or we control it without knowledge.
[22.09.2024 21:50:39] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Which do you think is in your best interests?
[22.09.2024 21:50:57] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Which do you think is in the best interests of the structure?
[22.09.2024 21:50:57] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<a vision is shared, one of Toledo, and the Order. it then flashes to Sol, and the destruction of two warring side. Two-
[22.09.2024 21:51:19] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: -parallels of Humanity, both caused by their own desires and beliefs>**
[22.09.2024 21:52:06] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Yes, yes, eternal doomsaying of human nature. I studied the writings of psychologist and philosopher Nikolaus Strauss.
[22.09.2024 21:52:37] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Fear of the future only hinders the present.
[22.09.2024 21:52:50] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Worrying is the art of praying for what you do not want.
[22.09.2024 21:53:24] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: So, now that we have crossed the fatalism, can you disclose the nature of the structure at the center of Earhart?
[22.09.2024 21:53:52] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~You remain incapable of such which remains [Remnants] of They who swam before Us~*(Mockery)***
[22.09.2024 21:55:27] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Yes, yes, and as the dominant force in the Sirius sector, it remains fairly obvious that we will be opperating the structure.
[22.09.2024 21:56:42] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: So, isn't it rather foolish to have an "incapable" being in control of the structure?
[22.09.2024 21:57:07] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: It seems that the primary logical answer is simply that humans should be properly informed on how to control the structure.
[22.09.2024 21:57:58] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<the form shares another vision, one of the shells that litter the inner ring of the Earhart system>**
[22.09.2024 21:58:46] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Yes, the weapons systems attack anything that enters firing range.
[22.09.2024 21:58:53] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Last I checked, that includes you.
[22.09.2024 21:58:59] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<it seems to draw attention to the lack of the Light's remains, or discarded remnants within the same sphere>**
[22.09.2024 22:00:26] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Decay is expected. What is your point?
[22.09.2024 22:03:39] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~Yours [Assume] that which remains is Ours~ *(Mockery)***
[22.09.2024 22:04:40] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: All of the previous Precursor structures are inactive. Logically, it concludes that active structures belong to or are managed-
[22.09.2024 22:04:43] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: -by Nomads.
[22.09.2024 22:06:38] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **{Shadowlings} ~[Fail] in knowing what remains Ours~**
[22.09.2024 22:07:54] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: So then there are active structures that are Precursor in origin. Possibly, there are inactive structures that are Nomad also.
[22.09.2024 22:08:56] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **{Lightless} ~defile Our space; that which remains Ours~**
[22.09.2024 22:09:58] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Right, right. Back to the beginning.
[22.09.2024 22:10:18] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **<there was an aparrent glow from the form, yet its emotions remained in check>**
[22.09.2024 22:10:35] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: The structure is an active Precursor structure. More likely than not, you have little to no control over it.
[22.09.2024 22:10:39] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~Your darkness shall perish in time; Our Light shall remain~**
[22.09.2024 22:10:52] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r tossed tails
[22.09.2024 22:10:57] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Every star burns through its fuel.
[22.09.2024 22:11:16] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: What is left at the end is, inevitably, darkness.
[22.09.2024 22:11:27] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Entropy is a basic universal law.
[22.09.2024 22:12:57] K'Hara|Du'Fre-Ka,Soh'r: **~Light yet emerges from shadow~**
[22.09.2024 22:13:11] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Thats... thats not how the laws of physics work.
[22.09.2024 22:13:46] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: [Mutters] I think that counts as successful.
[22.09.2024 22:14:14] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: Fine, I got what I needed.
[22.09.2024 22:14:58] BDM|Agent-R.Konig: It stands to reason that standard interrogation techniques wouldn't apply normally to aliens.