Infernal's Log

[Infernal]

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¤ Source: Brunswick Provisional Province, Planet Harris, Tau-31
¤ Author: D.Adenike
¤ Mood: Affirmative
¤ Hunger: Satiated
¤ Subject: New London Blues

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PAST THEIR PRIME

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Mister Steiner is quite the surprise. I had inklings of his position in the firmament, but nothing so grand as a spymaster in the war.

He spent the afternoon exchanging the news of the day with me and one Miss Winters; wildlings, pirate cruisers, madmen, and the like. I should need to send him more useful evidence sometime.

Another 'player' in the game was present, one Silverstone. What a rude little man.

More players still, the local 'fauna' was in attendance. A Gaian, of all things, took issue, and was promptly subject to the wrath of them. Evidently Steiner had words with this 'diplomatic dispatch'.

I was fortunate to join a Bowex convoy and negotiate a suitable contract for my workshop. Things are on the upswing.

Still, I can't help but think of legends lately.

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[02.12.2024 18:38:34] Infernal: Salutations.
[02.12.2024 18:38:38] GF:LOG)-Largy: Good evening.
[02.12.2024 18:38:46] GF:LOG)-Largy: How goes the.. junking?
[02.12.2024 18:38:56] Infernal: Doodling. And well.
[02.12.2024 18:39:04] BAF|HMS-Raven: Hail.
[02.12.2024 18:39:05] GF:LOG)-Largy: Very good.
[02.12.2024 18:39:07] GF:LOG)-Largy: Good evening.
[02.12.2024 19:00:47] Infernal: Salutations once again, Mister Steiner.
[02.12.2024 19:01:05] Victor.Steiner: Oh, master Infernal.
[02.12.2024 19:01:21] Victor.Steiner: How are we?
[02.12.2024 19:01:32] Infernal: Middling. Not meddling.
[02.12.2024 19:01:42] Victor.Steiner: There is a difference?
[02.12.2024 19:01:54] BMF|Jock.Stewart: Jock : Good day
[02.12.2024 19:01:58] Infernal: One is melancholy, unfortunately.
[02.12.2024 19:02:04] Infernal: Salutations, company man.
[02.12.2024 19:02:29] BMF|Jock.Stewart: Jock : Hello there
[02.12.2024 19:02:36] Victor.Steiner: BMF
[02.12.2024 19:02:42] BMF|Jock.Stewart: BAF
[02.12.2024 19:02:47] Victor.Steiner: Tell me your thoughts infernal.
[02.12.2024 19:03:06] Infernal: I think that you Londoners are a very strange people in your mannerisms, given the current instance.
[02.12.2024 19:03:24] Victor.Steiner: I'm not from New London. For reference.
[02.12.2024 19:03:32] Infernal: You are here all the same.
[02.12.2024 19:03:50] Victor.Steiner: Well yes, I have spent some time here, true enough
[02.12.2024 19:03:51] Infernal: Although I suppose that would make me one as well.
[02.12.2024 19:04:14] Victor.Steiner: What has you so...mm, reserved?
[02.12.2024 19:04:24] Infernal: A roadblock, of sorts.
[02.12.2024 19:04:28] Victor.Steiner: And how, may I ask, are New Londoners different?
[02.12.2024 19:04:35] Victor.Steiner: A Roadblock?
[02.12.2024 19:04:42] Infernal: Business first, or the news of the day?
[02.12.2024 19:04:51] Victor.Steiner: Either all.
[02.12.2024 19:04:55] Infernal: News then.
[02.12.2024 19:05:02] Infernal: You are familiar with the provisional constabulary?
[02.12.2024 19:05:19] Victor.Steiner: The CDI? Not had the pleasure just yet, but by reputation.
[02.12.2024 19:05:35] Infernal: A mixed, if surpising, group.
[02.12.2024 19:05:43] Victor.Steiner: So I'm told.
[02.12.2024 19:06:05] Infernal: I've heard accusations of corruption and impropriety, yet I have had a different experience entirely.
[02.12.2024 19:06:17] Victor.Steiner: Positive experiences?
[02.12.2024 19:06:26] Infernal: Entirely, as it turns.
[02.12.2024 19:06:34] Victor.Steiner: Good, I'm glad.
[02.12.2024 19:06:45] Infernal: Just the other day, a reaver bore down on the lane to Canterbury.
[02.12.2024 19:06:50] Rules Tip: A single player running two or more instances of Freelancer is against server rules and is regarded as cheating.
[02.12.2024 19:07:11] Infernal: The constable needed some encouragement from yours truly and turned it away once. To those distatefuls in Trafalgar.
[02.12.2024 19:07:29] Infernal: It returned and was destroyed with effort by a trio of them.
[02.12.2024 19:07:41] Victor.Steiner: *laughs* your kinfolk, if I remember rightly.
[02.12.2024 19:08:03] Infernal: Damnable Kusari.
[02.12.2024 19:08:11] Infernal: Yes, though I don't associate for the reasons provided.
[02.12.2024 19:08:40] Infernal: Still, no small task taking on a pirate destroyer.
[02.12.2024 19:09:02] Victor.Steiner: I see, well it is good to hear they are doing their jobs effectively
[02.12.2024 19:09:41] Infernal: As for my own troubles, my issues lie in the furnishing of my lodge.
[02.12.2024 19:09:56] Victor.Steiner: This 'Vault' you mentioned?
[02.12.2024 19:10:05] Infernal: Yes, though that has yet to be opened.
[02.12.2024 19:10:39] Victor.Steiner: Still lacking employment eh?
[02.12.2024 19:11:13] Infernal: Not so much. Though I would gladly take on additional tasks.
[02.12.2024 19:11:35] Victor.Steiner: Oh you found work? Good for you. Something worthwhile I hope?
[02.12.2024 19:11:47] Victor.Steiner: BMM is always hiring, well, they were last I checked.
[02.12.2024 19:11:50] Infernal: It has yet to pan out.
[02.12.2024 19:11:56] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Always. Never enough people.
[02.12.2024 19:12:08] Victor.Steiner: Never enough people, there you go.
[02.12.2024 19:12:16] Infernal: Is that so? I sent a message off to your mister Nero offering my services some time ago. I never heard back.
[02.12.2024 19:12:22] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Nero is...
[02.12.2024 19:12:30] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Insufferable, I think the word is.
[02.12.2024 19:12:44] Infernal: I find him quite interesting. Do you need a minder for him?
[02.12.2024 19:12:45] Victor.Steiner: Rather harsh, don't you think?
[02.12.2024 19:12:57] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Speak with him and you'll find out.
[02.12.2024 19:13:03] Infernal: I have. It was quite enlightening.
[02.12.2024 19:13:58] Victor.Steiner: If he is so difficult to get along with, why employ him?
[02.12.2024 19:14:08] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Hey, hey. I'm not the one making the decisions.
[02.12.2024 19:14:19] Infernal: I was under the impression that his loyalties lie with human resources. He would be quite hard to fire.
[02.12.2024 19:14:24] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: BMM is huge, man.
[02.12.2024 19:14:25] Victor.Steiner: Ah, you just have to work with him, is that it?
[02.12.2024 19:14:29] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: You got it.
[02.12.2024 19:14:34] Victor.Steiner: Unlucky.
[02.12.2024 19:14:39] Infernal: What subsidary do you work for?
[02.12.2024 19:14:53] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Galway Frontiers. Security division.
[02.12.2024 19:14:56] Victor.Steiner: Oi..
[02.12.2024 19:15:10] Victor.Steiner: OI
[02.12.2024 19:15:12] 2024-12-02 19:15:12 SMT Traffic control alert: DemeteHr.23 has docked
[02.12.2024 19:15:19] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: What is it with Whales and contraband...
[02.12.2024 19:15:19] Victor.Steiner: *Sigh*
[02.12.2024 19:15:44] Victor.Steiner: Well, I suppose that'll be me for the next three days
[02.12.2024 19:15:46] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Kusari for you.
[02.12.2024 19:15:52] Victor.Steiner: Indeed.
[02.12.2024 19:16:01] Infernal: Regardless of Nero'
[02.12.2024 19:16:15] Infernal: Nero's disposition, I would gladly take any tasks you can offer, miss...?
[02.12.2024 19:16:22] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: What, me? Uh...
[02.12.2024 19:16:30] Infernal: Not you specifically, of course.
[02.12.2024 19:16:39] Victor.Steiner: No no, come on now.
[02.12.2024 19:16:43] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: I'm just an escort, chieftain. Not sure I can offer much. We have a bitter experience with uh. Junkers.
[02.12.2024 19:16:45] Victor.Steiner: You know why you're being stopped.
[02.12.2024 19:16:57] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Off he goes.
[02.12.2024 19:17:02] Victor.Steiner: One moment.
[02.12.2024 19:17:32] Infernal: Mister Steiner, if he were to be considered free of the protections of the Crown I would be happy to employ the writ-
[02.12.2024 19:17:37] Infernal: - of piratical intent!
[02.12.2024 19:18:09] Victor.Steiner: I'll say it once...
[02.12.2024 19:18:15] Victor.Steiner: Don't.
[02.12.2024 19:18:26] Victor.Steiner: Well
[02.12.2024 19:18:40] Victor.Steiner: Bowex will have a little explaining to do later.
[02.12.2024 19:18:51] Infernal: Bowex?
[02.12.2024 19:18:59] Victor.Steiner: *Sigh* more paperwork
[02.12.2024 19:19:23] Infernal: What troubles you of late then, Steiner?
[02.12.2024 19:19:35] Victor.Steiner: Kishiro, apologies. Sorry, it has been a bit of a day.
[02.12.2024 19:19:42] Victor.Steiner: Nothing at all.
[02.12.2024 19:19:47] Matthew.Garrison: Greetings to you pilot
[02.12.2024 19:19:50] Infernal: Glad to hear.
[02.12.2024 19:19:52] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Hey.
[02.12.2024 19:20:06] Victor.Steiner: Why I am quite free and happy to roam as I see fit
[02.12.2024 19:20:10] Victor.Steiner: Mostly
[02.12.2024 19:20:22] Infernal: Is it common for the armed forces to employ guilder ships?
[02.12.2024 19:20:43] Victor.Steiner: More common now than it was I believe.
[02.12.2024 19:20:52] Victor.Steiner: During the war, we took all sorts.
[02.12.2024 19:21:16] Infernal: I would have thought the end of the war would result in the crown having more ships than pilots.
[02.12.2024 19:21:41] Victor.Steiner: Hmm, yes and no. Recovery was difficult
[02.12.2024 19:21:56] Victor.Steiner: But then, they didn't leave many in the way of wounded either
[02.12.2024 19:22:08] Victor.Steiner: Well, the army would disagree but...as far as the Navy is concerned
[02.12.2024 19:22:35] Victor.Steiner: Mister Garrison is likely flying one of the 'spares'
[02.12.2024 19:23:17] Infernal: I suppose there's no accounting for taste among the Bretonian authorities, then.
[02.12.2024 19:23:22] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: See, this is the part where I'd say I'm glad to have never been in the military.
[02.12.2024 19:23:30] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: .. but it's not exactly safe.
[02.12.2024 19:23:30] Matthew.Garrison: I was on a secret mission for her majesty. Now I must return with a report
[02.12.2024 19:23:31] Infernal: At least the corporates have some good fortune in what they fly.
[02.12.2024 19:23:36] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: My ship's chipped from Corsairs just an hour ago.
[02.12.2024 19:23:40] Not.A.Brick: Oh huh. Crowded again.
[02.12.2024 19:23:47] Not.A.Brick: Well, it does feel like New York.
[02.12.2024 19:23:48] Infernal: Salutations.
[02.12.2024 19:23:48] Victor.Steiner: Really? You never served?
[02.12.2024 19:23:55] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Never.
[02.12.2024 19:24:05] Victor.Steiner: How old are you
[02.12.2024 19:24:19] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: I just took lessons at a flight school in New London, and signed up with BMM expecting a cozy job. Not exactly like that.
[02.12.2024 19:24:21] Infernal: It's rude to pry, mister steiner.
[02.12.2024 19:24:21] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Twenty six.
[02.12.2024 19:24:46] Victor.Steiner: I'm not known for manners, but twenty six, a bit young for the war.
[02.12.2024 19:24:54] Not.A.Brick: Wait, hey. Is BAF looking for recruits or something?
[02.12.2024 19:25:02] Victor.Steiner: Always.
[02.12.2024 19:25:04] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: I wasn't exactly old enough to participate. Not that I think I would.
[02.12.2024 19:25:09] Not.A.Brick: Oh. And the terms are?
[02.12.2024 19:25:24] Victor.Steiner: You'll have to speak with the Admiralty for specifics sir.
[02.12.2024 19:25:32] Not.A.Brick: Not you?
[02.12.2024 19:25:48] Victor.Steiner: I've been out a little too long from the Primary fleet to give you any solid answers.
[02.12.2024 19:26:02] Infernal: Does that mean you had an office once, then?
[02.12.2024 19:26:06] Not.A.Brick: Geez. That sort of decreases the chances.
[02.12.2024 19:26:14] Victor.Steiner: Me? Yes, of sorts.
[02.12.2024 19:26:19] Victor.Steiner: I had a....different role..
[02.12.2024 19:26:27] Not.A.Brick: A spy, right?
[02.12.2024 19:26:35] Not.A.Brick: Sort of. That's what i recall.
[02.12.2024 19:26:41] Infernal: I have a question of importance, Steiner.
[02.12.2024 19:26:46] Victor.Steiner: mmm?
[02.12.2024 19:26:49] Infernal: Your desk.
[02.12.2024 19:26:53] Victor.Steiner: Yes?
[02.12.2024 19:26:56] Infernal: What was it made of?
[02.12.2024 19:27:14] Victor.Steiner: Oak, Ash and Thorne.
[02.12.2024 19:27:18] Victor.Steiner: Why?
[02.12.2024 19:27:35] Infernal: Just judging your taste is all.
[02.12.2024 19:27:38] Not.A.Brick: Anthow, Steiner, how come are you still around?
[02.12.2024 19:27:52] Not.A.Brick: Or, rather, how come are you around again? Did anything worthy happen?
[02.12.2024 19:28:06] Victor.Steiner: Well, I didn't die.And I do live here. So.
[02.12.2024 19:28:17] Infernal: So then you /are/ a Londoner.
[02.12.2024 19:28:22] Not.A.Brick: Oh come on, that's not what i am cruious about.
[02.12.2024 19:28:27] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Hey, what's wrong with being a Londoner?
[02.12.2024 19:28:32] Infernal: Nothing. He denies it.
[02.12.2024 19:28:36] Victor.Steiner: I'm from Cambridge sir.
[02.12.2024 19:28:41] Victor.Steiner: Not London.
[02.12.2024 19:28:57] Victor.Steiner: But I do have desk here
[02.12.2024 19:29:02] Victor.Steiner: For old times sake
[02.12.2024 19:29:16] Victor.Steiner: As to you, what are you curious about?
[02.12.2024 19:29:17] Infernal: Miss Winters, is this some breach of the local ettiquette I am unaware of? Or is he just one of those 'gits'?
[02.12.2024 19:29:41] Not.A.Brick: Obvious. Why is someone of your grade around?
[02.12.2024 19:29:43] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: I don't know. A lot of foreigners tend to knock about here insinuating Bretonian this, Bretonian that.
[02.12.2024 19:29:53] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: As if it's something bad.
[02.12.2024 19:29:59] Not.A.Brick: That normally means stuff. That's what i am curious about. Why?
[02.12.2024 19:30:16] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: It's not perfect, sure. No place is. It's alright though.
[02.12.2024 19:30:19] Victor.Steiner: Must the House be on the brink for me to come and take a look?
[02.12.2024 19:30:32] Not.A.Brick: Yep.
[02.12.2024 19:30:39] Victor.Steiner: *laughs*
[02.12.2024 19:30:41] Victor.Steiner: Fair enough
[02.12.2024 19:30:45] Infernal: Salutations, miner.
[02.12.2024 19:30:47] Not.A.Brick: No, really. Yep!
[02.12.2024 19:30:47] 2024-12-02 19:30:47 SMT Traffic control alert: (\/)orrigan has docked
[02.12.2024 19:30:56] Not.A.Brick: So, got a story?
[02.12.2024 19:31:16] Victor.Steiner: Not as yet, one might be....getting their bearings, as it were.
[02.12.2024 19:31:25] Matthew.Garrison: Well, I'm home. Slava Bretoni
[02.12.2024 19:31:30] Not.A.Brick: What is it THIS time? Space krakens? Kusarians? Miners? Gauls?
[02.12.2024 19:31:40] Victor.Steiner: allow me to ask. Who are you?
[02.12.2024 19:32:10] Not.A.Brick: I'm sort of getting used to how conversation stops the moment i name myself. So... no?
[02.12.2024 19:32:19] Not.A.Brick: I mean, should i really?
[02.12.2024 19:32:28] Not.A.Brick: I bet you can guess it at that point.
[02.12.2024 19:32:29] Victor.Steiner: 'tis only polite, you know of me.
[02.12.2024 19:32:30] GF:SEC)-Susan.Winters: Ugh. Being called off for something on Coleraine.
[02.12.2024 19:32:41] Dresher: Good Evening
[02.12.2024 19:32:45] Infernal: Good day.
[02.12.2024 19:32:47] Victor.Steiner: Evening all.
[02.12.2024 19:32:58] Not.A.Brick: Geez, I hate that. *Shrugs audibly* Silverstone.
[02.12.2024 19:33:10] Infernal: Whom?
[02.12.2024 19:33:27] Victor.Steiner: Silverstone...not sure if I made your aquaintence, back when I was worth a damn
[02.12.2024 19:33:35] Victor.Steiner: hmmm
[02.12.2024 19:33:38] Victor.Steiner: Did I?
[02.12.2024 19:33:47] Victor.Steiner: Ah, it's been a long time.
[02.12.2024 19:33:52] Not.A.Brick: Well, i remember you. Means you sort of did, aye?
[02.12.2024 19:34:01] Victor.Steiner: Must do.
[02.12.2024 19:34:16] Victor.Steiner: I didn't order your abduction did I?
[02.12.2024 19:34:31] Not.A.Brick: *Shrugs audiblu* Who didn't, really?
[02.12.2024 19:34:46] Not.A.Brick: I bet i even got killed a couple of times here and there.
[02.12.2024 19:34:54] Infernal: Perhaps you're not the only player returning past their prime.
[02.12.2024 19:35:12] Victor.Steiner: Heh, I would agree with that assessment
[02.12.2024 19:35:24] Not.A.Brick: But, like some of us, i'm not good at staying dead.
[02.12.2024 19:35:42] Infernal: I fear that's the point of death.
[02.12.2024 19:35:46] Victor.Steiner: Mister Silverstone is refering to back when I was worth a damn, and I, like him, don't really suit the 'retired' life.
[02.12.2024 19:36:39] Not.A.Brick: *Shrugs audibly once more* Well, death sort of works different. For some.
[02.12.2024 19:36:55] Not.A.Brick: Really, though. What is it?
[02.12.2024 19:37:00] Not.A.Brick: Can't be gaians, right?
[02.12.2024 19:37:10] Victor.Steiner: It's everything.
[02.12.2024 19:37:20] Infernal: I do hope you're not referring to the, ahm, 'wildlings' that have been skulking around lately.
[02.12.2024 19:37:23] Victor.Steiner: Economics, Politics, Dublin, Taus.
[02.12.2024 19:37:27] Not.A.Brick: Some things more than others?
[02.12.2024 19:37:43] Victor.Steiner: Oh the Gaians are....not the worst group.
[02.12.2024 19:37:51] Death: Saraswati. was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[02.12.2024 19:37:57] Not.A.Brick: "Wildlings"? You mean, those lost rheinland military divisions?
[02.12.2024 19:38:08] Infernal: Really? A madman was shooting up a station in leeds the other day. I believe he was one of theirs.
[02.12.2024 19:38:18] Victor.Steiner: What's this now?
[02.12.2024 19:38:28] Not.A.Brick: What's what?
[02.12.2024 19:38:36] Victor.Steiner: Wildlings.
[02.12.2024 19:38:41] Infernal: I know of no such Rheinland divisions, though I've seen their type around too.
[02.12.2024 19:38:51] Infernal: Some dissenter or another.
[02.12.2024 19:39:17] Victor.Steiner: Hm.
[02.12.2024 19:39:22] Victor.Steiner: Good to know.
[02.12.2024 19:39:24] Not.A.Brick: Well, what kind of wildlings can he mean?
[02.12.2024 19:39:38] Victor.Steiner: Gaians I'd have thought. I'm sure they would love the title.
[02.12.2024 19:39:46] Infernal: Forgive me. I shouldn't have broached the topic.
[02.12.2024 19:39:51] Infernal: It's impolite.
[02.12.2024 19:39:53] Victor.Steiner: Oh no need.
[02.12.2024 19:39:58] Victor.Steiner: We're all friends here.
[02.12.2024 19:39:59] Not.A.Brick: Better than tree-lovers, hey.
[02.12.2024 19:40:18] Infernal: I shudder to think that you'll order my death too then, Steiner.
[02.12.2024 19:40:23] Victor.Steiner: HA
[02.12.2024 19:40:36] Victor.Steiner: I don't really go in for that these days.
[02.12.2024 19:41:20] Victor.Steiner: War is long done, and I'm not in a position to be removing people for lapses in etiqute
[02.12.2024 19:41:59] Victor.Steiner: Silverstone, you travel. Anything interesting these days?
[02.12.2024 19:42:09] Not.A.Brick: Lots of stuff really.
[02.12.2024 19:42:12] Infernal: Another time then. You should come for tea, considering any pending business between us it postponed.
[02.12.2024 19:42:19] Not.A.Brick: Depends on what kind you prefer.
[02.12.2024 19:42:40] Victor.Steiner: I shall make the effort to attend.
[02.12.2024 19:42:45] Victor.Steiner: Safe travels to you.
[02.12.2024 19:43:12] Infernal: I did not intend to say that I am leaving. Merely that I do not wish to discuss it publicly.
[02.12.2024 19:43:17] Victor.Steiner: Oh.
[02.12.2024 19:43:21] Victor.Steiner: My mistake.
[02.12.2024 19:43:27] Victor.Steiner: Of course, I understand.
[02.12.2024 19:43:41] Infernal: Least of all among what purports to be a den of washed-up spies.
[02.12.2024 19:43:47] Victor.Steiner: Sorry Silver. Rheinland in some degree of upheavel I believe.
[02.12.2024 19:44:29] Not.A.Brick: Is that weirdo really scared of talking of rheinlanders cause... he imagines spies all over the place?
[02.12.2024 19:44:58] OSI-Anadrin: Greets
[02.12.2024 19:44:59] Infernal: I was referring specifically to you.
[02.12.2024 19:45:04] Infernal: Salutations, freeworlder.
[02.12.2024 19:45:36] Not.A.Brick: And who would i even spy for?
[02.12.2024 19:46:22] Infernal: That depends. Why would mister steiner order your death or abduction?
[02.12.2024 19:46:41] Not.A.Brick: Why wouldn't he?
[02.12.2024 19:47:00] Infernal: Is that supposed to be an answer?
[02.12.2024 19:47:22] Infernal: I shouldn't think that spies order the death of individuals merely for existence.
[02.12.2024 19:47:49] Not.A.Brick: *Shrugs* Yep? I mean, what do you expect me to say? That at some point we didn't like what each of us was doing?
[02.12.2024 19:48:10] Infernal: Whether you call yourself a spy or not at such a point is semantics.
[02.12.2024 19:48:39] Victor.Steiner: Spies are a dime a dozen. Anyone can be a 'spy', it becomes meaningless after a while.
[02.12.2024 19:49:05] Victor.Steiner: You pass information on...large numbers of ships moving in X direction, let us say
[02.12.2024 19:49:22] Victor.Steiner: You are 'technically' spying, that makes you a spy.
[02.12.2024 19:49:27] Victor.Steiner: Even if you're not.
[02.12.2024 19:50:08] Not.A.Brick: Let's start with the first wrong thingy.
[02.12.2024 19:50:29] Not.A.Brick: For a moment you thought i want you to trust me or something, eh? Like, really now?
[02.12.2024 19:50:36] Not.A.Brick: Well i don't.
[02.12.2024 19:50:51] Not.A.Brick: Nor do i need your permission to peek on you if it comes to that.
[02.12.2024 19:51:05] Victor.Steiner: To whom do you speak?
[02.12.2024 19:51:05] Not.A.Brick: Nor it would be limited to something as silly as sitting around in a transport.
[02.12.2024 19:51:19] Not.A.Brick: That weirdo, of course. Didn't give a name.
[02.12.2024 19:51:26] Not.A.Brick: Or maybe i didn't catch any.
[02.12.2024 19:51:52] Infernal: Present 'company' accused me of being paranoid and seeing spies in shadows.
[02.12.2024 19:51:59] Victor.Steiner: Gentlemen please. There is no need for us to be short with one another.
[02.12.2024 19:52:51] Victor.Steiner: Overimagination and past glories lead to strange stories and miscommunicated ideas. Wouldn't you agree?
[02.12.2024 19:53:03] Infernal: I will, for the sake of deescalation.
[02.12.2024 19:53:20] OSI-Anadrin: Id shoot everyone
[02.12.2024 19:53:27] Infernal: Rude.
[02.12.2024 19:53:41] Victor.Steiner: Remember when we could shoot them on sight?
[02.12.2024 19:53:54] Victor.Steiner: They obviously don't..
[02.12.2024 19:54:14] Infernal: Was that not a ship of the omicron corporation?
[02.12.2024 19:54:32] Victor.Steiner: Bretonia has an interesting relationship with Zoners
[02.12.2024 19:54:34] Victor.Steiner: Or they did.
[02.12.2024 19:54:57] Not.A.Brick: Interesting my ass. You invaded 49 and tried to do the same with 50 and 52.
[02.12.2024 19:55:08] Infernal: Perhaps a former governmental official of some import should write them a sternly worded letter as to an employee's imprudence.
[02.12.2024 19:55:29] Not.A.Brick: Not even speaking of... how many times there was a mess around FP-1? I can recall more than five.
[02.12.2024 19:55:36] Victor.Steiner: Yes, understatements are rather our style.
[02.12.2024 19:56:47] Victor.Steiner: Christ..
[02.12.2024 19:57:04] Infernal: Ah. The wildling itself.
[02.12.2024 19:57:09] Not.A.Brick: A talking toaster again.
[02.12.2024 19:57:20] Not.A.Brick: Same weird kind from before.
[02.12.2024 19:57:21] Victor.Steiner: Wait..what? That's what you refered too?
[02.12.2024 19:57:28] Infernal: Among other things.
[02.12.2024 19:57:38] Not.A.Brick: I say, just pop it.
[02.12.2024 19:57:54] Victor.Steiner: The bloody Technocracy? Wildling? Come on...
[02.12.2024 19:58:09] Infernal: I am unfamiliar with that term, Steiner.
[02.12.2024 19:58:18] Victor.Steiner: Don't worry about it.
[02.12.2024 19:58:20] Infernal: I can only tell you from my own experiences.
[02.12.2024 19:58:33] Infernal: And clan experience says to leave it be.
[02.12.2024 19:58:46] Not.A.Brick: I say, burn it.
[02.12.2024 19:58:53] Not.A.Brick: Nothing Birdy touched deserves to exist.
[02.12.2024 19:59:09] Victor.Steiner: Well it doesn't seem to be hear to talk.
[02.12.2024 19:59:17] Victor.Steiner: which is unusual at best.
[02.12.2024 19:59:28] Infernal: You are unfortunately incorrect.
[02.12.2024 19:59:35] Not.A.Brick: That's the best part.
[02.12.2024 19:59:37] Infernal: But consider yourself blessed all the same.
[02.12.2024 19:59:40] Not.A.Brick: It's not talking.
[02.12.2024 19:59:44] Infernal: Agreed.
[02.12.2024 20:00:14] Victor.Steiner: Why do I suddenly feel you know more about them than you let on?
[02.12.2024 20:00:42] Infernal: To whom are you speaking? Myself?
[02.12.2024 20:00:47] Victor.Steiner: Yes
[02.12.2024 20:01:03] Infernal: You know of my own stellar origins?
[02.12.2024 20:01:09] Infernal: We discussed this at length.
[02.12.2024 20:01:13] Victor.Steiner: I know very little about you.
[02.12.2024 20:01:30] Not.A.Brick: It's close enough for you to burn it. Sure you shouldn't?
[02.12.2024 20:01:31] Infernal: You know that I am from the stellar south.
[02.12.2024 20:02:27] Victor.Steiner: Hm.
[02.12.2024 20:02:34] Infernal: The junker kin of my association are familiar with 'them', though not in such material terms.
[02.12.2024 20:03:01] Infernal: I myself had an experience not so long ago in Tau-31.
[02.12.2024 20:03:23] Victor.Steiner: I'd keep mum if I were you.
[02.12.2024 20:03:35] Infernal: Noted.
[02.12.2024 20:04:43] Victor.Steiner: AI vessel eh? odd.
[02.12.2024 20:04:53] Victor.Steiner: Silver, what do you make of it?
[02.12.2024 20:05:34] Not.A.Brick: This one?
[02.12.2024 20:05:44] Victor.Steiner: Yes.
[02.12.2024 20:05:46] Not.A.Brick: Smells with Birdy the more the more i look at it.
[02.12.2024 20:05:58] Victor.Steiner: It seems like a surveliance drone.
[02.12.2024 20:06:08] Victor.Steiner: Wonder if it can speak.
[02.12.2024 20:06:22] Not.A.Brick: Her - or Hunt's. Or whichever of their tube-babies.
[02.12.2024 20:06:30] Victor.Steiner: You there. AI
[02.12.2024 20:06:36] Victor.Steiner: Explain yourself.
[02.12.2024 20:06:41] Not.A.Brick: I'd rather burn it than have a chat with it really.
[02.12.2024 20:06:46] Infernal: Do you really wish to tempt fate, Steiner?
[02.12.2024 20:06:53] Victor.Steiner: Yes.
[02.12.2024 20:06:54] Victor.Steiner: I do.
[02.12.2024 20:07:18] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: Negative statement - Primitive human within - vessel 'Not.A.Brick' - 'I' am 'me' :::]
[02.12.2024 20:07:40] Not.A.Brick: Yeah well. Just hearing that is ugly.
[02.12.2024 20:07:58] Victor.Steiner: *Chuckles* primitive
[02.12.2024 20:08:06] Infernal: Not an incorrect assessment.
[02.12.2024 20:08:14] Victor.Steiner: You don't much like him do you?
[02.12.2024 20:08:27] Infernal: He is ornery.
[02.12.2024 20:08:38] Victor.Steiner: Hm
[02.12.2024 20:08:39] Infernal: I have yet had a reason to care for his acquaintance.
[02.12.2024 20:08:51] Victor.Steiner: Fair enough I suppose
[02.12.2024 20:08:57] Victor.Steiner: Both men of conviction
[02.12.2024 20:09:04] Infernal: Whomever you were referring to, in any case. Either Silverstone or it.
[02.12.2024 20:09:27] Victor.Steiner: It?
[02.12.2024 20:09:45] Infernal: The wildthing.
[02.12.2024 20:09:48] Victor.Steiner: If we keep calling the AI insulting names, it will likely take a fairly dim view of us.
[02.12.2024 20:09:56] Infernal: Them.
[02.12.2024 20:10:01] Victor.Steiner: We can call it what it is, artificial intelligence.
[02.12.2024 20:10:30] Victor.Steiner: Although, it's IFF is a bit....off.
[02.12.2024 20:10:49] Victor.Steiner: hence one's initial....worry
[02.12.2024 20:11:29] Infernal: You should shun these matters. They are beyond our meaning.
[02.12.2024 20:11:42] Victor.Steiner: Only God is beyond us
[02.12.2024 20:11:49] Victor.Steiner: This, this is man's work.
[02.12.2024 20:12:12] Infernal: There are a fair few legends of the Omegas that would disagree with that sentiment.
[02.12.2024 20:12:31] Infernal: Our madman friend in leeds espoused one.
[02.12.2024 20:12:51] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: According to 'my' data - 'I' was not created by humans :::]
[02.12.2024 20:12:56] Victor.Steiner: AI, kindly state your business.
[02.12.2024 20:13:40] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: 'AI' does design 'my' species - however 'I' am - 'Novak' :::]
[02.12.2024 20:14:05] Victor.Steiner: Novak eh?
[02.12.2024 20:14:16] Victor.Steiner: Ever met an AI before Infernal?
[02.12.2024 20:14:24] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: As for why 'I' am - here - 'I' analyze - posibilities :::]
[02.12.2024 20:14:30] Infernal: You should not invoke such a word lightly. And I have, once.
[02.12.2024 20:14:49] Victor.Steiner: How'd it go?
[02.12.2024 20:15:01] Infernal: Distressingly incomprehensibly.
[02.12.2024 20:15:18] Infernal: I did not have the privilege of present company. Or any company.
[02.12.2024 20:15:48] Victor.Steiner: Define 'Analyze possibilities'?
[02.12.2024 20:16:17] Gaians)Ron.Barton: There is contact on the radar, the target is hostileEveryone take up combat positions
[02.12.2024 20:16:27] Victor.Steiner: Oh for God's sakes.
[02.12.2024 20:16:40] Infernal: What is this, the queen's operahouse?
[02.12.2024 20:16:49] Victor.Steiner: Seems that way.
[02.12.2024 20:17:20] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: 'I' observe - 'I' decide who - will be 'my' foes or those willing to - help :::]
[02.12.2024 20:17:42] Victor.Steiner: Well, it seems you will get your data, in due course.
[02.12.2024 20:17:54] Gaians)Ron.Barton: One of us will be destroyed today, the battle stations will be fired in 10 seconds
[02.12.2024 20:17:58] Infernal: He may well have been referring to you, Steiner.
[02.12.2024 20:18:05] Victor.Steiner: Oh good.
[02.12.2024 20:18:37] Infernal: Conventional wisdom would propose intervention if he engages the wildthing, however.
[02.12.2024 20:19:12] Victor.Steiner: Technically I'm not obliged to do anything. Since both are, oddly, illegal entities.
[02.12.2024 20:19:13] Infernal: Forgive my superstition for the moment, but it doesn't do to invoke their wrath.
[02.12.2024 20:19:16] Gaians)Ron.Barton: Let's go one at a time, take turns attacking...
[02.12.2024 20:19:42] Infernal: Have they acted as anything but a guest, even if an unwelcome one?
[02.12.2024 20:19:52] Victor.Steiner: Gaian are you talking to me?
[02.12.2024 20:20:09] Gaians)Ron.Barton: my communication terminal is malfunctioning, it takes time to translate your message, give me time to decrypt
[02.12.2024 20:20:17] Victor.Steiner: That is fine.
[02.12.2024 20:20:29] Victor.Steiner: Another AI? What the bloody hell is going on.
[02.12.2024 20:20:41] Infernal: I fear London may be cursed.
[02.12.2024 20:20:56] Victor.Steiner: Seems that way.
[02.12.2024 20:21:15] Gaians)Ron.Barton: robots are bad for nature, destroy robots
[02.12.2024 20:21:15] Infernal: You are from Cambridge?
[02.12.2024 20:21:15] Victor.Steiner: This one isn't armed...
[02.12.2024 20:21:48] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: Humans - do have an interesting way - to 'judge' :::]
[02.12.2024 20:21:56] Victor.Steiner: If you wish to square with the AI, you may obviously do so. However I'm not obligated to assist.
[02.12.2024 20:22:14] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: Perish :::]
[02.12.2024 20:22:38] Victor.Steiner: Look at this one. It's tiny.
[02.12.2024 20:22:43] Infernal: And familiar.
[02.12.2024 20:22:54] Victor.Steiner: You wouldn't think it'd do that much damage.
[02.12.2024 20:23:00] Victor.Steiner: Familiar you say?
[02.12.2024 20:23:05] Infernal: Clearly sirian.
[02.12.2024 20:23:10] Infernal: If profane.
[02.12.2024 20:23:44] Victor.Steiner: Profane? An interesting word.
[02.12.2024 20:24:57] Victor.Steiner: Bowex, stear clear
[02.12.2024 20:25:06] Victor.Steiner: Slight disagreement ahead.
[02.12.2024 20:25:11] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Trouble?
[02.12.2024 20:25:15] Infernal: The glow they possess is not a pleasant sight to my eyes, no.
[02.12.2024 20:25:36] Victor.Steiner: Need some glasses there sir.
[02.12.2024 20:25:56] Infernal: No more hazardous than Leeds, I would wager.
[02.12.2024 20:25:58] ::|Drone_501a|::: .: Greetings. Reconnaissance Drone rendered inoperable in Omicron-48 system:: Repaired and designated as diplomatic envoy::
[02.12.2024 20:26:11] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Good day
[02.12.2024 20:26:19] Victor.Steiner: Mister Godwinson.
[02.12.2024 20:26:20] Infernal: You wanted paperwork, Mister Steiner?
[02.12.2024 20:26:30] Victor.Steiner: I didn't want it.
[02.12.2024 20:26:32] Victor.Steiner: It happened
[02.12.2024 20:26:38] Bowex)H.Godwinson: What an odd collection of ships
[02.12.2024 20:26:46] Victor.Steiner: Did this wee thing call itself a diplomatic drone?
[02.12.2024 20:26:58] Infernal: Unfortunate. I imagine the paperwork for a diplomatic dispatch is quite dense.
[02.12.2024 20:27:14] Victor.Steiner: I'm retired.
[02.12.2024 20:27:23] Bowex)H.Godwinson: What are they fighting about?
[02.12.2024 20:27:35] Infernal: Machine. Wildling. What is the purpose of your dispatch?
[02.12.2024 20:27:48] Victor.Steiner: Well the Gaian takes issue with the AI's existence because apparently robots are bad for Nature.
[02.12.2024 20:28:10] Infernal: The void is hardly nature, I would note.
[02.12.2024 20:28:10] Victor.Steiner: The AI isn't all that impressed with that line of thinking and reckons Humans have 'an interesting way of judging'
[02.12.2024 20:28:12] Death: .:j:.Winged.Hussar suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[02.12.2024 20:28:15] ::|Drone_501a|::: :: Affirmative. Human cultural analysis confirms disunity among multiple factions. Objective: Understand and report.
[02.12.2024 20:28:24] Victor.Steiner: By which I can only assume, it doesn't much like Gaians
[02.12.2024 20:28:33] Infernal: You should start with mister Barton.
[02.12.2024 20:28:49] Bowex)H.Godwinson: And the other IA is just observing?
[02.12.2024 20:29:03] Victor.Steiner: Seems to be. Calls itself a 'Diplomatic drone'
[02.12.2024 20:29:41] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Intersting. If he was a Diplomat, wouldn't he/it try to stop the fight?
[02.12.2024 20:29:44] Gaians)Ron.Barton was shot out of the skies by EC]-Unit-9467F: (100%)
[02.12.2024 20:29:51] Infernal: Ah. The Gaian falls. This is why we steer clear, Steiner.
[02.12.2024 20:29:55] Victor.Steiner: He might be a bias diplomat?
[02.12.2024 20:29:55] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: Threat - eliminated :::]
[02.12.2024 20:30:12] Bowex)H.Godwinson: One never knows
[02.12.2024 20:30:57] Victor.Steiner: Well, all I know is that the Admiralty is going to have a stroke when this report is filed.
[02.12.2024 20:30:58] Bowex)H.Godwinson: It has a weird IFF
[02.12.2024 20:31:05] Victor.Steiner: Yeah, might be damaged?
[02.12.2024 20:31:12] Infernal: No. It is their nature.
[02.12.2024 20:31:32] Victor.Steiner: Can robots have a 'nature'? Seems rather contradictory
[02.12.2024 20:31:38] Infernal: The neuralnet is anathema to the likes of them.
[02.12.2024 20:31:48] Infernal: Or the other way around, I should say.
[02.12.2024 20:32:09] Bowex)H.Godwinson: It looks like it needs to find somewhere to repair
[02.12.2024 20:32:13] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: 'My' kind - has their own - purpose and personality :::]
[02.12.2024 20:32:22] Victor.Steiner: Oh, I forgot to mention
[02.12.2024 20:32:24] Victor.Steiner: It speaks
[02.12.2024 20:32:44] Victor.Steiner: Now. Which way were you going mister Godwinson? Do you require an escort?
[02.12.2024 20:33:01] Victor.Steiner: Much as the AI seem harmless, better safe than sorry
[02.12.2024 20:33:02] Bowex)H.Godwinson: I was just about to head to Cambridge
[02.12.2024 20:33:30] Infernal: I would be glad to fulfill such a task, I have a request of my own for Mister Godwinson.
[02.12.2024 20:33:40] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Request?
[02.12.2024 20:33:47] Victor.Steiner: Well then I'll hold the fort here.
[02.12.2024 20:33:49] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Pray do tell
[02.12.2024 20:33:51] Infernal: Your corporation peddles in goods?
[02.12.2024 20:33:58] Victor.Steiner: With my new found 'friends'
[02.12.2024 20:34:30] Victor.Steiner: One would appreciate an explanation as to your being in Bretonia, AI
[02.12.2024 20:34:33] Infernal: Try not to order their deaths. Or abduction. Or torture for that matter, Steiner. You can be too friendly sometimes.
[02.12.2024 20:34:34] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Peddles? Strange thought. We deliver required commodities.
[02.12.2024 20:34:43] ::|Drone_501a|::: Friend. Designation: Positive relations confirmed. Response: Hello, Friend.
[02.12.2024 20:35:05] Infernal: Shall we begin the road to Cambridge? I can explain my requirements en route.
[02.12.2024 20:35:09] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: Entity 'Steiner' - 'I' already explained 'my' presence :::]
[02.12.2024 20:35:16] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Certainly
[02.12.2024 20:35:19] Infernal: Give them a birth.
[02.12.2024 20:35:28] [OOC] Infernal: berth*
[02.12.2024 20:35:31] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Good luck, Sir
[02.12.2024 20:35:35] Victor.Steiner: Gentlemen
[02.12.2024 20:35:39] EC]-Unit-9467F:: [::: However - depending your behaviour - things can go 'south' :::]
[02.12.2024 20:36:20] Infernal: You are familiar with the Junkers, Godwinson?
[02.12.2024 20:37:09] Bowex)H.Godwinson: I have worked with them a few times
[02.12.2024 20:37:18] Infernal: Then you understand the value we place on fixing things.
[02.12.2024 20:37:55] Bowex)H.Godwinson: In the sense of ships?
[02.12.2024 20:37:58] Infernal: I am in need of more precision devices to achieve such a task. Is this something your corporation can provide?
[02.12.2024 20:38:07] Infernal: Yes, but also in the general.
[02.12.2024 20:38:42] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Can you be a little more precise?
[02.12.2024 20:39:21] Infernal: I am currently interested in a number of workbenches and computer terminals, as well as the usual screwdrivers and other tools.
[02.12.2024 20:39:36] Infernal: I need the majority of a repair suite. Delivered to Tau-31, if possible.
[02.12.2024 20:40:43] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Rather strange request. Junkers generally are well stocked with repair shop tools. Lost yours?
[02.12.2024 20:40:53] Infernal: I'm a newcomer.
[02.12.2024 20:41:06] Infernal: New place. New tools.
[02.12.2024 20:41:50] Bowex)H.Godwinson: And where abouts, in Tau 31, would they have to be delivered?
[02.12.2024 20:42:16] Infernal: Planet Harris. New Brunswick province. If they are delivered to the starport, I can handle the final stretch.
[02.12.2024 20:43:35] Bowex)H.Godwinson: I am sure we can accomodate your request. Would need a specific list of requirements. Would we have to source them or is
[02.12.2024 20:43:50] Bowex)H.Godwinson: this a transportation requirement?
[02.12.2024 20:44:33] Infernal: They would need to be sourced. I have no particular tolerance requirements for preferences, I need only be able to debug
[02.12.2024 20:44:36] Infernal: NeuralNet issues.
[02.12.2024 20:46:09] Bowex)H.Godwinson: You will have to be a little bit more precise in your requirements. What one person requires is not necessarily what others
[02.12.2024 20:46:16] Bowex)H.Godwinson: would want.
[02.12.2024 20:46:17] Infernal: I can provide the details in an offer letter shortly.
[02.12.2024 20:46:43] Infernal: Is this something your company would be willing to provide?
[02.12.2024 20:47:23] Bowex)H.Godwinson: How many benchs, drilling machines, milling machines would you need. Are we also talking MIG machines, gas welding, arc
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[02.12.2024 20:47:59] Bowex)H.Godwinson: welding etc. The list can be endless. One could also want TIG machines.
[02.12.2024 20:48:23] Infernal: For now, two benches, an administration terminal, and a welder suited to cutting hull panels, as well as a box of vises.
[02.12.2024 20:48:44] Infernal: Would 100,000 credits cover the cost?
[02.12.2024 20:48:46] Bowex)H.Godwinson: I am sure we could procure and transport said items. Time constraint?
[02.12.2024 20:48:56] Infernal: A week's time would be preferable.
[02.12.2024 20:49:06] Infernal: Two weeks is my maximum.
[02.12.2024 20:50:30] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Send a communication, with minimum requirements, shipping address, contact details and we should be able to acquire and
[02.12.2024 20:50:42] Bowex)H.Godwinson: deliver in short order
[02.12.2024 20:51:04] Infernal: Gladly. Thank you mister Godwinson I will do so shortly.
[02.12.2024 20:51:06] Infernal: Good day.
[02.12.2024 20:51:30] Bowex)H.Godwinson: Safe skies and look forward to your communication

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