»UPLINK: ICN FIRESTORM, INCURSUS NODE

[Nodoka Hanamura]

Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 07.06.35, 07:30 GAST
Rank & Name: Commander Struikas, Andrew (Firebrand)
Reporting From: HFF Sender
AAR # 004

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Commander Struikas, reporting.

Tonight we had a sortie out to Vespucci to link up with a few of our own. Discussion with a Rogue Bustard aside, it was a pretty calm night, nothing really to report, other than a heated talk with an old friend.

EXEO -- NOFORN (Exarchy Eyes Only)

So let me get this shit straight.

You all have been fucking collaborating with infectees, and not been telling me, Hideyoshi or anyone in the lower or mid-commands save Crowe? Have you all lost it? Fuck insubordination for a second here, explain to me, and fuck, at the same time, Locksmith, how in the fuck siding with these bastards is going to do anything but give Liberty even more incentive to kick our shit in - or if they don't, that Nibwaakeen here doesn't stab us in the back?!

...

I want answers from the Exarchy. Don't care who - from With, from West or Meggido, so that me and my men can either rest easy knowing we're doing the right thing here, or if I should have the Sender strike colors and fuck off from the cause with all hands.

1. I want to know who in the fuck made first contact with these fuckers - not just Nibwaa here, but if there was any other contact like Yoruha had with that Psyche thing.

2. I want to know why you think coordination with any nomad-affiliated party is a bright idea. If any attempts at INFOSEC on this get blown, we are *fucked*. Auxesia, I know they're doing spooky shit, but you all can just wave it away as 'we didn't know, we're not that close to their HIGHCOM' and shit like that.

3. That.. thing. How can we be expected to trust it, or its' betters. Yoruha says they want to co-exist, but I find it harder to believe after everything I've seen over my military career, and after my father served during the Colony War. It says in that memo it has memories of a pilot who served but how am I supposed to believe that those are legitimate, or that this isn't some attempt at subversion - something these shits are well known to do!? Fuck, what if it's just an amalgamation of the memories whatever poor sods the nomads infected from the Legion between then and now? At least with you, Megiddo - I can trust *you*.

You want me to go along with this, I want answers. Because right now my faith in this cause is shaken at its' core. I came here to fight for a better Liberty. Not whatever in the hell this mess is going to eventually amount to.

Black Box -- EXEO -- NOFORN

[06.07.2025 03:35:42] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Sadly there is only so much asymmetrical warfare can do against an enemy with a higher force projection factor.
[06.07.2025 03:36:32] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: The only reason the GMG won their conflict with Rheinland during the 80 Years War, was because of
[06.07.2025 03:36:55] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Rheinland's failure to adapt to a dynamic offensive strategy, whilst the GMG established a fusion of asymmetrical warfare with
[06.07.2025 03:37:13] TFP)-HFF-Sender: defense in depth doctrines that allowed them to quickly and rapidly any Rheinlandic advance.
[06.07.2025 03:38:12] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Yeah, heard about that years ago at West Point. Admiralty requires you take a year or two of military history.
[06.07.2025 03:38:35] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Mm. Sadly here the Zoners are too divided and lack a cohesive chain of command to employ such a strategy.
[06.07.2025 03:40:00] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Therefore Liberty holds exclusive control over how the Zoners can engage them - it makes establishing any sort of control
[06.07.2025 03:40:10] TFP)-HFF-Sender: over the system, even as a Rump state, inviable.
[06.07.2025 03:41:53] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Yeah.. and we can't do anything to help because Liberty's already so entrenched in the system.
[06.07.2025 03:42:02] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Comes with being a protectorate.
[06.07.2025 03:42:24] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Meanwhile.. we have the other side of the coin..
[06.07.2025 03:42:27] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: .... yeah.
[06.07.2025 03:42:43] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: I.. don't tell anyone this in the ranks.
[06.07.2025 03:42:50] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: But I feel comfortable with you all.
[06.07.2025 03:43:03] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: One of the reason I left the Navy to retire was Veracruz.
[06.07.2025 03:44:14] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: After what we did there. I knew I couldn't do it anymore. I thought we'd just blockade the planet and bring about Surrender.
[06.07.2025 03:44:17] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Not.... this.
[06.07.2025 03:44:34] TFP)-Wendigo: I read it. Several times.
[06.07.2025 03:44:40] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Going to carry that to my grave, I suppose.
[06.07.2025 03:44:44] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Just Hideyoshi, then.
[06.07.2025 03:44:51] TFP)-Wind.Rose: What are we carrying to our graves now?
[06.07.2025 03:44:53] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Had I known, I'd defected there and then.
[06.07.2025 03:44:53] TFP)-Wendigo: The only questions I'd care to ask are ones with answers nobody's going to like.
[06.07.2025 03:45:07] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: But then again, not like it'd save Veracruz.
[06.07.2025 03:45:18] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Maybe I am asking because I have my personal morals. And this is one of them.
[06.07.2025 03:45:22] Nibwaakaawin: Seems like it's another one of those sessions.
[06.07.2025 03:45:48] Nibwaakaawin: "How dare you talk to the blue boys, cuz? Holy, that's no good."
[06.07.2025 03:46:14] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Seems this is where we are meeting. Contact on radar.. their IFF is... malformed. Hm...
[06.07.2025 03:46:26] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Seem peaceful. Don't get jumpy, Yoru.
[06.07.2025 03:46:50] TFP)-Locksmith: Personally, I don't like beings that are trying to play god. Doesn't matter if they're human or not.
[06.07.2025 03:47:04] Nibwaakaawin: Do I look like I'm playing at being a god?
[06.07.2025 03:47:13] TFP)-Locksmith: Don't know yet. Might be.
[06.07.2025 03:47:28] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Think he means the part where you were "raised from the dead", as Megiddo put it.
[06.07.2025 03:47:41] TFP)-Locksmith: Indeed.
[06.07.2025 03:47:44] Nibwaakaawin: You're supposed to hand in your baggage at the terminal before you get in the ship when you're going on a trip, cuz.
[06.07.2025 03:47:46] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Our resident Stratarch has an unnecessary flair for the dramatic.
[06.07.2025 03:48:05] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: You say that and yet Yoru's a product of playing God, Lock.
[06.07.2025 03:48:14] TFP)-Locksmith: My 'baggage' is what got me here.
[06.07.2025 03:48:16] Nibwaakaawin: Not to mention, Legion's no stranger to it.
[06.07.2025 03:48:27] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Same goes with Meggido, that bundle of brains.
[06.07.2025 03:48:34] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: I don't like genocidal beings that think this sector is theirs. There is no -peace- with things like that.
[06.07.2025 03:48:45] Nibwaakaawin: You must hate humans, then.
[06.07.2025 03:48:52] TFP)-Locksmith: Look. I have no problems with Yoru being who she is.
[06.07.2025 03:49:08] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Never said you did, just point something out.
[06.07.2025 03:49:10] TFP)-Wind.Rose: High Command says these ones aren't the ones doing the genociding. So until proven otherwise, which I've not been,
[06.07.2025 03:49:14] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I'm going to trust that.
[06.07.2025 03:49:18] Nibwaakaawin: Last I checked, kid, human beings are the ones doing genocides and slurping up everything under the sun. Plus, that.
[06.07.2025 03:49:26] TFP)-Locksmith: If someone would try to determine how much free will exactly she's going to get? I'd have a problem with that.
[06.07.2025 03:49:31] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Aw fuck, don't tell me..
[06.07.2025 03:49:45] TFP)-Locksmith: That's what playing god is.
[06.07.2025 03:50:01] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Fair point.
[06.07.2025 03:50:28] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: I remember once hearing that Auxesia had tried something to that effect once for those in their ranks... Suffice to say the
[06.07.2025 03:50:35] TFP)-HFF-Sender: project met a swift end. But that is all hearsay.
[06.07.2025 03:50:47] TFP)-Locksmith: And we're yet to find out where exactly these new 'friends' of ours are going to draw their line.
[06.07.2025 03:51:03] Nibwaakaawin: Can't prove a negative, kid.
[06.07.2025 03:51:05] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Let's ignore the colony war that your kin has started. Your manipulation might work on others, but not on me.
[06.07.2025 03:51:33] Nibwaakaawin: I'm not interested in repeating another lecture against some ignorant, self-righteous pilots.
[06.07.2025 03:51:44] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: This guy's an Infectee. Someone wanna explain to me why we're not spacing this poor sod?
[06.07.2025 03:51:52] TFP)-Locksmith: I'm not expecting you to prove anything. All I'm going to do is keeping a close eye on you and yours.
[06.07.2025 03:51:58] Nibwaakaawin: Real salt of the earth here.
[06.07.2025 03:52:10] TFP)-Wind.Rose: *Bellamy sighs, rubbing their eyes between their fingers.* Maybe we should just.. try again tomorrow.
[06.07.2025 03:52:14] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Your words are like a toxin that creeps into ones mind.
[06.07.2025 03:52:19] Nibwaakaawin: You're telling me, kid.
[06.07.2025 03:52:36] TFP)-Locksmith: Yes, Sender-actual. We're not doing that because command doesn't want us to.
[06.07.2025 03:52:44] Nibwaakaawin: This is about the thanks we expect for helping, usually.
[06.07.2025 03:52:51] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: ... Excuse me.
[06.07.2025 03:53:08] Nibwaakaawin: Fighter jockeys doing everything they can to not pull the trigger.
[06.07.2025 03:53:23] TFP)-Locksmith: What I said. They're our 'friends'.
[06.07.2025 03:53:30] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: The only way I believe anything is when it is proven by actions. Otherwise, everyone can talk.
[06.07.2025 03:53:48] Nibwaakaawin: You wanna tell them, Bellamy? Or that too personal?
[06.07.2025 03:54:03] TFP)-Wind.Rose: ...Hm.
[06.07.2025 03:54:09] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: In.. their defense. If they're aligned with the Vagrants.. they're likely not as hostile as one would think.
[06.07.2025 03:54:26] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: And yet, their species is all about manipulating for their own gain.
[06.07.2025 03:54:31] TFP)-HFF-Sender: {Firebrand turns to Yoruha, shocked slightly.} F: Fucking what.
[06.07.2025 03:54:40] TFP)-Wendigo: Yeah, Vagrants are okay, they only kill Gauls.
[06.07.2025 03:55:05] Nibwaakaawin: Christ, some of you need to hear yourselves.
[06.07.2025 03:55:08] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Commander Hideyoshi, that fight in Cortez.
[06.07.2025 03:55:25] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Recovering the Arcturus, saving everyone, bringing you back to base alive.
[06.07.2025 03:55:41] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I have a question.
[06.07.2025 03:55:58] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: I have had encounters with one, Psyche - To my understanding they want to have some sort of co-existance.
[06.07.2025 03:56:09] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Then ask?
[06.07.2025 03:56:24] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Do you think that the outcome that day somehow served them?
[06.07.2025 03:56:32] TFP)-Wind.Rose: That they gained from that, not us?
[06.07.2025 03:56:42] TFP)-Locksmith: That's an easy question.
[06.07.2025 03:56:48] TFP)-Locksmith: But I'm going to let her answer.
[06.07.2025 03:56:49] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: What has that fight to do with these things?
[06.07.2025 03:56:53] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: There is.. evidence that shows that we unknowingly colonized what amounted to the 'nursery' for the Slomon K'hara 835 years
[06.07.2025 03:56:53] TFP)-HFF-Sender: ago.
[06.07.2025 03:56:55] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I ask because it's not... it's not a coincidence that I woke up when I did.
[06.07.2025 03:57:17] TFP)-Locksmith: Buddy.
[06.07.2025 03:57:21] Nibwaakaawin: [He once again sits quietly, letting the talk play out.]
[06.07.2025 03:57:30] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Don't tell me you have a god damn squid in your head now.
[06.07.2025 03:57:39] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Someone stepped in to help. Into my mind. And several of you are alive because of it.
[06.07.2025 03:57:56] TFP)-Wind.Rose: There isn't anything attached to my gods damned spine, Freud. Take a scapel to me if you want.
[06.07.2025 03:58:18] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: And yes, I do believe they would have gained something from it.
[06.07.2025 03:58:19] TFP)-Locksmith: I have a question for you, buddy.
[06.07.2025 03:58:22] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Trust.
[06.07.2025 03:58:25] TFP)-Wind.Rose: It's the equivalent of being shaken awake because you're late for work. Except if I were late, people would have died.
[06.07.2025 03:58:29] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Because that led -RIGHT- here.
[06.07.2025 03:58:51] TFP)-Locksmith: Do you think if someone gives you a rifle to fight your enemy, he is your friend?
[06.07.2025 03:59:15] TFP)-Locksmith: Or maybe he just wants your enemy dead?
[06.07.2025 03:59:24] TFP)-Locksmith: Maybe he wants you both dead.
[06.07.2025 03:59:26] TFP)-Wind.Rose: No. But take Arcturus out of the equation for a minute. Fuck the stupid ship, it'll take a year or more to patch up anyway.
[06.07.2025 03:59:41] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: You say that we would be dead if it wasn't for you. Which might be correct. But you ask what they would have gained? Trust.
[06.07.2025 04:00:00] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: By waking you up, the threads of fate have woven themselves into this situation now.
[06.07.2025 04:00:14] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Where you stand. Telling me to trust you because you saved my life, only possible because of them.
[06.07.2025 04:00:51] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Trust has layers. It isn't black and white. I think Megiddo said as much.
[06.07.2025 04:01:04] TFP)-Locksmith: What I think, is that our interests align for now.
[06.07.2025 04:01:13] TFP)-Locksmith: If they cease to be...
[06.07.2025 04:01:14] TFP)-Wind.Rose: There's a difference between trusting someone to exist in the same room as you, and trusting them to do it while holding a -
[06.07.2025 04:01:16] TFP)-Wind.Rose: knife.
[06.07.2025 04:01:19] TFP)-Locksmith: Do you think they'd come to your aid?
[06.07.2025 04:01:25] Nibwaakaawin: [He chuckles incredulously, shaking his head.]
[06.07.2025 04:01:33] Nibwaakaawin: Every time.
[06.07.2025 04:01:41] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: And by Amaterasu's light. This is literally the -only- reason I am not purging this thing.
[06.07.2025 04:01:53] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I don't /know/. My gut says yes. But I'm not going to make military decisions based off of my gut, unless all else fails.
[06.07.2025 04:02:19] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: And i am waiting for the day where I will tell you: I told you so.
[06.07.2025 04:02:26] TFP)-Locksmith: Good. Then, at least, I can trust /you/.
[06.07.2025 04:02:29] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Because I know, that day will come.
[06.07.2025 04:02:48] TFP)-Wind.Rose: And what if it doesn't? Will you just distrust them for eternity?
[06.07.2025 04:02:56] TFP)-HFF-Sender:
[06.07.2025 04:02:57] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Yes.
[06.07.2025 04:02:58] Nibwaakaawin: I need to start making a list of the phrases.
[06.07.2025 04:03:03] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Because it will come.
[06.07.2025 04:03:12] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Gods alive and dead.
[06.07.2025 04:03:14] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: What, "Ours will feed yours a banana"?
[06.07.2025 04:03:25] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Contrary to popular belief not all of us are stupid monkeys.
[06.07.2025 04:03:28] Nibwaakaawin: No. The amount of cliches these conversations have.
[06.07.2025 04:03:31] TFP)-Wendigo: I think the phrase is one where they command the banana to leave.
[06.07.2025 04:03:33] TFP)-Locksmith: Your arrogant attitude isn't helping, alien.
[06.07.2025 04:03:45] Nibwaakaawin: You think this is the first time an olive branch has been extended, only to be cut off?
[06.07.2025 04:03:49] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Oh, I am sorry to disappoint you, oh godlike being.
[06.07.2025 04:03:51] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Better?
[06.07.2025 04:03:58] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: How the fuck does a Banana leave, Florence?
[06.07.2025 04:04:09] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Last time I checked they don't have legs.
[06.07.2025 04:04:12] TFP)-Wendigo: Good question.
[06.07.2025 04:04:17] Nibwaakaawin: How dare we try to help and hope we don't have to devolve into mindless killing.
[06.07.2025 04:04:28] Nibwaakaawin: How dare our forces move to help yours at key moments.
[06.07.2025 04:04:43] Nibwaakaawin: Like you haven't seen our voidforms show up, take shots at your targets, and leave?
[06.07.2025 04:04:59] TFP)-Locksmith: I'm sure hoping you're not their ambassador.
[06.07.2025 04:05:04] Nibwaakaawin: Or when we've guided your people before. Or when we did the same for the Technocracy.
[06.07.2025 04:05:12] Nibwaakaawin: I'm not here to coddle you, Legionnaire.
[06.07.2025 04:05:18] TFP)-Locksmith: When why are you here?
[06.07.2025 04:05:25] Nibwaakaawin: Because this is home.
[06.07.2025 04:05:44] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Oh sorry, I didn't see any of that. Must have been during the time I was still clad in red and black.
[06.07.2025 04:05:56] Nibwaakaawin: You Dragons are notably blind, yes.
[06.07.2025 04:05:57] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Who's Home? The Legionnaire you're inside of, or the home of your betters in the K'hara?
[06.07.2025 04:06:23] Nibwaakaawin: Right. You're convinced I'm a flesh puppet.
[06.07.2025 04:06:35] Nibwaakaawin: That no sane human could ever choose to work with another species.
[06.07.2025 04:06:52] TFP)-Wendigo: And we conveniently only have your word that such is indeed the case.
[06.07.2025 04:06:58] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Can we fucking please all just... be friendly? The machine that's so paranoid it doesn't trust /itself/, the cunty bitch -
[06.07.2025 04:06:59] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Wasn't there some saying about your kind? Nothing remains of the Host?
[06.07.2025 04:07:10] TFP)-Wind.Rose: from Los Angeles, and the salt of the earth Dubliner, have /all agreed/,
[06.07.2025 04:07:18] TFP)-Wind.Rose: That we give them a chance to prove themselves.
[06.07.2025 04:07:28] TFP)-Locksmith: We're not shooting it, Bellamy.
[06.07.2025 04:07:33] Nibwaakaawin: How gracious.
[06.07.2025 04:07:40] TFP)-Wind.Rose: You're not giving it any reason not to shoot us.
[06.07.2025 04:07:45] TFP)-Locksmith: More than some people get.
[06.07.2025 04:07:46] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: I have yet to pull the trigger, have I?
[06.07.2025 04:07:54] TFP)-Wind.Rose: You're not giving it any reason not to show up the next time we need help.
[06.07.2025 04:08:01] Nibwaakaawin: Consider that we're still working to help you fucking people even with this.
[06.07.2025 04:08:06] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Fucking.. contact.
[06.07.2025 04:08:11] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: *sighs* .... I swear to fucking god..
[06.07.2025 04:08:13] TFP)-Wendigo: We got a live one?
[06.07.2025 04:08:20] TFP)-Locksmith: Am I supposed to beg on my knees for it to come help us?
[06.07.2025 04:08:35] Concussive.Contribution: K: Whatcha need help with?
[06.07.2025 04:08:37] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I have a Rogue carrier here.
[06.07.2025 04:08:46] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: A Rogue *what*.
[06.07.2025 04:08:48] Concussive.Contribution: K: Careful there, this is a mine field.
[06.07.2025 04:08:56] TFP)-Wind.Rose has set Concussive.Contribution as group target.
[06.07.2025 04:09:10] TFP)-Locksmith: Hmph.
[06.07.2025 04:09:15] Concussive.Contribution: K: Betcha didn't think we got this big!
[06.07.2025 04:09:23] TFP)-Locksmith: What are you doing here, Rogue?
[06.07.2025 04:09:25] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Huh. Didn't expect you Rogues to have the brains to operate a Bustard-class.
[06.07.2025 04:09:38] Concussive.Contribution: K: Well that's not very nice.
[06.07.2025 04:09:57] Concussive.Contribution: K: I didn't show up going "Oh look, toaster fuckers" like those Xenos, now did I?
[06.07.2025 04:10:19] TFP)-Locksmith: And I've yet to call you anything yet as well, other than a "Rogue".
[06.07.2025 04:10:23] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: I prefer warmth over toasters when I fuck something. Thank you.
[06.07.2025 04:10:28] TFP)-Locksmith: So do answer that question of mine.
[06.07.2025 04:10:34] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: The only toaster we're fucking is yours after we fuck that Bustard seven ways to sunday if command lets me.
[06.07.2025 04:10:48] TFP)-Wendigo: Speak for yourself, Firebrand.
[06.07.2025 04:10:48] TFP)-Yukiko.K.Hideyoshi: Uncouth mouth.
[06.07.2025 04:10:53] Concussive.Contribution: K: There a reason you're up my ass after I tried to bail you and Wendigo out of a sideways engagement in Cortez, Locksmith?
[06.07.2025 04:11:08] TFP)-Wendigo: I'm not putting my junk anywhere near where a mini death ray if I can help it.
[06.07.2025 04:11:32] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Wait. Was those Rogues with us? The ones that rolled up after we had to fall back?
[06.07.2025 04:11:36] TFP)-Locksmith: Do... Remind me.
[06.07.2025 04:11:43] TFP)-Wind.Rose: If you tried to bail them out, I'm sure you were just waiting to dump them at Alcatraz for ransom or something.
[06.07.2025 04:12:00] TFP)-Wind.Rose: This one wasn't at Magellan, Struikas.
[06.07.2025 04:12:06] Concussive.Contribution: K: Bunch of navy boys, backside of of Curacao, there was a LOT of them, way too many for you to handle.
[06.07.2025 04:12:08] TFP)-Wind.Rose: That was Migo and the Midnight Sun.
[06.07.2025 04:12:08] TFP)-Wendigo: This is the one in northern Cortez.
[06.07.2025 04:12:19] Concussive.Contribution: K: I mean, I failed, but I tried, at least.
[06.07.2025 04:12:20] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: ... Does no one know what fucking INFOSEC I!?
[06.07.2025 04:12:22] TFP)-HFF-Sender: *IS
[06.07.2025 04:12:27] Rules Tip: Pirates need to keep their demands reasonable. Cargo and Monetary demands that exceed the maximum profit of a trader are viewed as unreasonable. ''Empty'' traders are not exempt from piracy, but the demands asked from them should reflect this.
[06.07.2025 04:12:41] TFP)-Wendigo: Yeah, I remember you, you guys were cool.
[06.07.2025 04:12:45] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Fucks sake.. What's next, you going to out me to the Navy next?
[06.07.2025 04:12:51] TFP)-Locksmith: Well.
[06.07.2025 04:12:52] TFP)-Wendigo: And fuck Selection International for making the Lunablast.
[06.07.2025 04:13:06] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: I would tread carefully, sir. That is getting close to insubordination.
[06.07.2025 04:13:10] TFP)-Locksmith: We're not shooting you, as you might've noticed.
[06.07.2025 04:13:16] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Selection International sounds like shitty offbrand coffee. Anyway..
[06.07.2025 04:13:21] TFP)-Locksmith: So far I've only asked you one question.
[06.07.2025 04:13:59] Concussive.Contribution: K: Yeah well, implying I shouldn't have a brain cause I'm a Rogue ain't exactly friendly.
[06.07.2025 04:14:02] Concussive.Contribution: K: Like, I get it.
[06.07.2025 04:14:06] Concussive.Contribution: K: But not cool, man.
[06.07.2025 04:14:14] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Well Rogues tend to not be the most competent bunch.
[06.07.2025 04:14:21] TFP)-Locksmith: Didn't imply that. You're assuming things that's not there.
[06.07.2025 04:14:30] Concussive.Contribution: K: You didn't, Sender did.
[06.07.2025 04:14:38] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Regardless of how pleasant you may or may not be, Rogue, you're in our home with a warship.
[06.07.2025 04:14:49] Concussive.Contribution: K: Home?
[06.07.2025 04:14:51] TFP)-Locksmith: Then answer to me, not to Sender-actual.
[06.07.2025 04:14:52] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Home.
[06.07.2025 04:15:08] TFP)-Wind.Rose: So I suggest you answer Captain Freud's question, directly.
[06.07.2025 04:15:13] Concussive.Contribution: K: I'll assume.. there's a base somewhere I can't see.
[06.07.2025 04:15:15] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Vespucci. Y'know. Prometheus' home turf, before Liberty decided to roll up and send everyone not on their IFF to god.
[06.07.2025 04:15:27] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Back when they were the Hellfire Legion.
[06.07.2025 04:15:35] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Well, we - I suppose.
[06.07.2025 04:15:38] Concussive.Contribution: K: Ok, ok, hold up, way too many lines of dialogue.
[06.07.2025 04:15:39] TFP)-Wendigo: What is this they nonsense?
[06.07.2025 04:15:42] Concussive.Contribution: K: What did you ask me?
[06.07.2025 04:15:49] TFP)-Locksmith: What are you doing here?
[06.07.2025 04:15:56] Concussive.Contribution: K: Taking a stroll.
[06.07.2025 04:16:05] TFP)-Locksmith: Mhm. And where are you going, then?
[06.07.2025 04:16:11] TFP)-HFF-Sender: I used to be Navy, Florence. Hell, back *when* Vespucci was being raided.
[06.07.2025 04:16:25] Concussive.Contribution: K: I didn't rip this anomaly-puncher off a Kusari warship not to see the spaces between, come on now.
[06.07.2025 04:16:34] TFP)-Wind.Rose: A stroll. Through our home-turned-mausoleum.
[06.07.2025 04:16:52] Concussive.Contribution: K: Look, I'll admit my political history is insanely out of date. I don't know jack about this place.
[06.07.2025 04:17:04] TFP)-Wendigo: They still have the awful dental plan?
[06.07.2025 04:17:08] Concussive.Contribution: K: Hell, I don't even know who /you/ are.
[06.07.2025 04:17:11] TFP)-Locksmith: You may ask.
[06.07.2025 04:17:12] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Vespucci was home to the Commonwealth of Liberty, a Rump state in resistance with House Liberty.
[06.07.2025 04:17:26] Concussive.Contribution: K: Cool, so I made the right call helping you in Cortez.
[06.07.2025 04:17:54] Concussive.Contribution: K: What now?
[06.07.2025 04:18:08] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: in the late 820s, the Hellfire Legion, the paramilitary of the Commonwealth, was routed here at Vespucci, at Veracruz.
[06.07.2025 04:18:19] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Guadalajara.
[06.07.2025 04:18:29] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Apologies. Guadalajara.
[06.07.2025 04:18:33] TFP)-Locksmith: Now we have something to decide.
[06.07.2025 04:18:45] TFP)-Wind.Rose: It's your command, sir.
[06.07.2025 04:18:46] TFP)-Wendigo: Does the auto-summarize search history function have an off-switch, or is that something in the Kishiro package?
[06.07.2025 04:18:49] TFP)-Wendigo: I'm curious.
[06.07.2025 04:18:58] TFP)-HFF-Sender: The planet was shelled extensively by the Navy, rendering all settlements sundered.
[06.07.2025 04:19:04] TFP)-Locksmith: Where exactly are you heading to, Rogue?
[06.07.2025 04:19:19] Concussive.Contribution: [The captain takes a nearby device from a bridge member and seemingly starts taking the necessary notes of the location's
[06.07.2025 04:19:20] Concussive.Contribution: history]
[06.07.2025 04:19:45] Concussive.Contribution: K: Don't really have a destination when I bounce. Just do.
[06.07.2025 04:20:05] Concussive.Contribution: K: But if you /need/ an answer, I guess the next port that sells batteries.
[06.07.2025 04:20:55] TFP)-Locksmith: When I'd say we'd see you safely there. And make sure you don't cause trouble here.
[06.07.2025 04:21:00] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Liberty has set up satellites in orbit to bar anyone from entering undetected.
[06.07.2025 04:21:37] TFP)-HFF-Sender: We, Task Force Prometheus, are the successors of the Hellfire Legion. We are currently hosted by the Auxesian Technocracy in
[06.07.2025 04:21:39] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Inverness.
[06.07.2025 04:21:52] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Hence the Technocracy transponder code.
[06.07.2025 04:21:59] Concussive.Contribution: K: Not really matching my vibe, but I don't plan to watch you do to me what the Navy did to you.
[06.07.2025 04:22:04] Concussive.Contribution: K: Which is kind of where this seems to be going.
[06.07.2025 04:22:15] Concussive.Contribution: K: So I guess, escort away.
[06.07.2025 04:22:24] TFP)-Locksmith: Bellamy, can you escort this dear guest of ours to safety? And see to it that they behave.
[06.07.2025 04:22:36] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Well, on one hand, certainly.
[06.07.2025 04:22:42] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Look, I'm personally going to afford you a luxury since you helped us out - I'm going to apologize for calling you an idiot.
[06.07.2025 04:22:42] TFP)-Wind.Rose: On the other hand, it is a fucking carrier.
[06.07.2025 04:22:53] Concussive.Contribution: K: Bellamy was in Cortez too!
[06.07.2025 04:22:58] TFP)-Locksmith: You can just call for support, you know.
[06.07.2025 04:22:59] Concussive.Contribution: K: Wait is Wraith also here?
[06.07.2025 04:23:02] TFP)-Locksmith: In case they try something.
[06.07.2025 04:23:21] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Hoo boy. Alright.
[06.07.2025 04:23:25] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Lead the way.
[06.07.2025 04:23:39] TFP)-Locksmith: Good luck, buddy. We'll need to catch up sometime soon.
[06.07.2025 04:24:02] Concussive.Contribution: K: One second, just checking my nav-data.
[06.07.2025 04:24:15] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Yeah. We will.
[06.07.2025 04:24:19] Concussive.Contribution: K: That's actually pretty convenient, to Cortez I go.
[06.07.2025 04:24:40] Concussive.Contribution: K: So you're Bellamy, did I say that right?
[06.07.2025 04:24:49] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Major Crowe, please.
[06.07.2025 04:25:04] Concussive.Contribution: K: Ookay, yeesh. Tense.
[06.07.2025 04:25:12] Concussive.Contribution: K: Did Wraith make it out too?
[06.07.2025 04:25:19] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Wraith made it.
[06.07.2025 04:25:23] Concussive.Contribution: K: Nice.
[06.07.2025 04:26:41] Concussive.Contribution: K: So what's the gig like, uhhh. [Checks notes] Major Crowe?
[06.07.2025 04:27:16] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Gig? You mean the colors we're flying?
[06.07.2025 04:27:42] Concussive.Contribution: K: Colors, job, responsibility, whatever it is you do since I'm not familiar. Yes.
[06.07.2025 04:28:20] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Think Yoru on the Sender already summed it up well. We're what's left of the Hellfire Legion, and we're fighting to reclaim
[06.07.2025 04:28:22] TFP)-Wind.Rose: our home.
[06.07.2025 04:29:13] Concussive.Contribution: K: Not much left to fight for from what- Oh yes, I forgot to ask /your/ name, Sender-actual? You use actual in the military, -
[06.07.2025 04:29:14] Concussive.Contribution: right?
[06.07.2025 04:29:16] TFP)-Wind.Rose: So, do you all not do cruise engines, or?
[06.07.2025 04:29:36] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: That'd be me, yeah.
[06.07.2025 04:29:41] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Firebrand.
[06.07.2025 04:29:50] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Commander Firebrand.
[06.07.2025 04:29:56] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: *a giggle manifests.*
[06.07.2025 04:29:59] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: .. What.
[06.07.2025 04:30:11] Concussive.Contribution: K: Not when we don't have to, using cruise engines after an anomaly-jump [Writes down Firebrand's rank] degrades them
[06.07.2025 04:30:13] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: It sounds like you're mimicking one of those old Terran spy thrillers.
[06.07.2025 04:30:27] Concussive.Contribution: quite terribly.
[06.07.2025 04:31:04] Concussive.Contribution: K: And I don't know if you've noticed, major. But /this/ baby is quite expensive. Can't afford to treat her like shit.
[06.07.2025 04:31:14] TFP)-Wind.Rose: About figured.
[06.07.2025 04:31:42] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Indeed. I am familiar with how volatile and fragile slipspace drives can be.
[06.07.2025 04:31:56] Concussive.Contribution: K: I know you didn't ask but here I go anyway. We made our fortune kicking in Hogosha gang member's teeth in Shikoku.
[06.07.2025 04:32:08] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Nails on RWR -- Datalink track 415, Carmine.
[06.07.2025 04:32:14] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: IFF is sweet.
[06.07.2025 04:32:16] TFP)-Carmine: Confirming present.
[06.07.2025 04:32:16] Concussive.Contribution: K: Yada yada yada, kidnapped a few high-ranking morons, they couldn't stop us here we are a decade later.
[06.07.2025 04:32:20] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: At ease, Yoru.
[06.07.2025 04:32:27] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Nice to see you Commander. We're moving at the speed of Slow over here.
[06.07.2025 04:32:34] Concussive.Contribution: K: Correct.
[06.07.2025 04:32:35] TFP)-Carmine: Slow and steady, I hope?
[06.07.2025 04:32:42] Concussive.Contribution: K: Also correct.
[06.07.2025 04:33:11] Concussive.Contribution: K: Ohhhh I get it, you think I want to desecrate the wrecks left behind in your home!
[06.07.2025 04:33:17] Concussive.Contribution: K: I'm not a junker, thankfully.
[06.07.2025 04:33:22] TFP)-Carmine: Lining up in escort. You'll have to excuse my choice of ride. The prosecutor had a fail start.
[06.07.2025 04:33:29] TFP)-Wind.Rose: It's not as simple as that.
[06.07.2025 04:33:36] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Your mere presence is a security risk.
[06.07.2025 04:33:40] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Talk about one helluva way to get that thing.
[06.07.2025 04:34:01] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Say, weren't we headed for Cortez?
[06.07.2025 04:34:14] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Honestly I don't know about those Bustards. Some of them use them as Aviation Battlecruisers, others use them as Carriers..
[06.07.2025 04:34:21] Concussive.Contribution: K: Hogosha's in the Keiretsu's pocket, been that way for a few decades, they got fat fucking stacks of creds and all sorts of
[06.07.2025 04:34:22] Concussive.Contribution: other junk.
[06.07.2025 04:34:46] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: As someone who ran an Interdictor for a while during the war with Gallia, I don't know if I'd be able to expect that thing
[06.07.2025 04:34:48] Concussive.Contribution: K: So while all the other Rogues were killing each other, we smashed a government's pet-favorite.
[06.07.2025 04:35:08] TFP)-HFF-Sender: to put up a fight, but then again from what I heard you and your pals sent the Akhetaten packing so..
[06.07.2025 04:35:23] TFP)-Wind.Rose: This one wasn't there for that.
[06.07.2025 04:35:26] TFP)-Carmine: Well that piece of crap seems to be blipping.
[06.07.2025 04:35:30] Concussive.Contribution: K: Oh yeah, that was Blythe's gang. Mean son of a bitch, not too friendly.
[06.07.2025 04:35:33] TFP)-Wind.Rose: And we didn't send it packing, we sent it straight to hell.
[06.07.2025 04:35:33] [OOC] TFP)-Carmine: scrap*
[06.07.2025 04:35:33] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: He wasn't?
[06.07.2025 04:35:59] Concussive.Contribution: K: Yeesh these rocks are /thick/.
[06.07.2025 04:36:16] Concussive.Contribution: K: Never liked the western border.
[06.07.2025 04:36:19] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Not as thick as Hideyoshi, but I think I blew my shot there.
[06.07.2025 04:36:28] Concussive.Contribution: K: Huh?
[06.07.2025 04:36:32] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Don't worry about it.
[06.07.2025 04:36:43] Concussive.Contribution: K: Sounds like you need therapy, man, I dunno.
[06.07.2025 04:36:56] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: I.. understand her concern. But at the same time I am not at liberty to object.
[06.07.2025 04:37:23] Concussive.Contribution: K: We talking like, Planet Aso thick, or like Seto thick?
[06.07.2025 04:37:51] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Contact, Maltese scouting party.
[06.07.2025 04:37:54] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Drop them.
[06.07.2025 04:38:02] Concussive.Contribution: K: Eugh, don't like those.
[06.07.2025 04:38:40] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Appreciate the support, Sender.
[06.07.2025 04:38:54] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Outcast Track 562 and 564, faded.
[06.07.2025 04:38:59] Concussive.Contribution: K: Part of the reason we're all so fucking crazy, you know. Drug addled.
[06.07.2025 04:39:06] Concussive.Contribution: K: Nasty stuff.
[06.07.2025 04:39:33] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Really not your average Rogue, are you?
[06.07.2025 04:39:41] Concussive.Contribution: K: Two ways to make a man dumb in a few seconds. Drugs, and women.
[06.07.2025 04:40:04] TFP)-Carmine: A bullet through the head also helps. Take you tried the first two together.
[06.07.2025 04:40:15] Concussive.Contribution: K: Well no, I'm filthy rich. Without doing drugs. Not common in the underworld.
[06.07.2025 04:40:16] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Good thing I'm not a man, then.
[06.07.2025 04:40:18] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Mhm.. lust and intoxication, two of the oldest sins humanity has had.
[06.07.2025 04:40:39] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Sins might be a little dramatic.
[06.07.2025 04:40:42] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Vices.
[06.07.2025 04:40:42] TFP)-Carmine: So what's your sin then?
[06.07.2025 04:40:51] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Vices, yes.
[06.07.2025 04:41:14] Concussive.Contribution: K: Lust. Not like, sexually motivated mind you, but I just like collecting things, a LOT of things. As you can see.
[06.07.2025 04:41:27] TFP)-Wind.Rose: That one's called greed.
[06.07.2025 04:41:33] TFP)-Carmine: Hmm so like greed, but sexual.
[06.07.2025 04:41:39] Concussive.Contribution: K: There you go.
[06.07.2025 04:41:57] TFP)-Carmine: Figure nobody wants to touch your things.
[06.07.2025 04:42:01] Concussive.Contribution: K: Gratification through superior collective tendencies. I unfortunately didn't come up with that joke, you can thank Larry.
[06.07.2025 04:42:06] TFP)-Carmine: Except perhaps some real nasty perverts.
[06.07.2025 04:42:10] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Lust can be for many thing. Sexual, Strength, Materiel...
[06.07.2025 04:42:13] TFP)-Carmine: Larry being?
[06.07.2025 04:42:19] [OOC] TFP)-HFF-Sender: things.
[06.07.2025 04:42:23] Concussive.Contribution: K: Larry's our engine two specialist.
[06.07.2025 04:42:53] TFP)-Carmine: So he's the brain of your operation and you are the pretty face.
[06.07.2025 04:43:08] Concussive.Contribution: K: What is it with you guys and implying I'm stupid?
[06.07.2025 04:43:20] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I haven't done that yet.
[06.07.2025 04:43:21] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Hey, I apologized.
[06.07.2025 04:43:23] TFP)-Carmine: That's just low confidence, buddy. I called you cute.
[06.07.2025 04:43:27] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Like I said, this one actually seems pretty smart.
[06.07.2025 04:43:39] Concussive.Contribution: K: Alright, alright, fair. Too used to insults I guess.
[06.07.2025 04:43:51] TFP)-Carmine: Haven't earned any from me yet.
[06.07.2025 04:44:06] TFP)-Carmine: Haven't earned any more compliments either.
[06.07.2025 04:44:07] Concussive.Contribution: K: Man I wish that's how the underworld worked. [The captain giggles to themselves]
[06.07.2025 04:44:28] TFP)-Wind.Rose: We at least attempt an iota more discipline.
[06.07.2025 04:44:31] TFP)-Carmine: The underworld is just have nots wanting what's not theirs
[06.07.2025 04:44:41] Concussive.Contribution: K: See a rogue and either piss themselves or start frothing at the mouth. Which works for my collections, not much else.
[06.07.2025 04:44:43] TFP)-Carmine: Comes with the territory.
[06.07.2025 04:44:44] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Discipline? What's that? Some new dance?
[06.07.2025 04:44:48] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: *laugh*
[06.07.2025 04:45:22] Concussive.Contribution: K: Well, here we are, safely far away from your home.
[06.07.2025 04:45:34] Concussive.Contribution: K: And in sight of where I met you the first time.
[06.07.2025 04:45:46] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Cortez is a strange place.
[06.07.2025 04:46:09] Concussive.Contribution: K: Sorry for the bother, unironically. I had no idea Vespucci even still had people in it.
[06.07.2025 04:46:50] TFP)-Carmine: Ah there be the planet of my childhood. Looks like synth shit as usual.
[06.07.2025 04:47:21] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: You grew up on Curacao?
[06.07.2025 04:47:31] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Must have been quite the childhood.
[06.07.2025 04:47:34] Concussive.Contribution: K: To answer your question slash compliment earlier. I am the brains of the operation. But anyone with a brain knows they need
[06.07.2025 04:47:36] Concussive.Contribution: advisors.
[06.07.2025 04:47:36] TFP)-Carmine: Grew up working too.
[06.07.2025 04:47:57] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: I... see.
[06.07.2025 04:48:17] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: That's corpos for you. Fuck forbid kids be kids, they gotta work too!
[06.07.2025 04:48:25] Concussive.Contribution: K: Can't imagine growing up on a place like that.
[06.07.2025 04:48:25] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Swear, one of these days..
[06.07.2025 04:48:45] TFP)-Carmine: Indeed, after all you go there for dreams.
[06.07.2025 04:48:59] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Apologies, systems failure.
[06.07.2025 04:49:01] TFP)-Carmine: Somebody has to clean up after all that, do this and that which nobody cares about.
[06.07.2025 04:49:08] Concussive.Contribution: K: Need to make use of our bay?
[06.07.2025 04:49:15] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Rogue, I don't think I actually caught a name.
[06.07.2025 04:49:23] Concussive.Contribution: K: Katt Williams.
[06.07.2025 04:49:25] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I'll be fine, but I appreciate the offer.
[06.07.2025 04:49:41] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Well, Williams, it's certainly been different.
[06.07.2025 04:49:55] Concussive.Contribution: K: I'd sure hope so.
[06.07.2025 04:50:00] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Carmine, Firebrand, I'm going to RTB Tijuana. You can come or RTB Valravn.
[06.07.2025 04:50:27] TFP)-Carmine: Was short, but fine company. If you ever want to hit the back streets down that slime ball behind the star, hit me up.
[06.07.2025 04:50:28] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Probably best we RTB closer to the front.
[06.07.2025 04:50:42] TFP)-Carmine: It's been a while. I'd rather make them think I made it big with a sugar mommy.
[06.07.2025 04:50:43] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: You take care of yourself, Williams.
[06.07.2025 04:50:52] TFP)-Carmine: Safe skies.
[06.07.2025 04:51:01] Concussive.Contribution: K: Don't die out there!
[06.07.2025 04:51:03] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Won't.
[06.07.2025 04:51:38] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Been spending a whole lot of time in Magellan lately.
[06.07.2025 04:51:48] TFP)-Wind.Rose: More peaceful tonight at least.
[06.07.2025 04:51:55] TFP)-Carmine: Baby blues are in vogue this summer season.
[06.07.2025 04:51:56] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Yeah.
[06.07.2025 04:52:01] TFP)-Wind.Rose: You missed the big fight, Carmine. Got my revenge on the Akhetaten.
[06.07.2025 04:52:17] TFP)-Carmine: That final hull panel yielded to your fury. *laughs*
[06.07.2025 04:52:34] TFP)-Carmine: Glad to hear. Now we have to find something just as big for this baby here.
[06.07.2025 04:52:35] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Yeah, I heard. Akhetaten and the rest of the 46th on station here ate shit.
[06.07.2025 04:54:27] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: My only lament is that I didn't have the Elsmere here to whack her with.
[06.07.2025 04:54:48] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Honestly, if there's one thing I want, it's that ship back.
[06.07.2025 04:55:03] TFP)-Wendigo: Uh oh, here comes trouble.
[06.07.2025 04:55:08] TFP)-Wendigo: Where's the Major?
[06.07.2025 04:55:25] Nibwaakaawin: That's what I'm left wondering.
[06.07.2025 04:55:27] TFP)-Carmine: Engine went bad again.
[06.07.2025 04:55:34] TFP)-Carmine: Will be delayed.
[06.07.2025 04:55:45] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Fucking Gaians.
[06.07.2025 04:55:46] Nibwaakaawin: Right. Well, I hope you read the briefing, at least.
[06.07.2025 04:56:04] TFP)-Carmine: Didn't read what was missing in it.
[06.07.2025 04:56:14] TFP)-Carmine: Anything we should know?
[06.07.2025 04:56:40] TFP)-Wendigo: He's cool... ish.
[06.07.2025 04:56:53] Nibwaakaawin: Judging by the fact that you're not shooting at me or trying to tear my head off verbally, I'd say nothing right now.
[06.07.2025 04:57:05] TFP)-Wendigo: If the aliens he works for get what they want, we have no guarantee they'll immediately rip our heads off.
[06.07.2025 04:57:10] TFP)-Wendigo: But that's a problem for future us.
[06.07.2025 04:57:13] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: I mean I could tear your head off physically. If you're into that.
[06.07.2025 04:57:38] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Look... fuck, I'll... if Command says you're fine, I don't have any choice but to go along with it.
[06.07.2025 04:58:12] TFP)-HFF-Sender: But the moment that order's belayed I will not hesitate to send your ass to whatever god there is with SSbM fires.
[06.07.2025 04:58:22] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Mind the mines.
[06.07.2025 04:58:25] Nibwaakaawin: Yeah, yeah. Posturing. I get it.
[06.07.2025 04:58:27] TFP)-Wendigo: Asbestos doesn't burn.
[06.07.2025 04:58:40] TFP)-Wendigo: I think that's what you're talking about.
[06.07.2025 04:58:41] TFP)-Carmine: Glad you caught up with us. We're having a discussion on the quality of human nature or something.
[06.07.2025 04:58:45] Nibwaakaawin: Listen, save the tough talk for someone who cares about it.
[06.07.2025 04:59:03] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Yeah, Okay Nibwaa.
[06.07.2025 04:59:21] Nibwaakaawin: I presume the Dragon's cooling off somewhere else.
[06.07.2025 04:59:31] Nibwaakaawin: Same with guy who talked about playing god or something.
[06.07.2025 04:59:47] TFP)-Carmine: Well, all we got is Liberty Ale, friend.
[06.07.2025 04:59:47] TFP)-Wendigo: Oh, I'm going to have words with her later.
[06.07.2025 04:59:58] TFP)-Carmine: And it happens to be at another location.
[06.07.2025 05:00:04] TFP)-Wind.Rose: At least Fleet Captain Freud says he'll wait and see.
[06.07.2025 05:00:11] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Big step up from Hideyoshi's paranoia.
[06.07.2025 05:00:40] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I will say, though. A joint op would go a long way in unfucking, well, everything.
[06.07.2025 05:00:55] Nibwaakaawin: I agree. The little hints of help only do so much.
[06.07.2025 05:01:14] Nibwaakaawin: We're licking wounds, but we have no intention of sitting on the sides.
[06.07.2025 05:01:18] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Her paranoia is justified. The Blood Dragons have a long history of collaboration with the Order.
[06.07.2025 05:01:19] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Has to be done carefully, of course. Way beyond my paygrade.
[06.07.2025 05:01:25] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Maybe have your people talk to our people.
[06.07.2025 05:01:31] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: And they thereby, have a long history of working together against the K'hara.
[06.07.2025 05:01:46] Nibwaakaawin: I'll be a decent enough messenger for the whole affair.
[06.07.2025 05:01:47] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: That however, does not justify insubordination.
[06.07.2025 05:02:05] Nibwaakaawin: I could go on about the Order. I won't, though.
[06.07.2025 05:03:03] TFP)-Carmine: Seems like we're in the clear. No contacts in lidar range anywhere.
[06.07.2025 05:03:34] TFP)-Wind.Rose: I really should be going. Florence, are you satisfied with your ah, chat?
[06.07.2025 05:03:45] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: As could I. Suffice to say, my sentiments, at least with Golanski's sect of the movement, is one we do have in common, but
[06.07.2025 05:03:47] TFP)-HFF-Sender: for different reasons.
[06.07.2025 05:03:48] TFP)-Wendigo: Satisfied is a word.
[06.07.2025 05:03:56] TFP)-Wind.Rose: What's another word?
[06.07.2025 05:03:58] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: And yes. Picture is clear on radar as well.
[06.07.2025 05:04:12] TFP)-Wendigo: Concerned over problems for future me.
[06.07.2025 05:04:22] TFP)-Wendigo: And future everyone else, too.
[06.07.2025 05:04:23] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Don't much like the sound of that.
[06.07.2025 05:04:39] TFP)-Wendigo: What happens when his buddies get what they want?
[06.07.2025 05:04:55] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: The question is.. what do you want, Nibwaakaawin?
[06.07.2025 05:04:57] TFP)-Wendigo: My pattern recognition says they'll turn around and cook us.
[06.07.2025 05:04:58] TFP)-Wind.Rose: As I understand it, what they want is to exist in the same room as us.
[06.07.2025 05:05:09] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Or rather, your benefactors?
[06.07.2025 05:05:25] Nibwaakaawin: We don't have any additional desires beyond getting what we need to grow and move on. If humans are a danger impeding that,--
[06.07.2025 05:05:37] Nibwaakaawin: --we respond accordingly. If they're a help, the response changes.
[06.07.2025 05:05:48] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: So... let me get this straight.
[06.07.2025 05:05:57] Nibwaakaawin: So far, all we've seen of the vast majority of mankind has been fire, death, and greed.
[06.07.2025 05:05:57] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: You all, are aligned with the nomads out of Inverness.
[06.07.2025 05:06:08] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: As opposed to the livid fucks in the Omicrons.
[06.07.2025 05:06:13] TFP)-Wendigo: I'm spray painting that on the side of this boat.
[06.07.2025 05:06:18] TFP)-Wendigo: Fire, Death, and Greed.
[06.07.2025 05:06:18] Nibwaakaawin: In a sense.
[06.07.2025 05:06:20] TFP)-Wendigo: Metal.
[06.07.2025 05:06:35] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Harlan.. oh hell.
[06.07.2025 05:06:35] TFP)-Carmine: New contact. No IFF.
[06.07.2025 05:06:39] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: And unlike those shitheads, you want to co-exist after we all.. y'know, came....
[06.07.2025 05:06:45] TFP)-Wendigo: You know this guy?
[06.07.2025 05:06:46] TFP)-Wind.Rose: That's Tijuana's admin, I think? Or CSO?
[06.07.2025 05:06:46] Harlan.White: Good morning, pilots.
[06.07.2025 05:06:49] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Yoru, interrogate.
[06.07.2025 05:06:56] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Don't interrogate the fuckin-
[06.07.2025 05:06:59] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Affir...
[06.07.2025 05:07:00] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Smooth.
[06.07.2025 05:07:02] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: Picture faded.
[06.07.2025 05:07:05] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Real smooth.
[06.07.2025 05:07:12] TFP)-Carmine: the system is quite lively today, isn't it?
[06.07.2025 05:07:22] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: I said Interrogate, not prosecute, Major. sensor interrogation.
[06.07.2025 05:07:39] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Still hardly seems necessary.
[06.07.2025 05:07:53] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Unless he's suddenly become the Chief Insecurity Officer
[06.07.2025 05:07:53] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: What, taking a picture of the guy?
[06.07.2025 05:08:07] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Mister White, you consent to a photoshoot?
[06.07.2025 05:08:10] TFP)-Carmine: Considering we're out for a picnic, we might as well bring some refreshments.
[06.07.2025 05:08:11] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Possibly getting a manifest scan?
[06.07.2025 05:08:19] Harlan.White: As long as it doesn't show up in unsavory places.
[06.07.2025 05:08:28] Harlan.White: I assume all is going well out there?
[06.07.2025 05:08:35] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Oh for fuck's sake...
[06.07.2025 05:08:41] TFP)-Wind.Rose: As can be.
[06.07.2025 05:08:44] Nibwaakaawin: [A smirk and a chuckle.]
[06.07.2025 05:09:03] TFP)-Carmine: I wonder what our guest would prefer as sustenance.
[06.07.2025 05:09:25] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Y: They are out of Radar range but on the RWR. I can't get a clear heading, though.
[06.07.2025 05:09:44] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Fuck it, no point in running around for some random no-IFF civvie.
[06.07.2025 05:09:50] Nibwaakaawin: Yes, I eat babies for all meals of the day.
[06.07.2025 05:09:56] Nibwaakaawin: The Order was right.
[06.07.2025 05:10:00] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: That you, Sapphire Raven?
[06.07.2025 05:10:01] TFP)-Carmine: I'll go check on them. Not like I'm essential to the talks here.
[06.07.2025 05:10:03] TFP)-Wendigo: Yep.
[06.07.2025 05:10:10] TFP)-Wendigo: I can confirm, he does eat babies.
[06.07.2025 05:10:18] TFP)-Wendigo: You see, babies Sirius-wide have eaten all the crayons.
[06.07.2025 05:10:29] TFP)-Wendigo: And as a marine, he must maintain a minimum crayon intake.
[06.07.2025 05:10:32] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Unlikely.
[06.07.2025 05:10:37] Nibwaakaawin: Exactly.
[06.07.2025 05:10:38] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Only person before I've seen smartass remarks from like that.
[06.07.2025 05:10:39] TFP)-Wind.Rose: The Republic's marines aren't starving yet.
[06.07.2025 05:10:48] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: But then again what am I.
[06.07.2025 05:10:59] [OOC] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Come on that was a BANGER
[06.07.2025 05:11:03] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Wendigo, don't you mean the Liberty Marines?
[06.07.2025 05:11:04] TFP)-Carmine: Greetings, Pegasus.
[06.07.2025 05:11:09] TFP)-Wendigo: I mean any marine.
[06.07.2025 05:11:10] TFP)-Wendigo: Ever.
[06.07.2025 05:11:21] TFP)-Wendigo: The moment you walk into basic, there's a box of crayons.
[06.07.2025 05:11:22] V)-DS-Pegasus: RO: Hail, Promethean.
[06.07.2025 05:11:28] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Fuckers eat Crayons for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Surprised they don't shit rainbows.
[06.07.2025 05:11:30] Nibwaakaawin: Technically served as a marine before being pulled for pilot duty.
[06.07.2025 05:11:34] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Prometheans, plural.
[06.07.2025 05:11:39] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Clear skies, Pegasus.
[06.07.2025 05:11:39] TFP)-Carmine: You're out quite late in the evening. Anything amiss?
[06.07.2025 05:11:58] TFP)-Wind.Rose: With which Liberty?
[06.07.2025 05:12:12] Nibwaakaawin: The Commonwealth, which other?
[06.07.2025 05:12:13] V)-DS-Pegasus: RO: I believe it is early in the morning, pilot.
[06.07.2025 05:12:31] V)-DS-Pegasus: RO: But perhaps you are on a different timescale than we are.
[06.07.2025 05:12:35] TFP)-Wind.Rose: The Republic, before that. I've no clue about your background, or how old you are. Hardly seems to matter, given, you know.
[06.07.2025 05:12:35] TFP)-Carmine: It can be either. For me it's been quite a few hours already. Early morning person then, captain?
[06.07.2025 05:13:01] Nibwaakaawin: Mm. It really doesn't at this point. But sometimes knowing I'm a person with a past can help.
[06.07.2025 05:13:01] V)-DS-Pegasus: RO: Mr. White simply wanted to stretch the crew's legs a little.
[06.07.2025 05:13:03] Tip: Be careful when picking out the ID for your character. Generic IDs offer much more freedom, but are severely limited in terms of combat as well as the size of ship these characters can pilot.
[06.07.2025 05:13:08] [OOC] TFP)-Wind.Rose: Need to dock and start packing up, peace
[06.07.2025 05:13:27] [OOC] TFP)-HFF-Sender: Gotta make me some dinner.
[06.07.2025 05:13:37] TFP)-Carmine: I see. True, this system rarely sees as much action as up north.
[06.07.2025 05:13:49] TFP)-HFF-Sender: F: Alright.. we're gonna head back with Rose to Home Plate. See you all around.

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