To: Melusine || T.Thorn

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Sender: Thallia Thorn
Recipient: 'Melusine'
Subject: Contingencies

Location: 'The Solace'
Source: Marseilles Communications Relay

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Melusine, hey.

How do you f...fare fleur des ét...étoiles? Busy as ever, I imagine.

Listen, I ur... well, after you shared with me the news about Civil Servant's intentions I've not been able to get the to...t...topic off the mind. I hope it works out for them, truly, but ur... well, what if it doesn't? It's a delicate play. Bold but fraught with risk. Fuck, it's even morally admirable. Hard not to admire the guy. Yet...I've been on t...th...the receiving end of an Artificial Intelligence's callous whims one too many times to trust it'll pan out. I'd rather be proved wr...wrong, but be prepared to be right. I've been thinking there needs to be a c...co...contingency. One removed fr...from those in play on this plan in case there's any subversion. I doubt those in the Pl...platform would work with me anyhow given their membership. I don't blame them... but that's not the point. The point is, if for whatever reason it goes south, there's a backup.

I've got to try. I feel the screws loosening from inaction. I've been jumped on by squadrons with scrambled IFF's a few times now. I get the sense it's re...related somehow to everything that's happened. It began after that fight in Earhart against those Nomads after all, and faith in coincidence is running short. They're going to get me one day if I don't d...do something about it. I can't af...afford to be naïve about this anymore...[sighs]

What a tr...trauma dump. Anyhow, the point is I need to get my shit together and st...start working on this contingency plan. I've got a few ideas in mind, but ur... well, I'm just one person and we both know I'm not much of a fighter pilot. This is going to take allies. Allies with means, wherewithal, and a sense of discretion that run in separate circles to Civil's lot. So... with that in mind, I've got a some questions to ask of you Mel.

You mentioned you'd come to some kind of understanding with folks up here in Gallia. Who does that include, and who among them might I trust with something like this? This is likely going to take folks with both constr...construction capabilities and facilities for developing 'creative' solutions. Is there a big fish you th...think we could trust? I'm wondering if reaching out to one of the Houses might be the call, complicated as that is.

Do you know anyone who'd be willing to hook me up with some proper training? Flying about in a DS-2 Voy...Vo...Voyager just isn't safe anymore, and action mi...might need to be taken if worst comes to worst. Know anyone who might be able to sort out a crew of military minded folks trustyworthy enough if it's needed?

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