To: BIS high command || From: The Order Overwatch

[Jeremy Hunter]

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⧫ Sender: Admiral Jeremy Hunter
⧫ Location: OCV Oathkeeper
⧫ Subject: A Treasonous Request
⧫ Encryption: GENGEN-WER

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Admiral Fairfax

Admiral Solandros has added me to this channel in preparation for a daunting endeavor. With the release of the Niyodo Files and the retrofitting of the battleships Somerset and Essex, the proliferation of Jump Drives is not an if, but a when. The inevitability
Jump Drives being used for surgical strikes, destroying any means of security and unfortunately creating a world of fear and paranoia, means steps must be taken. This is our first step. Unfortunately, so early into our endeavors to find common ground has found me in need of your help. And if it were easy, I would have saved my breath and your cortisol levels.

The Order is now requesting of you something we understand is difficult. It will be tantamount to Treason. But we do this with the promise it is for the good of humanity. Because if there is no promise of security, then there will only be war.

We need full readouts - gravimetric, spatial, energy, if it's a tactical, scientific, civilian, glancing, passerby blink and you'll miss it, cows still moving rare steak - I need it. I cannot get a reconnaissance vessel close enough without the full might of Bretonia smiting it from existence. Getting one into Leeds is already a daunting task I will not be undertaking at the current time. But you can.

I am noy askinh nor do I expect you to steal the plans. I don't expect technical readouts of the device itself. Hell, I don't even expect you, no offense, to be allowed onboard either vessel, much less close enough to see them drives.

But I need something. Signatures, how it distorts space, power fluctuations. We need this because, to be upfront, we are currently attempting to create a Drive Suppressor. Any House with unchecked power to drop a fleet anywhere in their foe’s backyard will not only have untold hold on the security of Sirius, but become the focal point of all Houses’ ire. The Houses cannot fall. Even Gallia cannot. The Nomads are a force too powerful for any one House to stand alone against, and the Gallic War played right into their hands.

We are on the cusp of another Colony Wars. We need to do everything possible to protect humanity.

And there is no House to serve if there is no House left standing.

I await your response.

Admiral Jeremy Hunter
Overwatch Black Fleet, Battlegroup Three
Gallant Dawn

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May you ever walk in the Light, Shizune.