Nomads...

[Derkylos]

Well, The Order, the Corsairs, the Outcasts and the Zoners are probably the four main groups that would know about the Nomads in depth. Top tier officials in the houses would also probably know.

However, the common beat-cop would probably just be told that "if you see something looking like x, detain it's owner". After all, as Hakkera said, what should you be told?

If the government let slip that there was an alien race that far exceeded humans in power, there would be a mass panic. Sure, some freelancers/Zoners etc etc may know something about them, but most of the knowledge that a generic civilian has will probably be hearsay, along the lines of "blue aliens sometimes take over people", "mermaids live in the Omicrons", "cardamine is good for your soul" etc, etc.

People generally make snap decisions about things based on what they've heard, so one citizen of Liberty may believe that Nomads look like giant, green pac-men, another may not believe they exist at all, and a third may believe the other two are Nomads.

On the other hand, people that live and work in the edge world know that Nomads are blue, fly ships with curly spikes, have purple guns, and are dangerous beings that wantonly destroy everything they encounter.

It entirely depends on how frequently said person encounters Nomads...but I suppose the same could be said of Outcasts, Corsairs, and even other houses...

Edit: I forgot why the BH were fighting the Order (duh), so add them to the list of people that know about them (core only, of course). Junkers, Hessians, etc mostly know of the Wilde, the infested humans, and these are quite different to actual Nomads.

@ Rashnok: Hackers didn't encounter Nomads, they just help you escape Liberty. Dragons, I can accept, and the Bundschuh, felt more like they thought they were attacking a new Rheinland battleship, rather than a Nomad battleship...

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