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CommID: Lieutenant Julio Quintillia
Message Source: Zvezdny Gorodok - Omega 52
Message Target: Captain Totenkopt, Recon Wing
CC: Op. TOASTER; Comrade Viatchislav

Hola comrade-Captain.

I have included below a segment of one of my earlier reports that gives a conclusion of the Revolution's preliminary contact with Harvester 74. The entirety of my report on the defensive organisation of the Omicron 91, 94, 93 and 96 systems in report #1035).

Which left me 10k away from Crete and Tripoli, in plain sight of a lot of Corsairs and a Harvester... Gunning my engines, I retreated back towards Omega 52 with Harvester_74 in a Corsair gunboat, Tiger_Strike in a Corsair gunboat, Migel.Hernandez in a Praetorian and HAF-M-Espe also in a Praetorian hot on my heels. Managing to reach home turf without injury, I sat and waited for the fools to jump through after me, having already briefed the Eisner's commander on what was about to happen.

As they did, the Harvester went through some kind of malfunction and began to indiscriminately fire on the Corsairs, exclaiming "<:Assisting Coalition entity:>". There seemed to be some kind of personality struggle going on. At the time, all that meant to me was that there was one less set of guns firing on me. Not long later, the Eisner and the Harvester managed to lower Tiger_Strike's shields, which I mercilessly exploited by flying in tight orbits around him, dropping mines. Eventually one of the nukes must have hit something important because he exploded. Miguel followed him soon after when he flew into one of his own Nova Torpedoes.

This left the dysfunctional toaster and the HAF bomber pilot, who failed to hit me, while I failed to do much against his hull. This was the way for a long time, until the HAF pilot retreated back to Omega 5. Which left the toaster, which was sulking to itself a short distance from the Omega 5 Scrap Field. I tried to talk to it, where it turned out that the Harvester had created an almost human division of it's personality so it could learn to hate humans better. This sub-personality then somehow managed to suppress the main Harvester program and take control of the ship.

I managed to upload the "Heroes of the Revolution" module to it, to inform it of the Coalition and our goals. This seemed to influence it somewhat. At this point comrade Aliabiev arrived. Over time, I managed to convince it to trust me, to the point that it would agree to allow our scientists to study it. I told it we could establish a two-way data-link that would allow us to understand the way it works. I'm sure our scientists would appreciate being able to study it, even if it was just so they could have a look at a completely intact non-battle damaged Corsair gunboat. We could also stand to learn a lot about AI programming.

After this, I watched and waited until it left the system. It told me to contact Harvester_72 in the future, and inform my superiors of the day's events. The personality that had taken over the Harvester seemed to be tolerant of our goals, and have a dislike for the Corsairs. After this I returned back to Zvezdny.

Now, comrade-Captain, as one of your subordinates of the recon wing, I'll sign off now. My scout Partisan is currently stationed on the Rhienlandic/Libertonian battlefront with the Bundsuchuh, although I have been given a secure link with Order| operatives, and will be relocated to the deep Omicrons immanently. From there I will proceed to source valuable information for Op. UMBRELLA with assistance from an Order| guide.

For the Revolution, comrade-Captain.
~Recon Lieutenant Julio Quinteillia

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