Echoes

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[color=#6666CC]Journal: Phillip Mason "Head" Scientist

Hmmm. A most interesting discovery today. An Order agent in the Science division! Oh joy, a human scientist with whom to repartee. While I do not regret my decision to join the Nomads in the least, I do sometimes miss matching wits with someone who's thoughts are mysterious to me.

Georgia Brown was her name. Amiable enough, and she seemed to have a different view of Nomads than the other Order agents I've met. I'm glad, too; would have been a damn shame to have to watch Foster turn the dogs loose on her.

She said she was heading to Kansas. She asked who was the "bad guy" and the "good guy", humans or Nomads? I told her that I didn't involve myself in such moral, qualitative questions, but sometimes I have to ask myself the same thing. Science for science, pure and simple, is a most noble ideal. But is it practical to forgo one's own species in the pursuit of it?

Bah. Questions, once a gain, for philosophers.

Also of note was that the Nomad gunboat "Gamaliel" found us. Apparently it had been sent to help us in whatever our 'mission' is. I find it hard to believe that we're simply out here to infect humans.

The ship's profile is much too big. Many Nomads are... proud? Yes, I suppose that would be the correct emotion. Between the Nomad's loss of the Dyson sphere and the creation of Durr Shu'rikan, they had precious few events to bolster 'morale', such as it is. Finding Xerna was one such, but the capturing of the Tundra showed them that they still had power over the humans.

And it showed the humans that knew about it the same thing.

Such a shame that such hoopla is made over what was originally (and in some ways still is) a research ship.

And then I have to question Robert Foster. He seems to be on an entirely different page than the rest of us. Keeping secrets? In the mindshare? Unheard of. Yet he has them. No one else, that will admit to it, knows why we're waiting in the Tahoe Cloud. It seems a most peculiar spot. I much preferred the Kuryo. At least there, we could study dark matter and have a nice shroud to protect us. Here, all we have is ice crystal.

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