141| Internal Channel

[Johnathan Nox Carter]

Greetings, agents.
This is Ensign Tyrael Johnson speaking.

Today, me along with many other agents have met a trading vessel near the Delta Jump hole in Omicron Zeta. It was using Freelancer credentials, BH IFF transmitter and it was tagged as 77th. The vessel's name was T-Hunter. Agent Forlorn and I were chosen to continue the discussion and interrogation of the vessel's pilot.

At first, it seemed to be a bit difficult as it didn't know what precisely what to say. But, in short time, we made him talk by friendly methods. He stated that his name was Xra'i and that he is from an alien species with humanoid form and that all 77th members are aswell as this, not all with the same origins, but all of them are not Sirians.
We also found out that the 77th is a group with many divisions and they are some sort of a military group to defend "their kind".
We tried to get information about the 77th's last attack in Mu, but it seems he didn't have information about this.
Though... We did enter an interesting "discussion", if may say. It seems that we stumbled into talking about an agent of theirs which they call "the unknown" (Which always communicates to us and them as ??? and we know him to be the pilot of a ship named Ice.). Xra'i first referred to this agent as "crystalline thingy", but then as "unknown". He said that it's a being different from the rest, always using a cloak to hide it's true form, but it's rumored that it is some form of energy (of which i might know more, i will elaborate at the end). More importantly, it seems that this "unknown" is conducting it's own experiments and research... most possibly on nomads, but none of the 77th know exactly what about is this research of his. Xra'i says that this agent tried once to communicate with a nomad Labraid (i suspect it was a nomad very far from it's Mind node, otherwise it would have attacked... and didn't stay to "chat".), but other Bounty Hunters came in and attacked the nomad.

Also, another interesting thing he said is (apparently he told us many things by mistake as we were "chatting" about this "unknown".) that the 77th do not use Bounty hunter technology, but it's very similar and that is what drove us into error. Also we were told they all have personal body shieldings.

Back to the "unknown" topic... i am thinking that this being is actually an energy life form which uses that cloak of his to keep the energy from dissipating. Although Xra'i said he does have a physical form, i believe that's not actually possible, otherwise one of the might have seen him in the end. I can vouch for the fact that it is possible for energy life forms to exist, as i was once such a life form... i know it might sound hard to explain, but you can find more information on my personal journal.
In any case, i speculate, with emphasis on "speculate", that if we may create diplomatic relations with this unknown character we might come into more information about the nomads... or at least we could give our scientists, possibly, a very skilled ally.

I know of our engagements with the 77th and i agree that they are still to be untrusted. But, today, i find myself in the position of thinking that diplomacy can still be achieved. If maybe, i repeat maybe, me or another person with diplomatic skills could keep an open discussion between our factions we might end up in gaining some allies and i do not see the harm in that. I know it sounds bold, but should we not give it a try?

Unfortunately i was unable to bring any images from the scene or to record any of the conversation due to some damages to my ship from a prior duel. Though, i believe Forlorn was able to record the conversation so he might give me or agent Masa the recording so the command may see it.

Tyrael, out.

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