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ID: Agent Coldstream
Subject: Contact with the Order
Classification: High


I was dispatched to make contact with a possible Order agent reported in the Leeds system, contrary to our reports the Order was not hostile nor did it take up any form of hostile positioning. At first I assumed the transmission had been altered as the video and voice was of a young teenage girl, incredibly the agent was indeed a teenager using the alias Kira. Bretonia is viewed as a tolerant nation in the eyes of this particular agent, with the exception of Rheinland the Order are condemned as terrorists and often removed by force most notably in Liberty.

However my meeting with Kira was cut short by an unusual transmission from a Liberty Navy Commander by the name of Angelina Dimitrova in the Cortez system, the call was urgent and rather vague. I had no wish to lose this rare opportunity as such I invited Kira to accompany me to the Innverness jumphole in Cortez knowing full well what might and indeed did occur.
Officer Dimitrova had stopped a smuggler by the name of Kate Golanska who had refused to hand over remains of four nomad gunboats to the Liberty Navy instead she would only hand them over to a Bretonian officer. The moment Agent Kari appeared on scanners Commander Dimitrova became aggresive, threatening Kari and voicing her strong distain of her presence under my protection.

Upon reciept of the remains I was asked by Commander Dimitrova to hand over half of the remains as it was a "Joint Operation" this seemed rather suspicious and informed the Commander that I must confirm with my Director whom I attempted to contact without success. During my attempt the situation between the three ladies had deteriorated rapidly, Ms Golanska offered her opinion on the Delta Wing currently operating in Bretonia noting their poor survival. I waived this aside and request she accompany me back to Bretonia for questioning, Commander Dimitrova assumed an interrogation and wished to be part of it. Naturally Ms Golanska retorted quite defensively while Commander Dimitrova and Agent Kari exchanged words. It should be noted that all of the aggresion was on part of the Liberty Navy Commander ending with Dimitrova attempting to arrest Agent Kari.
I swiftly moved Ms Golanska and Agent Kari into Bretonian space, thanking the Commander for her excellent work and assuring her she will be contacted regarding the nomad remains.

Inside Manchester I began questioning Ms Golanska about the remains, her answers were quite unusual. She aquired the remains whilst Order forces engaged Lane Hackers by planet Wichita in the Kansas system. The refusal to hand over the remains to any Liberty officer was down to Liberty's past, Agent Kira agreed with Ms Golanska offering her opinion that Liberty is the least prepared to handle alien technology both sharing distinct dislike of President Powell. Ms Golanska's intent with the remains appears to be supplying a hidden research base somewhere in the Omega systems and crewed by a lot of Maltese scientists. She also defends them from Corsair, Hessian and SCRA attacks, even protecting others from these same threats. At this time Agent Kira mentioned her experiments with advanced technology that could cause devastating damage to three quarters of a solar system known as the McKay Effect. She also mentioned her work with the nomads and suprisingly AI constructs.

Attempts to learn of the scientists organisation were carefully deflected by Ms Golanska, not wishing to burn a potential source of information I allowed her to go free. Interestingly enough she wished to her Agent Kira's opinion regarding the nomads and the reasoning behind our meeting assuming the two were linked, Kira stated our meeting was merely a measure of tolerance while asking about Ms Golanska's organisation who deflected the question once again by mentioning she was on holiday currently but letting slip that she rarely left the Omircon and Omega systems whilst on duty. I had been in space now for several hours and becoming quite thirsty, this seem a perfect opportunity to gather more intel so I invited both to Birmingham station for drinks. I had station security remove all evidence of our presence and a section of the bar closed, the barkeep and station manager have been paid for their troubles.

Whilst walking to the bar Kira and Ms Golanska began talking about Osiris battleships, the ship originates in Liberty the blueprints were stolen from them some twenty years ago. According to the two sources they are in use by three factions, The Order, The Corsairs and the Coalition. The Coalition ships being the Karl Marx and the Havana. According the Kira the Corsair version of the Osiris is less effective than a true Order built battleship citing the inner technology as the difference.
My gambit had paid off, once at the table with drinks a great deal of information was gathered, in particular the destruction of an entire Order controlled planet Toledo by Nomad forces and Outcast member of the Order by the name of Santini. Another point of interest was Alaska, where extensive technological research takes place with the intention of overtaking the Liberty Navy according to both women.
The discussion then shifted to Nomads and the Wild, moreover Agent Kari seemed to think that a woman named Robinson could be infected by a nomad lifeform and I quote "a big meanie." Talk of the Bounty Hunters Guild Core was quite the learning experience, by all accounts they are utterly posessed in their persuit of technology frequently attacking the Order and Nomads with a complete disregard for human life.

Kari gave a very serious warning that the Nomads could easily bypass the Liberty defense and inflict similiar damage to Toledo, urging co-operation between all the peoples of Sirius she was convinced that without such unity we would share the same fate as the million lost on their planet.

I have the transponders of both Agent Kari and Ms Golanska should we need to contact them again, the nomad remains are secure in my ships hold. I will await your decision of their fate aboard Birmingham Station.

Coldstream out.

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