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Weapon · 07-06-2025, 03:56 AM,

Internal Communique

Date: 07.05.35, 02:56 GAST
Rank & Name: Lord Stratarch Megiddo
Reporting From: Valravn Garrison
Recipients: Xrch. Kelly With, Xrch. Amy West, FCpt. Roland Freud
Priority: High

Legionnaires, attend.

Our artificial selves had hoped for an uneventful transit of war platform HFB Ven'Gyr southward via Galileo trade corridor.

That possibility has been slaughtered.

Further degradation of Kusari-Liberty relations creates optimal engagement strata in standard AO, but throws wrench into logistics. HFB Ven'Gyr must travel southward via Omega corridor, and will require heavy escort. Exarch With, your biological self will make Ven'Gyr welcome at Arranmore at any cost for 1-3 day layover preceding journey through Walker Nebula. Fleet Captain Freud, you are tasked with distributing frag orders to relevant personnel. You will assemble your wing and proceed to Eolie, then ensure safe transit of war platform Ven'Gyr to Arranmore via following route:

Tau-23
Tau-29
Tau-31
Edinburgh
Leeds
New London
Dublin

Upon arrival at Arranmore, Ven'Gyr & escort will resupply, and commence journey to Fort Leniex for secondary layover or direct to El Alto, pending "weather" report.

Libera Te Ex Infernis
Non Omnis Moriar

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Nodoka Hanamura · (This post was last modified: 07-09-2025, 05:16 AM by Nodoka Hanamura.)

Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 07.06.35, 07:30 GAST
Rank & Name: Commander Struikas, Andrew (Firebrand)
Reporting From: HFF Sender
AAR # 004

Commander Struikas, reporting.

Tonight we had a sortie out to Vespucci to link up with a few of our own. Discussion with a Rogue Bustard aside, it was a pretty calm night, nothing really to report, other than a heated talk with an old friend.

EXEO -- NOFORN (Exarchy Eyes Only)

So let me get this shit straight.

You all have been fucking collaborating with infectees, and not been telling me, Hideyoshi or anyone in the lower or mid-commands save Crowe? Have you all lost it? Fuck insubordination for a second here, explain to me, and fuck, at the same time, Locksmith, how in the fuck siding with these bastards is going to do anything but give Liberty even more incentive to kick our shit in - or if they don't, that Nibwaakeen here doesn't stab us in the back?!

...

I want answers from the Exarchy. Don't care who - from With, from West or Meggido, so that me and my men can either rest easy knowing we're doing the right thing here, or if I should have the Sender strike colors and fuck off from the cause with all hands.

1. I want to know who in the fuck made first contact with these fuckers - not just Nibwaa here, but if there was any other contact like Yoruha had with that Psyche thing.

2. I want to know why you think coordination with any nomad-affiliated party is a bright idea. If any attempts at INFOSEC on this get blown, we are *fucked*. Auxesia, I know they're doing spooky shit, but you all can just wave it away as 'we didn't know, we're not that close to their HIGHCOM' and shit like that.

3. That.. thing. How can we be expected to trust it, or its' betters. Yoruha says they want to co-exist, but I find it harder to believe after everything I've seen over my military career, and after my father served during the Colony War. It says in that memo it has memories of a pilot who served but how am I supposed to believe that those are legitimate, or that this isn't some attempt at subversion - something these shits are well known to do!? Fuck, what if it's just an amalgamation of the memories whatever poor sods the nomads infected from the Legion between then and now? At least with you, Megiddo - I can trust *you*.

You want me to go along with this, I want answers. Because right now my faith in this cause is shaken at its' core. I came here to fight for a better Liberty. Not whatever in the hell this mess is going to eventually amount to.

Black Box -- EXEO -- NOFORN

Libera Te Ex Infernis
Non Omnis Moriar

**Petitioner** · 07-14-2025, 12:13 PM,

General Memorandum

Date: 07.14.35, 11:14 GAST
Rank & Name: High Logarch With, Kelly
Reporting From: Valravn Garrison
Priority: High

Legionnaires, attend.

Each and every single Legionnaire is reminded that they are required to read Lord Stratarch Megiddo's dossier published on May 13^th of this year 835 AS at 0724 hours GAST, including the full contents of the text known as The Nibwaakaawin Transcript. Compliance with this order is in no way optional. For emphasis, I am repeatin' the most salient part of Lord Stratarch Megiddo's dossier, rephrased for clarity pertainin' to the present situation. Ahem.

"While every Legionnaire must use their own judgement an' make their own peace in whatever way necessary with the transcript and facts thus implied, it is the Exarchy's sincere an' present belief that, in spite of his circumstances, we behold a man."

Standin' orders until now have been not to engage any members of the Wendigo cohort, to cooperate against Republic forces, and to otherwise turn a blind eye. I am updating the standin' orders. All Legionnaires are to neither engage nor express aggressive sentiment to any members of the Wendigo cohort, to cooperate against Republic forces, to diligently log and report to ICN Firestorm any and all encounters with members of the Wendigo cohort no matter how brief or mundane, and to keep your god damned comments to yourself so long as any non-Legionnaire is around, bona-fide Technocrats excepted.

You do not have to like it. You can feel some kind of way about it. But the current determination of the Exarchy is that Nibwaakaawin and his kind, for all practical intents and purposes, at this moment constitute temporary allies of convenience at a minimum. If "the A-word" is too much for you, call them fellow travellers or co-belligerents if necessary.

I understand very well that many of you feel a sinkin' sensation in the deepest parts of yer gullets as I say these words. I understand that some of you very well may be considerin' rash and drastic actions, or wonder if you've gotten so deep into the shit that ye'll never be able to scrape it off yer boots. I understand you. I feel you. And I am imploring you from the bottom of my heart to trust me. Anyone who has concerns is welcome to approach me privately in whatever format ya feel most comfortable with, but in a military organization, an order is an order is a goddamn order and you knew that when you signed up.

This is no longer the Fall of Vespucci, wherein the chain of command is completely gone and it's every man for himself. This is the onset of our nation and people's redemption. We must maintain unity and clarity of purpose, and remember that regardless of how our individual interactions with non-human biologics resident to the Omicrons have gone previously, we are dealing now with a different breed. We are dealing with our fellow goddamn Legionnaires, our siblings in struggle forged in Hell's own flames, who refused to let even death stop them from fulfillin' our shared mission and purpose. Even in hospital, I spent my days ensuring that we will, in all due course, receive the most unambiguous proof possible for all of the above.

I ain't askin' you all to trust the Wendigos. I ain't askin' you all to trust our blue neighbors. What I'm askin' is that you trust your superior officers, maintain discipline and focus, and extend as much temporary, reluctant, and provisional benefit of the doubt as you possibly can.

Because the second our trust is betrayed, heads will roll. I swear that much.

Oh, and those who came to me about the 333rd will be gettin' their responses in relatively short order too. Sorry for the delay, four cracked ribs and a broken arm'll do that to a lass.

Exarch With, out.

Libera Te Ex Infernis
Mihi Vindictam Ego Retribuam

**Petitioner** · 07-16-2025, 09:36 AM,

Non-Combat After Action Report

Date: 06.17.35, 08:36 GAST
Rank & Name: Initiate Maslowicz, Liv
Reporting From: Valravn Garrison
AAR # 001

U-um, Initiate Maslowicz, callsign "Witch" rep-... reporting.

The initiate clears her throat, pausing and looking away from the camera for a moment to steel herself.

Yesterday around 0300 hours, I la-launched from Valravn and went to Ontario on a solo reconnaissance mission. F-first I scouted Sudbury, and then made for the wreck of Hamilton. I spent quite some t-time, um, studying and observing and reflecting upon the picked-over remains, uhmm, before a co-contact appeared on my radar. I'm a-appending the logs.

Transcript 1

ABJURER\\root\liv\blackbox\autotranscription\15 07 835.txt ::> grep 03:39:17' Wrote:[15.07.835 03:39:18] TFP)-Witch: C-contact--
[15.07.835 03:39:22] Hayden.Kramer: Mm.
[15.07.835 03:39:51] TFP)-Witch: Transmit, uh, I-IFF and tasking.
[15.07.835 03:40:12] Hayden.Kramer: Should be pretty obvious, unless your screens busted or something.
[15.07.835 03:40:41] TFP)-Witch: Th-there's a lot of people, um, people in Ontario just flying a-around in s-salvage jobs.
[15.07.835 03:40:45] TFP)-Witch: I-it's due diligence.
[15.07.835 03:40:54] Hayden.Kramer: Uh huh.
[15.07.835 03:41:38] Hayden.Kramer: That's one of those 'Legion' markers, huh?
[15.07.835 03:42:07] TFP)-Witch: Y-yeah.
[15.07.835 03:42:22] Hayden.Kramer: Doubly ballsy being out here without support.
[15.07.835 03:42:30] Hayden.Kramer: Alliance'd chew you up like jerky.
[15.07.835 03:43:02] TFP)-Witch: I d-don't... I'm, um. I'm doing... recon.
[15.07.835 03:43:54] Hayden.Kramer: Sound like you're doing a bit more than just recon.
[15.07.835 03:44:07] TFP)-Witch: I-- [The pilot sighs.]
[15.07.835 03:44:28] TFP)-Witch: I j-just wanted to... see it fo-for myself.
[15.07.835 03:44:42] Hayden.Kramer: What, the scrap?
[15.07.835 03:44:45] TFP)-Witch: Hamilton.
[15.07.835 03:44:53] Hayden.Kramer: Oh, that old thing.
[15.07.835 03:44:59] TFP)-Witch: This, it, it was a b-big scandal.
[15.07.835 03:45:17] TFP)-Witch: Y-you know?
[15.07.835 03:45:24] TFP)-Witch: The Republic p-pulling out.
[15.07.835 03:45:30] TFP)-Witch: Leaving people t-to die.
[15.07.835 03:45:37] Hayden.Kramer: Mhm.
[15.07.835 03:45:59] TFP)-Witch: I n-never knew... just how b-bad it was.
[15.07.835 03:46:30] TFP)-Witch: I saw the news, I even ta-aalked to some p-people who got laid off, who, who could ba-barely afford to come back to Los Angeles.
[15.07.835 03:46:52] TFP)-Witch: But seeing it wi-with my own eyes... it's d-different.
[15.07.835 03:47:13] Hayden.Kramer: Puts things in perspective.
[15.07.835 03:47:56] TFP)-Witch: It... makes me s-sure I did the right thing.
[15.07.835 03:48:06] Hayden.Kramer: Aye.
[15.07.835 03:48:23] Hayden.Kramer: Got my guys out, never looked back.
[15.07.835 03:48:31] Hayden.Kramer: Fuckin' hacks.
[15.07.835 03:48:52] TFP)-Witch: [Despite the anxious stutter of her voice, she speaks with obvious conviction.] N-no system that do-does this to its own people c-can be allowed t-to stand.
[15.07.835 03:49:24] Hayden.Kramer: [Chuckle]
[15.07.835 03:49:52] Hayden.Kramer: Guess that gets rid of any doubts I had left, then.
[15.07.835 03:50:13] TFP)-Witch: Ab-about what?
[15.07.835 03:50:29] Hayden.Kramer: You lot actually being Legion.
[15.07.835 03:50:46] TFP)-Witch: Wh-what else would w-we... would we be?
[15.07.835 03:51:31] Hayden.Kramer: Technocrats with a penchant for toasting the Liberty Youth.
[15.07.835 03:51:45] Hayden.Kramer: Roasting. Whatever.
[15.07.835 03:52:05] TFP)-Witch: S-somebody once to-told me, um, that-
[15.07.835 03:52:16] TFP)-Witch: "When so-somebody tells you who they a-are, believe them".
[15.07.835 03:52:33] Hayden.Kramer: Yeah, I did that once.
[15.07.835 03:52:49] Hayden.Kramer: I got burned for it.
[15.07.835 03:53:05] Hayden.Kramer: I lost friends, partners. Squadmates.
[15.07.835 03:53:43] Hayden.Kramer: Think you're the first I heard in a while that's actually had any thoughts on the real casualties here.
[15.07.835 03:54:05] Hayden.Kramer: Cobra and his ilk go one about 'loss of freedom fighters'.
[15.07.835 03:54:10] TFP)-Witch: Th-that's what matters.
[15.07.835 03:54:12] TFP)-Witch: The people.
[15.07.835 03:54:28] TFP)-Witch: You, m-me, Co-Cobra...
[15.07.835 03:54:34] Hayden.Kramer: Fuck Cobra.
[15.07.835 03:54:47] TFP)-Witch: W-we couldn't.
[15.07.835 03:54:49] TFP)-Witch: We couldn't live.
[15.07.835 03:54:57] TFP)-Witch: Not without the everyday p-people.
[15.07.835 03:55:10] TFP)-Witch: Th-they make our f-food, they sh-ship out our oxygen.
[15.07.835 03:55:20] TFP)-Witch: For the Rogues, th-they move the c-cargo they steal.
[15.07.835 03:55:32] TFP)-Witch: It all comes d-down to normal pe-people.
[15.07.835 03:55:59] TFP)-Witch: There's n-no other reason to fight.
[15.07.835 03:56:23] Hayden.Kramer: Wonder how much blood those pricks have on 'em.
[15.07.835 03:57:01] TFP)-Witch: Who?
[15.07.835 03:57:15] Hayden.Kramer: All of 'em.
[15.07.835 03:57:50] Hayden.Kramer: Rambling.
[15.07.835 03:58:10] Hayden.Kramer: Surprised I have teeth, how much I grit 'em.
[15.07.835 03:59:00] TFP)-Witch: D-do you n-not... get a se-sense of cam-- camraderie, s-satisfaction, purpose, out of wh-what you do?
[15.07.835 03:59:08] Hayden.Kramer: Not anymore.
[15.07.835 03:59:15] Hayden.Kramer: Cobra's ilk saw to that.
[15.07.835 03:59:29] TFP)-Witch: Wh-what did they do?
[15.07.835 03:59:57] Hayden.Kramer: Brought that fucking eyesore to Ouray, and his swine gunned down my guys as they tried to get rid of it.
[15.07.835 04:00:45] TFP)-Witch: What e-eyesore?
[15.07.835 04:01:33] Hayden.Kramer: An Outcast transport, some kind of envoy.
[15.07.835 04:01:43] Hayden.Kramer: Not sure beyond that. It's a disgrace either way.
[15.07.835 04:01:59] Hayden.Kramer: Just another thing I'm gonna gut him for.
[15.07.835 04:02:04] TFP)-Witch: J-jeez, uh...
[15.07.835 04:02:18] TFP)-Witch: W-well, why are you ev-even with the Xenos, then?
[15.07.835 04:03:14] Hayden.Kramer: Because I owe it to my men. I got them into this. They followed me without a second look.
[15.07.835 04:03:49] Hayden.Kramer: Cobra and his ilk may have changed the narrative, but the movement I know is still in there.
[15.07.835 04:04:02] Hayden.Kramer: Figure I'll do what good I can while I can.
[15.07.835 04:04:23] Hayden.Kramer: Even if it means having to park next to them on the off-hours.
[15.07.835 04:04:25] TFP)-Witch: A-and what, um... what... is that movement?
[15.07.835 04:04:55] Hayden.Kramer: Wider Xeno Movement. What it was before the Alliance got delusions of grandure.
[15.07.835 04:05:12] TFP)-Witch: Not j-just a name.
[15.07.835 04:05:14] TFP)-Witch: The ideals.
[15.07.835 04:05:16] Hayden.Kramer: Liberty by Liberty, for Liberty, and of Liberty.
[15.07.835 04:06:08] Hayden.Kramer: Actually putting some meaning behind those homeship engravings.
[15.07.835 04:06:30] TFP)-Witch: And do-does that include shooting d-down transports fu-full of refugees from Bre-bretonia?
[15.07.835 04:06:35] Hayden.Kramer: Fuck no.
[15.07.835 04:07:22] Hayden.Kramer: No warrior worth the blood in their veins takes aim at civvies.
[15.07.835 04:07:49] TFP)-Witch: And h-how about the g-gangs on Los Angeles, i-in Petaluma Co-county, who cl-claim to be af-affiliated with the Xenos?
[15.07.835 04:08:07] TFP)-Witch: Who go around sm-smashing and grabbing from small bu-businesses, running drugs i-in prisons?
[15.07.835 04:08:14] TFP)-Witch: Terrorizing i-immigrants?
[15.07.835 04:08:18] Hayden.Kramer: If they have to claim that they are, are they really?
[15.07.835 04:08:31] TFP)-Witch: They t-tell everyone who they a-are.
[15.07.835 04:08:40] TFP)-Witch: And I ne-never saw a reason to doubt.
[15.07.835 04:10:01] Hayden.Kramer: Can't help everyone, but I'd put them down without a second thought if they're peddling crank.
[15.07.835 04:10:07] Hayden.Kramer: Death penalty exists for a reason.
[15.07.835 04:11:00] Hayden.Kramer: Clean it up, give 'em a fair shot.
[15.07.835 04:11:28] TFP)-Witch: Th-that's why I'm here, instead of w-with you or Cobra.
[15.07.835 04:12:01] Hayden.Kramer: In the Legion, or out here communing with ghosts?
[15.07.835 04:12:25] Hayden.Kramer: Either way, you're definitely better for it.
[15.07.835 04:12:47] TFP)-Witch: B-both, really.
[15.07.835 04:13:45] TFP)-Witch: I quit school t-to be here, i-in this ship. Civ-- civilian life was... th-there was no way to affect real ch-change.
[15.07.835 04:14:06] TFP)-Witch: A-and if we're g-gonna make a pos-positive difference, we n-need to know the pain.
[15.07.835 04:14:09] TFP)-Witch: The injustice.
[15.07.835 04:14:12] Hayden.Kramer: Hope you made the right choice, kid.
[15.07.835 04:14:17] TFP)-Witch: All of it.
[15.07.835 04:14:32] TFP)-Witch: I-it might not be the right choice, i-in the end.
[15.07.835 04:14:42] TFP)-Witch: It mi-might not be right. But it's a-all th-that was left.
[15.07.835 04:15:17] Hayden.Kramer: Education's important. Took a risk dipping out.
[15.07.835 04:15:34] Hayden.Kramer: Could end up like Cobra and his kind.
[15.07.835 04:15:41] TFP)-Witch: I-it wasn't g-going anywhere.
[15.07.835 04:15:44] Hayden.Kramer: Or those gangers on LA.
[15.07.835 04:15:53] TFP)-Witch: N-not a lot of, of demand for... xenobotanists.
[15.07.835 04:16:02] Hayden.Kramer: Xeno-huh?
[15.07.835 04:16:30] TFP)-Witch: Stud-... studying the plant-like li-life of... n-newly discovered planets.
[15.07.835 04:17:29] Hayden.Kramer: Oh, you're talking about tertiary schooling, then.
[15.07.835 04:17:33] TFP)-Witch: I-it was the o-only thing I could ever even... r-remotely imagine myself doing every d-day, l-living a normal life, and not want t-to blow my brains out.
[15.07.835 04:17:44] TFP)-Witch: [She lets out a nervous laugh.]
[15.07.835 04:18:45] Hayden.Kramer: At least you'd never get bored.
[15.07.835 04:19:35] TFP)-Witch: Y-yeah.
[15.07.835 04:19:36] TFP)-Witch: But.
[15.07.835 04:19:52] TFP)-Witch: I j-just...
[15.07.835 04:20:30] TFP)-Witch: I k-kept going to pr-protests, a-and writing my co-congressmen and r-representatives and...
[15.07.835 04:20:37] TFP)-Witch: And every. Single. Time!
[15.07.835 04:20:42] Hayden.Kramer: Nothing.
[15.07.835 04:20:53] TFP)-Witch: The f-fucking pigs! They'd sh-show up and send h-half of us to the hospital!
[15.07.835 04:21:00] TFP)-Witch: For protesting the b-bombings, the camps!
[15.07.835 04:21:10] Hayden.Kramer: Mm..
[15.07.835 04:21:53] TFP)-Witch: Nothing, ever, f-from Re-represent-... representative Hayes! Wh-what was she reforming?
[15.07.835 04:22:00] TFP)-Witch: Why d-did anyone vote for her?
[15.07.835 04:22:17] TFP)-Witch: P-people keep going to Sugarland, b-but the g-gangs keep getting worse!
[15.07.835 04:22:45] TFP)-Witch: [Unable to contain herself, she smacks her console with a thud.]
[15.07.835 04:23:08] TFP)-Witch: I-if they want to ma-make peaceful ch-change impossible, th-they only m-m-make violent change inevitable.
[15.07.835 04:24:11] Hayden.Kramer: Hate and greed can get someone pretty far.
[15.07.835 04:24:12] TFP)-Witch: Because n-nobody deserves this.
[15.07.835 04:24:32] Hayden.Kramer: Half of that is part of why I'm just scraping by these days.
[15.07.835 04:24:53] TFP)-Witch: A-and that system, th-the one where hate a-and-and greed, the one wh-ere avarice fuels a-all of it.
[15.07.835 04:25:01] TFP)-Witch: It has to go or i-it'll eat us all.
[15.07.835 04:25:07] Hayden.Kramer: Couldn't agree more.
[15.07.835 04:25:16] TFP)-Witch: You, me, Co-Cobra, the Exarchs, representative H-Hayes.
[15.07.835 04:25:25] TFP)-Witch: Th-the people who u-used to work here.
[15.07.835 04:25:30] TFP)-Witch: On Hamilton.
[15.07.835 04:25:37] TFP)-Witch: I-it has to stop.
[15.07.835 04:25:47] Hayden.Kramer: Fate willing, it will.
[15.07.835 04:26:10] Hayden.Kramer: This 'resurgent Legion' of yours..
[15.07.835 04:26:17] Hayden.Kramer: Humor me.
[15.07.835 04:26:25] Hayden.Kramer: Why the Technocrat tags?
[15.07.835 04:26:48] TFP)-Witch: [She pauses, taking a breath to calm herself.]
[15.07.835 04:27:15] TFP)-Witch: So-sorry, I...
[15.07.835 04:27:20] Hayden.Kramer: You're good.
[15.07.835 04:27:30] TFP)-Witch: I-it's because they're h-hosting us.
[15.07.835 04:28:03] TFP)-Witch: Way, way b-back, the Co... the Commonwealth. [A sigh as she thinks about it.] The Commonwealth g-gave the Tech... nocrats-- safe harbor in Ve-Vespucci.
[15.07.835 04:28:18] TFP)-Witch: A-and now they're r-returning the favor.
[15.07.835 04:28:58] Hayden.Kramer: They don't bore into your head and inject tech, do they?
[15.07.835 04:29:19] TFP)-Witch: N-no, not at a-all.
[15.07.835 04:29:24] Hayden.Kramer: Yeah, didn't think so.
[15.07.835 04:29:37] TFP)-Witch: So-sometimes they gi-give us... c-combat drugs, th-that we can take if we need, if we really really really n-need it.
[15.07.835 04:29:39] TFP)-Witch: Th-that's it.
[15.07.835 04:29:48] Hayden.Kramer: Stims and the like, yeah?
[15.07.835 04:29:56] TFP)-Witch: Stuff li-like that, yeah.
[15.07.835 04:31:28] Hayden.Kramer: Hm.
[15.07.835 04:32:14] TFP)-Witch: I've n-never tried them.
[15.07.835 04:32:33] Hayden.Kramer: Don't take this the wrong way, but you sound like you should try at least one.
[15.07.835 04:32:58] TFP)-Witch: N-no, I know what y-you mean.
[15.07.835 04:33:34] Hayden.Kramer: Bit more widespread these days, I think.
[15.07.835 04:33:34] TFP)-Witch: I j-just...
[15.07.835 04:33:51] TFP)-Witch: It's a lot, y-yknow?
[15.07.835 04:34:26] Hayden.Kramer: Certainly sounds like a lot.
[15.07.835 04:35:04] TFP)-Witch: It's... it's overwhelming, a-and it's scary, but that's how I kn-know it's meaningful.
[15.07.835 04:35:26] TFP)-Witch: And... I've n-never been good at talking t-to people anyway.
[15.07.835 04:35:32] Hayden.Kramer: First I've heard of fear in a while.
[15.07.835 04:35:49] Hayden.Kramer: Usually too hemmed up in my angry dome to think about it.
[15.07.835 04:37:18] TFP)-Witch: I-if you ha-have a clear head, I d-don't see how a-anyone couldn't be a-afraid.
[15.07.835 04:37:30] TFP)-Witch: M-maybe I'm j-just typicalm-m-minding, b-but...
[15.07.835 04:37:40] TFP)-Witch: I mean, we're out here pu-putting our lives on the line.
[15.07.835 04:37:53] TFP)-Witch: Th-there's a big freakin' d-death laser coming out of a planet o-over there!
[15.07.835 04:38:25] TFP)-Witch: A-and here we are, ta-talking to each other d-despite the IFFs flashing red a-and all the autosystems k-kicking in, when a-at any freaking moment, a D-Defiant could come along a-and hurl a b-bunch of missiles at us and end it then and there.
[15.07.835 04:39:15] Hayden.Kramer: Take that risk every time I undock.
[15.07.835 04:39:24] TFP)-Witch: Th-that's the point, that's scary!
[15.07.835 04:39:35] Hayden.Kramer: Occupational hazards, I've learned to just live with 'em.
[15.07.835 04:39:54] Hayden.Kramer: They drill that into you at West Point.
[15.07.835 04:40:00] Hayden.Kramer: At least, they used to.
[15.07.835 04:40:23] Hayden.Kramer: Maybe they drilled it a little too hard into Dylan and his staff.
[15.07.835 04:40:31] Hayden.Kramer: Or whatever his name was.
[15.07.835 04:40:35] TFP)-Witch: M-maybe it's because I d-don't have a-any military training, o-or at least I d-didn't.
[15.07.835 04:41:20] Hayden.Kramer: Legion of old would've drilled that into you before you ever left Vespucci.
[15.07.835 04:42:14] Hayden.Kramer: Flew with 'em a bunch back then. Good heads, good hearts.
[15.07.835 04:42:43] Hayden.Kramer: If this new breed is anything like that, I wouldn't worry.
[15.07.835 04:43:34] TFP)-Witch: E-everyone has... been so g-good, and s-so helpful.
[15.07.835 04:43:45] TFP)-Witch: It... I feel like I /belong/ for th-the first time.
[15.07.835 04:44:05] Hayden.Kramer: Mm.
[15.07.835 04:45:25] TFP)-Witch: And... I'm n-not dead yet.
[15.07.835 04:45:37] Hayden.Kramer: Legion didn't like its folks dying.
[15.07.835 04:45:41] Hayden.Kramer: Doubt they'd start now.
[15.07.835 04:46:30] TFP)-Witch: I d-don't think so.
[15.07.835 04:46:42] TFP)-Witch: It's... it's like... people actually care.
[15.07.835 04:47:11] Hayden.Kramer: Must be nice.
[15.07.835 04:47:38] TFP)-Witch: Y-you could see fo-for yourself.
[15.07.835 04:49:00] Hayden.Kramer: Worth thinking about.
[15.07.835 04:49:20] TFP)-Witch: Y-you're always w-welcome at Fourteen, r-right?
[15.07.835 04:49:24] TFP)-Witch: The f-freeport.
[15.07.835 04:49:43] Hayden.Kramer: Whenever I'm out that way, yeah.
[15.07.835 04:50:01] TFP)-Witch: We h-have a liaison officer th-there.
[15.07.835 04:50:28] Hayden.Kramer: I've been through the whole routine before, kid.
[15.07.835 04:51:07] Hayden.Kramer: Not calling any shit, but the Navy painted the service as all sunshine and rainbows.
[15.07.835 04:51:22] TFP)-Witch: S-so what are you do-doing?
[15.07.835 04:51:30] TFP)-Witch: Hating the p-people you fight alongside, u-under?
[15.07.835 04:51:36] TFP)-Witch: F-for what?
[15.07.835 04:51:45] Hayden.Kramer: Never said I was that stubborn.
[15.07.835 04:52:34] Hayden.Kramer: Your higher ups keep an open line?
[15.07.835 04:52:58] TFP)-Witch: U-ultimately i-it's not my call, bu-but... i-if you made your case I d-don't know why they'd turn you away or g-give you the cold shoulder.
[15.07.835 04:53:28] Hayden.Kramer: Just looking for the full raw take.
[15.07.835 04:53:38] Hayden.Kramer: Warts and all.
[15.07.835 04:53:53] Hayden.Kramer: Can't possibly be worse than the train wreck the Alliance has planned.
[15.07.835 04:53:55] TFP)-Witch: I've o-only flown with E-Exarch West once, a-and With and M-Megiddo never.
[15.07.835 04:54:19] TFP)-Witch: She, uh, sh-she's... she knows wh-what she's doing b-but she's k-kind of a bitch, honestly.
[15.07.835 04:54:23] TFP)-Witch: But I think sh-she does it for fun.
[15.07.835 04:54:28] TFP)-Witch: She actually cares, a lot.
[15.07.835 04:54:41] Hayden.Kramer: With I vaguely remember, mostly from Cobra's boys whining.
[15.07.835 04:54:51] Hayden.Kramer: The other two, no idea.
[15.07.835 04:54:52] TFP)-Witch: What d-did they say about h-her?
[15.07.835 04:54:58] Hayden.Kramer: [Chuckle]
[15.07.835 04:56:17] Hayden.Kramer: Call her a traitor, a 'softie', which is saying a fuckin' lot given who's moored at Ouray right now.
[15.07.835 04:57:50] TFP)-Witch: Wh-why a traitor?
[15.07.835 04:58:22] Hayden.Kramer: Guess Cobra got her to fly out of Ramsey after Vespucci.
[15.07.835 04:58:35] TFP)-Witch: I... huh?
[15.07.835 04:58:39] Hayden.Kramer: Not sure how he did, but I'm guessing she saw through the bullshit.
[15.07.835 04:58:42] Hayden.Kramer: Good on her.
[15.07.835 04:59:55] TFP)-Witch: I've o-only heard g-good things.
[15.07.835 05:00:05] TFP)-Witch: W-well, until l-lately, bu-uuuut...
[15.07.835 05:00:21] Hayden.Kramer: Everyone's got baggage.
[15.07.835 05:00:24] TFP)-Witch: Sh-she a-apparently kept working herself ha-half to death while she w-was in a ho-hospital bed.
[15.07.835 05:00:43] TFP)-Witch: The d-docs tried to co-confiscate her tablet u-until she th-threatened to brig them.
[15.07.835 05:00:50] Hayden.Kramer: Hah.
[15.07.835 05:02:49] TFP)-Witch: I c-can't i-imagine what th-that's like.
[15.07.835 05:02:59] TFP)-Witch: F-four cracked ribs a-and a broken arm.
[15.07.835 05:03:08] TFP)-Witch: A-and still working.
[15.07.835 05:03:30] Hayden.Kramer: Yeah, I'd say that makes up for working for Cobra's ilk.
[15.07.835 05:05:22] TFP)-Witch: M-maybe so.
[15.07.835 05:05:28] TFP)-Witch: I'm ju-just glad she's with us.
[15.07.835 05:05:52] Hayden.Kramer: Better with you than on Ramsey.
[15.07.835 05:06:40] Hayden.Kramer: Guess I know what I'm doing before I bust out the glass tonight.
[15.07.835 05:07:51] TFP)-Witch: Make the right choice.
[15.07.835 05:08:28] Hayden.Kramer: Suppose we'll see.
[15.07.835 05:09:32] TFP)-Witch: E-everything will be as al-alright as we h-have the strength to make it.
[15.07.835 05:10:00] Hayden.Kramer: Right.
[15.07.835 05:10:17] Hayden.Kramer: Gonna take my leave. Stay safe out here.
[15.07.835 05:10:24] TFP)-Witch: Y-you too. Hayden.
[15.07.835 05:10:42] Hayden.Kramer: And don't worry. I'll pluck my hair out strand by strand before I relay anything to the Alliance.
[15.07.835 05:11:00] Hayden.Kramer: Cya 'round, kid.

U-um, I know that, uh, g-going on solo recon missions to e-end up talking with, er, the enemy is probably, like... really, really stupid, but-- this one turned out okay. Next time I'll t-take a wingman regardless, uh. Maybe so-somebody will get a beep from her, huh?

Witch forces out a nervous laugh, then visibly struggles to swallow down her anxiety before soldiering on with the report.

A-anyways, the Xeno pilot took her leave. I then flew to Texas, a-and in the vicinity of the Grande Negra, I f-found, uh, some kind of gun, not like the ones we make at all. I took it to El Alto for the mechanics to, er, analyze and whatnot, but on the way I encountered another, uh, much larger, p-possibly more interesting contact. It seemed to b-be an Order battlecruiser. I didn't, uh, I didn't know they made those or let them in Liberty, but that's what my Prosecutor's scanners said. It was flying a Freelancer IFF.

Transcript 2

ABJURER\\root\liv\blackbox\autotranscription\15 07 835.txt ::> grep 05:37:01' Wrote:[15.07.835 05:37:02] CV-Montu: E: [Initializing - Greeting]
[15.07.835 05:37:08] TFP)-Witch: O-oh!
[15.07.835 05:37:24] TFP)-Witch: Wh-where, uh, what are you d-doing with that thing?
[15.07.835 05:40:10] TFP)-Witch: Uhm.
[15.07.835 05:40:24] TFP)-Witch: This is Initiate Ma-Maslowicz to CV Montu, uh.
[15.07.835 05:40:31] TFP)-Witch: P-please transmit posture and tasking.
[15.07.835 05:42:09] CV-Montu: E: [Initiating: 'Human Dialogue Subsystem']
[15.07.835 05:42:33] TFP)-Witch: U-uhhh...
[15.07.835 05:43:01] TFP)-Witch: I s-say again, this is TFP "Witch" to C... CV Montu, please transmit posture and tasking.
[15.07.835 05:43:48] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Unknown."
[15.07.835 05:44:09] TFP)-Witch: Uh, seeking clarific-cation, CV M-Montu.
[15.07.835 05:44:16] CV-Montu: E: "Amendment: This unit is not at liberty to divulge information pertaining to [Task: Mission]."
[15.07.835 05:44:25] TFP)-Witch: Y-you do- oh.
[15.07.835 05:44:36] TFP)-Witch: C-can you, um, transmit posture? At least?
[15.07.835 05:45:00] CV-Montu: E: "Query: Posture?"
[15.07.835 05:45:20] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: This vessel's posture is upright."
[15.07.835 05:45:25] TFP)-Witch: A-attitude. IFF. Um. A-are you g-go...
[15.07.835 05:45:33] TFP)-Witch: N-no, a-as in, are you go-going to shoot me?
[15.07.835 05:45:40] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Negative."
[15.07.835 05:45:47] CV-Montu: E: "Amendment: Possibly."
[15.07.835 05:46:06] TFP)-Witch: R-request attitude to-towards Republic forces.
[15.07.835 05:46:57] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Non-neutral."
[15.07.835 05:47:15] TFP)-Witch: R-requesting clarificatio-ooooon... ?
[15.07.835 05:47:44] CV-Montu: E: "Clarification: This vessel is not inherently hostile to [House: Liberty] personnel."
[15.07.835 05:48:06] CV-Montu: E: "Additional: This vessel has been known to be engaged by [House: Liberty] personnel."
[15.07.835 05:48:21] TFP)-Witch: I-it's against th-the laws, r-right?
[15.07.835 05:48:28] TFP)-Witch: F-foreign capital vessel an-and all.
[15.07.835 05:48:51] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Correct."
[15.07.835 05:49:20] TFP)-Witch: I-is there anything c-concrete you can, um, you can tell me, li-iiiike... a-at all?
[15.07.835 05:49:32] TFP)-Witch: Maybe a l-little hint about, um... oh, jeez, wh-what did you say.
[15.07.835 05:49:41] TFP)-Witch: "Ta-Task: Mission"?
[15.07.835 05:49:49] CV-Montu: E: "Clarification: No."
[15.07.835 05:50:02] CV-Montu: E: "Amendment: Stand-by."
[15.07.835 05:50:15] TFP)-Witch: Aff-fiiiiirm.
[15.07.835 05:50:39] CV-Montu: E: "Clarification: This vessel's mission is to destroy entities belonging to the alien race known as the Nomads."
[15.07.835 05:51:14] CV-Montu: E: "Amendment: This vessel is also tasked with eliminating any non-committed personnel of [Organization: Order]."
[15.07.835 05:51:32] TFP)-Witch: U-uhm, "non-c-c-committed"?
[15.07.835 05:53:25] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Personnel of [Organization: Order] exhibiting non-committal status typically engage all non-Order personnel in the AO."
[15.07.835 05:54:18] TFP)-Witch: S-so, uh. Your j-job is to, to, like...
[15.07.835 05:54:28] TFP)-Witch: K-kill the nn-noo-ooooomads.
[15.07.835 05:54:41] TFP)-Witch: And also kill any Order a-agents that d-don't kill nomads b-but kill other people instead?
[15.07.835 05:54:45] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Correct."
[15.07.835 05:55:10] CV-Montu: E: "Query: Are you currently exhibiting signs of Nomad infiltration?"
[15.07.835 05:55:14] TFP)-Witch: ...i-interesting behavior.
[15.07.835 05:55:22] TFP)-Witch: Wh-what? N-no! Nonononononono, no, noooo.
[15.07.835 05:56:03] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Excessive denial of Nomad infiltration is a sign of Nomad infiltration."
[15.07.835 05:56:13] CV-Montu: E: "Query: Are you positive?"
[15.07.835 05:56:43] TFP)-Witch: A-absolutely, yes, I'm qu-quite sure.
[15.07.835 05:57:08] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Affirmed. Individual is positive of Nomad infiltration."
[15.07.835 05:57:18] TFP)-Witch: Nononono, I m-mean the other thing!
[15.07.835 05:57:18] CV-Montu: E: "Amendment: Reprocessing."
[15.07.835 05:57:31] TFP)-Witch: A-as in, I'm p-positive I h-haven't been infiltrated.
[15.07.835 05:57:44] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Affirmed. User added to non-caustic file database."
[15.07.835 05:58:40] TFP)-Witch: Non-ca-auuuustic?
[15.07.835 05:59:03] CV-Montu: E: "Clarification: Non-hostile specimens."
[15.07.835 05:59:38] TFP)-Witch: Ahh.
[15.07.835 05:59:41] TFP)-Witch: Um.
[15.07.835 05:59:48] TFP)-Witch: W-with whom am I sp-speaking?
[15.07.835 06:00:04] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: This unit is known as 'Enyo'."
[15.07.835 06:00:27] TFP)-Witch: Ah.
[15.07.835 06:00:28] TFP)-Witch: Uh.
[15.07.835 06:00:33] TFP)-Witch: Ch-charmed, Enyo.
[15.07.835 06:01:13] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Charm is a sign of Nomad infiltration."
[15.07.835 06:01:19] TFP)-Witch: What?!
[15.07.835 06:02:21] TFP)-Witch: I-it's a figure of, of speech...
[15.07.835 06:02:29] CV-Montu: E: [Scanning - TFP)-Witch]
[15.07.835 06:03:11] CV-Montu: E: [Scan = Complete | Non-Human Biology - Detected]
[15.07.835 06:03:26] CV-Montu: E: [Scanning - TFP)-Witch]
[15.07.835 06:03:37] TFP)-Witch: [The pilot begins to actually sweat.]
[15.07.835 06:03:53] CV-Montu: E: [Scan = Complete | Non-Human Biology = Identified: Bacteria]
[15.07.835 06:05:18] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Your profile appears to be clear."
[15.07.835 06:05:20] TFP)-Witch: Th-that sounds about r-right.
[15.07.835 06:05:45] CV-Montu: E: "Clarification: Please refrain from injesting non-Human material."
[15.07.835 06:05:58] TFP)-Witch: A-am I... su-uppooooosed to be a ca-cannibal?
[15.07.835 06:07:14] CV-Montu: E: "Statement: Cannibalism would be the safest path to avoid Nomad infiltration."
[15.07.835 06:08:43] TFP)-Witch: B-but...
[15.07.835 06:12:59] TFP)-Witch: W-wait, I-- a-actually, n-no, no, th-that's fine...
[15.07.835 06:13:26] CV-Montu: E: [Ghost Mode: Active]
[15.07.835 06:13:33] TFP)-Witch: Y-yep, it sure i-is.

At this p-point, the vessel engaged a cloaking device, uh, and... well, I d-don't know what it did next, that's sort of, uh, that's what cloaking devices do. And so I returned to El Alto, with the weird gun I mentioned safely in tow, deposited the thing, a-and then returned to Valravn. I thii-iiiiink that concludes this report.

Witch, out.

Libera Te Ex Infernis
Intellexi Et Condemnavi

Amy West · 07-19-2025, 08:57 AM,

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[SECURE - BRIMSTONE]

Legionnaires, attend.

I've just received notice from Navarch Leviathan directly that the Navy intends to send reinforcements to the LSF incursion force here in Inverness in less than two weeks' time. All outside operations are to be put on hold and all wayward personnel not assigned to critical-level missions are to return to Inverness at once. This is not a drill.

[18.07.2025 23:18:14] A/)-ACV-Halcyon: L: The build-up of Navy in Magellan over the past few months have now directed their attention here.
[18.07.2025 23:18:22] A/)-ACV-Halcyon: L: With the express intent to wipe us all out, again.
[18.07.2025 23:18:33] A/)-ACV-Halcyon: L: Hence my urging of your alert status.
[18.07.2025 23:18:44] A/)-ACV-Halcyon: L: The enemy is coming to our door, and we need to get prepared.

I've uploaded new packets to all personnel via the network outlining operational security measures, as well as updated cyberwarfare protections codes to be installed aboard all vessels. INCURSUS is to remain on stand-by at El Alto, all other heavy craft are to exercise Code Omega patrol protocols. Code Utah is authorized only as a last resort.
Keep an eye on your fellow Legionnaires, people. Keep your comrades close, and watch their backs. We have warning of an imminent threat, and we cannot squander it. We didn't have this level of trust, this level of fluidity, and this level of intel prior to the Navy invading Kansas. We do now.

Any equipment requisitions should be made to El Alto if necessary. If you're cleared for gunship command and haven't received your authorization for one, send it to my inbox.
We are not repeating history here. We are making it. Carving it into the Navy's skulls when they breach that corridor. I want each of you to get your ice picks ready, and think up some good one liners.
This is where we look 'em in the eyes, grit our teeth, and tell them to eat shit.

Libera te ex Infernis.

West, out.

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"The truth's always harder to swallow than a simple white lie.."
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Locksmith · (This post was last modified: 09-04-2025, 04:47 AM by Locksmith.)

After Action Report

date: 02.09.35
rank & name: Fleet Captain Freud, Roland ("Locksmith")
reporting from: Pinnacle Station
ARR # 013

"I'm sure most of you are already aware of the interesting fact that the LSF and the Order are working closely together, given how many of our forces were in Coronado a few days ago. So I'll cut to the chase."

"After my gunboat was disabled and the hull was breached, I found myself in outer space. Luckily, I was wearing a protective suit, so I didn't kick the bucket immediately. However, I've drifted deep into an ice cloud, with no means of navigation or communication. There I encountered an unusual structure, clearly of alien origin, in sector C7. I've attached a fragment of my interface recording to this report."

"I give credit to the Platform forces for saving me, in particular the cruiser "Falkenhorst" and her crew. I wouldn't be recording this message if it weren't for them."

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