To: 1st Armada's ONI | From: Johnny's Office

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Sender: Johnny, from his namesake's Office
Recipient: Office of Naval Intelligence, of the First Armada
Subject: Location of ships

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To whoever gets this message - and I hope it's the Admiral; greetings.

I am Johnny, a private detector from Liberty, leader of the Johnny's Office private investigators company.

You have sent a request for investigators. We are naturally inclined to say yes. However.
We're already on the case and it yielded nothing of worth. The Harmony is most likely a wreck by now, and the Enterprise... No idea. Could've abandoned ship, or autodestroyed itself. Either way, my guess is that these two ships are done for.

My Office is focusing on the Roanoke. Which you yourselves, are aware of. It is a major threat to everyone, as Xenos attack everyone, even those that aren't foreign.
My guess is they keep it in Xeno territory and move it oftenly so that it is more of a propaganda tool for their troops of their "Republic", than an actual tool of warfare.
As said by Agent Zoé; if it was ambushed by a sufficiently coordinated group of Libertonian Navy, it would be done for, and their morale would tank.

They usually hang in Ontario - which is where we encountered it and logged it for the first time. It was escorted by XA-Cobra. Still bore Insurgency

So that's my guess about the FRS-Roanoke. Ahem. Now, do you have more questions? Also, this isn't free. We would like at least a starter amount for cooperation. You see, my Office don't usually deal with Liberty. But, "we don't ask questions". For the information given, about our main theory, how we encountered it, and a simple plan, maybe count, 10,000,000? To Swift.Silence. This will be the starter of our cooperation between our Office, and well, your Office as well.

We're looking forward to hearing from you,

Kind regards,
Johnny, from his namesake's Office

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[Blake Wayne Van Leer]

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Callsign: ONI-36
System: [REDACTED]
Subject: Payment

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I am an operative of the ONI. We want hard intel, evidence - what you told us we already know about the Raonoke. And we had to pay for it with damage to our vessels, in Ontario itself.

Show me logs of its conversations when we aren't watching, surveillance, and direct proofs, for each instance you will get 20,000,000 plus whatever we deem sufficient for any extra information. You gave me neither anything new nor hard proofs.

A personal meeting is possible - once you have anything solid I can meet you in my cloaked light fighter at, say, Ames Research Station - you do need to give us something we haven't gotten ourselves however!

36 signing off

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THE FIRST ARMADA (1st|)

The son of Denver: A Blake Wayne Van Leer Biography

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Sender: Karl, from Johnny's Office
Recipient: "ONI-36"
Subject: RE:Payment

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"ONI-36",

A pawn, and not the admiral as asked, of course, he must believe we are not equals or worth his time, yet he calls investigators for help.
We expected this; I'm Karl, not Johnny - he handed it to me, giving one last chance for this contract, and he did not hide his disgust with having to deal with Libertonian Agents again. But I manage it just as well. I fly our ship, and I answer when the big boss doesn't. Me or Emily.

Enough chit-chat. Alright, and?

Hard intel and evidence, since you called for investigators to see for you, you must not have hard evidence either.

We run on our encounter with FRS-Roanoke. Johnny was held up 180° away from the Roanoke but he could still see it looming over. The weaponry was analyzed too. That's all we have as concrete evidence: it (may) be the flagship of their "Republic"; it's still active and most probably in Ontario the most.

For the other ships, we've looked far and wide and seen no evidence of them even surviving. The Harmony might really be destroyed. The Enterprise might have been hijacked, destroyed, or destroyed itself to avoid its crew being taken alive. All possibilites are valid; but there is one fact, they're most likely dead. And, we have read the thread, hence the existence of this channel. We know about your 20,000,000. Honestly, it's low. We have all agreed aboard.

We demanded a mere 10,000,000 because - while you knew what we said, probably - we did that work ourselves, and we furnished it to you. It's a good sign when someone starts with handing cash to a future partner. Hence, we still expect the ten millions. As we exchanged, we must have something in return. We're not looking for work with your kind again - our prices may be steep, but our expertise is probably higher than most of your OSI's agents'.

Because we've quit. Now I said too much. Anyway...

Since we don't have access to death certificates, and I doubt there is, you won't find evidence either. For the Roanoke, maybe let us handle this one, and gather intel. first, without the whole Navy charade.

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A personal meeting. Agreed. Ames Research Station, 4D... Kepler. Alright, when? Tell us when, and we'll be there.

We're looking forward to meet you.

Regards,
Karl, from Johnny's Office.

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[Blake Wayne Van Leer]

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Callsign: ONI-36
System: [REDACTED]
Subject: Chat

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Tomorrow at 5PM works just fine, I will be there. We have indeed identified the Vessel with all hard evidence, but that has been a couple of months ago - we require continuous updates so that when we storm and take back Ontario after we are done with Vespucci we know who to take down and where.

This is why the ID's TImestamps and logs are required, and we will pay well for them, you of all people should understand!


We can discuss the details tomorrow in Kepler.

36 signing off

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THE FIRST ARMADA (1st|)

The son of Denver: A Blake Wayne Van Leer Biography

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Sender: Karl, from Johnny's Office
Recipient: "ONI-36"
Subject: RE:Chat

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"ONI-36",

5PM, got it. We will be there.

Yes, yes: we understand what you need, as you said "out of all people". We are just as interested, if not more, into at least the Roanoke.
And, of course we'll discuss the details there, that's the point of meeting in person, no?

We're looking forward to meet you, in person.

Regards,
Karl, from Johnny's Office.

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Sender: Johnny, from his namesake's Office
Recipient: Office of Naval Intelligence, of the First Armada
Subject: FRS Roanoke

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Libertonian Pawn.

I have sighted the FRS Roanoke. I will keep this as short as possible as I despise the very idea of talking to officers again.

Delight yourselves in this encrypted album. It is accessible only to you. Decipher and deduce all you owe to my Office. I think that's enough information.

The system was Ontario.

We're looking forward to having money wired to Swift.Silence.

Acknowledgements,
Johnny, from his namesake's Office

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[Blake Wayne Van Leer]

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Callsign: ONI-36
System: [REDACTED]
Subject: Payment

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The Xenosurgent vessel is now openly attacking our forces in Texas and other places.

We require logs of their communications, intentions, plans - you have brought us nothing new - we are well aware of its armaments and Ontario presence.

Bring us logs that will reveal what we don't already know and you will get paid more. 20,000,000 and 5,000,000 bonus have been wired

36 signing off

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THE FIRST ARMADA (1st|)

The son of Denver: A Blake Wayne Van Leer Biography