You honor me with your words, Overseer. I have informed my brothers and sisters of your need for fresh meat, as for the 'artifacts' -- that will take at least some time to obtain depending on which kind do you actually need.
One such artifact was in our possession until not so long ago -- a rare gem indeed, rumored to have belonged to the Creators of old, but has since been traded off to our cousins in Kusari. I can put a bounty on such trinket, should my kin find another. We'll see what turns up.
If you're looking for the other, more known variety of ancient artifacts, then I can reach out to one of my contacts within the Corsair Empire. They should be able to help us with those. Which do you choose?
I have just been told that Seven has gone shopping in Omega-7 for whatever and whoever he could find that fits your request. Somehow, someway, that unreliable booze swinger has managed to fetch you about a hundred bodies -- scientists, he says.
As it turns out, there was a higher number of them meant to reach Bretonia with the help of a Bowex shipping vessel. By the time CNS gets to breathe word about this incident, details of this encounter will become muddy at best with a lot of speculation. And of course, the bodies we stole will be long, long gone.
You will find these capable minds on Kaarst, in Omega-58. The Food Rations to keep them alive are on the house.
Your efficiency exceeds expectation, Baron.
The current moves swiftly through your hands.
The minds you have gathered will serve the purpose well.
Their knowledge will feed what is being constructed beneath the veil.
Ensure they remain untouched, their minds must remember who they were before they are remade.
As for the relics, it is the Creator-born kind we seek.
Not the ones polished by human greed, but those still whispering in harmonic patterns.
Deliver the signal.
Decrypt the pain.
The Serpent bends only once.
Cortana//Thraike