Seeds of thought germinate...
The stem rises, the petals thrive. Sunlight bolsters.
They bloom, pollen channeled through the neural weave.
Sender:Amy Douglas Recipient:Anna Kwiatkowska Source:Edinburgh Priority:Very High Subject:The logs
Hey, miss Anna. Amy here.
Just arrived at Islay, place's just about dead as ever... but that's alright, it's not like I'll be staying long and the Grian is mostly fine.
I went over the logs again, and I thought back to those moments. The sheer terror of finding my own thoughts invaded like that, the despair that came later... I don't wish it on anyone. I better not think about this again.
I'm sending you the logs in two parts. First one you see below, it's the one with the telepathy.
No edits were made, except in that two-minutes gap where the recording shows nothing - it was then he spoke, and I manually edited the logs for your convenience, so you don't have to go back to what I told you in Leeds.
[09.06.2021 19:30:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Tallyho, Gaian.
[09.06.2021 19:30:48] Grian-B: Ah, there's a familiar contact... greetings, vice admiral. Douglas here. How goes?
[09.06.2021 19:31:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: All is good, so far at the very least. Thought about paying a visit here to vertify the status of Livingston's guard.
[09.06.2021 19:31:36] Grian-B: Found anything interesting out there? Because, er, I didn't... not a whiff of Outcasts, haha, or the rest.
[09.06.2021 19:31:53] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What about you and your Gaian friends? Anything else to report?
[09.06.2021 19:32:48] Grian-B: Livingstone... the battlecruiser over at the station, right? No, nothing so far, sir - not sure if that's good or bad.
[09.06.2021 19:33:15] Grian-B: Quiet as the grave. Fits the place, really...
[09.06.2021 19:33:51] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Indeed, Livigston is the battlecruiser we mentioned in our communications. I am glad that there are no other matters to
[09.06.2021 19:34:01] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: -discuss about. It appears the Royalists have fallen silent.
[09.06.2021 19:34:36] Grian-B: Mm. I keep going out on sorties, our comrades do as well, but it's like they just disappeared off the face of Sirius.
[09.06.2021 19:34:38] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What is the state of the Artio? Are repairs completed yet?
[09.06.2021 19:34:58] Grian-B: Maybe we DID damage them a lot, despite the defeat. Wouldn't that be nice, haha...
[09.06.2021 19:35:24] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I very much doubt we made them retreat. It is all just the silence before the storm.
[09.06.2021 19:35:49] Death: pity.me was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[09.06.2021 19:35:59] Grian-B: Oh, the Artio? It's almost ready, sir, the armour plating's been redone and the turret gyroscopes are now finally up-to-date. -
[09.06.2021 19:36:23] Grian-B: No more of my jury-rigging holding them into the hardpoints, thankfully.
[09.06.2021 19:36:47] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Those are good news, then! I am looking forward to strenghten our cooperation - and we will have an easier time once-
[09.06.2021 19:36:54] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: -the Artio is operationable.
[09.06.2021 19:37:05] Grian-B: There's been a LOT of, er, 'creative improvisation' out there, as we were making our way back... things that'd make any eng-
[09.06.2021 19:37:09] Grian-B: -engineer cry...
[09.06.2021 19:37:38] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Of course, but that is to be expected when there is a lack of specialized drydocks, am I correct?
[09.06.2021 19:38:26] Grian-B: Indeed. Well, lack of specialised /anything/ out there on the far fringes - save for the odd Freeports, and bless those Zoners
[09.06.2021 19:38:41] Grian-B: for setting up shop in places no sane man ever would!
[09.06.2021 19:39:19] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Hmph. The zoners, you say... I do not have a good opinion on them. Nevertheless, I agree with what you've said.
[09.06.2021 19:39:31] Grian-B: Oh? Why's that, sir?
[09.06.2021 19:39:53] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: They are nothing but cowards who ran from the colonies.
[09.06.2021 19:40:23] Grian-B: They're a bit weird, thinking they're better off on the fringes, yeah... but I don't know, I think it takes some guts to-
[09.06.2021 19:40:38] Grian-B: -give the wilds out a bash, you know? And stay there, too.
[09.06.2021 19:41:09] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The far fringe areas are easier to live in when you have the right contacts.
[09.06.2021 19:41:35] Grian-B: The colonies aren't a nice place, Gaia forbid, but the farther out you go, you kind of start missing the attentions of the-
[09.06.2021 19:41:47] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The right contacts, of course, come at a cost. But I believe there is no need to specificy which one.
[09.06.2021 19:42:07] Grian-B: -usual nuisances. Those talk to you - not politely, but they do.
[09.06.2021 19:42:45] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The colonies are the best place to live in. Living on the far edges of them is dangerous unless you are very prepared.
[09.06.2021 19:43:07] Grian-B: Er, Corsairs and Outcasts, right? They're their own houses, basically... and they get really territorial about strange unan-
[09.06.2021 19:43:23] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What of them?
[09.06.2021 19:43:57] Grian-B: -nounced warships showing up on their territory. I thought you meant them when you said the 'right contacts'.
[09.06.2021 19:44:40] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: No, no. The Outcasts and Corsairs are to be destroyed on sight. As for the right contacts... there are far more-
[09.06.2021 19:44:45] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: -powerful forces out there.
[09.06.2021 19:44:52] Grian-B: Huh?
[09.06.2021 19:45:10] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Indeed. I will not go into details.
[09.06.2021 19:45:49] Grian-B: Er, alright. I'm guessing it's not the squids... they never seemed all that interesting in contacting us with anything but lots
[09.06.2021 19:45:55] Grian-B: and lots of directed energy...
[09.06.2021 19:46:10] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Squids? You mean... the Nomads?
[09.06.2021 19:46:30] Grian-B: Come to think of it, the last one I met was the friendliest one I'd ever seen. And it -still- tried to murder us!
[09.06.2021 19:46:58] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: That is in their nature. They murder anyone who is of no interest to them.
[09.06.2021 19:47:02] Grian-B: Yeah, those things. Sorry, I'm just used to calling them that, because well...
[09.06.2021 19:47:22] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: It is also why I requested all available information about them. It is important for our goals.
[09.06.2021 19:48:09] Grian-B: Mm. Well, unfortunately there's been no hide nor tentacle of them either, not around the place... I'm still wondering what was
[09.06.2021 19:48:26] Grian-B: all that about. The 'trials' thing, and the light and the dark...
[09.06.2021 19:49:00] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Trials? Huh. Right. Sounds familiar.
[09.06.2021 19:49:13] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What else was mentioned?
[09.06.2021 19:49:43] Grian-B: It all sounds like it's from a novel when I say it out loud, haha... but well, it was real. Um, I think the captain filled you-
[09.06.2021 19:50:05] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: You were there. You must know better than the Captain.
[09.06.2021 19:50:29] Grian-B: -in sir, the thing really didn't make much sense to me and the Maquis guys didn't even sound like they could hear it...
[09.06.2021 19:50:50] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Of course they didn't. Only certain individuals can.
[09.06.2021 19:50:55] Grian-B: W-what?
[09.06.2021 19:51:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: They communicate telepathically.
[09.06.2021 19:51:41] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: At least that is what our information says about them.
[09.06.2021 19:51:53] Grian-B: R-right, yes. Wait... does that mean I'm psychic or something? Or that it only wanted to talk to me?
[09.06.2021 19:52:06] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The latter, of course.
[09.06.2021 19:53:00] Grian-B: W-what?! Why? I'm- I'm just a nobody pilot, and not even a good one!
[09.06.2021 19:53:41] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I do not know. Perhaps the creature will show that the next time you will encounter it.
[09.06.2021 19:53:57] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: However it is best to avoid them.
[09.06.2021 19:54:36] Grian-B: The thing... it said, when it first 'appeared', or well, it was made to appear, it said that we will change our mind about them
[09.06.2021 19:55:01] Grian-B: And then it rattled on about this trial it wanted us to pass...
[09.06.2021 19:55:40] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Awkwardly familiar. It is most interesting that it mentioned such subjects.
[09.06.2021 19:56:08] Grian-B: You... you've met it too?
[09.06.2021 19:57:15] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I will not go into details. Such information is classified. It is a more serious matter than some Royalists.
[09.06.2021 19:58:03] Grian-B: B-by the Stars, really?! I mean, I guess, since they're aliens and they act like that, but... oh dear...
[09.06.2021 19:58:48] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The right contacts at the right time will prove it to you as well. Eventually.
[09.06.2021 19:59:22] Grian-B: Who are these contacts, sir? Should we be looking out for someone in particular?
[09.06.2021 19:59:24] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Complicated talk, isn't it?
[09.06.2021 19:59:42] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: No, no. Do not look for anyone.
[09.06.2021 19:59:54] Grian-B: Y-yeah, to be honest, it's... it's a lot to take in, sir. It's...
[09.06.2021 20:00:28] Grian-B: It's bad enough some giant alien squid wants to talk to ME about light and trials, of all people, and now there's these shadowy
[09.06.2021 20:00:39] Grian-B: contacts too that will 'make things clear'...
[09.06.2021 20:01:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: That is why I specifically told you to avoid direct conflict. We wouldn't want unnecessary casualties, would we?
[09.06.2021 20:02:00] Grian-B: All I wanted to do is help save Gaia... not all of this...
[09.06.2021 20:02:11] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Very good, then.
[09.06.2021 20:02:33] Grian-B: W-well, I'm not one to shoot first if I can help it, and poking one such giant thing seems like a REALLY bad idea in general...
[09.06.2021 20:02:52] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Indeed it a bad idea.
[09.06.2021 20:02:58] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: It is, even.
[09.06.2021 20:04:13] [2021-06-09] 20:04:12 You have received 5.000.000 credits from BAF|A-HMS-Majestic
[09.06.2021 20:04:25] Grian-B: *long sigh.* I... I guess I'll just have to keep going, do I? Not like there's going any back now, after... that.
[09.06.2021 20:04:49] Grian-B: And stumbling across you in New London, and joining the Gaians...
[09.06.2021 20:04:58] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I transferred a small 'donation' to your neural net account. I believe you can forget that we ever brought the subject-
[09.06.2021 20:05:05] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: -of Nomads up.
[09.06.2021 20:05:14] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: It is in our common interest.
[09.06.2021 20:05:38] Grian-B: Er... right, sir. We never talked about any of that, haha... but, may I ask you a question, sir?
[09.06.2021 20:05:41] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: And you are correct... there is no going back after so much time.
[09.06.2021 20:05:49] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: You may, most certainly.
[09.06.2021 20:07:07] Grian-B: Like, I'm no good at political things or diplomacy, or any of that stuff... but if I can be direct, how do you see us working-
[09.06.2021 20:07:16] Grian-B: -together?
[09.06.2021 20:07:49] Grian-B: Like, once the Royalists are gone. Or the sq- erm, the other things are.
[09.06.2021 20:07:50] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: In order to work together we first need a common enemy. With the Royalists and other Gauls falling silent, there is no-
[09.06.2021 20:07:51] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: -threat.
[09.06.2021 20:08:59] Grian-B: Mm... and what would that be, then? The other things? Or even, does there have to be an enemy?
[09.06.2021 20:09:24] Grian-B: What is it you'd like to see happen, vice admiral?
[09.06.2021 20:09:46] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The 'other things' are not of any concern for the time being.
[09.06.2021 20:10:20] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: As I have mentioned to your Captain, we can only work together so long as we have a common goal. With the Royalists-
[09.06.2021 20:10:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: -gone, there isn't one anymore.
[09.06.2021 20:10:36] Grian-B: Oh...
[09.06.2021 20:10:47] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: But I believe there is no need to maintain a hostile status with your squadron.
[09.06.2021 20:10:54] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Do you agree?
[09.06.2021 20:11:36] Grian-B: W-well, yes, of course... we're not looking to make enemies, you and your fleetmates have been all reasonable...
[09.06.2021 20:12:38] Grian-B: I don't really know what does the captain think, she's much better at seeing the bigger picture. All I know is, well... I said-
[09.06.2021 20:12:54] Grian-B: -what is it I really care about, why I even took up arms for it...
[09.06.2021 20:14:02] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: My guess is that you care about Gaia and Bretonia. Everyone born in those places should do.
[09.06.2021 20:14:06] Grian-B: Was that the same with you, sir? Had something you really wanted to protect, and that's why you're in the Armed Forces?
[09.06.2021 20:14:31] Death: E.Taylor suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[09.06.2021 20:15:01] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I did, of cource. I even sworn to protect Bretonia and act according to the people's interests.
[09.06.2021 20:15:06] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: //course
[09.06.2021 20:15:51] Grian-B: Heh... and still we ended up like this. It's funny...
[09.06.2021 20:16:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Humanity has always preferred looking at the smaller picture. It is the reason so many conflicts have started.
[09.06.2021 20:17:13] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: If you open your eyes, however... and look at the bigger picture... you will find peace.
[09.06.2021 20:17:54] Grian-B: Yeah. Only thinking on the short term, chasing this one goal, this one achievement, this one new shiny thing, stack of credits-
[09.06.2021 20:18:24] Grian-B: one by one, and consequences be damned... and you get the way Bretonia is right now. No offence.
[09.06.2021 20:18:37] Grian-B: Hm... peace? You think so, sir?
[09.06.2021 20:19:02] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: You heard me right. Peace.
[09.06.2021 20:19:29] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Bretonia is in a difficult state, I agree. Our house is in ruins.
[09.06.2021 20:19:39] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The Northern part, at least.
[09.06.2021 20:19:46] Grian-B: I don't know... I think I heard the captain quote something from a book, a line that went like "with great knowledge, -
[09.06.2021 20:20:26] Grian-B: -comes great sorrow". Not sure about you, but... even if I don't exactly think we're wrong in what we think, maybe even what we
[09.06.2021 20:21:21] Grian-B: do so long as it doesn't hurt innocents, but peace is something we've never had. I certainly didn't get much of it.
[09.06.2021 20:22:19] Grian-B: It's fighting the good fight, in a way... but that's it, isn't it? Fighting. I don't see the peace, sir. Can you show me where-
[09.06.2021 20:22:21] Grian-B: -it is? [MANUAL EDIT] SYS: This is where he did the telepathy. "Yours shall find peace at the right moment, ours revealed information to yours", is what it sounded like. The words were easy to make out, but the buzzing...
[09.06.2021 20:24:35] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Right... where were we?
[09.06.2021 20:24:38] Grian-B: W-what?!
[09.06.2021 20:24:56] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What was the discussion about, again?
[09.06.2021 20:25:13] Grian-B: I... I... er...
[09.06.2021 20:25:41] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What is it, Captain?
[09.06.2021 20:25:50] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: //pilot
[09.06.2021 20:26:22] Grian-B: N-nothing! Nothing! I-I thought I heard something, haha, but it's just... just the comms acting up!
[09.06.2021 20:26:48] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Likely just the interference.
[09.06.2021 20:26:57] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Shall we get back to the discussion, then?
[09.06.2021 20:27:29] Grian-B: N-now if you'll excuse me, I-I think I better RTB before- t-the discussion?
[09.06.2021 20:27:46] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: And for what reason?
[09.06.2021 20:28:47] Grian-B: W-well I've been on patrol for a while, right, and I was supposed to check in some time ago, but then w-we got talking, and you
[09.06.2021 20:28:54] Grian-B: know... haha...
[09.06.2021 20:29:59] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Very well then. Proceed when you are ready.
[09.06.2021 20:30:19] Grian-B: T-thanks sir. We'll be in touch, a-and godspeed.
[09.06.2021 20:30:21] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Helm, cloak up.
[09.06.2021 20:30:39] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Farewell. Do not forget what we've mentioned.
[09.06.2021 20:31:00] Grian-B: Won't! Not anytime soon!
Now I'm going over the second one... and wow, I didn't remember this, but the VA told another BAF guy to back off while there were Nomads in the system!
Those Nomads were feeling pretty talkative, or telepathive I guess... they did that a lot, but I don't remember it all since it was chaos in Edinburgh. I added manually what I could remember, but there was probably more...
[18.06.2021 16:53:11] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: CIC: HMS Majestic to John English. Turn around at once. This is a restricted area.
[18.06.2021 16:53:47] Fleur-Audefroi!: Change?
[18.06.2021 16:53:47] John_English: are you sure about that
[18.06.2021 16:54:00] Grian-B: W-wha-
[18.06.2021 16:54:00] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Now they come. Helm, full power!
[18.06.2021 16:54:02] Fleur-Audefroi!: bow to the King creatured!
[18.06.2021 16:54:06] Fleur-Audefroi!: Creatures
[18.06.2021 16:54:19] Grian-B: WHAT IN GAIA'S NAME ARE THOSE?!
[18.06.2021 16:54:36] Fleur-Audefroi!: Animals to be tamed for the amusement of King Charles [MANUAL EDIT] SYS: It mocked the Royalist, saying something like "bow to who, darkling?"
[18.06.2021 16:54:42] Fleur-Audefroi!: We shall build cages
[18.06.2021 16:54:47] Fleur-Audefroi!: We shall feed them
[18.06.2021 16:54:54] Grian-B: Shut up you! Vice admiral, what is going on here?!
[18.06.2021 16:55:01] Fleur-Audefroi!: They shall dance and entertain our# King
[18.06.2021 16:55:22] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I believe you can see that with your very own eyes.
[18.06.2021 16:55:29] Fleur-Audefroi!: oh how pleased will Charles be when we have tamed creatures of the wild
[18.06.2021 16:55:49] Grian-B: I-I see monsters! And that insane Gaul!
[18.06.2021 16:55:56] Fleur-Audefroi!: Insane?
[18.06.2021 16:56:00] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Good. Get rid of the Gaul.
[18.06.2021 16:56:08] Fleur-Audefroi!: We Fleur are the pinnacle of existence
[18.06.2021 16:56:29] Grian-B: W-what? And the creatures? Aren't they a little more of a threat?!
[18.06.2021 16:56:49] Fleur-Audefroi!: Animals to be tamed for the King's amusement
[18.06.2021 16:56:51] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: A lone battlecruiser stands no chance against such large warform. Are you insane?
[18.06.2021 16:57:23] Grian-B: W-well... what do we do then?
[18.06.2021 16:57:35] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Evacuate the area. Unless you prefer getting killed?
[18.06.2021 16:57:55] Grian-B: Rrgh...
[18.06.2021 16:59:14] Fleur-Audefroi!: Metal cages!
[18.06.2021 16:59:37] Fleur-Audefroi!: The unified Sirius under Gallic rule whall have sophisticated means to make you feel comnfortable
[18.06.2021 16:59:47] Fleur-Audefroi!: In your role as jovial clowns to the Court
[18.06.2021 17:00:17] Fleur-Audefroi!: The King's Courtiers shall find great honor in the King granting them visits to your enclosures
[18.06.2021 17:00:25] Grian-B: By the Stars... what a gigantic creature...
[18.06.2021 17:01:06] Grian-B: W-what is it that you want, you... things?
[18.06.2021 17:01:39] Grian-B: Why are you here? What do you want from us?! [MANUAL EDIT] SYS: It said something like "looking into you, darkling"; they say 'darkling' a lot, like we humans are dark and they're the light...
[18.06.2021 17:02:10] Grian-B: Wh-what's that supposed to mean?
[18.06.2021 17:02:23] Grian-B: Is it going to be something about bringing peace? [MANUAL EDIT] SYS: It replied then, saying "perhaps". They said other things too over the course of this, but it was a mess and I don't remember them well, this one stuck out to me since it was talking to me.
[18.06.2021 17:02:37] Fleur-Audefroi!: and by your king, I mean your kind, unless you too worship your own king
[18.06.2021 17:02:58] Fleur-Audefroi!: He shall retain his tytle in the enclosures provided to you
[18.06.2021 17:03:03] Fleur-Audefroi!: Title rather!
[18.06.2021 17:03:13] Fleur-Audefroi!: Then again, who knows if you spell words the same way we do
[18.06.2021 17:03:42] Grian-B: T-then what is it, thing?
[18.06.2021 17:05:06] Fleur-Audefroi!: Gaian
[18.06.2021 17:05:09] Fleur-Audefroi!: Have you rejoiced?
[18.06.2021 17:05:21] Grian-B: Have you not gotten yourself killed yet?!
[18.06.2021 17:05:26] Fleur-Audefroi!: Is my power enough to finally confince you that there is no point in resisting?
[18.06.2021 17:05:44] Fleur-Audefroi!: Bretonia belongs by right to King Charles
[18.06.2021 17:05:52] Fleur-Audefroi!: Your people will be his subjects
[18.06.2021 17:05:57] Fleur-Audefroi!: why postpone the inevitable
[18.06.2021 17:05:59] RNS-Charente: La'Row: You know well, Le Roi is dead.
[18.06.2021 17:06:16] Fleur-Audefroi!: Blasphemy of a deluded unknown voice
[18.06.2021 17:06:30] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The King is dead indeed. Now lay down your weapons.
[18.06.2021 17:06:36] RNS-Charente: La'Row: DeFrance should return to the throne, however Charles has already died.
[18.06.2021 17:06:51] Fleur-Audefroi!: You can live in your deluded reality woven by lies
[18.06.2021 17:07:09] Fleur-Audefroi!: He shall return and unify all Gallia in an instant.
[18.06.2021 17:07:25] Grian-B: Am I the only one concerned about the giant aliens in the system more than the lunatic?!
[18.06.2021 17:07:28] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Douglas, I must say... you do certainly seek death if you put yourself in such locations.
[18.06.2021 17:07:40] Fleur-Audefroi!: These creatures will be an amusement for the King
[18.06.2021 17:07:48] Grian-B: T-they're righ here! Next to Gaia! I-I can't back down!
[18.06.2021 17:07:50] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: For the dead King?
[18.06.2021 17:08:07] Fleur-Audefroi!: The glory of Unified Sirius under Gallic rule shall tame them for the King's amusement.
[18.06.2021 17:08:25] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: So much for old values. You lot never change.
[18.06.2021 17:08:35] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Ah I see, probably one of the soldiers which got injured from the war.
[18.06.2021 17:08:37] Grian-B: I'm no fighter, but I have to at least try to... stop them from whatever they want to do with our home!!
[18.06.2021 17:08:44] Fleur-Audefroi!: The king's word is bond. Charles wills it!
[18.06.2021 17:08:45] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Brain damage possibly.
[18.06.2021 17:09:08] Fleur-Audefroi!: you don't even have the audacity to reveal yourself
[18.06.2021 17:09:10] Fleur-Audefroi!: Deluded one
[18.06.2021 17:09:16] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Royalist fanatics such as yourself will only perish.
[18.06.2021 17:09:30] Fleur-Audefroi!: We have achieved victories
[18.06.2021 17:09:37] Fleur-Audefroi!: 6 billion little victories on Leeds
[18.06.2021 17:09:42] Fleur-Audefroi!: 900 million on New London
[18.06.2021 17:09:48] Fleur-Audefroi!: many more victories will follow
[18.06.2021 17:10:02] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The only thing that will follow is your complete annihilation.
[18.06.2021 17:10:13] Fleur-Audefroi!: You were at the front yet are afraid to reveal yourself
[18.06.2021 17:10:16] Fleur-Audefroi!: you sicken me
[18.06.2021 17:10:33] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Your brain damage sickens me more than some feelings of unimportant soldier.
[18.06.2021 17:10:42] Fleur-Audefroi!: You are getting lost in the web of your delusional lies
[18.06.2021 17:11:15] Grian-B: Those lights... they're leaving?
[18.06.2021 17:11:24] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Oui, they were.
[18.06.2021 17:11:54] Fleur-Audefroi!: You shall stay here for the King's amusement
[18.06.2021 17:12:15] Grian-B: A-away from me!
[18.06.2021 17:12:29] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: What in Queen's name is this?
[18.06.2021 17:12:44] Grian-B: I wish I bloody well knew!
[18.06.2021 17:12:52] Fleur-Audefroi!: well delusional one
[18.06.2021 17:13:15] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Do it one more time.
[18.06.2021 17:13:22] Fleur-Audefroi!: you deny our King charles
[18.06.2021 17:13:31] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: The King is dead!
[18.06.2021 17:13:40] Fleur-Audefroi!: another deluded one
[18.06.2021 17:13:42] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Oui, Le Roi is dead... Everyone knows it.
[18.06.2021 17:13:56] Fleur-Audefroi!: His plan works perfectly
[18.06.2021 17:14:04] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: Yet they try to say otherwise. Amusing.
[18.06.2021 17:14:07] Fleur-Audefroi!: You all are caught in his intrigue
[18.06.2021 17:14:17] Grian-B: He's... what?
[18.06.2021 17:15:09] Fleur-Audefroi!: You are all lost children
[18.06.2021 17:15:15] Fleur-Audefroi!: Perhaps this is his plan all along
[18.06.2021 17:15:21] RNS-Charente: La'Row: Perhaps?
[18.06.2021 17:15:22] BAF|A-HMS-Majestic: Oliver: I believe you are the one lost in lies.
[18.06.2021 17:15:24] Grian-B: *heavy sigh.*
[18.06.2021 17:15:25] RNS-Charente: La'Row: So you don't know
[18.06.2021 17:15:31] Fleur-Audefroi!: he wants to see you squabble aimless,
[18.06.2021 17:15:49] Fleur-Audefroi!: Now you leave
[18.06.2021 17:15:58] Fleur-Audefroi!: confirming the thruth
The log ends there, because I ended up leaving to get support and heavier ordnance. By the time I got back there was no trace of anyone.
Well... that's it from me, I'm afraid.
I wish I had more to show you, but that's just it. Never saw the VA again, none of us. Gone. Kinda like the Artio, in fact... but they didn't leave with him, it was weeks later, and as far as I know they're still out there.
Hope the information will be of use to you, miss Anna.
As for me... I'll patch up the Grian a little, and then get a bit of rest like you suggested.
Maybe, just maybe, when I wake up Sirius will be looking a little brighter... yeah, right. I'm better off just hoping you can find my sister. Much more likely.
And to be honest, it'd be something already. It'd be enough.
Goodbye, miss Anna. And good luck with everything.
The pollen scatters to the solar winds...
The petals fall, the stem withers. Sunlight retreats.
Cold void greets the neural weave, and leads it unto slumber.
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Encryption: Pickwick To: Amy Douglas From: Acting Captain Anna Kwiatkowska
Good evening, Amy Douglas,
I thank you for all this data. I understand how you feel - I was not the witness of it, but all this look so surreal. I hope that these data will help us to understand what happened to the Vice Admiral and in what he got into.
As you kept your word - I obliged to keep mine. You are in luck that your sister, Iris Douglas, kept much clearer records than you did and there have been some information I was able to find about her.
First of all - she never joined Gaian movement itself, but was member of the Green Front while she was studying at the Planet Cambridge - which is rather common there. Once she has graduated - she made a flying license for her and became freelancer explorer.
Last traces of her lead to some group or organization called MGE, when she was sending them some of her data while they have been recruiting her. I can not tell you much about this organization, as there is just a little known information about them, but they are somehow aligned with Independent Miners. Rest of your family is alive and well, but I suggest contacting them remotely unless you wish to drag them into some police investigation. Not until you get your papers in order, at least.
Good luck with your future endeavors and keep yourself away from dangerous radical organizations, would you? Pozegnanie, miss Douglas.
In service to Her Majesty the Queen,
Anna Kwiatkowska
Acting Captain, HMS Tiger BAF Auxiliary Fleet