Raven and Hunt,
I'm not sure what methods you enlist for your recruitment, but there may be a need for additional quality control. I'm slightly aggravated, and extremely unsettled by this individual. Nesrin Kahn, as I was informed they were called, has a terrible sense of arrogance and recklessness due to their inability to think rationally. They may have the ability to think logically and strategically, but there is no respect or decency in their actions. I'd argue they have a complete lack of humanity if it weren't so fitting.
I've provided the blackbox record of our first and following interactions.
[16.01.2017 21:57:23] Attention! Stand clear. Towing "Talandar"
[16.01.2017 21:57:36] 2017-01-16 21:57:33 SMT Traffic control alert: (C~Cara.Kendall, has requested to dock
[16.01.2017 21:59:30] Kublai: ??: Hey....
[16.01.2017 21:59:34] "Talandar": J: Hello.
[16.01.2017 21:59:36] Kublai: ??: I recognise that ship.
[16.01.2017 21:59:45] "Talandar": J: Maybe you do, perhaps not.
[16.01.2017 21:59:59] Kublai: ??: Tell me I'm not seeing things. This is the darkness of the beyond.
[16.01.2017 22:00:14] "Talandar": J: That depends, how much do you trust your sight?
[16.01.2017 22:00:54] Kublai: ??: I know you. *grins* More than most. Takes a hallucinator to see people as they are.
[16.01.2017 22:01:12] Kublai: And then there were two of you.
[16.01.2017 22:01:25] "Talandar": J: Hm. Two?
[16.01.2017 22:01:50] Kublai: ??: Yea'. *She hesitates for the first time.* You're not alligned with that Vertiga bloke?
[16.01.2017 22:02:02] "Talandar": J: Dont know 'em
[16.01.2017 22:02:17] "Talandar": J: At least, don't remember.
[16.01.2017 22:07:39] Preparing to cloak...
[16.01.2017 22:07:49] Cloaking device on
[16.01.2017 22:10:24] Cloaking device off
[16.01.2017 22:10:29] 2017-01-16 22:10:26 SMT Traffic control alert: "Talandar" has requested to dock
[16.01.2017 22:10:44] A/)-Achlys: *grinning* Haha.
[16.01.2017 22:11:08] A/)-ACV-Andraste: ?: Hello.
[16.01.2017 22:11:10] A/)-Achlys: What did I tell you about having good eyes, Callsign Talandar? *The voice sounds familarly reticent.*
[16.01.2017 22:11:52] "Talandar": J: There's a large difference between having good eyes, and good information.
[16.01.2017 22:12:00] A/)-Achlys: It's not the two eyes. 'Tis the third. *The bion folds her steel arms, keeping the flight stick centred with her legs.*
[16.01.2017 22:12:10] A/)-Achlys: Eyes, brain. Both are muscles. I have neither.
[16.01.2017 22:12:23] "Talandar": J: I remain unconvinced.
[16.01.2017 22:12:45] A/)-Achlys: ??: Then that's your life choice.
[16.01.2017 22:13:06] "Talandar": J: Who the hell is this guy?
[16.01.2017 22:13:25] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Nesrin Khan. Annoying, overconfident, Half-Gammuian.
[16.01.2017 22:13:29] A/)-Achlys: ??: Cynicism may keep you alive but it'll leave you begging for death. Besides. It's baselayer logic.
[16.01.2017 22:13:55] A/)-Achlys: ??: By never playing cards you never win, just as much as you never lose.
[16.01.2017 22:13:57] "Talandar": J: Brilliant. The fool.
[16.01.2017 22:14:06] "Talandar": J: How'd we happen onto this guy?
[16.01.2017 22:14:29] A/)-Achlys: ??: Laws of the universe mandate as much, mate.
[16.01.2017 22:15:16] "Talandar": J: Let's get this straight right off the start: I'm not your mate, you claim so much and dance around your words. I don't much
[16.01.2017 22:15:23] "Talandar": care for tailors of words.
[16.01.2017 22:15:46] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: She showed up one day and volunteered.
[16.01.2017 22:16:19] A/)-Achlys: ??: I'm a logic conputer, 'chap. I can't help if you've got your variables potted out of your arsehole.
[16.01.2017 22:16:51] "Talandar": J: Their cloaks hide many darker secrets, to which I won't explore. I don't play cards, I play a game of chess, if anything.
[16.01.2017 22:16:59] "Talandar": J: Each move deliberate, and planned.
[16.01.2017 22:17:44] A/)-Achlys: ??: Playing emotional chess whilst behaving as stiff as if you had a horsecock propping up your spine doesn't engender to me.
[16.01.2017 22:17:59] "Talandar": J: I've programmed computers more complex than you, so know your place.
[16.01.2017 22:18:15] A/)-Achlys: ??: Mate, I think you're full of crap.
[16.01.2017 22:18:38] "Talandar": J: Right, yet I have my work cut out for me. I don't have time for you.
[16.01.2017 22:18:43] A/)-Achlys: ??: That's an objective, logic-based statement contingent on my worldview and the limited data sets I have of you.
[16.01.2017 22:18:59] "Talandar": [Channel closed]
[16.01.2017 22:19:00] A/)-Achlys: ??: No hard feelings - because you certainly won't give a damn one way or the other.
[16.01.2017 22:19:03] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Easy, you two. We're all on the same team.
[16.01.2017 22:19:20] "Talandar": J: Not doing it.
[16.01.2017 22:19:45] "Talandar": J: They can work for you, but I'm in no hurry to die.
[16.01.2017 22:20:20] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Yeah. She's a handful.
[16.01.2017 22:20:39] "Talandar": J: Half Gammu. Half a fool.
[16.01.2017 22:21:06] "Talandar": J: The only thing it helps with is accessing additional foolish data at the speed of light.
[16.01.2017 22:21:59] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: She can run her mouth faster than a light fighter can hit max speed.
[16.01.2017 22:23:20] "Talandar": J: Clearly. I'm glad Viktoria had the sense to cripple her own computing delivery.
[16.01.2017 22:23:33] "Talandar": J: Or perhaps the memories to slow her actions down.
[16.01.2017 22:23:38] "Talandar": J: Not entirely sure which.
[16.01.2017 22:24:11] "Talandar": J: Lets... not get them in the same room together... I'd fear something bad would happen.
[16.01.2017 22:25:34] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Well...
[16.01.2017 22:25:36] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: She's gone.
[16.01.2017 22:25:47] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: It's almost as if it would kill her to show some respect.
[16.01.2017 22:26:19] "Talandar": J: Clearly not part of her programming.
[16.01.2017 22:26:46] "Talandar": J: I could, of course, change that, but... she might now make it out for other reasons.
[16.01.2017 22:26:55] "Talandar": J: Not, rather.
[16.01.2017 22:27:58] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: I'd rather our people stay in once piece, James.
[16.01.2017 22:28:10] "Talandar": J: No guarentees.
[16.01.2017 22:28:56] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: For now, anyway.
[16.01.2017 22:29:04] Kublai: "_I" -> <Stationkeeping>::
[16.01.2017 22:29:14] "Talandar": J: Like I said.
[16.01.2017 22:29:37] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: We've still got a lot to do. I just hope we can wrap up this Omicron business sooner rather than later.
[16.01.2017 22:30:44] "Talandar": J: The sooner the better. I can't stand this place much longer.
[16.01.2017 22:31:04] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Granted I'm all for punching holes in The Core and ripping the rug out from under The Order.
[16.01.2017 22:31:12] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: There's other things that need our attention.
[16.01.2017 22:31:24] "Talandar": J: Yes. I know.
[16.01.2017 22:31:38] "Talandar": J: I've got better things of my own that need doing.
[16.01.2017 22:31:58] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: I've got a second warfront I need to start worrying about.
[16.01.2017 22:32:26] 2017-01-16 22:32:22 SMT Traffic control alert: LE-Killarney has requested to dock
[16.01.2017 22:32:33] Kublai: ::[Command]:: -> <Actualise> [HeartRateMoni'] -> <Output> [128-137BPM] ::[ERROR]:: = "Tachycardia". ::
[16.01.2017 22:32:55] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Something up?
[16.01.2017 22:33:14] "Talandar": J: Perhaps.
[16.01.2017 22:33:24] Kublai: ::[CommandAdmin]:: -> _NesrinKhanSimuli = [RESET]::
[16.01.2017 22:33:36] "Talandar": J: Commune, state your business.
[16.01.2017 22:33:39] Kublai: :: {[Initialising.Reboot]} ::
[16.01.2017 22:33:49] (C~Jared.Nomak: Enjoying the Omicrons.
[16.01.2017 22:34:00] "Talandar": J: Right...
[16.01.2017 22:34:09] Kublai: :: 10%...20%....25%....35%....78%...94%...100% ::
[16.01.2017 22:34:20] Kublai: :: [Processing] ::
[16.01.2017 22:34:27] Kublai: :: [INITIALISED]::
[16.01.2017 22:34:48] Kublai: ??: What the fu'... *she halts herself.* How long was I-?
[16.01.2017 22:35:03] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Good morning.
[16.01.2017 22:35:06] Kublai: You know what? I don't want to bloody know.
[16.01.2017 22:35:11] "Talandar": J: Your Bios should tell you...
[16.01.2017 22:35:17] "Talandar": J: If you care to find out.
[16.01.2017 22:35:56] Kublai: *snapping, furiously deleting files* Screw my bios. screw it, screw it, scr... alright. Cleaned the buggers.
[16.01.2017 22:36:23] Kublai: There's some things you just don't want to know. Andraste - ...why am I - we, in orbit of Tirane?
[16.01.2017 22:36:43] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: The same reason as our last major visit to the Omicrons.
[16.01.2017 22:36:47] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: The Freeport was attacked.
[16.01.2017 22:37:21] Kublai: Again? *reconciling herself.* Again. Alright. But why are -we- here?
[16.01.2017 22:37:43] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: The Core in collaboration with assumed infectees, bombed the Freeport and killed everyone on board.
[16.01.2017 22:37:56] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: And kidnapped the leader of the Ingenuus Research Group.
[16.01.2017 22:38:36] Kublai: Christ and Allah.
[16.01.2017 22:39:01] "Talandar": J: I'm hopping over to my Lab.
[16.01.2017 22:39:02] Kublai: That's how you do a heist. My God. - It's the end, isn't it?
[16.01.2017 22:39:14] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Nope.
[16.01.2017 22:39:23] 2017-01-16 22:39:20 SMT Traffic control alert: "Talandar" has requested to dock
[16.01.2017 22:40:51] Kublai: Really? A Zoner ma'... God damn it. I....*she halts herself* It... Glided through the fragmentations of a hundred hundreds...
[16.01.2017 22:41:00] Kublai: of silver ships, shattering in the void.
[16.01.2017 22:41:20] Kublai: Do you know what Th-, what we did, to secure this system?
[16.01.2017 22:41:36] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: It's not secure.
[16.01.2017 22:41:36] Kublai: For God's sake. Never arm the Zoners again.
[16.01.2017 22:42:59] IRG|Warden: J: If only one could act for them all... and not be such a fool.
[16.01.2017 22:43:42] Kublai: *she grins. A laminate smile.* Tracking me with a missile launcher the size of Typhoon's smile whilst talking to me about...
[16.01.2017 22:43:47] Kublai: Benign dictators, Zoner?
[16.01.2017 22:44:14] Kublai: This is why we shouldn't arm you people. With respect. You're academics, survivalists. You're notoriously hard to kill.
[16.01.2017 22:44:21] Kublai: But you're not killers.
[16.01.2017 22:44:26] Kublai: You're excape artists.
[16.01.2017 22:44:36] Kublai: Would you trust Houdini with a machine gun?
[16.01.2017 22:44:51] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Survivalists don't manufacture surprisingly effective Q-Ships and escort carriers.
[16.01.2017 22:44:57] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Or equally effective weaponry.
[16.01.2017 22:45:18] Kublai: Anti-fighter. High efficiency. Defence with a capital D, not sticking the proverbial in it.
[16.01.2017 22:45:32] IRG|Warden: J: Hah. I'm a killer... and damn good at it. It's an achievement to defy our nature, however.
[16.01.2017 22:45:33] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Have you seen the design for their Battleship armaments?
[16.01.2017 22:45:53] A/)-ACV-Andraste: L: Significant range advantage over most of the enemies encountered.
[16.01.2017 22:45:58] IRG|Warden: J: Yes, I mean to use them soon enough...
[16.01.2017 22:45:58] Kublai: Bolt-on modular armatures that survive the rigours of the impossible. Neutrality at the end of twenty two steaming barrels of..
[16.01.2017 22:45:59] Kublai: it.
[16.01.2017 22:46:26] Kublai: *haplessly.* Don't think I'm talking down to you.
[16.01.2017 22:46:43] Kublai: I've worn your boots. I've had my colony shot out from under me alone in the black.
[16.01.2017 22:47:04] Kublai: I had the power to protect myself. Not go big game hunting.
[16.01.2017 22:47:39] IRG|Warden: J: Hm. Your arrogance is unsettling.
[16.01.2017 22:47:44] Kublai: But that's the founding clause of the Zoner way, 'innit? Poke with a rock that which you do not understand.
[16.01.2017 22:48:07] Kublai: *shrugs* Not arrogance. I just know how to take a slap. Cycles of history, my friend.
[16.01.2017 22:48:23] Kublai: They just keep repeating themselves because people don't read the literature.
[16.01.2017 22:48:47] IRG|Warden: J: To be reckless is not the Zoner way. Science is an art, and with such, needs freedom of expression.
[16.01.2017 22:48:47] 2017-01-16 22:48:44 SMT Traffic control alert: A/)-ACV-Andraste has requested to dock
[16.01.2017 22:49:07] Kublai: The demiurge slew its way through the system of Omicron Seventy Four against Zoner recklessness because...
[16.01.2017 22:49:11] IRG|Warden: J: Some people feel the need to be reckless to have their own form, which is the downfall.
[16.01.2017 22:49:13] Kublai: that was all it had left to them.
[16.01.2017 22:49:40] Kublai: *grins* Aha, very true. But then yer' stuck with who washes the Washerwomen?
[16.01.2017 22:50:01] Kublai: You trust your own logic to be infalliable and to govern others. It's that dictatorial thinking all over again.
[16.01.2017 22:50:32] Kublai: Your methods might be less direct than the 'Alliance; but from where I'm scanning? Your justifications are just the same.
[16.01.2017 22:51:41] IRG|Warden: J: You claim to have all the answers because simplistic computing logic allows you to calculate many situations...
[16.01.2017 22:51:41] Kublai: *Persistent* Do what you always have done.
[16.01.2017 22:51:50] Kublai: Find a home, further out there, in the black.
[16.01.2017 22:51:54] Kublai: That's the zoner way.
[16.01.2017 22:52:04] Kublai: Always looking for the nex Eden.
[16.01.2017 22:52:08] Kublai: *next
[16.01.2017 22:52:13] Kublai: Not fighting for the one you've lost.
[16.01.2017 22:52:40] IRG|Warden: J: But, if you truly interest yourself in history, know the difference between a Zoner and the disemboweled.
[16.01.2017 22:52:47] Kublai: *snorts*
[16.01.2017 22:52:51] Kublai: Black-and-white.
[16.01.2017 22:52:59] Kublai: Now who'se using false logic?
[16.01.2017 22:54:19] IRG|Warden: J: Don't make me betray what I've worked for. You tire me with your circles...
[16.01.2017 22:54:33] IRG|Warden: J: What is justice?
[16.01.2017 22:54:38] IRG|Warden: J: Who defines it?
[16.01.2017 22:54:45] IRG|Warden: J: You obviously know.
[16.01.2017 22:54:56] Kublai: *crisply* It's called a holding pattern. And no, I don't.
[16.01.2017 22:55:06] Kublai: There's no objective justice. Just the ones you decide.
[16.01.2017 22:55:29] Kublai: However the bigger-guns-will-always-work-an-eye-for-an-eye approach
[16.01.2017 22:55:38] Kublai: is just going to lead to them taking a leg.
[16.01.2017 22:55:48] IRG|Warden: J: Precisely. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you will understand that life, evolution, and adaptation are not logical.
[16.01.2017 22:56:23] Kublai: *grins* Right. Except they are. Solar radiation and the right chemicals being in the right place at the right time to create...
[16.01.2017 22:56:34] IRG|Warden: J: If perfect logic could exist in humans, we could move on, but it doesn't
[16.01.2017 22:56:36] Kublai: protein chains. Life is not theological, it's chemical. Physical.
[16.01.2017 22:56:51] Kublai: But it does. Survival through aggregate and chaos.
[16.01.2017 22:57:06] IRG|Warden: J: You state the trivial, leave me, I have work to do.
[16.01.2017 22:57:26] Kublai: I'm sure you do. Enjoy getting shot, dying alone, and not bringing up kids, Doctor Frankenstein.
[16.01.2017 22:57:51] IRG|Warden: J: Already done that, naive.
[16.01.2017 22:58:00] Kublai: Hah! They dead yet? Mine are.
[16.01.2017 22:59:17] [TAZ]Dark.Temple: Hagbard: ah, kallisti again
[16.01.2017 22:59:24] IRG|Warden: J: ...hello...
[16.01.2017 22:59:51] 2017-01-16 22:59:48 SMT Traffic control alert: [TAZ]Dark.Temple has requested to dock
[16.01.2017 23:00:13] Kublai: *through gritted teeth* Personal malaise aside - I still have to escort your frickin' recalcitrant ass.
[16.01.2017 23:00:40] Attention! Stand clear. Towing [TAZ]Dark.Temple
[16.01.2017 23:00:55] IRG|Warden: A: This vessel does not move, nor does it require escort.
[16.01.2017 23:01:02] Kublai: So if you don't mind, I'll sit here with the communicator off. -She severs the line with so much static you wonder if she punch
[16.01.2017 23:01:10] Kublai: *punched her own headset*
[16.01.2017 23:01:46] Kublai: *Whistles* you've never seen what a few nomad bombers can do to that Q ship, have you mate?
[16.01.2017 23:02:00] Kublai: Wait wait, radio silence. God damn it, you're making this hard.
[16.01.2017 23:02:29] IRG|Warden: A: Combat expertise; sufficient. All adversaries vanquished; a failed effort.
[16.01.2017 23:04:06] [TAZ]Dark.Temple: Hagbard: Kallisti auxesian, how the day?
[16.01.2017 23:04:24] Kublai: *mumbling* I'm not an Auxesian.
[16.01.2017 23:04:30] Kublai: My ship just says I am.
[16.01.2017 23:04:53] Kublai: As for the day? Don't know. Consistent. It's twighlight if we're using Tirane as a refference frame.
[16.01.2017 23:04:54] IRG|Warden: A: Activity noted.
If I continue to receive this low level of consideration from your subordinates, you can plan on my productivity to decrease. I don't have time to wallow in the misery and arrogant logic of an individual. There's too much work to be done.
Please note my previous message as well.
-Dr. James Erzie