ID:Maren v. Westefeld Location:Cayman Subject:(none) E-Encryption:
Enma, it has been a while since we last spoke. I hope you are doing well and that you didn't drive the Whale you got from us into a planet. I have a favour to ask of you and I hope you'll be able to do it. As you know, I have been working on my soon-to-be husband for a while now. I believe it is soon time for the next step, so to speak, and thus we would need a free mooring fixture on Altair Research Complex in the near future. Do you think you will be able to arrange that in my stead?
It has been a long time indeed. Whale seems to be fine, as for myself, it could be better. Of crouse I will try to help you with whatever you need. I'm just not sure how fast can I arrive to Altair and prepare everything you need. I hope it won't be a surprise if I will tell that Altair doesn't have a lot of actually free capacities? Whatever you want to moor there, it's better to be worth it.
ID:Maren v. Westefeld Location:Cayman Subject:(none) E-Encryption:
Trust me, I am quite certain you will find the object quite desirable. If not, I can attach a pretty picture to illustrate the point. All jokes aside, though, a Mako will make its way to Altair within the next few days. The callsigns The.Apahanta, CV-Sternenstunde, CV-Hoffnungsschimmer should not be shot upon approaching. The latter two are small, so there should be no problems fitting them, but you're aware that the Apahanta is a bit more spacious.
And, uh, thank you, Enma. You're really doing us a favour here.
Mako you say? Don't get me wrong, it's good. But what about the crew? Are those people trustful and Loyal? I'm not going to let it in, unless you have every person there triple checked.
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ID:Maren v. Westefeld Location:Planet Gran Canaria, Omega-49 Subject:(none) E-Encryption:
Not that I didn't know already that there would be little to no problem, but I went through the troube anyways of prividing you with something that would put you at ease. Whenever you feel like it, take a look at the below attachment that I, uh, procured.
Yes.
Anyways, that is what I can offer. We know names, faces, origin and habits this way, which is more than enough to keep an eye on them in case they become burdensome and need to be abolished. At the end of the day, whoever scurries around on that vessel is hardly important for as long as the end of it serving my ends is achieved. I will start preparing the ship to be transfered. By the way, if you ever had an interest in taking a closer look at cloaking technology of the Ingenuus Research Group, you'll get your chance soon. Or not, since, well...
Since Thallia Thorn is only sometimes available, we need a good medical officer, just in case something bad happens and the robotic medical unit can't fix it. Luckily, Adrianna doesn't get much to do, so she usually does only regular checks on everyone and every now and then helps with other stuff in the labs, as she has a certain knowledge about biology and related topics.
Adrianna joined the crew after the defection of the Apahanta. She was however one of the people that got more or less directly affected by the Core-Zoner-Conflict in 823, as her rented room on Freeport 11 made aquaintance with a Core Mortar shot. Obviously, she wasn't there when it happened.
It's good to have her on the ship, as she plays a bit of a mother figure for the younger crewmen on the Apahanta.
Lindsay is a very dreamy girl and joined my cause not for the money but to see what the outer regions of Sirius have to offer. Of course that didn't mean she refuses my payment. Perfoming the job of a counselor, she helped me with the latest interrogations of my crew, giving me some alternative perspectives of how to look at things. She's doing her job well, but it's often hard to find out how she herself is and when she does play the counselor card.
Collin is our software guy, and it's good to have him enhancing the systems the Apahanta currently uses, as we really have to get away from the APM technology. That lucky guy is one of those boron miners that actually made it away from Pittsburgh without being transported to Malta or Crete.
During the few combat situations the Apahanta had after it's defection, Vroni was usually the one girl shouting "RAM THAT SHIP!" at me, being convinced the ablative hull plating of the Apahanta wouldn't even take scratches. While that wasn't the case the one time we actually did that, although that was more of an accident by the opposing ship, she stopped yelling at me. Veronica is a maybe slightly untamed girl that has a good knowledge about the capabilities of the Mako. She actually was one of the defectors that stayed with me, as she is afraid the Core would search for her on Manhattan, as long as they are working with the LSF. So she lives now on the Apahanta.
Jenny left Omicron Theta to join the Core and then found out she made the same mistake like I did, so she joined the defection of the Apahanta and is now watching our APM energy core. It's good to have her, as she instructed us on how to handle the APM core, as it's partially Gammuian technology as well as nomad-adapted technology.
Jenny is a perfect example of how disturbing a few sights on Durban and Alabama can be, as she claims to still have nightmares from what she had seen during her time within the Core.
Nurse, Botanist, Biologist. Tasha is a valuable member of my crew and she is happy to be with us, as we accept her the way she is, unlike people on New London did. Since we don't need that many crew quarters, I allowed her to use some of our Kishiro Service Robots to install a ship-internal garden unit. It's not big, but every now and then Tasha gifts the crew with fresh fruits, made on Apahanta. She is a very happy person recently and joined us after the defection. And yes, she is a bit obese. Nothing too unhealthy, though.
Another defector from the Core that remained with me. He was unhappy with figthing the Order and Corsairs while the real danger is still not handled. It's very possible that he will leave the Apahanta after a while, since I'm not fighting but only studying the nomads. Right now, he is on the ships because of my decent payments, the nice crew and the lack of alternatives. Order and Corsairs won't accept him and he doesn't have the money to get his own battleship.
I need to have an eye on him, but he is an okay guy.
Insa is from Rheinland and helps with all kinds of technical things as she has some experience from her former job as Daumann employee. She joined us after the defection when she was during the right time at the right place by coincidence, as she was just around when the heavily damaged Apahanta moored with Livadia. Background check was alright, and at that time we really needed as many helping hands as possible. She isn't specialized on something but helps wherever she can when it comes to technical stuff.
Jeff is known for his dad-jokes and the crew appreciates his humor. He is mainly operating and maintaining everything related to the Kishiro Service Robots we use to maintain the Apahanta, and he does a great job thus far.
Having lived on Freeport 5, he is used to the daily use of anti-radiation pills. In fact, he enjoys living on the Apahanta as it is operating in less dangerous areas than Omega-41.
For being the young girl she is, she is hard to unsettle. One of the Core defectee that stayed with us, and that's good, because she knows exactly to what point we can overtune the Apahanta's shields. Lorena is a girl that thinks first and then talks, and in the very few cases of her being in a heated argument with someone, she either refrains from using discrediting punchlines or drops the bomb. It's funny to have her on the bridge and she usually is a great addition when I have to ask my bridge officers about their opinions.
She wanted to leave the Core even before I wanted it, as she told me about her scepticism during a night. That was before I knew Maren, by the way. Just like me, she joined the Core believing it would actually do something about the nomads. She first was sceptical about me having stopped fighting the nomads, until I told her about my alternative way of dealing with them. That may have decreased her scepticism about it, but it is pretty hard to get a read on her. She assured me, however, she would stay on teh Apahanta and carry out my orders, as long as they wouldn't doom us completely. Like, she'd stay with us in a battle, but not in a war. Which is fair enough. I'm not the Core.
A gamer, nerd, metalhead but in general an okay-ish guy. He's doing a good job on the sensors and is the one who knows how to repair the battleship scanners. My only problem with him is him being a bit lazy, like he isn't working on his fitness. He isn't fat. In fact, he is rather skinny, but he's completely lacking muscles and thus he is sleepy often. More body fitness would help him having more energy.
He joined us in Omicron Theta, where he was one of five people I had interviewed for the sensor workspace slot on the bridge, and he showed promising results, having worked on the ship of his parents beginning from his puberty. He's a daydreamer.
Tate is a guy that worked in the damage control team of Freeport 4 and left when the Liberty Navy took the control of the station and the GRN attacks got a bit too much. He somehow made his way to Livadia and worked there and then joined my crew, as he seems to have a peronsal interest in my cause. And in Tasha Wright.
An arrogant bastard, but I guess that's the price one has to pay for a very proficient man of his skills and knowledge. To be fair, he is working on his personality, as he had to realize people would pay him more respect if he didn't act like he was what he, in fact, was: a man of superior knowledge. I think it was Powell who yelled at him in a way that nobody had expected, as Powell is one of the guy that never get loud.
Anyway, he is doing a good job. I however insisted on him working on the bridge rather than isolated in his laboratory. First of all, I want people to keep an eye on him, including myself, and second of all, his laboratory is next to Thallia's working space and I don't want him to sneak around there. He is seeking her attention, as I think he appreciates her status as IRG scientist.
A young chicken. Reese is a gamer girl per definition and prefers engineering and games about engineering over a sexual relationship, which is funny. Poor Leon. She invited him to come visit her in her room, and he was expecting something else than playing games all night long. Not that he didn't have his fun.
I hired her on Freeport 5 along with Powell, and they get along well with each other, a bit like petulant, hyperactive daughter and dad-jokes spamming father. It's nice to watch them working on repairs. She doesn't really care if she gets into trouble working for me, as she said, it's better to be on the Apahanta than staying on Freeport 5 and take rad pills every day or flee into house space, where people are more likely to die due to pirates and wars. And she appreciates how well she get's paid.
My left hand on the Apahanta, and she is usually captaining it when I'm not around. She shares most of my opinions, no matter if it is about the Core, the Nomads or anything else. She realized the Nomads are just opposing us because we forced them to, and while she wasn't in the Core, she was captaining a Zoner Q-Ship before it got destroyed by the Core during the first Core-Zoner-Conflict. She survived unharmed by the lucky fact the bridge itself was spared by the explosion of the ship and managed to survive long enough to get rescued while being unable to reach a rescue pod. By the very me during a patrol mission right before the Apahanta's defection.
I first had to convince her of me not being a stereotypical Core captain, and brought her to Livadia. McCool already had accepted my request for shelter and repair on Livadia, so we had no troubles. She said she owed me one, and I offered her a job on the Apahanta, as I need trustworthy people, and she accepted. Now, we are good friends on a respectful basis, although there are sometimes moments where I know she may be interested in more. She, however, knows about me being with Maren.
Sherry was born on Canaria and has family there, that leads a little company on the planet, not really worth mentioning but they have a good reputation in the city they are based. I think it was a supplying service. Like Omicron Supply Industries, just planetside and on a way smaller level. Sherry sometimes tells me about it and Canaria itself, and how sad it is knowing Canaria will need to be evacuated in the far future. Our friendship is deep enough that I trust her to a point where she is permitted to act on my behalf as the Captain of the Apahanta, so she is the second in command.
Having lost his wife during a Core patrol mission, Hodges began questioning the motives of the Core, as the battle they were to partake in was absolutely nonsense to do. So he joined my side after a very long talk I had with him, as I needed to know his motivation to join the Core in first place. He and his wife did so in order to fight the enemies of the Core, the Corsairs, the Order, the Nomads and the Outcasts, yet he had to realize nothing was really as it seemed, and revelation was the Core was using their pilots more like cannon fodder when it was to a superiors benefit. They were forced to engage a force they knew they could not fend off, and Hodges was one of the few people that survived that strike.
He later learned about the true story behind the nomad attacks and while I can't say he believes in my motives, he swore he would keep anyone off my back for the brave move of me defecting from the Core with a good number of other people.
He's a damn good sparring partner and usually leads the daily fitness hour on the ship if I'm not available. He also has a good influence on the crew and ensures there is no trouble.
The moment his father died due to a Hessian raid on Rheinland, Boone went berserk in the RM trainings camp, shooting wildly around, and that way got himself thrown out of the RM. Now, two years later, Hodges took care of Boone. We hired Boone on Livadia, and he seems to have gotten over his mental unstable phase. Hodges is keeping an eye on him, though, while Lindsay Camillo is caring for him. From what I heard, Boone appreciates living on the Apahanta under my command, and he motivates the crew to keep their bodies in shape. I first had some concerns about him being potentially aggressive, but he's actually a gentle lamb that usually gives people mean looks. He is a good addition to the crew.
My biggest concern however is his fair grudge against the Red Hessians. I have no intention to help him in his revenge, as right now the RHA is, if they even know about the Apahanta, ignoring is. I don't mind it.
A good friend of Leon since he joined the crew. Toru had his training on a Kishiro university on Honshu and is good at robotics and system diagnostics. So, together with Powell, he maintains our Kishiro Service Robots to ensure they don't just try to walk into a wall, like it is often the case. Toru joined us on Livadia, and he clearly said he won't cause trouble as long as the Apahanta stands for what I claim it is: Not a warship. Like everyone else, I told him that it's impossible to not get drawn into a fight, but he is okay with it as long as we don't use the Apahanta offensively. Fair enough.
Glover is an interesting person, and that may or may not be good. He only speaks when there is something to say, or when not many other people are around. On the other hand, I shared a bottle of good wine with him and he showed that even he is just a man. Very self-controlled person, very intransparent, but seriously, he knows his job. He was in the Core and defected together with me, and during the defection, he was at my side and shot the Core loyals that stayed on the ship. He is definitely not a super soldier, but without him, I probably would have taken more than only a plasma burn on my shoulder.
Lindsay Camillo said he is trustworthy, and I get the same impression, however I don't know if he can overcome his hate for the nomads for destroying Freeport 7. He and his mother were on New Tokyo when it happened while his father died on the Freeport. His mother took him to Freeport 9 when Kusari was waging war as a result of the nomad war.
Thallia. There is much I could write here, but I better do not. I know there are good reasons to not trust her, but now that we know a few secrets about each other and a few scenarios between her and me on Curacao and on the Hoffnungsschimmer, I know how much I can trust her, and that's already more than I can trust some other people of my crew. She is also our contact person to the IRG as she is both working for me and them.
Back on Curacao, I was his horrible biology and surfing teacher, and later his personal mentor and best friend. He knows my secrets and he would never dare to work against me, no matter what thing I'd do.
Good, that's what I call good style of work with personnel. Okay, now listen here, listen very very carefully. All of those who have less that 60% of "trust" should stay somehwere out or just die. I don't know or care in which way you will do it, but it's not gonna work otherwise.
As for the others, make sure you have something to handle them. It can be some gas in ventilation system or anything else that will allow to nock everyone down fast. There's no way something stupid can happen, I hope you understand.
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ID:Maren v. Westefeld Location:Planet Curacao, Cortez Subject:(none) E-Encryption:
Enma, really, you insult me. You make it seem as though I did not understand what I was doing. Rest assured that I will have a more effective was of dealing with people that does not depend simply on the number that it displayed there. After all, people are willing to do things for their friends. Still, there is a small number of those people that I would rather see, well, elsewhere, so yes, I'll pretty much do exactly that.
I will soon try and sneak ono the Apahanta and prepare a little something just in case something goes wrong, as you said. Heh, ventilation system. Not a bad idea. Not at all.