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* incoming transmission *

Comm ID ..... Dr. Jill Xi
Location ....... Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
To ...................... Senior Ladron
Subject .......... Setting the record straight

Buenos Dias mi Amigo,

Signor Ladron, it has been a while since we last spoke and I hope you and your loved ones are doing well.
Now let me be blunt, you and I have a quid-pro-quo thing going on between us and I for one like the agreement of helping out each other while keeping an eye shut on what may happen apart from that while we keep things on friendly terms.

Now today a report reached my desk which makes me a bit worried about the way our friendly agreements may have trickled down to others. As you and I both know the burden of command, we can and should definitely should speak frankly on this.
So the fact that I am bothering you with this has all to do with what I deem to be a misunderstanding .

Today, our cruiser '[MFE]Sally.Clarke' was pursuing a culprit in the Theta system after following up on a report from one of our hired associates from OSI. Now the 'Sally' (as she's aptly named) followed the culprit into Omicron Gamma just to find itself confronted by the 'C::Blachernae'. As I understand the way your system is protected I do hope you can understand that we at MFE value our friendship and as your capital vessels enter the Theta system to protect and observe it seems only fair that MFE capital vessels in friendship and in a protective role enter the Gamma system.

You have met both me and the Doc so you know what we do and what our goals are. You also know that MFE is not now or will never be a threat even though our slightly more 'powerful' vessel may have entered your space. Do know this is not now and will never be a threat as MFE values life and we very much value our friends and our neighbors as we will do our utmost best to protect our friends.

Having said that I'm asking you this: Please let your consigliere and friendly factions (Taurus?!) know who we are and what we do. Yes, we may be the friendly and caring group of medical enthusiasts who value life yet please let your friend, sub-factions and associates know that we are a friendly faction licensed to stab people with sharp and pointy objects and we get away with prescribing medication to those who aren't in need and we can withhold meds to those in need yet whom we just don't like. Not that we ever do so yet you can very well understand what I mean.

Know, the monthly dispatch of blue pills is on it's way and as the driver had some cargo space left we filled it up with a load of meds we know your people may need. Should you need some more, just let us know and speaking of letting us know, I save 10 seats at the academy for some of your finest. Contact me with the names and speciality they are seeking.

Sinceramente,

Dr. Jill Xi
Director, Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
Med Force Enterprises

Med Force Enterprises | Med Force General-B | Med Force Academy

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Carrier ID: Pepe "El Comisario" Ladron | Carrier: Imperial science channel | Description: Straight things

Straight things

Nice to see your pretty face again, senorita Xi. *Latino smile from Heartbreaker Set of Latino Smiles*

You look nice. As always.

El ship called Blachernae I can't find on my Imperial list. No medails, no taxes paid to Elders, nada. I guess it belongs to Custodi, our Greek neighbors, by looking at it's tag. We don't trust their judgement a lot, as they just emerged from green and fertile Cretan lands we never knew about, attacked our Gaian allies, signed some kind of treaties with Gallic Royals and helped them to glass a whole planet (I hope it was just indirectly). It was a mucho grande planet with skinny cows, but we had regular rich customers there that we plundered a lot of times. They were vaporised with their riches, Santa Muerte save their greedy gringo souls in el underworld. Gallia lost that war, Custodi ships are wandering since then and we can't imagine what things they must do to feed the crew. This is el first report about their activity. And I'm scared what could they do same as you.

Do I have to remind you about trust I have in you and Doc? I would mucho gladly, but you never came to that dinner I invited you to. I even brought el freshest delivery of my blue pills with me, in case it comes to deep convincing *next Latino smile from Heartbreaker Set of Latino Smiles*

Ten seats at your Academy we accept with grande gratitude. List will follow as soon as we find our finest, straight them (relatively) sober, release some of them from prisons (big mouths), wash them and remove all the flees from ones that hate to wash. We took their books, but we will find and return them. Ones that we didn't burn. Books, I mean... *a simple blush from Set of Simple Blushes*

Gracias.

*he ended this call by one elegant move of his hairy macho hand. Off button was deadly surprised with elegancy of that move and choked.*

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Carrier ID: Pepe "El Comisario" Ladron | Carrier: Imperial science channel | Description: Straight things and academy

Straight things and academy

Nice to see your pretty face again, senorita Xi. *another Latino smile from Heartbreaker Set of Latino Smiles*

I'm now sharing this channel to other Corsair groups, so you would be able to cooperate with them too when defending Gamma against Nomads.

They will also list their scientists that will take el part of your prestigious Academy.

Empty chairs that you will have after that I will take by young Imperial doctors. Santa Muerte knows they need that chairs. They already sent so many souls to her.

*he ended this call by one elegant diplomatic move of his hairy macho hand. Off button was deadly surprised with that tide of diplomatic elegancy, so it jumped through the window.*

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Kalimera,

I see that the name of one of our ships was mentioned earlier, so I will start with this. I went through the communication logs of the Blachernae and I feel like there was a lapse in communication that should be addressed. I'm attaching the full logs of the encounter extracted from the ship's records.

Spoiler

Illias Kyriakopoulos, who was in charge at the time, has simply seen it fit to remind that a Zoner Q-ship is a cruiser class vessel and these are not allowed in Omicron Gamma without escort or invitation (V.26)^[1]. I see no reason why the MFE pilot should get defensive and complain instead of explaining the situation. The Blachernae is a luxury liner, not a combat ship, anyway, so there would be no way to enforce that law on the spot if the MFE vessel were to be found in violation of it.

Regarding the academic positions, the Custodi have no immediate interest in these, however should no other appropriate candidates be found among the other Corsair nations, we will submit our shortlist of candidates from the Hippocratic Academy of Delphi.

Yours sincerely,
Κώστη Ζογράφου
Kosti Zografou
The Custodi

* incoming transmission *

Comm ID ..... Dr. Jill Xi
Location ....... Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
To ...................... Kosti Zografou
Subject .......... A lapse in communication

Kalimera,

After reading both your replies I re-read the both the report of the captain piloting the MFE vessel as well as the report of the captain piloting the vessel C::Blachernae.

You, my friend Zografou, are right where it comes down to the laws which you so eloquently phrase yet while doing so you completely forget the very reason our pilot ventured into Omicron Gamma. It was to pursue a perceived threat and not just one for MFE, one for it's very allies of which I only now learned you seem to be one of. Our pilot, in the midst of following a threat pursued a possible villain and yes, it did venture into a system of which you quote on it's laws quite well. As swiftly as you grab the book of laws, please don't forget who we (MFE) are and what our motivation is as well as how much we value and care for our friends.

As a Zoner I know all about sticking to ones own and while we have been around in both Theta and Gamma we have not yet met until this very encounter. While MFE cares for life we very much care for our neighbors and friends. Having said that as well as not having been introduced properly I would hereby like to invite you and the captain of the vessel 'Blachernae' to the MFE Academy for a proper meeting. I will invite the duty captain of the MFE vessel 'Sally Clarke' and we can all get acquainted and I can also give you a tour of the facility.

Let us have a 2nd attempt at a 1st time meeting, meet each other for real and discuss whichever we think needs discussion over a shared meal.

Sincerely,

Dr. Jill Xi
Director, Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
Med Force Enterprises

Med Force Enterprises | Med Force General-B | Med Force Academy

Taurus Corsairs

Papa Guerrero, D.L.Cabrera. ☦

Errant Ident: Pope-Errante Dessaglene Linhares Cabrera
Errant Outbound Node: Gran Canaria
Topical Proclamation: a new man from old meat.

What is Eden but the birth rite of death?

The soft-voiced bassonic, sermonising voice of Dessaglene Linhares Cabrera almost echos off your own diaphram. The dread-by-locks, dread-by-reputation figure of Dessalegene, the young pope of the Cretian faith, seems to radiate his own heat, like the corona of a star, against the cold alpine quiet of Gran Canaria. Perhaps no longer the Grandest of the Canarias - in fifteen years from now, the fresh needles of the boreal pine would be petrified under permafrost - a twilit winter that would not end.

This dying planet. This Canaria of yours, Zoner; it is ephemeral. This world has been the subject of greed, violence, desire. Desperate creeds, clawing against each other. Those who the houses push out, slaying one another for the silver in the freezing rivers. The heartland of the western omegas - the stump of the Barrier. Her leaves are falling away from her.

But that is the nature of these stars, is it not? Men do not desire wealth because it lasts forever.

He squats, pressing a hand to the still earth. Cabrera's handprint melts the thin patina of frost covering the soil, exposing soil, lichen, the comatose body of a beetle that couldn't dig for cover fast enough.

In the rites of our Nemesis, there is no difference between wealth and people, you know. And there is a praxis to their insanity; if you own a person, you own their desires, dreams, their efforts. They enslave, so that they can own all wealth. A Corsair knows that you cannot own everything - one day, everything, everyone, planets, stars, even empires, must die.

Wealth is growth. Wealth is death. Wealth is change.

The corsair murmurs a Catechism to himself, code-switching between spanish and greek.

Our people were born unto death. Born to die, you might say. We are a people sustained by action, by fire, by the will to claim that which has been claimed from us. You may find yourself asking what value a people unafraid of the long dark would find in a Doctor? But a noble life is not fatalism; no swords are fell upon, no guns set upon the tongue. The way of the righteous trickster is one of a death at the right time. The prophet Shakuni did not fall in battle until he had avenged his family. The Prophets of Abraham joined the last charge against the destroyer at the aphelion of apocalypse, not a moment before. A man dies infrequently, and lives often.

If the man has the power to influence his demise, he must strive to die well. All must die at their allotted time.

A grin crawls across the margins of his face.

I see you, Doctor - you and the rest of your white-robed kin. I see your value. Your exertions will save the lives of hundreds of thousands of my brother raiders in the coming war. The Bull favours you, Doctor - Theta straddles the connection between the Sigma harvest stars and the evanescent destruction towards the Prodigal homeworld.

Righteous blood will paint the stars and you will mend the crippled and the lame. We are all Shakuni, doctor. Crete's soldiers will be put to rest only when our revenge is slaked into history. For what is a doctor without a dying man, and a soldier without his scars? We are made for one another, MedForce. Prove my faith you.

Neural Datalink: Connecting new user

I have attached the records of a Tauri corsair who seeks to infuse his understanding of the universe with the boon of = universal truth. Errante Adawela is a scholar of the Heraklion and Accran schools. Teach him your ways, train him in the arts of convalescence - let us learn of your wisdom in practice, not speech - show us that there are no hypocrites in the followers of Hippocrates, and will receive your just reward.

This is for the future. Abo will wish to speak for himself. The Leon harbour is in need of a fresh shipment of antiradiation drugs. Bring in a shipment, and we will more than cover your expenses.

May we all die as graciously as this quiet world. Desperta Ferres, Zoner. Let me see the true force of your kind.

Ofrezco mi carne al cuerpo de Creta. Ofrezco mi corazón a su pasión, mi sangre transfundida al pueblo. Ofrezco mi todo para conocer mi alma; Entonces sabes que estoy realmente vivo.

* incoming transmission *

Comm ID ..... Dr. Jill Xi
Location ....... Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
To ...................... Pope-Errante Dessaglene Linhares Cabrera
Subject .......... A shipment

Good day Pope Cabrera,

Now I do love a man who can speak softly, do squats and can also speak non-verbal with his face.

While Canaria happened before I joined as a Zoner I am very much amused in the way you mention it being 'ephemeral' as most of the Zoners I know have moved beyond that and do understand this in no way means that we Zoners have 'accepted' this. It happened, we were (and still are) pissed off yet we do know that survival means moving on.

So regarding moving on, you are in the needs of Anti-Radiation Medication (ARM's) and you are willing to provide us with an expense coverage. Well, that's not the way we roll my dear Pope.

Let me tell you that we will always send you help in the form of a medication shipment or an on-site Med-Force team and we do this free of any costs. This is the way we roll and even though we do normally don't request any form of payment we always welcome any and all donations.

My name is Jill Xi, director of Med Force Academy and please contact me directly when you wish to send over people for a course or merely a chat between the two of us as I do love the debate among friends where it comes down to hypocrisy vs the Hippocratic oath.
For now, send me the coordinates of the station to receive the ARM(ed)s.

Yours in respect to those in need,

Dr. Jill Xi
Director, Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
Med Force Enterprises

Med Force Enterprises | Med Force General-B | Med Force Academy

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Sender: Primeiro-tenente Rogelio Axiotis

Location: Crete, BFC HQ

Subject: Med School

Encryption: Alta Criptografia

Olá Jill Xi,

It has been brought to our attention that Zoners would like to share some advanced medical knowledge with Corsairs. This is noble of you, also this is expected. We are glad that Zoners still remember whose space serves as home for them.
Black Flag Corsairs were not too visible as of late, but it does not mean we don not work for the best of the Empire. With increased frequency of enemy incursions and suspiciously high Nomad activity in our space, you proposition is rather timely.

For now these scientists from Amorgos research center will be joining you. However, they can be replaced by others whether they are needed elsewhere.

* Joao Torres
* Paulos Mauros

Tchau
Primeiro-tenente, Rogelio Axiotis

* incoming transmission *

Comm ID ..... Dr. Jill Xi
Location ....... Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
To ...................... Primeiro-tenente Rogelio Axiotis
Subject .......... Re.: Med School

Good afternoon Primeiro-tenente Rogelio Axiotis,

Let me be blunt, for someone not visible nor introduced yet expecting a Zoner medical corporation to share is well, a rather bold request to say the least and perhaps not the very best introduction from your part. Let me be very clear on this part: I do not serve you and respect, in my opinion, needs to be deserved and can not be forcefully obtained nor requested by demand.

Now having said that, it is good to meet you and I admire you sending two of your finest scientists to join our academy. Please do understand that 'replacing' them during a semester is simply not possible. You can recall them at any point yet academy standards do apply. While we are flexible we are not the 'click-and-go' type NeuralNet course institution. We offer some leeway and flexibility in attendance yet there are limits. Should a student not be able to meet the course demands there will be consequences.

So now we have discussed the details, have your scientists contact Ms. Sonja Wilke, head of Student Affairs at the Med Force Academy. She will gladly guide your personnel through our on-boarding process. Should you have time to come by yourself I gladly show you around our facility while we become more affiliated and get acquainted in a proper way.

Respectfully yours,

Dr. Jill Xi
Director, Med Force Academy, Omicron Theta
Med Force Enterprises

Med Force Enterprises | Med Force General-B | Med Force Academy

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