RE: || Amalfi Directorate AD| - Internal Communication Board || - Tomas. - 04-01-2018
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Feed established.
Yet another base has been discovered in Tau-37, this one within ten klicks of the Omicron Tau jump hole.
Honestly. [1]
That's all for now.
--Miner,
Pellestrina
RE: || Amalfi Directorate AD| - Internal Communication Board || - Tomas. - 04-05-2018
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Feed established. This is the transport Giudecca with a brief report as a followup to Linosa's report on contact with the Unioners in Bering.
4100 units of their harvested military salvage has been delivered to Valetta Shipyard for sorting and analysis. We'll need some time to determine how useful it is in compared to the usual fare from the Junkers, or if it is best used alongside it.
Evidence is attached below.
That's all for now,
--Transport,
Giudecca
RE: || Amalfi Directorate AD| - Internal Communication Board || - Sciamach - 04-09-2018
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Initiate log file:
I had occasion to get in the seat of a Gladius for the first time in several years today. My usual shuttle was in for repairs and I had some business to attend to back home so I acquired the vessel from the Montecristo's hold and launched for a long quiet flight home.
Barrier-Gate was my layover and where I was supposed to meet with a contact, when I came across a Crayterian-marked vessel just outside the bounds of the station, full designation NO-F-Harold Kane. We chatted for a short time before I had to make for the docks, but whats interesting is the individual's affiliation with the Vagrant Raiders. Having little but hearsay to go on as to the exact nature of the group, the conversation went on cooly. We discussed the situation in the Taus and Crayter's amusingly dwindling place within them for a time, before Mister Kane mentioned a possible future between his people and Malta.
So it would seem some of Malta's old friends have truly made a return and aren't content to merely hide under the skirt of the Colonials until they and anyone with them are all wiped out. I offered myself as a point of contact to Mister Kane so, I'll be keeping an eye on the situation as it develops further.
As standard, logs are attached below for recordkeeping.
--R&D Division Chief & Senior Agent,
Harry Callahan
Code: [09.04.2018 04:19:55] AD|Asinara: Well. Hello there.
[09.04.2018 04:20:01] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Howdy.
[09.04.2018 04:20:10] NO-A-Coocoocache: I have got to replace this friggin' autopillock
[09.04.2018 04:20:16] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Nice day for the scenery, eh?
[09.04.2018 04:20:24] AD|Asinara: Sure. Scenery.
[09.04.2018 04:20:47] NO-F-Harold.Kane: And the affiliates flying around, aimlessly shooting at things.
[09.04.2018 04:21:02] NO-F-Harold.Kane: But, you know. We can't all be sensible.
[09.04.2018 04:21:07] NO-F-Harold.Kane: How's your day going, sir?
[09.04.2018 04:21:30] AD|Asinara: About as well could be expected.
[09.04.2018 04:22:07] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Well, hopefully your expectations are positive ones.
[09.04.2018 04:22:20] AD|Asinara: Curious; your IFF reads Crayterian but you're not whining about your people's displacement or how Malta is pure evil.
[09.04.2018 04:22:45] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Well, we're not exactly your average bunch of Crayterians.
[09.04.2018 04:22:53] AD|Asinara: Uh huh..
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[09.04.2018 04:23:48] NO-F-Harold.Kane: I'm Minister Kane, head of Relations for Natio Octavarium. We're an independent colony with vague affiliations to the CR.
[09.04.2018 04:23:53] AD|Asinara: And how would that be then?
[09.04.2018 04:24:15] NO-F-Harold.Kane: The Crayter Republic is... our economic benefactor, so to speak.
[09.04.2018 04:24:38] AD|Asinara: I see. Interesting, I've heard the group name but know little of specifics.
[09.04.2018 04:24:58] NO-F-Harold.Kane: We have complete autonomy in our operations and diplomacy from them. Our history with Malta is rather the opposite from--
[09.04.2018 04:25:06] NO-F-Harold.Kane: --theirs.
[09.04.2018 04:25:40] NO-F-Harold.Kane: We were once a vagrant fleet of Maltese-aligned pirates and smugglers. Heavily involved in the orange trade.
[09.04.2018 04:26:17] NO-F-Harold.Kane: That was of course, before our leader and his connections to Malta all disappeared seven years ago.
[09.04.2018 04:26:31] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Leaving us, heh... outcasts of our own sort.
[09.04.2018 04:26:36] AD|Asinara: Yet not flying Colonial colors. Amusing, in a ironic sense I suppose.
[09.04.2018 04:26:42] AD|Asinara: // *yet flying
[09.04.2018 04:27:26] NO-F-Harold.Kane: They offered us force and the economy to protect our civilians from the Gallic onslaught.
[09.04.2018 04:28:04] NO-F-Harold.Kane: After a year in exile, travelling across the void between Kansas and Cortez in tin cans, well, any chance for land under--
[09.04.2018 04:28:15] NO-F-Harold.Kane: --your feet is a good one. Especially one that will keep the innocents safe.
[09.04.2018 04:28:31] AD|Asinara: Funny how many things these days tie back to the baugette-munchers.
[09.04.2018 04:28:45] NO-F-Harold.Kane: A common threat to us all, friend.
[09.04.2018 04:28:56] AD|Asinara: Of a sort I suppose.
[09.04.2018 04:29:48] NO-F-Harold.Kane: I may be biased, of course. It's hard not to be when the Gauls blockade the only way out of your home.
[09.04.2018 04:30:04] NO-F-Harold.Kane: And when they shoot down civilian transports for having the audacity to live.
[09.04.2018 04:30:29] AD|Asinara: And yet the behaviour of your benefactors would suggest Malta is the more malignant party in the Taus.
[09.04.2018 04:30:44] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Of course, I know the history of the Republic. Crayter is not innocent.
[09.04.2018 04:30:53] AD|Asinara: Behaviour and /stinging/ insults thrown into polite conversation, I might add.
[09.04.2018 04:31:13] NO-F-Harold.Kane: It's a matter of convenience and realism.
[09.04.2018 04:31:40] NO-F-Harold.Kane: My civilians cannot survive without protection. There are too many people eager to slaughter them.
[09.04.2018 04:31:52] AD|Asinara: Blame the old enemy and refuse to truly acknowledge the actual threat? Denial only works for so long friend.
[09.04.2018 04:32:33] AD|Asinara: Oh come now the colonials can barely protect their own. I can't imagine they're managing to fare too well with another batch--
[09.04.2018 04:32:39] AD|Asinara: -- of refugees.
[09.04.2018 04:33:07] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Hmm. It's not as bad as you may have heard, or been told.
[09.04.2018 04:33:45] AD|Asinara: More seen with my own eyes but to each their own. It is in their best interest for you to believe in their capibilities.
[09.04.2018 04:33:55] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Quite a step up from locked between thin bulkheads, or street poverty, or indentured servitude.
[09.04.2018 04:34:13] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Of course, we have other contacts. Our diplomacy is not nearly as rooted in spite as that of the Republic.
[09.04.2018 04:34:33] AD|Asinara: Keep that in mind friend. They benefit if you believe they're your only true viable option.
[09.04.2018 04:35:02] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Unlike that which our transponders show, we are no enemy to the Maltese people, for we have nothing but positive history--
[09.04.2018 04:35:07] NO-F-Harold.Kane: --with them on the whole.
[09.04.2018 04:36:02] AD|Asinara: Though I have my minor doubts to that claim, I'll be sure to keep it in mind.
[09.04.2018 04:36:11] AD|Asinara: As will my peers.
[09.04.2018 04:36:37] NO-F-Harold.Kane: There is no animosity between my people, being the former Vagrant Raiders, and the Nacion Maltesa.
[09.04.2018 04:37:23] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Hopefully one day that will be simply known instead of disputed and doubted.
[09.04.2018 04:37:52] AD|Asinara: Given Malta's position, location, and disposition in the Taus: would a return to form - so to speak - not be more beneficial---
[09.04.2018 04:38:13] AD|Asinara: -- for you and yours? The Gauls seemingly have little interest in the northern Taus for the time being, yet they press on the
[09.04.2018 04:38:21] AD|Asinara: -- Colonials borders more and more each year.
[09.04.2018 04:38:45] AD|Asinara: Forgive me in this line of questioning, I'm merely trying to see the logic at play here.
[09.04.2018 04:39:03] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Were we interested in closing our eyes and plugging our ears when confronted with the concept of a Gallic takeover of--
[09.04.2018 04:39:13] NO-F-Harold.Kane: --the sector, yes, that may be the most prudent course of action.
[09.04.2018 04:39:44] NO-F-Harold.Kane: But we are not interested in merely hoping the Gauls leave us alone and go back behind their minefields.
[09.04.2018 04:39:51] Death: Anton_Kiryu was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[09.04.2018 04:40:07] NO-F-Harold.Kane: We are not so foolish as to believe that everything will one day be okay, and it will suddenly be 814 A.S. again.
[09.04.2018 04:40:33] AD|Asinara: It's less a matter of denial and more a matter of practicality friend: the Gauls advance is largely focused on Bretonian space-
[09.04.2018 04:40:39] NO-F-Harold.Kane: My people are enemies of Gallia. They will crush us if we are alone. And we cannot watch others be crushed.
[09.04.2018 04:41:00] AD|Asinara: Occupations and invasions of highly populated worlds take years, even decades. Redirecting those same forces Tau-ward would--
[09.04.2018 04:41:37] AD|Asinara: take years to accomplish. And it will take much of that strength to clear the Taus and northern Omicrons of outside influences.
[09.04.2018 04:41:56] AD|Asinara: Whereas I see Gallic vessels fighting Liberty not one system away regularly..
[09.04.2018 04:41:56] NO-F-Harold.Kane: *chuckle* I have never said we are not moving Tau-ward.
[09.04.2018 04:42:20] NO-F-Harold.Kane: I am here for one last bureaucratic hurrah with the Crayterians.
[09.04.2018 04:42:26] AD|Asinara: Indeed. As I said, merely trying to understand the logic.
[09.04.2018 04:42:43] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Once the paperwork is in order, and my people's ships are repaired, we are heading north for the summer.
[09.04.2018 04:42:51] NO-F-Harold.Kane: And, presumably, to stay there.
[09.04.2018 04:43:28] NO-F-Harold.Kane: We will be out of the way, and relatively hidden, but with strength in mutual defense of the Taus against any Gallic--
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[09.04.2018 04:43:35] NO-F-Harold.Kane: --incursions that may be looming.
[09.04.2018 04:44:12] NO-F-Harold.Kane: After all, they have dominance over '31. It is not entirely impossible they will come knocking on Cali's door someday soon.
[09.04.2018 04:44:23] NO-F-Harold.Kane: And if they do, we will be there alongside you, knocking back.
[09.04.2018 04:44:34] AD|Asinara: Hmm. And here I was beginning to think the Vangrant name was all talk. Good to see there is some semblence of sense amongst--
[09.04.2018 04:44:36] AD|Asinara: your ranks.
[09.04.2018 04:45:08] NO-F-Harold.Kane: My people have been through exile several times, friend. We intend to make our most recent one our last.
[09.04.2018 04:45:53] NO-F-Harold.Kane: The Lane Hacker Civil War was the first. The Hellfire onslaught, second. Our near-extermination, third. Gallia, the fourth.
[09.04.2018 04:45:57] NO-F-Harold.Kane: There will be no fifth.
[09.04.2018 04:46:16] NO-F-Harold.Kane: I myself will die, charging into mortars, sword aloft before that happens.
[09.04.2018 04:46:52] AD|Asinara: Standing defiantly against overwhelming odds. My apologies, the Crayter IFF certainly does not become you friend.
[09.04.2018 04:47:28] NO-F-Harold.Kane: No offense taken.
[09.04.2018 04:48:14] AD|Asinara: Good. Now then I must apologize but I have business station-side that requires my attention. I trust we'll be seeing more of---
[09.04.2018 04:48:23] AD|Asinara: Eachother then, Mister Kane?
[09.04.2018 04:48:35] NO-F-Harold.Kane: I'm sure we will. We will be moving many of our civilian assets northwards in the coming weeks.
[09.04.2018 04:48:47] NO-F-Harold.Kane: And, I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name earlier.
[09.04.2018 04:49:58] AD|Asinara: Harry Callahan of Amalfi. And should your people have need of Malta, I encourage you not to hesitate bringing up my name.
[09.04.2018 04:50:29] NO-F-Harold.Kane: I appreciate that, senor Callahan. We may at some point call upon that.
[09.04.2018 04:50:32] NO-F-Harold.Kane: Cheers.
[09.04.2018 04:50:46] AD|Asinara: Fare the well then, signore Kane.
RE: Amalfi Directorate AD| - AAR Channel - Kazinsal - 07-16-2018
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An interesting evening. The affiliate fleet of the Gallic Council sent the destroyer CLN Royal Sunset to our borders to harass our people. They threatened the Lancia and multiple Directorate small craft in the Tau-44 system. It was discovered via a remote operative that the Council was sending a Redemption to back up the destroyer and the Genoa was dispatched. When the destroyer began moving to engage the Lancia, I arrived aboard the Spezia and backed up the Lancia. When the Genoa arrived, the Redemption-class dreadnought CLN Le Chaos decloaked on top of the Genoa, in the northern asteroid field of Tau-37.
It did not last long.
The Royal Sunset fled to the Tau-44 system. Our chase was successful, though in the end the cowardly captain ordered his helm to dive into the system's primary sun. It is a pathetic man who would sacrifice his own crew to avoid public record of his defeat. That being said, we suffered zero losses, while the Council has been set back two capital ships. As part of their own offensive, at that.
Regrettably I do not have any battle footage of the incident to upload. I did not have time to familiarize myself with the full command systems of the Spezia before the engagement began. I will endeavour to read the owner's manual this evening.
--Agent
Francisca Crespo
RE: || Amalfi Directorate AD| - Internal Communication Board || - Sciamach - 08-09-2018
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Received a report from one of my logistics teams today of a new installation cropping up in Omicron Beta. I've already called into the Naxxar to find out its current status and informed Dispatch as to the situation. Should it be necessary, we'll have it removed within the next few days.
Given its location, I'll be contacting the owner here momentarily to find out its purpose and function.
--R&D Division Chief & Senior Agent,
Harry Callahan
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