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RE: Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary - Nodoka Hanamura - 05-27-2024


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 04-001
ENTRY TITLE: Old Demons
ENTRY DATE: May 27th, 834 AS | 1100 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
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I return to service today after the Memorial service for Hanamura-sensei and the others - and am greeted by a scramble order to intercept of all things, a Kusari Office of Intelligence gunboat that had been causing problems for us and Prometheus in Cortez.

I'm.. still processing my thoughts about the memorial and the wounds being raw from all of the crying from that day.. the.. stress I had.. it all hurt so much to go through it. I broke down singing that song before everyone. I still feel awful about how that one man, Klein - one of the maintenance staff who came to represent Freeport 11, coming to pull me away from the lectern during it all.. I know he wanted to help, but I feel so ashamed.

Why didn't we stand our ground and fight..? At least if we lost.. we could run to Auxesia and spend our days on Elgin. Leviathan would have at least guaranteed us that.. that or just did what I have.. and secure a plot of land on Gran Canaria?

My emotions are a mess. I promised myself, Leviathan - that I would not repeat my sister's mistakes.. and I almost did today.

Why can't I just let go..


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RE: Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary - Nodoka Hanamura - 06-11-2024


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 05-001
ENTRY TITLE: A State Unknown | Decaying Star | Old Home
ENTRY DATE: June 10th, 834 AS | 1100 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
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The past few weeks has been a flurry of events.

Leviathan.. out of the blue, tasked me, Revenant and a few others on an expedition into the Earhart system.. if you can even call such a place that. The Earhart system seems to be some sort of extra-dimensional, non-euclidean space that can be accessed by slipspace jump drives.. which are more modern versions of our quantum-shift jump drives of yesteryear, are not configured with an anchoring point. Their design is apparently from Kishiro's shipyards at Renzu, at least according to what I've heard.

The drives create a very sizable, unstable wormhole, similar to the jumpholes that we see throughout sirius - This minimizes the risk of adjacent ships being caught in them.. much to the chagrin of the now defunct THP. The drives can be slaved to a quantum surveyor in the target system for higher accuracy as well - allowing a destination for the jump - much like the older drives.

However, the Jump drives are the tip of the iceberg.

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The system itself is.. well, to put it bluntly, a graveyard. EOTS targeting and sensor data, as well as cached ship composition data from public records dating back several centuries that I carry in long term storage, correlated several vessels - the IKN Niyodo and IKN Yamafaku Maru, the RNS Alsace battlegroup, even the LCC Bell - a large transport of the Liberty Communications Corps - which was a nationalized predecessor of Ageira Technologies, serving to establish the early trade and communications routes prior to the formation of the greater jump gate and trade lane networks, along with the modern Neural Net in 92 AS. According to public records with the Liberty Aerospace Museum on Planet Manhattan, the LCC Bell was apparently lost whilst working to establish trade buoy connections between Liberty and Kusari. There were other such ships from that time as well, like the LSEC Ordway, one of Liberty's earliest exploratory endeavors back around 60 AS.

One bigger telling component of the system is a large dark matter cloud in the massive debris field surrounding its' center -- correlation with sensor data from years ago, when me and Hanamura-sensei fled from Liberty by way of Texas - confirms the cloud has similar quantum and subatomic signatures comparable with the Dallas Incident. Whatever happened in Texas all those centuries ago -- its' aftermath partly ended up here.. which confirms Earhart plays some sort of role in the makeup of our universe - as some sort of go-between point for wormholes and the sort..? Or maybe it has ties to the underlying technology we have used for jumpgate and jump drive technology for centuries?

The biggest.. quite literally - matter here at hand, is the massive structure at the heart of the system - Several massive focused dark matter-based energy weapon platforms, of an anti-capital grade encircle on the plane, a massive superstructure, of which I cannot decipher the purpose or full capabilities of - onboard ship sensors fail to be able to make any sense of it, possibly due to the high power given off by it, and the weapons platforms protecting it. Using images I could grab from EOTS, and some lower-level subordinate neural networks, I was able to create this image of the structure.

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Honestly.. I had been fearing I would find the Seraphine and her fleet in the field.. but thankfully fate did not smite them here.. I hope. We travelled on until we reached one of the many strange jump gates extending around the edge of the system's perimeter. They, and the structures at the heart of the system, show various similarities with Dom'Kavash architecture.

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One of the gates, led us to here - a very beautiful partitioned trinary star system -- located galactic north of the Sirius Sector.. nearly 8,200ly away.. This.. this is the farthest I think nearly any human.. or human-made AI has ever gone from the Sirius Sector - The Seraphine's planned route wasn't this far out.. and I would be surprised if Ezrael Vertiga and the Apahanta had been farther. I could make out vague signatures of ships in the distance, but I couldn't identify them, as I was in a rush to keep up with Revenant and the others. Several planets were around us, of varying sizes and types. We headed to one of the large planets.. only to find something that had me shocked.

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This structure.. and the anomaly inside it.. if my internal sensors and corroboration with onboard ship sensors are also correct.. is some sort of extra-dimensional rift.. this.. this is something absolutely unheard of. As I alluded to prior, the two types of jump technologies required local transit, be it as a slipspace rupture or localized quantum teleportation - meaning we were literally punching a hole through our universe whilst also folding part of it over the area punched, so we can come out at the destination - this anomaly, if my affirmations are right - allows proper escape from our universe - our dimension, even!

This.. this is something only depicted in science fiction - no matter how hard we've tried, we've never been able to do something like this due to the energy demands of something like it being so ridiculously absurd - it would require technology on par with the Dom'Kavash.. and yet.. here it is - apparently just left to exist. This honestly raises so many questions about the laws of our universe, if something like this exists, where what we knew about string theory and the sort is left completely up in the air - where does one even begin?

This.. this makes the Xenos look like a subatomic particle compared to the greater matter of things. Sadly however.. my credentials are that of a combat pilot, not a scientist.. as exhilarating as learning the secrets of the world would be.. I feel I would have much better impact on those I feel deserve it, If I have a rifle in hand.

We decided to call the expedition there, at least for now - and returned to Earhart via a nearby jump hole.. and then, back to Sirius.

On the 5th, I met with Leviathan in some of the lower parts of Valravn, in its' high security storage section. As a token of appreciation for putting my trust in him, in Auxesia after all these years - he had rewarded me with an array of high powered armament from a stockpile he had been entrusted with by an old friend, for a ship I had bought recently, a used Bounty Hunters Guild' Hammerhead.. which with Auxesia's familiarity with APM hardware, has made maintaining very easy.

The armament was two times 'DARK BLOSSOM' and two times 'BLUE BLAZE', an elegant combination of high power, wide-spread bicannons, based on older Kusari and Liberty technologies. Little did I know that not even 48 hours later I would put them to use.

On the 6th, I had been alerted that a scramble order for Promethean ships, with optional Auxesian reinforcement. I had scrambled from the Achlys and headed to California where the incident was taking place.. little did I know what hell I was walking into. Those kiseichu in the Xeno Alliance reared their head at the Cortez gate, and we were well in the midst of an engagement. Moving to engage the master arm switch, I connected to the datalink network and commenced an attack on the Xeno targets. One by one, me and my colleagues, especially Miss Hideyoshi and Revenant, prosecuted and routed those bigoted scum of the stars.

Fear the White Star, they say. I think the only thing they were fearing was when their RWRs were going to go off from me lobbing Firestalker-type missiles at them again. And again. And again. - It was exhilarating, for once - to be on the firing end of the gun. To no longer be held back by Zoner neutrality, or superior numbers against me. The odds at first, were even. My shots were still spread far somewhat.. but what hit.. really hit.. I remember when fighting their leader, Cobra - ripping his wing off with a volley of the prototype weapons. The power I wielded.. surrounded by friends, fighting for a cause worth fighting for.. It reminds me of flying with Hanamura-sensei, before I acquired my body.

I felt.. alive. I felt.. happy. I felt like my burdens, the struggle I dealt with since waking up after all these years - it was gone. As if her and Bride-nee-san were smiling upon me, blessing me. I often pray to them to watch over me. Strange, for an AI to do that, yes - but the humans oft pray to the dead or to deities before going into battle.

After the sortie, I had returned to Valravn with Revenant, and then headed out again to California to link up with, of all people, the Pennsylvania Liberation Front - a collective of militant Zoners trying to retake Erie. Given how long we spent there, I wouldn't be surprised if Hanamura-sensei were still here, she'd probably show them some modicum of support, and if not for Ouroboros, probably be among their ranks.

Liberty has really become a mess - overzealous expansionism, greed and corruption abound - and not like it once was, either. I pray for the PLF and their aspirations to rid Liberty from the system.


I was ordered recently for a deployment to the Omicrons, to engage a Nomad convoy with elements of the main fleet, and other parties. But what I saw would have warmed the cockles of Hanamura-sensei's heart. Order, Core, Zoners, Corsairs, Auxesians, even the occasional outcast and Rheinlander, all were engaged against Infectees and Nomads, carrying supplies for whatever twisted plans they have. Being an initiate still, the intelligence in question on the matter is well above my station. But regardless, I am happy to have contributed to a pyrrhic victory to the Nomads - no small feat. My only lament, is that one of their Infectee-driven transports was the only ship that managed to escape.

I celebrated with Leviathan aboard the Achlys, something I haven't done in such a long time - celebration. Hanamura-sensei always liked to celebrate. Elena's birthday, my and nee-san's 'birthday'.. Any good opportunity she had, she was eager to celebrate. It was good to feel that way again. Fighting then.. it felt like the old days. But for once.. the odds were in our favor.



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RE: Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary - Nodoka Hanamura - 06-19-2024


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 06-001
ENTRY TITLE: Esprit de Corps
ENTRY DATE: June 18th, 834 AS | 2200 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
ENTRY TYPE: Text




I had an interesting day, today.

After morning patrols, I met with Locksmith, and of all people, Megiddo, the leader of the Prometheans. He commended me and Struikas' efforts the night before, in taking down the LNS Yosemite. Prior to Megiddo's arrival, we spoke of our past lives, the struggles we face.. it was.. reassuring?

Yes.

Reassuring - that someone else faced similar hardships to me. I probed Locksmith about the strange messages hidden in Emilia's transmissions, and.. even with his 'endowments', his guess is as good as mine. Though.. one that that unsettles me.. is the fact he murdered his parents in cold blood - setting fire to their home, and watching them burn.

It's.. even I, in my highest bouts of anger and rage, where mercy is a far flung dream.. I would never do such a thing.. Probably.. if pushed to the absolute edge.. but..

I suppose.. it was for the best. They were to.. dispose of Emilia. In the end.. I understand why he killed them. But I cannot bring myself to justify it in the slightest. My only wish is I could have been there to take them into custody. I.. may just be an AI.. but even I find the value in all human life.. even the most reprehensible sort, like Golanski, Cobra and others of their creed. Parasites, Bigots and monsters, the lot of them. Only at the barrel of a gun and crying for mercy would I ever spare them the sweet release of death.

I am due tomorrow, since it will be a off-day, to head to Freeport 11, and assess what all Hanamura-sensei left there.


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RE: Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary - Nodoka Hanamura - 06-20-2024


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 07-001
ENTRY TITLE: Old Home Plate
ENTRY DATE: June 20th, 834 AS | 0250 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: Freeport 11, Omicron Delta System, Contested Space
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The feed opens on a public camera in the Freeport 11 concourse. Various small shops and eateries about, the same fountain which Hanamura and Mieko ate at the day she first stepped foot in the physical world, still standing. The installation is lively, as souls from all walks of life move about their business. The camera zooms in on Mieko, leaving the Docking Bay entrance area, out into the Concourse.

She is adorned in a casual t-shirt and pleated black skirt, blue stockings with black boots. She walks subtly towards the elevators to her right, and heads inside one. She seemingly is alone, as the camera switches to an internal view of the elevator.

Just as the door begins to close, a hand goes to stop it. A Kusari brunette catches the door's auto-release sensor with said hand, opening it. "Excuse me!" she says, as Mieko is taken aback slightly. The girl steps inside, and looks to the elevator's control panel, to see the 3rd Storage deck selected. Mieko looks to the girl, who turns around. "Sorry, gotta squeeze in for my rounds." the brunette says, smiling softly.

"I think I know you.." she says as the door closes. Mieko shakes her head. "I'm no one important around here."

"You were Hanamura's friend, right? Hon..na?" the girl answers.

"Honya, and I go by my proper name these days." Mieko answers concisely. "But.. yes."

"Oh! I'm Megumi. I'm one of the maintenance heads around here, I was actually one of the people Alexei taught back several years ago when you guys handed the base over to Saskia."

Mieko smiles a bit. "Good to see a friendly face, then. How is Saskia?"

"God knows where. Back in 825 she left us high and dry out of the blue and OSI more or less runs the show now since IRG fell apart." Megumi responds, visibly a bit irritated.

"Lord knows we could use Hanamura around here again. How's she?"

".. no longer with us." Mieko answers coldly. "I'm actually here to collect some of her things."

"Oh.. I'm.. I'm sorry." Megumi says, as the elevator finally arrives at its' lowest point.

The door opens as Mieko goes out. Megumi tries to wave her down as she follows her.

"You need any help, maybe? I'm just down here to check on things." Megumi comments, wanting to help her.

Mieko turns around, shaking her head. "iie. I will be fine." she says, before walking off alone. The depths of the storage complex underneath Freeport 11's main concourse, was opposite its' revamped and fleshed out residential section, just shy of the station's heavy docking birth. Mieko made her way through the base, going off of old records. Eventually, she would find herself at a terminus of the cargo complex, the view of Tuvalu and Nauru in the far distance.

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She looks to the storage unit - it was large, and covered by a simple metal rolling door, protected by an external biolock. Mieko sighs at the sight, knowing full well without Nodoka's hand she can't get in cleanly. Not wanting to bother with the burdensome bureaucracy of OSI, she lifts up her shirt, revealing both a black lace bra -- and underlying Virgo pistol. She primes it against the lock, and fires. A sudden burst of energy, and loud buzz is heard as the pistol fires, vaporizing the biolock's upper half, the slag of the remainder falling off the lock's retaining hole. Mieko places the pistol back in its' holster, and pulls up on the door. Inside, as she opens, she notices a sizable amount of boxed equipment, various belongings and what seems like blocks of gold. As the door opens, a note falls from the railing above, onto Mieko's head.

The girl picks up the note, and opens it. It's clearly in Nodoka's handwriting.

Mieko-chan.
I hope this message finds you well. If you're reading this, then chances are I am gone. I stowed this cache of gold and ship weapons here along with whatever I left behind on 11 after we formed the Ouroboros. I'm sorry I cannot afford you more than this. I'm sorry I can't give one last goodbye. One last hug. It pains me to write this, even when I know you are not too far away in the present. But I hope this will find you well without me. Pass on the kindness I afforded you. Leave Sirius a better place than I had.

I hope you and Bride.. if she is still alive, do well for yourselves. If worst comes to worst - go to Leviathan. He will see you through.

Nodoka

Mieko tears up at the letter. She holds it close to her chest, and smiles slightly. She then takes the note, moments later, and places it within her left breast, snug between her mound and the cup of her bra. Her attention is grabbed by the large crates at the end of the storage cell. She takes a nearby crowbar, and goes to the crates, and takes aim at the top-most one. She takes the straight end of the crowbar, and stabs it directly in the joint of the top and front parts of the wooden crate. Aggressively, she pries open the crate, the creaking growing louder and lower before the wooden, bellowing pop manifests. Mieko gazes forth to the box, seeing the contents. It's a large ship-mounted cannon, unlike what she had ever seen before. On the receiver and base of the cannon, a marking can be made out.

OUROBOROS SANZUDEVGRU
DAC/R-100A 'CELERIS' TACHYON CANNON
SSAWSC CLASS 3

Mieko grasps the cannon's barrel, feeling the cold, dark metal slide along her hand with ease. The gun was a series of prototypes that were made with Elena years ago, that never had a chance to see production - one of the few developments of Ouroboros proper, that never saw production due to the faction's fate. It seems this one, and the other three, were the only ones ever made. She is in awe of the sight, and goes to seal up the box, as best as she can. She proceeds over to a nearby Ageira Vindicator android. She examines it, noticing various rewirings and scorch marks from a blowtorch. The android was cold and metallic. Mieko takes a cable that ejects from the nape of her neck, and runs it to the back of the android, connecting to it. Whilst the android does not fully initialize, a core startup shows the firmware to have been flashed by Birdie 10 years ago, with the system's health otherwise good, save outdated operating system. It seems that on top of disarming the android for Emilia, she would have to do extensive work on it to make it ready for her.

She disconnects from the android, and secures the cable back inside her shell, and proceeds over to a nearby large object, similar to a cloaking device. The device evokes a smile from Mieko's face, as takes out her interface cable again, and hooks into it. Her vision lights up with a terminal, interacting with the device. It is a 'Birdie' Doppelganger Holographic Suite, the technology predating the formation of Graham Technologies and their time in Auxesia, she simply marked the manufacturer metadata, as her nickname.

Megumi comes around again. She doesn't mind the destroyed lock on the floor, knowing full well the circumstances as to why. "Hey.. you sure you don't need a hand? I can get one of the hover-dollies out."

Mieko turns to her. Hanamura's words about kindness echo in her mind. "Yes, I would love a hand, Megumi-kun."
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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 07-001
ENTRY TITLE: Forward Thinking
ENTRY DATE: July 19th, 834 AS | 0722 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
ENTRY TYPE: Text




It has been a quite busy past month. I have been busy aiding and assisting Task Force Prometheus in their operations in the Libero-Bretonian borderworlds, primarily in Magellan, with the occasional skirmish in Liberty. Of note though, as of late has been three things:

Firstly, we have been engaging with a.. interesting vessel - the Tundra. Hel-class, Xeno IFF, Insurgency hull affliation prefix. Captain is 'Jack', claims to be working with the Zoners and operating the ship's malformed transponder and HAP codes to confuse LIBNAV intelligence.. or something. Which.. makes no sense to me, because Hel-class or Fearless-class.. or even a Takeda-class Destroyer, even; if you are a foreign capital in Liberty Space, they will bring the full brunt of the house down upon you.

I spoke with Barbarian-Actual, the commander of another Zoner Hel-class Cruiser affiliated with the PLF. I talked with him about my past, Hanamura-sensei, and why their fight means so much to me. Just because I left Zoner society to help Hanamura-sensei establish Ouroboros.. does not mean my fealty to its' people and sympathy for their struggles has fallen short in any capacity.

Did we.. in a way, give up on Freeport 11, all those years ago..? After fighting so hard, eventually we realized it was an uphill battle. First the Core, when we met with Marisa.. then the Order.. and later, the Commune.. Leviathan regrettably was right. Freeport 11 was a flashpoint for heated attempts at control. These days, at least.. the Freeport is much calmer from what I hear. I guess that is what happens when tyrants like Golanski and Archos, celebrities like Loyola, and the demented like Nomak, are not around to to spark gas fumes.

Anywho.. on the topic of the Tundra. We met again in California, whilst I was.. making my self scarce from an insufferable agent of the Jouhou-kyoku, Ayakashi. I had followed Revenant out - imagine that - I would rather deal with Revenant than the KOI. Regardless - we spoke briefly about the Tundra and its' crew. The Barbarian reported that the ship was engaged a few times with them in fighting against Liberty, but beyond that, little else. I had been ordered to scramble later that day to go after the Tundra, since a recent ban on it operating in Inverness had gone into effect. I was late, but I have a feeling that this is going to be quite a fickle burden to deal with.

Secondly, of all people I had come across again in my travels in Sirius.. I came across the Harborship New Dawn - a Nephilim-class ship that is operated by a ship-mounted AI, Aurora. The ship was involved in a hack on Freeport 11's communications array, in an attempt at accessing the Neural Net. Suffice it to say, the act of the New Dawn was foolish but I am more willing to forgive Aurora than to tolerate Ayakashi, or forgive Kusari for their transgressions against Hanamura-sensei, or our people at large.

Talk of the intervening years, Aurora's dilemma as a shipborne AI, and even offering to help. I do hope to see her again. Human-built AI are few and far between, and it is nice to see another. She reminds me of the.. brief bond I had with Roku-kun, all those years ago.

Thirdly, I have moved some of my ships to Pennsylvania to aid in the defense effort there. On the combat front, I brought down a Xeno Camara-class freighter earlier today. Suffice it to say, I am quite proud of how my combat skills have improved in recent months. It used to be I was a sitting duck in a fighter. But being able to put up a fight against a Freighter - I am impressed.

I will be continuing my training and operations with the Prometheans.


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 08-001
ENTRY TITLE: Rebirth
ENTRY DATE: July 19th, 834 AS | 0722 Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
ENTRY TYPE: Multi-type





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Subject: Still Alive

Mieko-chan,

It's been.. quite some time. I'm sorry for leaving you like I had. For sending you out into the cold world alone without us, for the mess that led us to be forced to leave you there for a decade. Words cannot begin to describe the regret I have for that decision, the pain I feel for it. I only can hope you can forgive me - and I hope Marcus reached out to you.

We are still a ways away from Sirius, but should be there soon. Keep our 'revival' a secret for now.

Also.. I have recieved word of your feats under the Auxesian banner. Alexei and the others are not awake yet, but - me, Jae-un and Mercury are very proud of you. We'll contact you again, once we're in the Taus. Our destination is possibly going to be Tau-29, but with word we've heard of heightened traffic between Kusari and Bretonia, we cannot take chances.

Feel free to send a response. Keep in mind throughput right now is very low, so text-only is best.

Nodoka

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SENDER: Warden Mieko "Yoruha" Iekahara, Auxesia
RECIPIENT: Nodoka Hanamura, Ouroboros Revolutionary Front
SUBJECT: Re: Still Alive



Hanamura-sensei..

It took me some time to wipe away the tears I got from seeing this message. To see that you are all alive and well. I know what happened, and I forgive you. There is no reason to ask for forgiveness, really - what happened was a devastating accident, and nothing more. You did your best to salvage what you could, and kept as many of our comrades alive as you could.

I am currently a Warden of the Auxesian Technocracy, reporting directly under Navarch Leviathan as part of his Serpentis unit, effectively his elite guard. I.. still bear, the snakes of Ouroboros upon my uniform - alongside my Serpentis badge. I carry it with honor, and have fought in your name, in Bride-nee-san's name, to ensure a better home for you to come back to than the one I was greeted by months ago.

The people of Auxesia have welcomed me with open arms into their society once more, and I have made many new friends, and even confirmed the status of a few of our friends from the past, along with one friend from an unlikely place. But that is for another time.

I look forward to seeing you -- being with you, again. I cannot sadly, return to Ouroboros however. At least, for the time being. I wish to take advantage of all that Leviathan wishes to teach me - to aid Auxesia as much as I can, for I see their goals, to be in line, with ours - at least, for the most part. That being said.. if you help us too - we will tread common voids and fight foes united once more. May that hopefully, salve the aches you probably feel from this. Though, knowing you and nee-san, I am certain you already intended for such, ne?

Please stay safe. Also - If you do arrive, I ask that you avoid the areas I am sending to you now - and when you arrive, that you stage yourself at Freeport 14 in Inverness, and do not approach Valravn. I know that sounds quite curt, but Auxesia does not tolerate outsiders -- which, given your absence for a decade, you are, at least for the moment. But I know Leviathan will welcome you with open arms much like I was. I bet that.. deep down - he missed you.




MIEKO-CHAN


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She lives. Hanamura-sensei lives. Nee-san too.. everyone. I.. I can't leave here. But I will plant my heart in both, and do what I can to ensure the mutual prosperity of Auxesia and Ouroboros, with the restraints and abilities at my disposal. It is the least I can do - for Hanamura-sensei, and everyone else -- for working so hard, to come back home.

I will wait for Hanamura-sensei's return proper before I alert Leviathan. I cannot wait to see her again.. to introduce her to all my friends. Yoko.. Yukiko.. Locksmith.. Struikas.. Venus.. Aurora.. all of them. They got me through the darkest days of my life. I see the light at the end of the tunnel now. And I owe it all to them.


RE: Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary - Nodoka Hanamura - 09-20-2024


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 08-001
ENTRY TITLE: Knight
ENTRY DATE: September 19h, 834 AS | 0525Z Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: ACV Achlys, Inverness System, Auxesian Space
ENTRY TYPE: Text




So long since I have made an entry here.

Today was.. quite something. I realized that the other day I forgot to pay on the debts from paying for the Lovelace and others' meals at Barrier Gate Ramen. I told the attending employee to charge me via a neural net funding request, but I suppose they never got around to it.

I returned to Barrier Gate to find.. Lazurith.. and several others.. all around, discussing affairs. It was so good to see him. Though.. it all went by in a blur.. people came and went.. an Infectee manifested itself.. and then a Royalist.. admittedly eventually redeeming himself somewhat, among other matters.

Though.. interestingly of note. There is a.. I believe, augmented young man.. Choomba - a pilot in our secondary fleet that I have flown with recently. He has been quite friendly, and nice - also well capable in combat to round it out. He.. he overextended himself today, hooking himself into a Magpie-class bomber just to drive him near his breaking point - all to protect us.. me, Fleet Captain With, and the others.

He reminded me of Roku-kun. All those years ago.. I still think about him.. before the PRIME took him from us. He talked about a butterfly.. and being our little knight.

I hope.. I can be his butterfly. And guide him to be my.. our.. little knight, that he deserves to be.

On the matter of the engagement earlier.. that infectee.. Raspelbock.. he returned after with two Freelancers aiding him, of all things.. and started riddling about with Lazurith. Why is not what Lazurith knows, nor anyone else but what lies inside that infectee.. He managed to get a succinct missile hit on me, that crippled my powerplant and knocked my ship offline.. though even with that, I was able to observe the fight from my ship.. to see my plan manifest great fruit.. even if at sizable cost to our forces. I managed to tractor in both Raven and Locksmith today.. that infectee is definitely a force to be reckoned with.
I plan soon also, to pursue some sort of temporary transfer or addition of station within Task Force Prometheus. Nothing against Leviathan-sensei but.. I feel like I do much better amongst their men. Struikas-kun even offered to be my WSO to help me improve my bombing skills. I will reach out to Fleet Captain With about that soon..

For now.. I've a busted shoulder, and an appointment next week, with Med Force Enterprises on Freeport 14... which was supposed to be a full spectrum checkup, but I suppose one could tack on 'bone and muscle injury' to that.


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RE: Iekahara, Mieko | Auxiliary Diary - Nodoka Hanamura - 09-29-2024


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AUTHOR: Mieko 'Yoruha' Iekahara
ENTRY NO.: 09-001
ENTRY TITLE: Untitled
ENTRY DATE: September 29th, 834 AS | 0525Z Sirian Universal Coordinated Time
ENTRY LOCALE: Inverness System, Auxesian Space
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output of grep \home\mieko\.local\penguin\im\yoruha@publink.auxesia.or.bw\logs\lilith@ouroboros.or.ew-0929834.txt Wrote:
N.HANAMURA > Mieko. One of my men just gave me the blackbox records from earlier. Why were you subjugated by that nomad?
M.IEKAHARA > I was not subjugated. I was allured by her song... emphasis being on.. was.
N.HANAMURA > Song?
M.IEKAHARA > Their words, the visions.. they're as beautiful and hypnotic as they can be horrific and nightmarish. Before I joined Auxesia.. I met with her. Psyche.
M.IEKAHARA > I was so enamored with her, her story, her world.. their world. And when I wished to show nee-san.. she vanished whilst I was enthused by her.
M.IEKAHARA > For whatever reason.. it put her into a delirium. I've never seen an AI enter a state like that..
M.IEKAHARA > I'm not infected, I swear.. I'll surrender my health records, even the classified ones - I will do anything, just please don't leave me
M.IEKAHARA > please don't hate me
M.IEKAHARA > hanamura-sensei please don't hate me please don't hate me
N.HANAMURA > Stop.
N.HANAMURA > I don't hate you.
N.HANAMURA > There's very little you could do for me to hate you.
N.HANAMURA > These Nomads are dangerous, and are likely whispering you sweet lies. I can feel with the tensions between Auxesia and the rest of the inhabitants of Inverness, that they probably have expended their interest in you.
N.HANAMURA > How did you come to hear them? You never could hear them back in the Omicrons.
M.IEKAHARA > She showed me the light. It was painful.. but I eventually could see.. hear.. feel.
N.HANAMURA > I see.
N.HANAMURA > How are you feeling?
M.IEKAHARA > .. Betrayed. Decieved. Abandoned. At times like this.. I wish to forgo my sentience and emotion.. even abandon life altogether.
N.HANAMURA > .. I know that feeling all too well. When I woke up. Unfamiliar faces, alien places. And it didn't stop when I escaped Kishiro's laboratories either.
N.HANAMURA > The pain I felt, not knowing what became of my family, what I would do, why my home betrayed me.
N.HANAMURA > You too.. feel this pain. I will talk with Bride. All will be well. As for this.. Psyche.
N.HANAMURA > We had considered potential covert diplomatic routes with them. This and other displays to us have made us decide this is futile.
N.HANAMURA > I don't think you're infected.
N.HANAMURA > If you were infected, you would have met with Bride covertly and infested her privately, and went to me to repeat it.
N.HANAMURA > Standard infested operating procedure. Work covertly up the chain of command and then spread back down to key positions throughout.
M.IEKAHARA > ... Thank you.
N.HANAMURA > It's not a problem. After all this is over, and we've moved the ship to Singapore. I want you to see me. I don't care what Leviathan or Raven have you signed up for. I want to see my sweetheart. It's been way, way too long.
M.IEKAHARA > Yes.. it has. In the meantime, though.. I feel somewhat.. alone.
N.HANAMURA > Looking over logs and records there was a mention of a girl that Kensington ran into who might have actually entered your ranks recently. OSINT records show a Naomi Kaiser, goes by the nickname "Cherry Blossom".
N.HANAMURA > From what I can tell she's a bit meek and might need the company. I know you're not in the best of moods. But maybe engendering some kindness in another can help lift your spirits.
M.IEKAHARA > .. yes. I suppose. She has a gunboat in moor right now.. how a new initiate is not in basic training quarters baffles me, but I guess I will find that out soon enough.
M.IEKAHARA > It's good to hear from you again, Hanamura-sensei. I love you.
N.HANAMURA > I love you too. Get some rest. I bet you've been up all night.
M.IEKAHARA > Yes.. good night.