[10.10.2023 05:41:09] 5th|Alex.Kingston: What could come from continued exploitation, then.
[10.10.2023 05:41:41] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Afternoon, officers, and... what is this?
[10.10.2023 05:41:41] Vagrant.Psyche: "There exist secrets. Corpses, rotting in crypts. Guardians, wishing the ruin of all. And destruction to which thy momentary--
[10.10.2023 05:41:47] Vagrant.Psyche: --Collapse shall seem paltry in comparison to."
[10.10.2023 05:41:48] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: And more presciently, what would you have us do? Sit idly by while others exploit the new territory?
[10.10.2023 05:42:04] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I doubt Liberty would fall behind in such a manner.
[10.10.2023 05:42:09] Vagrant.Psyche: "We do not wish to see the voids collapse. It is in Our interest to prevent this."
[10.10.2023 05:42:17] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: As for what this is... that's a very good question, Hvitrnott
[10.10.2023 05:42:43] Vagrant.Psyche: "And so We are compelled to approach thee and thine with an opportunity."
[10.10.2023 05:42:56] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Doubt we can count on courtesy of revelation, then.
[10.10.2023 05:43:00] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Your kind saught our destruction before. Why would you tell us to stay away if it were for our own good?
[10.10.2023 05:43:12] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: And what opportunity might that be?
[10.10.2023 05:43:23] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I doubt it would be to our benefit.
[10.10.2023 05:43:31] Vagrant.Psyche: "The good of all. Not only thine. We sing of cooperation in this one place. This one regard. To avoid catastrophe."
[10.10.2023 05:43:40] A/)-Revenant: I believe these... machinations even harm them - the Nomads.
[10.10.2023 05:43:45] Vagrant.Psyche: "If the voids collapse, all follow."
[10.10.2023 05:43:57] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: How?
[10.10.2023 05:44:01] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Which, Technocrat, is a reason to exploit them and utilise them.
[10.10.2023 05:44:02] A/)-Revenant: It is not their creation.
[10.10.2023 05:44:16] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Then whose creation is it?
[10.10.2023 05:44:16] A/)-Revenant: And it is not yours either, do you know what you are walking into?
[10.10.2023 05:44:28] A/)-Revenant: Those ~sentries~ existed for a reason.
[10.10.2023 05:44:44] A/)-Revenant: All of them perfectly aligned to aim at the center.
[10.10.2023 05:44:45] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: And none of us can divine what that reason may be, so it is in our interest to find out
[10.10.2023 05:44:55] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: We do not. Yet. But we'll crack mysteries of the place open.
[10.10.2023 05:45:03] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Our scientists and explorers, rather.
[10.10.2023 05:45:05] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thou trample into the gardens of gods. We possess insight unlike any of thine have known of these gardens."
[10.10.2023 05:45:31] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: And it is for that reason, Nomad, that nothing you say can be trusted; you will act in your own interest above all others
[10.10.2023 05:45:43] Vagrant.Psyche: "Is not the same true of thine?"
[10.10.2023 05:45:48] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Of course it is.
[10.10.2023 05:46:01] Vagrant.Psyche: "Then how dost thou trust?"
[10.10.2023 05:46:11] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Trust is earned.
[10.10.2023 05:46:35] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: And your kind have done very little to earn said trust, quite the opposite, at that
[10.10.2023 05:46:40] Vagrant.Psyche: "Then know the intention laid out before thee. To build steps to this, to prevent the destruction of all."
[10.10.2023 05:47:03] A/)-Revenant: History is a fickle one, it will be an eternal loop, but do bare your own caution.
[10.10.2023 05:47:10] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: It's not gained through beautiful words. Act, and we'll see your intent.
[10.10.2023 05:47:36] Death: KenseiKen was divided by zero.
[10.10.2023 05:47:48] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Then, those who are responsible for the decision - will make one.
[10.10.2023 05:47:49] Vagrant.Psyche: "We hold these voids dear. To see them perish, to see the works of Our Creators disintegrate, would give untold grief."
[10.10.2023 05:48:20] A/)-Revenant: Why would your Creators contain - or generate - something that could destroy it all?
[10.10.2023 05:48:35] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Maybe a safeguard..
[10.10.2023 05:48:44] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Contain seems simple enough at least, to prevent whatever the heck from getting out
[10.10.2023 05:48:50] Vagrant.Psyche: "The will of gods often remains inscrutable without further study. Pondering."
[10.10.2023 05:48:51] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: They didn't wish to trust safety of their creation to just one factor, that's why.
[10.10.2023 05:49:09] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: And left another precaution.
[10.10.2023 05:49:20] A/)-Revenant: To kill every material including their own?
[10.10.2023 05:49:22] A/)-Revenant: It does not add up.
[10.10.2023 05:49:44] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Scorched earth doctrine, perhaps?
[10.10.2023 05:49:46] Vagrant.Psyche: "All we have heard is the Scream. All we have seen is the Collapse. We do not presume, merely observe."
[10.10.2023 05:49:48] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: In case all else fails - it does add up. If their plan didn't go as intended...
[10.10.2023 05:49:51] Vagrant.Psyche: "The capacity exists."
[10.10.2023 05:49:55] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: A safeguard against the fall of.. whatever they were?
[10.10.2023 05:49:58] A/)-Revenant: What is there in Sirius to /hide/.
[10.10.2023 05:50:29] Vagrant.Psyche: "Horrors lurk in shadows that give even Light pause. The end of things. Woe, untold. Unmeasureable."
[10.10.2023 05:50:31] A/)-Revenant: Their Creators existed... Far above and beyond, Sirius was but a mere cornerstone - from what we can see in their relics.
[10.10.2023 05:50:33] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: We thought the same until /this/ was discovered.
[10.10.2023 05:50:45] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Turns out there /is/ something to hide.
[10.10.2023 05:50:51] Vagrant.Psyche: "Death, lurking in the abysses beyond."
[10.10.2023 05:50:59] A/)-Revenant: Galaxies connected, yet this place, in particular, was a place of experimentation, of playthings.
[10.10.2023 05:51:21] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I wouldn't be surprised if there were mysteries beyond count in this sector.
[10.10.2023 05:51:33] A/)-Revenant: We're in one of their byproducts as of now.
[10.10.2023 05:51:38] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I'd wager more than a few of them weren't meant to be public knowledge
[10.10.2023 05:51:51] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Some of them doubtlessly came from the Nomads' creators.
[10.10.2023 05:51:51] Vagrant.Psyche: "And mysteries that must be taken care with to preserve life itself."
[10.10.2023 05:51:58] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: And it would appear we stumbled over one of such.
[10.10.2023 05:52:11] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: For all I know, the Nomad has a very vested interest in keeping us away from their creators' creations
[10.10.2023 05:52:12] A/)-Revenant: Humanity happened to settle upon it all.
[10.10.2023 05:52:34] Vagrant.Psyche: "We tried this. We failed. This is plain."
[10.10.2023 05:52:56] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Explain this, then. All accidents that ever happened to the jump gates, or anomalies...
[10.10.2023 05:53:07] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: ...left ships stranded /there/.
[10.10.2023 05:53:20] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Why? Is it a sort of a hub?
[10.10.2023 05:53:38] A/)-Revenant: It is an anchor of sorts... but those guardians - who protect... I'm ...
[10.10.2023 05:53:43] A/)-Revenant: Puzzled. Why they did not show up.
[10.10.2023 05:54:00] Vagrant.Psyche: "We adapt. We survive. We see the paths arrayed. The ripples, eddies, flows."
[10.10.2023 05:54:03] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Perhaps there is no guardians left. Or /our/ threat was not enough.
[10.10.2023 05:54:05] A/)-Revenant: The anomalies throughout the sector, they all interconnected.
[10.10.2023 05:54:06] A/)-Revenant: No.
[10.10.2023 05:54:08] A/)-Revenant: They are there.
[10.10.2023 05:54:09] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: What if they prepared for far worse?
[10.10.2023 05:54:19] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: What makes you so sure they didn't die off over milennia of inactivity?
[10.10.2023 05:54:28] Vagrant.Psyche: "We have encountered them."
[10.10.2023 05:54:33] A/)-Revenant: I have encountered them too.
[10.10.2023 05:54:48] A/)-Revenant: As have some of your compatriots, Olson.
[10.10.2023 05:54:50] Tip: You were a new player once. If you see someone making obvious mistakes, talk to them and help them.
[10.10.2023 05:55:06] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Have you now? And you've aught to confirm it beside verbal accounts?
[10.10.2023 05:55:07] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Ah, you speak of the Nomads? They were quickly dispatched
[10.10.2023 05:55:10] Vagrant.Psyche: "The corrupting ones. Mindless, without soul, vicious and everlasting in their hunt."
[10.10.2023 05:55:11] A/)-Revenant: No.
[10.10.2023 05:55:14] A/)-Revenant: They are not Nomads.
[10.10.2023 05:55:26] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Then /what/ are they?
[10.10.2023 05:55:48] 5th|Alex.Kingston: The platforms that surround the center?
[10.10.2023 05:55:50] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I was there for the whole ride, I saw capital-class Nomads as well as the stationary defence platforms, not much more
[10.10.2023 05:55:56] A/)-Revenant: The guard dogs of sites, of places that were buried away. Mistakes, locked away.
[10.10.2023 05:55:57] A/)-Revenant: Ah.
[10.10.2023 05:56:05] A/)-Revenant: Shozaks goons.
[10.10.2023 05:56:14] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: What's *that* meant to mean
[10.10.2023 05:56:15] Vagrant.Psyche: "The Brethren. Not of Our kin."
[10.10.2023 05:56:19] A/)-Revenant: No, he was stirred by the disturbance, he is a simple creature of hatred.
[10.10.2023 05:56:28] A/)-Revenant: An elder, within the Omicron brood.
[10.10.2023 05:56:35] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Aren't most Nomads?
[10.10.2023 05:56:47] Vagrant.Psyche: (Wry, knowing amusement.)
[10.10.2023 05:56:50] A/)-Revenant: It is not their purpose to wage wars.
[10.10.2023 05:56:57] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Remember that /Nomads/ was a name given to them by humanity.
[10.10.2023 05:57:10] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: They're awfully good at it for something they aren't purposed for.
[10.10.2023 05:57:29] A/)-Revenant: We happen to be better at fighting than them.
[10.10.2023 05:57:34] 5th|Alex.Kingston: They're caretakers, not fighters.
[10.10.2023 05:57:40] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Even the Order understood this.
[10.10.2023 05:58:03] Vagrant.Psyche: "It is a role to which We were forced to adapt."
[10.10.2023 05:58:06] A/)-Revenant: They had studied, just as others did. Architects. Maintenance crew.
[10.10.2023 05:58:09] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Clearly humanity was not on their caretaking list.
[10.10.2023 05:58:14] A/)-Revenant: And any good engineer can juryrig a shotgun.
[10.10.2023 05:58:21] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: We're on the janitor's to-do list, Hvirtnott
[10.10.2023 05:58:44] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Good that they aren't doing too good of a job at it.
[10.10.2023 05:58:53] A/)-Revenant: I do not believe they possessed great cognitive skills when they were awoken from their stasis.
[10.10.2023 05:59:20] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But you don't know for sure.
[10.10.2023 05:59:26] A/)-Revenant: Do you?
[10.10.2023 05:59:29] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: No.
[10.10.2023 05:59:35] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Only one here who does speaks in riddles.
[10.10.2023 05:59:44] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Belief is just a speculation, though.
[10.10.2023 05:59:47] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Nothing conclusive.
[10.10.2023 05:59:47] A/)-Revenant: Most would be angry if they were woken up in their own home.
[10.10.2023 05:59:53] Vagrant.Psyche: "Memory sings of tools and greed and defilement. Of overzealous hunters for knowledge and riches, destroying home."
[10.10.2023 05:59:56] A/)-Revenant: That their belongings were being abducted by an unusual creature.
[10.10.2023 06:00:20] Vagrant.Psyche: "We do not come for thy pity or understanding in this, however. Few give it."
[10.10.2023 06:00:30] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I think I don't need a lesson in history, Revenant.
[10.10.2023 06:00:39] Vagrant.Psyche: "We come for mutual interest."
[10.10.2023 06:00:56] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Then you're failing to elaborate on it.
[10.10.2023 06:01:02] A/)-Revenant: No, but it is good to try to understand what may be going on.
[10.10.2023 06:01:22] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: The Nomad is trying to get across some kind of idea that we should stay away from Earhart
[10.10.2023 06:01:26] A/)-Revenant: I believe they've made mention before you two arrived.
[10.10.2023 06:01:31] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I don't buy its motives personally
[10.10.2023 06:01:33] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Something slumbers within that object in the center? These defense structures fending off the intruders?
[10.10.2023 06:01:33] Vagrant.Psyche: "We cannot prevent thee from going to it."
[10.10.2023 06:01:45] Vagrant.Psyche: "We can only advise and guide. Study Ourselves."
[10.10.2023 06:02:02] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Then throw us to the wolves when the time is right?
[10.10.2023 06:02:21] Vagrant.Psyche: "Make assurances to counter deception."
[10.10.2023 06:02:23] 5th|Alex.Kingston: If they wanted us to stay away, they wouldn't be trying to tell us to stay away.
[10.10.2023 06:02:25] A/)-Revenant: Worry not, it seems Kusari is doing that to themselves already.
[10.10.2023 06:02:29] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thou art capable of this."
[10.10.2023 06:02:36] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Mmh. Kusari and the Corsairs both.
[10.10.2023 06:02:48] Vagrant.Psyche: "We have not yet gone to other darklings in this matter."
[10.10.2023 06:02:50] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: They were turned away once, they will be turned away again.
[10.10.2023 06:02:57] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thou art the first."
[10.10.2023 06:03:05] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: is that supposed to be flattering?
[10.10.2023 06:03:05] A/)-Revenant: Why Liberty, Nomad?
[10.10.2023 06:03:19] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Fine, let's /imply/, for a second, I'm thinking out of the box and giving you benefit of doubt.
[10.10.2023 06:03:22] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: What next?
[10.10.2023 06:03:27] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Oh boy.
[10.10.2023 06:03:40] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thee and thine triumphed in the confrontation. It is only right We would look to thee."
[10.10.2023 06:04:01] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Fret not, Olson. Should it go wrong and Vice Admiral will have my head.
[10.10.2023 06:04:17] Vagrant.Psyche: "This hive may yet be at the tip of the spear of darkness."
[10.10.2023 06:04:26] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Look, it's your rabbit hole to go down
[10.10.2023 06:04:51] A/)-Revenant: If it's any consolation, I would shove you into a stasis pod if you became compromised.
[10.10.2023 06:04:59] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: So, are you saying it'll unleash something worse if 'opened'?
[10.10.2023 06:05:14] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Or tampered with, for that matter.
[10.10.2023 06:05:28] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Worse than the Nomad invasion of early 800's?
[10.10.2023 06:05:32] Vagrant.Psyche: "Consider this offer. Consider trials to test Our worthiness in this endeavor. Consider whatever Thou must."
[10.10.2023 06:05:58] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: As I recall, the Nomad here has a very great fear of the 'dark' overtaking the 'light', I'm ever more convinced it's simply -
[10.10.2023 06:06:01] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: - working to that end
[10.10.2023 06:06:03] Vagrant.Psyche: "Know that We are of one mind. And the Brethren thou witnessed within the Source are of another."
[10.10.2023 06:06:20] A/)-Revenant: Sh'ozaks brood.
[10.10.2023 06:06:21] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I'm sorry, those were... different kinds of nomads?
[10.10.2023 06:06:24] A/)-Revenant: Yes.
[10.10.2023 06:06:30] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: There's a difference?
[10.10.2023 06:06:32] A/)-Revenant: Yes.
[10.10.2023 06:06:42] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Am I just entirely uneducated on this or something?
[10.10.2023 06:06:44] Vagrant.Psyche: "We are Lights of the Abyss. We know more of the dark corners of the universe than the kin beyond the Green Veil."
[10.10.2023 06:07:04] A/)-Revenant: A lot has changed within the past ten ye--... Oh... It really is 833, isn't it...
[10.10.2023 06:07:14] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: It is.
[10.10.2023 06:07:21] A/)-Revenant: A shame. But much has happened since.
[10.10.2023 06:07:48] A/)-Revenant: How intriguing that your Order allies neglected to inform you of this relevation however.
[10.10.2023 06:07:50] A/)-Revenant: No matter.
[10.10.2023 06:07:55] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Enough to cause a split within a seemingly united hivemind?
[10.10.2023 06:08:19] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: The Order can be a little on the perfidious side at times.
[10.10.2023 06:08:28] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Perhaps they were never truly a 'united' hivemind.
[10.10.2023 06:08:32] Vagrant.Psyche: "The Banishers rarely allow reason and sense to guide them."
[10.10.2023 06:08:41] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: The only Order operatives we've encountered were Section Eight.
[10.10.2023 06:08:50] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: The shady bunch. Enigmatic.
[10.10.2023 06:08:51] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Troublesome.
[10.10.2023 06:08:58] A/)-Revenant: [There was a moment of air being inhaled, as if about to speak, but hummed, thinking. ]
[10.10.2023 06:09:10] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Mm. There's another that goes by Empress. Run into them once or twice.
[10.10.2023 06:09:18] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Similar deal.
[10.10.2023 06:09:21] A/)-Revenant: ...Hayes usually works with Section Eight.
[10.10.2023 06:09:28] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Hayes? Nicole Hayes?
[10.10.2023 06:09:33] A/)-Revenant: No, Empress.
[10.10.2023 06:09:37] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: ..Hmm.
[10.10.2023 06:09:37] A/)-Revenant: I believe that was her name?
[10.10.2023 06:09:54] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: No wonder they speak in similiar terms.
[10.10.2023 06:09:56] Vagrant.Psyche: "The Empress-named. A hate-filled being."
[10.10.2023 06:10:05] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Not entirely without reason.
[10.10.2023 06:10:12] Vagrant.Psyche: "We cannot hold this against her."
[10.10.2023 06:10:22] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: You and your brethren did a lot to us, Nomad. I think you can understand.
[10.10.2023 06:10:28] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Indeed.
[10.10.2023 06:10:41] Vagrant.Psyche: "As thine did to Ours. The wheel of woe hath turned for many cycles."
[10.10.2023 06:11:06] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: And it will keep turning, so long as there are those who remember.
[10.10.2023 06:11:10] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Or care.
[10.10.2023 06:11:20] A/)-Revenant: Simply being different is enough, as it appears.
[10.10.2023 06:11:24] Vagrant.Psyche: "It matters what is done for the sanctity of Our kin and thine living and yet to live."
[10.10.2023 06:11:38] Vagrant.Psyche: "Not for those returned to the universe."
[10.10.2023 06:11:49] Vagrant.Psyche: "They know peace."
[10.10.2023 06:12:00] A/)-Revenant: You know, Misfit.
[10.10.2023 06:12:05] Misfit: I don't
[10.10.2023 06:12:05] A/)-Revenant: It helps to cloak before getting into range.
[10.10.2023 06:12:10] Misfit: I forgot
[10.10.2023 06:12:15] A/)-Revenant: Eavesdropping doesn't work if we know you're there.
[10.10.2023 06:12:19] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Mm.
[10.10.2023 06:12:21] Misfit: Can I have a do-over
[10.10.2023 06:12:24] Misfit: I'll be back
[10.10.2023 06:12:26] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Probably not.
[10.10.2023 06:12:26] A/)-Revenant: Sure. Re-take.
[10.10.2023 06:12:33] A/)-Revenant: I'll forget I saw you.
[10.10.2023 06:12:41] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: hmm.
[10.10.2023 06:13:20] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: We best move elsewhere.
[10.10.2023 06:13:26] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Before this awkward buffoon returns.
[10.10.2023 06:13:40] Vagrant.Psyche: (Calm. Patience.)
[10.10.2023 06:13:45] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: If you intend on further conversation... that is.
[10.10.2023 06:13:57] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Sure enough, freelancer's gone
[10.10.2023 06:14:05] A/)-Revenant: er, no.
[10.10.2023 06:14:14] A/)-Revenant: He is towards Charlie-Six.
[10.10.2023 06:14:17] Vagrant.Psyche: "Skittering in the dark, hoping to see what awaits?"
[10.10.2023 06:14:21] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Mm.
[10.10.2023 06:14:24] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I see.
[10.10.2023 06:14:41] Vagrant.Psyche: {The sentiment expressed carries with it an oddly human tone. Quite unlike most of the speech so far.}
[10.10.2023 06:15:45] Vagrant.Psyche: "We know of the difficulties posed in these regards. In what We ask of thee and thine. And that thou art not the one to decide"
[10.10.2023 06:15:54] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: You did not do too well at hiding.
[10.10.2023 06:15:58] Misfit: Shhhhhj
[10.10.2023 06:16:09] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Should we dispose of him?
[10.10.2023 06:16:11] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: What's your business here, Freelancer.
[10.10.2023 06:16:25] Misfit: I have none
[10.10.2023 06:16:32] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Good answer.
[10.10.2023 06:16:33] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Then leave.
[10.10.2023 06:16:33] Misfit: That's why I wanted to be hidden
[10.10.2023 06:16:48] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: God bless the uncloaking mechanic.
[10.10.2023 06:16:54] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Mmh. Cruise disruptors failed.
[10.10.2023 06:16:54] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Though I caught him randomly.
[10.10.2023 06:17:17] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: These new ones behave oddly.
[10.10.2023 06:17:33] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: You talkin' about the Nomad?
[10.10.2023 06:17:46] Vagrant.Psyche: [The craft is still. Its stance seems almost meditative as the tendrils of light move back and forth.]
[10.10.2023 06:17:49] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: About the disruptors, though sentiment applies to both.
[10.10.2023 06:18:02] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Ah, you're not wrong.
[10.10.2023 06:18:15] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Wouldn't mind going back to the old issue but, it is what it is
[10.10.2023 06:18:27] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: We don't get to choose. Sadly.
[10.10.2023 06:18:35] Vagrant.Psyche: "The wheel turns."
[10.10.2023 06:18:45] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Wouldn't that be a blessing.
[10.10.2023 06:18:59] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I'm sure the engineers will sort them out sooner or later.
[10.10.2023 06:19:05] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: something about equipment being made by the lowest bidder.
[10.10.2023 06:19:19] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I hope without us knocking common sense into them... directly.
[10.10.2023 06:19:36] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: So long as you don't earn yourself a trip to the brig, I'm all for it.
[10.10.2023 06:19:42] Vagrant.Psyche: "It was Our hope that communing with thee earlier might instill a notion of Our will."
[10.10.2023 06:19:50] Vagrant.Psyche: "That it does not bode ill."
[10.10.2023 06:19:53] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: ...can't guarantee that, but I'll try to be modest and polite.
[10.10.2023 06:20:00] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I'm not overfond of being mindfucked, Nomad.
[10.10.2023 06:20:15] Vagrant.Psyche: "The moment thou gave Us pause, gave Us a sign to exit, We relented."
[10.10.2023 06:20:43] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: You didn't exactly announce your presence with fanfare and trumpets.
[10.10.2023 06:20:55] Vagrant.Psyche: "Wouldst thou have been receptive with such aplomb?"
[10.10.2023 06:20:59] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Nope.
[10.10.2023 06:21:05] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Probably not.
[10.10.2023 06:21:10] Vagrant.Psyche: "Then such was Our course."
[10.10.2023 06:21:30] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Not a great support to the trust argument you were putting forward before.
[10.10.2023 06:21:43] A/)-Revenant: How long were you here, Nomad?
[10.10.2023 06:21:57] Vagrant.Psyche: "It is Our way of communication. If there exists another path, accomodation may be sought."
[10.10.2023 06:22:10] Vagrant.Psyche: "Not ere long."
[10.10.2023 06:22:13] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: That /other/ voice wasn't yours, Revenant. So long enough, I'd wager.
[10.10.2023 06:22:25] Vagrant.Psyche: "We wander across voids."
[10.10.2023 06:22:29] A/)-Revenant: You must have been the trace I picked up then.
[10.10.2023 06:22:41] Vagrant.Psyche: "A possibility."
[10.10.2023 06:22:54] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Ugh, that one picked up Urianger's manner of speech. It's mildly irritating.
[10.10.2023 06:23:12] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: lmao actually true though
[10.10.2023 06:23:30] Vagrant.Psyche: "We have come before thee as openly as We can without begging for destruction."
[10.10.2023 06:23:45] Vagrant.Psyche: "And Our posture, we attempt to make plain."
[10.10.2023 06:23:55] Vagrant.Psyche: "Make of it what thou wilt."
[10.10.2023 06:23:57] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: To be frank, when your kin begs for destruction - they come in larger forms and audible aggression.
[10.10.2023 06:24:16] Vagrant.Psyche: "Then thou knowest this is something else."
[10.10.2023 06:24:24] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Or, well... those /other/ Nomads.
[10.10.2023 06:24:31] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Not like you're visually distinct.
[10.10.2023 06:24:43] Vagrant.Psyche: "Our song marks our difference. Our forms are alike."
[10.10.2023 06:24:43] A/)-Revenant: Some distinctions.
[10.10.2023 06:24:51] A/)-Revenant: Subtle, but present.
[10.10.2023 06:24:58] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Some, but not enough for untrained eye.
[10.10.2023 06:25:02] A/)-Revenant: Likewise to those guardians who pose similarly to the Nomads.
[10.10.2023 06:25:42] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: technically I could justify it as "but I'm not on an ESRD shippy!" but yeah no lol
[10.10.2023 06:26:02] Vagrant.Psyche: "We beseech thee, regardless. To take these words, these offers of advisement and cooperation back. Of mutual interest."
[10.10.2023 06:26:06] 5th|Alex.Kingston: I've had so much stuff back-to-back I'm basically just foregoing the report at this point
[10.10.2023 06:26:14] Vagrant.Psyche: "And of a willingness to provide more than words."
[10.10.2023 06:26:17] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: honestly fair that you don't want to write a novella
[10.10.2023 06:26:22] Vagrant.Psyche: "For the sake of all the voids, we abide."
[10.10.2023 06:26:43] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: What would you suggest as a means to gain trust then, Nomad?
[10.10.2023 06:26:45] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I don't take that decision easily but I'll pass it up along the chain. We're in charge of working with Earhart either way.
[10.10.2023 06:26:56] A/)-Revenant: [She tilts her head, curiosity instilled behind the mask]
[10.10.2023 06:26:57] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Seeing as you're so keen on cooperating
[10.10.2023 06:27:07] Vagrant.Psyche: "We do not know thy mind. And we do not wish to pry, as it would violate trust."
[10.10.2023 06:27:10] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But decision's not mine to make, bear that in mind.
[10.10.2023 06:27:29] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I can almost guarantee you ESRD won't go for this, Nomad.
[10.10.2023 06:27:40] Vagrant.Psyche: "In Our view, what thou would know as -culture-, knowledge is precious. The highest virtue."
[10.10.2023 06:27:51] 5th|Alex.Kingston: R&D almost certainly wouldn't either.
[10.10.2023 06:28:01] A/)-Revenant: Somehow, I don't think Section Eight would appreciate it either.
[10.10.2023 06:28:04] Vagrant.Psyche: "Exchanging in knowledge, therefore, would be Our proposal."
[10.10.2023 06:28:14] A/)-Revenant: Scientists would ~love~ to hound on the possibility of studying something up close, what kind
[10.10.2023 06:28:17] A/)-Revenant: of scientists do you know?
[10.10.2023 06:28:30] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Hm.
[10.10.2023 06:28:39] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I know the kind that consider Nomads an existential threat, does that count?
[10.10.2023 06:28:45] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I think that's exactly the kind of scientist I know.
[10.10.2023 06:28:54] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But he's a little skittish and doesn't know me for too long.
[10.10.2023 06:29:24] Vagrant.Psyche: "We believe the exchange of known things to be a safe foundation."
[10.10.2023 06:29:41] Vagrant.Psyche: "With no requirement placed on the knowledge exchanged."
[10.10.2023 06:29:55] Vagrant.Psyche: "Merely that neither that comes forth to the confluence comes with something other knows."
[10.10.2023 06:30:00] Vagrant.Psyche: "All flourish in this exchange, then."
[10.10.2023 06:30:34] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I'd say we'd be fools to deny /this/ offer, but... how much will actually share my opinion?
[10.10.2023 06:30:41] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Or even care for it, for that matter.
[10.10.2023 06:30:49] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I think you're very optimistic, Hvitrnott.
[10.10.2023 06:31:10] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thy knowledge may be useless to thee, but its novelty may offer new insight to Us. And such is the same in the other way."
[10.10.2023 06:31:16] A/)-Revenant: The Nomads can't do anything if you're in a group...
[10.10.2023 06:31:28] A/)-Revenant: Division, is what makes you vulnerable.
[10.10.2023 06:31:46] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thou hast beaten the Light before. Thou knowest what makest thee safe."
[10.10.2023 06:31:48] A/)-Revenant: What knowledge are you even going to offer up?
[10.10.2023 06:32:14] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Take my word for it - we have /something/ to bring to the table.
[10.10.2023 06:33:07] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Unrelated to Earhart, but to a system it allows passage to.
[10.10.2023 06:33:10] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I'm sure there's a great deal we could offer to the Nomad, but it won't be happening.
[10.10.2023 06:33:23] Vagrant.Psyche: "Even thy culture."
[10.10.2023 06:33:41] Vagrant.Psyche: "Knowing of what gives thee joy. Woe. What expressions exist within thy kin."
[10.10.2023 06:33:55] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I prefer my enemy not to know me.
[10.10.2023 06:33:57] Vagrant.Psyche: "What beauty dost thou contribute to the universe?"
[10.10.2023 06:34:40] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Nobody says I contribute anything; I have a job to keep people safe, that's what I do.
[10.10.2023 06:34:57] Vagrant.Psyche: "This is contribution."
[10.10.2023 06:35:28] Vagrant.Psyche: "The Light before thee began as a bridge. An emissary. And now dreams and weaves creation from these dreams."
[10.10.2023 06:35:29] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Hardly beautiful.
[10.10.2023 06:35:56] A/)-Revenant: Does it have to be pompous?
[10.10.2023 06:36:10] A/)-Revenant: The most honest jobs, that provide, are usually the ones that are considered mundane.
[10.10.2023 06:36:11] Vagrant.Psyche: "All in a hive contribute. All in a hive work towards beauty."
[10.10.2023 06:36:28] Vagrant.Psyche: "Thou hast purpose."
[10.10.2023 06:36:28] A/)-Revenant: I don't think Humanity is comparable to a Hive....
[10.10.2023 06:36:48] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: ...that sounds like what fairies would do, minus the mischief.
[10.10.2023 06:36:54] 5th|Alex.Kingston: We aren't. That should be clear with how often we fight one another over simple things like land.
[10.10.2023 06:37:01] A/)-Revenant: ...well...
[10.10.2023 06:37:15] A/)-Revenant: [mutters] I suppose even ants fight over each other for being from different hives.
[10.10.2023 06:37:29] Vagrant.Psyche: "Conflict is endemic to the universe."
[10.10.2023 06:37:34] Vagrant.Psyche: "This is known."
[10.10.2023 06:37:50] Vagrant.Psyche: "Even particles clash."
[10.10.2023 06:37:50] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: For once you say something that makes sense
[10.10.2023 06:38:00] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: To be entirely honest, conflict was the prime reason man left Sol.
[10.10.2023 06:38:19] Vagrant.Psyche: "What drove thee from thy home, lost children of Sol?"
[10.10.2023 06:38:21] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: And it's not like history isn't stained in blood and reeks of ash and smoke.
[10.10.2023 06:38:27] A/)-Revenant: Made me wonder why the colonies never went back to Sol.
[10.10.2023 06:38:34] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Hell, the first thing I hear of out of that new place is conflict.
[10.10.2023 06:38:37] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Doubt the Coalition just stopped existing.
[10.10.2023 06:38:37] A/)-Revenant: Our technology is vastly more superior than it was before.
[10.10.2023 06:38:40] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Is there anything to come back to?
[10.10.2023 06:38:42] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: They'd probably have a welcoming party.
[10.10.2023 06:38:48] A/)-Revenant: I don't think Sol could compete to our technology.
[10.10.2023 06:39:06] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: It's a lot of effort for very little gain based on information that may or may not be accurate
[10.10.2023 06:39:17] A/)-Revenant: You'd rather forget the roots of Humanity?
[10.10.2023 06:39:29] 5th|Alex.Kingston: We may not have a choice in the matter.
[10.10.2023 06:39:31] Vagrant.Psyche: (Interest.)
[10.10.2023 06:39:33] A/)-Revenant: I think it's important to remember where we came from.
[10.10.2023 06:39:36] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: And with so many resources poured into a potentially fruitless affair...
[10.10.2023 06:39:47] A/)-Revenant: Jump technology has advanced rapidly.
[10.10.2023 06:39:54] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Are you really gonna lecture me on where we came from when you're half made of metal?
[10.10.2023 06:39:57] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: ...we have to keep too many belligerents at bay. Same is true for every House.
[10.10.2023 06:40:01] A/)-Revenant: You assume too much.
[10.10.2023 06:40:13] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Uh-huh.
[10.10.2023 06:40:24] A/)-Revenant: Cruise technology could make the trip far easier, but Humanity itself will always continue to fight amongst itself.
[10.10.2023 06:40:45] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: You are making a relevant point. We shouldn't forget our roots.
[10.10.2023 06:40:58] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But should we return there if all it brings will be more fighting?
[10.10.2023 06:41:11] A/)-Revenant: Fighting is just inevitable with Humanity.
[10.10.2023 06:41:11] Vagrant.Psyche: "To remember is one act. To return is another."
[10.10.2023 06:41:27] Vagrant.Psyche: "One remembers the past, but cannot return to it."
[10.10.2023 06:41:38] A/)-Revenant: Not everyone possesses empathy, feeling of anothers pain.
[10.10.2023 06:41:40] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But if it can be prevented - shouldn't we take the opportunity and do that instead?
[10.10.2023 06:41:50] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Too many don't, if you ask me.
[10.10.2023 06:42:05] A/)-Revenant: Do you think that fighting has helped Humanity? Or made it worse?
[10.10.2023 06:42:18] A/)-Revenant: The innate desire to compete, to constantly outgrow each other...
[10.10.2023 06:42:38] A/)-Revenant: Or is it so blind with greed and hatred that they have failed to see that they are slowly destroying themselves and everything
[10.10.2023 06:42:40] A/)-Revenant: they surround?
[10.10.2023 06:42:44] A/)-Revenant: Resources aren't going to last forever.
[10.10.2023 06:42:56] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Has something to do with bloody conflicts and may have served our advance well.
[10.10.2023 06:43:00] Vagrant.Psyche: "From the learned perspective of Light and Darkness, we have found that thy drive is nuanced in evaluation."
[10.10.2023 06:43:02] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But at the cost of lives.
[10.10.2023 06:43:43] A/)-Revenant: I saw the Insurgent executions. Of those who surrendered. Do you think that these things were rightfully
[10.10.2023 06:43:44] A/)-Revenant: done?
[10.10.2023 06:44:08] 5th|Alex.Kingston: God, I thought I forgotten about those..
[10.10.2023 06:44:14] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I don't think they were guilty of high treason. But my opinion matters little.
[10.10.2023 06:44:23] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: I think that traitors made their choices.
[10.10.2023 06:44:40] Vagrant.Psyche: "The dead remain the dead. Most of the time."
[10.10.2023 06:44:41] A/)-Revenant: People do not become 'evil' from nothing.
[10.10.2023 06:44:58] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Didn't say they were evil. Said they were traitors. There's a difference.
[10.10.2023 06:45:14] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Becoming 'evil' is just defying a part of themselves to bring about the change they believe is needed.
[10.10.2023 06:46:16] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Fun as this conversation is, I'm running low on fuel. I ought to get back to Norfolk.
[10.10.2023 06:46:34] Vagrant.Psyche: "And of Our words?"
[10.10.2023 06:46:54] [LN]-Lillian.Olson: Don't know what you want me to say, Nomad. I think I've made it clear I don't buy it.
[10.10.2023 06:47:09] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I've made my point. I'll push it up the chain but don't set your hopes high.
[10.10.2023 06:47:14] Vagrant.Psyche: "We shall hope this changes, or that thy kin believe otherwise."
[10.10.2023 06:47:18] A/)-Revenant: What did you even hope to get from them? Almost seems inevitable that they would decline,
[10.10.2023 06:47:32] Vagrant.Psyche: "One must try."
[10.10.2023 06:47:32] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Don't assume, Revenant.
[10.10.2023 06:47:45] Vagrant.Psyche: "This is an axiom of thy kin."
[10.10.2023 06:47:47] A/)-Revenant: Almost.
[10.10.2023 06:48:01] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: But to be fair.
[10.10.2023 06:48:10] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: We've never faced a predicament like this.
[10.10.2023 06:48:25] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Who knows if even the most stalwart change their minds.
[10.10.2023 06:48:29] Vagrant.Psyche: "There have been times like this throughout the history of thy kind."
[10.10.2023 06:48:44] Vagrant.Psyche: "These are the moments that define thy kind."
[10.10.2023 06:48:50] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I see you're conveniently more acquainted with it that I've expected.
[10.10.2023 06:48:57] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Good. Spares me the explanations.
[10.10.2023 06:49:08] A/)-Revenant: Eh. not really.
[10.10.2023 06:49:20] A/)-Revenant: Your assumption, I'm making use of their interest to chat.
[10.10.2023 06:49:31] A/)-Revenant: Each conversation is good for data.
[10.10.2023 06:50:12] Vagrant.Psyche: "The very act of singing in this place, this moment, with thee. This is important, regardless of what immediate outcome--
[10.10.2023 06:50:15] Vagrant.Psyche: --sprang forth."
[10.10.2023 06:50:39] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: Your offer best be worth it.
[10.10.2023 06:50:52] Vagrant.Psyche: "We shall see."
[10.10.2023 06:51:04] 5th|Alex.Kingston: Yes we shall.
[10.10.2023 06:51:04] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: I'll follow Olson's suite and RTB... for now. Kingston, don't loom around alone for too long.
[10.10.2023 06:51:15] Vagrant.Psyche: "Stars keep thee."
[10.10.2023 06:51:23] 46th|TFA-Hvitrnott: You as well.
[10.10.2023 06:51:50] A/)-Revenant: Well, quite typical that the scent was just you, Nomad.