Comm ID: Juan Lucendez
To: The Corsair Elders
ID Trace: Omicron Gamma, Planet Crete
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By now most of you have gotten the transmission from Sephardi, and I most certainly assume he is waiting for our response.
If you look back into the logs you can see that the Nomad codenamed Harbinger contacted me when I was stationed in Delta. In his communication, we can clearly see that the script from Harbinger, and the one from the Prophecy are similar if not identical. I have also intercepted communications from several Zoner groups that have had similar experiences, most notably an encounter by one Tannik Seldon and the Nomad Taurvi, again identical.
This leads one to assume that even though these are individual ships, they process the same thoughts, and talk in the same voice. The Nomads in this region of space seem to be ... cycling ... through the same thought patterns. Indeed, the Nomads may not even be communicating intentionally, it may be that humans close to a Keeper ship may unintentionally pick up Nomad signals. This is all conjecture, of course.
Now ... what to do about this obvious threat to Corsair power in Delta? I do not believe that we should make peace with these aliens. Our forefathers had battled them for centuries, and I don't believe that they can be cowed now, plus if they take out the Freeport and we do nothing, we would be in a much worse position, diplomatically as well as militarily, to do anything about them. Thus, I have a proposal.
I have been staying on Crete for a while. As I walk up and down the streets of our home, I am remembered of the fact that we still have famine all around us. Even though trade has made our hardship easier, my heart is saddened at the position of the common man and woman. Therefore I offer a proposal, that the Brotherhood station our new bombers and a wing of Titans at Freeport 11 to defend against the Nomads, and in return the Zoners give us the necessary components to build our own biodomes in a system controlled by the Brotherhood in the near future.
This would strengthen our hold on that region of space, giving Zoners the protection they want. And in return we get new biodomes to feed the hungry masses on Crete and focus our full attention on expanding the Corsair empire into the Omicrons and house systems. We would not even need a new contract, as our contract to defend Gran Canaria could be widened to encompass this project. With a majority of the Elder's support, I will send this proposal to the Council of Zoners for ratification.
Lucendez out.
//Transmission End.
"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."
