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Indentification: Tara Williams
Location: Omicron Delta
Recipient: The Seraphim
Subject: Encounter in Omicron Delta

Fellow Seraphims,

Today, as I undocked from Freeport 11 to move into Munich for recon for our next mission, I saw this.

A Bustard-class carrier. Emitting definitive Nomad readings. Naturally, I was surprised and scared and caught completely off guard. To my further surprise, I heard human voice over comms immediately. The conversation was strange and frightening, to say the least. I don't know what to do about it. It could be a trap, for what I know. They didn't try to lure me closer to their ship, but it could have been a tactics to attract someone bigger. Although if it is not, I feel that we need to rescue those poor souls somehow.

We could inform the Order about that ship. They might know what to do about it. Or we could involve some Zoner ships capable of breaking the hull of the Bustard. Then we could pick those prisoners. I just want to do something about it.

A full log of the encounter is attached.

Comm log

[12.06.2017 06:04:05] Tara.Williams: *gasp*
[12.06.2017 06:04:08] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Oh look, a Zoner.
[12.06.2017 06:04:29] Tara.Williams: How is this..
[12.06.2017 06:04:41] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Do you want the tearjerking tale or the griping tale?
[12.06.2017 06:04:41] Tara.Williams: Who are you, for the heaven's sake?
[12.06.2017 06:04:59] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: This is the APM-Klendathu. Who are you?
[12.06.2017 06:05:22] Tara.Williams: Why are you.. A Nomad?
[12.06.2017 06:05:37] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: I'm not a Nomad. Well, how to put this...
[12.06.2017 06:05:38] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: This is... ***'ours' sighted Tara.Williams***
[12.06.2017 06:06:00] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We're the pet humans of a Nomad Hive.
[12.06.2017 06:06:31] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It's slightly smaller than the average one, but the standard Bustard reactor apparently works just fine to feed them.
[12.06.2017 06:06:32] Tara.Williams: What kind of APM are you
[12.06.2017 06:06:56] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: AP Manufacturing? The Core? The true heroes of humanity who will probably save us at some point?
[12.06.2017 06:07:03] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: You know, gloria aeterna est?
[12.06.2017 06:07:33] Tara.Williams: How many of you are on board?
[12.06.2017 06:08:10] Tara.Williams: I.. cannot understand this.
[12.06.2017 06:08:12] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Me, the still decomposing body of Guardian Neyman over there, and about ten others.
[12.06.2017 06:08:50] Tara.Williams: *panting heavily*
[12.06.2017 06:09:03] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: I know it's big, but still.
[12.06.2017 06:09:28] Tara.Williams: What... *gulp* What are you doing... here?
[12.06.2017 06:10:03] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Well, the big guy is doing whatever it wants, which consists apparently of watching humans in their native habitat.
[12.06.2017 06:10:21] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Were you aboard, you'd feel the amusement literally rattling the bridge.
[12.06.2017 06:10:56] Tara.Williams: No, thanks, I will take your word for that.
[12.06.2017 06:12:29] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: So what brings you all the way out here into this lovely pocket of space called the Imperium Omicronis?
[12.06.2017 06:13:15] Tara.Williams: I have an unfinished business... at this station.
[12.06.2017 06:13:35] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Ah. Chasing down your ex?
[12.06.2017 06:13:54] Tara.Williams: Now that I mentioned it.. I have a crazy idea that I cannot shake.
[12.06.2017 06:14:05] Tara.Williams: Not exactly, but you are surprisingly close.
[12.06.2017 06:14:23] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It's always interpersonal drama.
[12.06.2017 06:14:37] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We've had nothing but Kusari soap operas the last four months please kill me.
[12.06.2017 06:15:12] Tara.Williams: Kusarians are good in that.
[12.06.2017 06:15:57] Tara.Williams: So just a question... Since when you were around? Being... pet humans as you put it.
[12.06.2017 06:16:29] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Well, Neyman, or The Master, as he insisted we call him, ran the Klendathu into the wild about a year ago.
[12.06.2017 06:16:39] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Then we got to spend four months adrift.
[12.06.2017 06:16:59] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Then we found out exactly why we were adrift in a fairly horrible manner.
[12.06.2017 06:17:34] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Never ever mix Cardamine, Azurite, and Power Cells.
[12.06.2017 06:17:40] Tara.Williams: Why was it?
[12.06.2017 06:17:44] Tara.Williams: Why?
[12.06.2017 06:17:54] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: You'll get a smart Nomad hijacking your ship and subjecting you to horrible fates.
[12.06.2017 06:18:26] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: In our case, we're literally stuck on the bridge getting force-fed unprocessed Synth Gel every few hours.
[12.06.2017 06:18:43] Tara.Williams: Were you in Delta when the Freeport was bombarded?
[12.06.2017 06:18:49] Tara.Williams: *gasps*
[12.06.2017 06:18:51] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We missed that.
[12.06.2017 06:19:15] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We disappeared, what was it, about a week before that case of shenanigans.
[12.06.2017 06:20:02] Tara.Williams: Did you by any chance pick up anyone in space since then?
[12.06.2017 06:20:25] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Apart from what became our nice friendly Hive? Nobody.
[12.06.2017 06:20:47] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We picked up someone who had taken a bit of the Order brainwashing and dropped her off at the Freeport once.
[12.06.2017 06:20:54] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Never found out what happened to her.
[12.06.2017 06:20:54] Tara.Williams: That was crazy idea... crazy hope.
[12.06.2017 06:21:16] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Who are you looking for?
[12.06.2017 06:21:43] Tara.Williams: Uhm... a man. Lost in space for several months now
[12.06.2017 06:21:54] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Does the man have a name?
[12.06.2017 06:22:56] Tara.Williams: Yes, well, it probably won't hurt now. Alex. Alex Mush.
[12.06.2017 06:23:04] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Doesn't ring a bell.
[12.06.2017 06:23:24] Tara.Williams: I'm not sure if I'm disappointed or relieved, to be honest.
[12.06.2017 06:23:41] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It's a big Sirius.
[12.06.2017 06:24:32] Tara.Williams: What happened to you sounds terrible. I hope the fate was more... merciful to him.
[12.06.2017 06:24:57] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Are you kidding? I can claim back pay for a whole year and stuff when I get busted out. The interim sucks, but eh.
[12.06.2017 06:25:12] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Also, it's not like we're getting eaten or anything scary.
[12.06.2017 06:25:31] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: But yeah, I get the feeling.
[12.06.2017 06:26:30] Tara.Williams: I'm not even sure you are not just recordings in some mind-bending alien supercomputer.
[12.06.2017 06:26:48] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Um... Can I wave at you from the bridge?
[12.06.2017 06:26:56] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It's the one up top.
[12.06.2017 06:27:11] Tara.Williams: I'm too scared to get that close.
[12.06.2017 06:27:25] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Do you want me to note that I don't bite?
[12.06.2017 06:27:57] Tara.Williams: As I understand, you are not really quite in control...
[12.06.2017 06:28:12] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Well, if I ask it nicely, it occasionally does stuff.
[12.06.2017 06:28:22] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: You know, if it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.
[12.06.2017 06:28:53] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Are you going to not, what was it, firespit the nice lady?
[12.06.2017 06:29:27] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: I'm going to assume the temperature increase is a good thing.
[12.06.2017 06:29:58] Tara.Williams: Uhm... not sure I get it.. pardon me, I'm busy trying not to piss my pants.
[12.06.2017 06:30:17] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Guess what it's been smelling like in here for the last literal months.
[12.06.2017 06:33:01] Tara.Williams: So you hope you will be released eventually?
[12.06.2017 06:33:18] Tara.Williams: By that creature that is in control?
[12.06.2017 06:33:26] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Be released? Not a chance. Core blowing the Nomad to pieces and us getting picked up? More likely.
[12.06.2017 06:34:40] Tara.Williams: Uh, I doubt they will bother.
[12.06.2017 06:34:59] Tara.Williams: Judging by what I've seen from them.
[12.06.2017 06:35:03] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: They will. Probably.
[12.06.2017 06:35:48] Tara.Williams: For your own good, I hope it will be someone else.
[12.06.2017 06:36:12] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: They owe us a year of back pay is why we hope they pick us up.
[12.06.2017 06:37:30] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Also, The Order hates Core institutionally, and apparently the Zoners have some kind of bone to pick.
[12.06.2017 06:37:39] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: That narrows our options down.
[12.06.2017 06:39:53] Tara.Williams: *shakes head* This is weird. What is your name?
[12.06.2017 06:40:44] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: The name's Brooks. Bobby Brooks.
[12.06.2017 06:41:04] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: And my career of violence and money was cut short in a horrible manner.
[12.06.2017 06:41:43] Tara.Williams: Bobby, I assume that thing hears everything we are talking about?
[12.06.2017 06:42:08] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It hears it, probably comprehends it, and is just watching for its own amusement.
[12.06.2017 06:42:53] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Also, this thing won't let me do the personal identification thing.
[12.06.2017 06:43:30] Tara.Williams: \
[12.06.2017 06:44:10] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: You okay, man? Your comm's started to take a little bit of static or something.
[12.06.2017 06:44:36] Tara.Williams: I have strange feeling.
[12.06.2017 06:44:53] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: This whole thing is surreal.
[12.06.2017 06:45:03] Tara.Williams: Could you even move?
[12.06.2017 06:45:31] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It takes all of five minutes to cross the bridge because viscosity is a thing now.
[12.06.2017 06:45:38] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: But yes, we can move. Vaguely.
[12.06.2017 06:46:16] Tara.Williams: This is not good. I mean if you could make it to the airlock..
[12.06.2017 06:46:29] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: No airlocks on this bridge.
[12.06.2017 06:46:37] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We tried six months ago.
[12.06.2017 06:46:45] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: We're stuck here indefinitely.
[12.06.2017 06:46:56] Tara.Williams: Yes, silly of me.
[12.06.2017 06:47:26] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: To be fair, you're a Zoner in a modular ship.
[12.06.2017 06:47:31] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It's a perspective thing.
[12.06.2017 06:47:50] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: You also have two armor upgrades in your possession.
[12.06.2017 06:48:44] Tara.Williams: I sweeped the system, looking for survivors or evidence, this was on one of the wrecks.
[12.06.2017 06:48:52] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Ah.
[12.06.2017 06:49:51] Tara.Williams: If I survive this, I will let someone know you are there.
[12.06.2017 06:50:26] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Thanks. I appreciate it.
[12.06.2017 06:51:28] Tara.Williams: Now I feel it's probably better for me to start running.
[12.06.2017 06:51:41] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Oh what's the worst that could happen?
[12.06.2017 06:52:28] Tara.Williams: The worst is if the thing decides it wants me on board.
[12.06.2017 06:52:31] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: Just tell someone we're still here.
[12.06.2017 06:52:44] Tara.Williams: I will.
[12.06.2017 06:52:51] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: All right.
[12.06.2017 06:53:23] Tara.Williams: You just hang on in there.
[12.06.2017 06:53:41] Agg~Exo'Dai: ?: It's only been eight months. We'll be fine. Probably.

With best regards,
Williams, Tara

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