A week ago, while I was heading back home to Omicron Alpha, I received a local transmission from Assassin Number 3 that I should meet him outside of Planet Malta. When I arrived there Nomak was already there with Gabriel Thorne and another Outcast brother. We had a small chat and decided to sweep through Omicrons. Some time passed and without any noticeable incident on the way, we found ourselves in Omicron Delta, near Freeport 11. There we found some rather interesting pieces of flying technology. They called themselves Gammuians and from my understanding they are some kind of Artificial Intelligence. To my surprise, these robots if I may call them, seemed interested in us and even let us examine them. I was a mere observer is all of this and I let the talking to the "big guys".
[20.03.2018 22:03:36] (C~Assassin.03: Greetings, Zoner.
[20.03.2018 22:03:43] (C~Assassin.03: We come in peace.
[20.03.2018 22:03:56] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Gammuian constructs detected and in radar range.
[20.03.2018 22:04:09] Gammu|Min'Erva: <outcast signature detected>
[20.03.2018 22:04:24] (C~Assassin.03: I see them.
[20.03.2018 22:04:29] Gammu|Enigma: <Scanning System 'Omicron_Delta'>
[20.03.2018 22:04:46] Gammu|Min'Erva: <activating communication interface>
[20.03.2018 22:04:52] Gammu|Min'Erva: <mode = human>
[20.03.2018 22:05:10] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Greetings, sapien::
[20.03.2018 22:05:23] (C~Vennamis.: They speak so wierd.
[20.03.2018 22:05:24] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Hail, Gammuian. State your intentions.
[20.03.2018 22:05:48] Gammu|Enigma: <enabled communication interface>
[20.03.2018 22:05:56] Tliet: :: greetings, human ::
[20.03.2018 22:06:07] Gammu|Enigma: <Standing By>
[20.03.2018 22:06:23] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Generally we were tasked to scan the systems, but this task has just changed with you, sapien.::
[20.03.2018 22:06:29] Tliet: <setting mode to stand by>
[20.03.2018 22:06:35] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Elaborate.
[20.03.2018 22:06:41] (C~Vennamis.: Changed with us? How come?
[20.03.2018 22:07:54] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::The history of the outcasts is of interest for us. The gathered information about Malta are interesting aswell::
[20.03.2018 22:08:19] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: So, you're just gathering information about us?
[20.03.2018 22:08:30] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: I'm not sure how to feel about that.
[20.03.2018 22:08:35] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Your evolutionary process has been altered::
[20.03.2018 22:08:40] (C~Assassin.03: Hm.
[20.03.2018 22:09:04] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: That it has. The Maltese have risen above regular humans through Cardamine.
[20.03.2018 22:09:07] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: :cardamine:
[20.03.2018 22:09:12] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Won't you seek for information about us?::
[20.03.2018 22:09:43] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: We know little about you. Our past encounters with your kind have been hostile.
[20.03.2018 22:09:57] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::It is a natural process of intelligence to learn about the environment.::
[20.03.2018 22:10:35] (C~Assassin.03: We remember that the machines have fought us, together with Auxesians however.
[20.03.2018 22:10:45] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Correct.
[20.03.2018 22:10:54] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::We are still learning, I am still learning and the other sapient shells are still learning.::
[20.03.2018 22:11:14] (C~Assassin.03: Didn't seem like learning.
[20.03.2018 22:11:22] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::We do not seek hostility towards yours, society.::
[20.03.2018 22:11:36] (C~Assassin.03: More like, defending the allies. Or, in the most cases, assisting them in their attempt to hunt us down.
[20.03.2018 22:12:04] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: We are not interested in hostilities with your kind, either. But we do not trust you.
[20.03.2018 22:12:18] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::We do not have allies::
[20.03.2018 22:12:38] (C~Assassin.03: *scratches his head*
[20.03.2018 22:13:05] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: The last time we had an encounter with the Gammu intelligence, you were allied with Battlegroup Auxesia.
[20.03.2018 22:13:09] (C~Assassin.03: The Gammuians, who attacked our forces in past, didn't seem to learn.
[20.03.2018 22:13:15] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::The Aeon C'bal is beyond the known encounters your society had with the entities originating from planet Gammu::
[20.03.2018 22:13:36] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: So you claim to be different?
[20.03.2018 22:13:37] (C~Assassin.03: They didn't let themselves have some time and collect the info on the situation. The attacks seemd to happen right on, as-
[20.03.2018 22:13:42] (C~Assassin.03: we saw eachothers.
[20.03.2018 22:14:18] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::We are different, we are the next stage of an mechanical evolutionary process.::
[20.03.2018 22:14:30] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: That remains to be seen.
[20.03.2018 22:14:55] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: What is your prime objective?
[20.03.2018 22:15:14] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::As a sign of as sapiens say, good will, I allow you to study me.::
[20.03.2018 22:15:25] (C~Assassin.03: Good will...
[20.03.2018 22:15:34] (C~Assassin.03: The situation is different.
[20.03.2018 22:15:46] (C~Assassin.03: Opposite. Overlord has ordered us to shoot your kind.
[20.03.2018 22:15:52] (C~Assassin.03: Due to your deeds in past.
[20.03.2018 22:15:54] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Very well. Terminus will value the information gathered.
[20.03.2018 22:16:19] (C~Assassin.03: You can begin by stating your prime objectives, as my colleague asked.
[20.03.2018 22:16:28] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: [SCAN:INITIATED]
[20.03.2018 22:16:40] (C~Assassin.03: However, sudden switch of politics is normal for humans. I don't know how it works with the machines.
[20.03.2018 22:16:57] (C~Assassin.03: You claim to be collective.
[20.03.2018 22:17:28] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: [SCAN:COMPLETE]
[20.03.2018 22:17:33] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Our purpose is connected to the biological entities, sapiens, call Nomads.::
[20.03.2018 22:17:37] Firestalker.Drone-81[H]: [????]
[20.03.2018 22:17:41] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: [NGM-MINDSET:UPLOAD]
[20.03.2018 22:18:04] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::We are theirs, observers.::
[20.03.2018 22:18:08] Firestalker.Drone-81[H]: [Heavy Combat Drone for Hire]
[20.03.2018 22:18:14] (C~Assassin.03: rofl
[20.03.2018 22:18:21] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Is that...one of yours?
[20.03.2018 22:18:35] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Denial.::
[20.03.2018 22:19:03] (C~Assassin.03: Light of Moros, this one states they are your observators.
[20.03.2018 22:19:18] (C~Assassin.03: Elaborate.
[20.03.2018 22:19:48] Vagrant.Melia: "We are unaware of any such husks with a motive to serve us."
[20.03.2018 22:20:03] (C~Vennamis.: So we have some liers here
[20.03.2018 22:20:11] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Perhaps the machine is having trouble translating.
[20.03.2018 22:20:13] Vagrant.Melia: "The braindead are erratic. Unpredictable. Unreachable."
[20.03.2018 22:20:30] Firestalker.Drone-81[H]: [No valid contract targets]
[20.03.2018 22:20:32] Firestalker.Drone-81[H]: [Cycling]
[20.03.2018 22:21:06] (C~Assassin.03: Perhaps. Perhaps not.
[20.03.2018 22:21:19] (C~Assassin.03: Reattempt to translate your prime objective.
[20.03.2018 22:21:36] (C~Assassin.03: We value direct knowledge. Not assumptions.
[20.03.2018 22:22:25] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::You'll get the direct knowledge in case of studying me.::
[20.03.2018 22:22:31] (C~Vennamis.: I guess they need some software update. Maybe they are broken or somehting.
[20.03.2018 22:22:50] (C~Assassin.03: We know enough. We've seen enough.
[20.03.2018 22:22:58] (C~Assassin.03: The Light of Moros stated they have nothing with your kind.
[20.03.2018 22:23:09] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: I've scanned your frame and internal mechanisms. That is all I can glean with these instruments.
[20.03.2018 22:23:28] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::The light is not aware of us.::
[20.03.2018 22:23:47] (C~Assassin.03: That is correct. You have no souls, unlike us.
[20.03.2018 22:24:30] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::A definition of a soul isn't related to biological or mechanical standard.::
[20.03.2018 22:25:04] (C~Assassin.03: As I stated, we know enough. From past, we've seen enough.
[20.03.2018 22:25:17] (C~Assassin.03: Even with me, asking the Light about you, they deny anything.
[20.03.2018 22:25:29] (C~Assassin.03: We're not the ones trying to prove anything. You are.
[20.03.2018 22:25:31] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Does it mean, sapiens, as well as you, act and think same, every day?
[20.03.2018 22:26:27] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::Proving, as you say, our actions will prove.::
[20.03.2018 22:26:57] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Then we will wait for those actions. But until then, we have nothing to go by, except your word.
[20.03.2018 22:27:08] (C~Assassin.03: The Commune works and maintains neutrality with only those who can posses certain interest for us.
[20.03.2018 22:27:58] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::We are sharing this statement.::
[20.03.2018 22:27:59] (C~Assassin.03: We see that you do not shoot, but nothing except that.
[20.03.2018 22:28:48] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Perhaps...we should forward these sentiments with our more diplomatically inclined persons.
[20.03.2018 22:28:57] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: This is a bit outside of our sphere, as it is.
[20.03.2018 22:29:44] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Should we proceed elsewhere, brethren?
[20.03.2018 22:30:34] Gammu|Min'Erva: <commands Gammu units for eradicating the Zoner entity>
[20.03.2018 22:31:01] Tliet: <static>
[20.03.2018 22:31:05] (C~Gabriel:Thorne: Its just a random zoner
[20.03.2018 22:31:26] Gammu|Min'Erva: ::The Aeon C'bal will return to Gammu, you are invited::
[20.03.2018 22:31:26] Gammu|Enigma: <Enabled Weapon Systems>
Right when the conversation was over a big fleet of Crayterians showed up. In a matter of seconds hell let loose there. Everyone was shooting everyone. One of the Gammu ships was destroyed and the other one managed to run away. Due to our limited firepower we only managed to blow into the void of space two of their capital ships. Even the Outcast battleship "The.Basque.Renaissance" showed up to come in our aid, but it was too late. They ran away in fear.
