> Order ;; From: Shimamori

[Omicron]

Tohoku

Good day. My name is Grand Admiral Michal Golanski, I will be representing The Order in this communication. We recognize you here representing not Kusari and its government, but at best your own Household. Alike in the spirit it was suggested, I ask for understanding that I am not going to follow the Court etiquette when explaining our point of view and knowledge.

Concerning your encounters with the Nomads. What makes them particularly insidious enemies is that their preferred methods are ones of corruption and lies. They learned the existence of emotions from us but it is difficult to say if anything beyond animalistic ‘anger’ and ‘curiosity’ is native to them. However, what is important is that they can use those against us. Nomads are incapable of friendship: it is a ploy to get you sympathetic to them and make you lower your defences… either to abduct their target afterwards or ‘peacefully’ assimilate into the hive if the individual is sufficiently naive. In the best scenario, the human psyche is destroyed beyond the point of retaining consciousness. At worst, you are stuck inside your own mind as something else, alien and far more sinister, is utilising and altering your memories, mind and body.

The second encounter is presumably a Scorpion gunboat. First spotted in deep Omega systems in 816 AS, it is biomechanical being compounded from Nomad and human biomass as well as more ‘traditional’ metal components. We do not know much beyond its outward physical specifications and characteristics as none was ever captured intact. All we know is that our scanners confirm the presence of humans inside, but without any amenities or space to house even a single crewmember. What scarce information we have on it is not classified and we are sharing it now since your intelligence service - in particular a former agency called Kempentai - did not enjoy a reputation of being competent when it comes to Nomad menace.

As a high Kusari dignitary, you are also their target. Regular pilots may serve well as dispensable pilots, but a VIP or their family member will serve as staging ground to a higher ranked position, or an infiltrator of importance: using their influence to cause more armed conflict, drive up the death count or syphon more assets and bodies to Aoi Iseijin / Das Wilde. We eradicated this problem among our personnel by regularly scheduled medical tests on a monthly basis. Every agent coming from hiding, long-term mission or returning from missing status is mandatorily checked. Every individual wishing to board a base or warship in our service will not be allowed to roam even into the canteen without undergoing this non-invasive procedure.

Sadly, the current state of affairs in Tohoku and Kusari at large will remain so long Arch continues to serve as Nomad’s primary base of operations in your House. I thank you for your information nonetheless and advise you to seek further contact with us in situations you have anything else to relay to us, or are in need of information that we can afford to disclose. Of course, under no circumstances ever reveal that you are in fact in contact with us to members of Kusari’s governmental apparatus. Severe paranoia against threats real or perceived; external or internal is embedded in every intelligence operative regardless of nation or borders.

Grand Admiral Michal Golanski
1st Battlegroup "Wargods", Black Fleet

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