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From: The Gryphon The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: RV-Pennybrooke

Encryption Strength: Impossible

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Director,

You should take the time to read over the attached records from my pet project. I ran into...a collaborator for the K'hara, who seems to confirm my standing theory regarding Baxter Objects. In any case we should keep an eye on Katherine, it might be to our benefit.

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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Attachments-(2)

Flight Logs

[04.06.2023 17:00:27] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Ahoy
[04.06.2023 17:00:42] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Good day, Zoner.
[04.06.2023 17:01:28] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: How are affairs in the Edge?
[04.06.2023 17:01:45] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Been better. Sean: (muffled) try it now
[04.06.2023 17:01:59] /beacon
[04.06.2023 17:01:59] 2023-06-04 17:01:59 SMT WARNING: A hyperspace beacon has been activated by SLRC-HV>Gryphon
[04.06.2023 17:02:10] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Well, at least that works now
[04.06.2023 17:02:19] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Oh, interesting.
[04.06.2023 17:02:21] 2023-06-04 17:02:21 SMT WARNING: A hyperspace beacon has been activated by RV-Pennybrooke
[04.06.2023 17:02:30] Hyperspace beacon has decayed.
[04.06.2023 17:02:41] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Been trying to get more and more of her online, slowly but surely
[04.06.2023 17:02:53] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Did you register the hyperspace ping?
[04.06.2023 17:03:08] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Both ours and yours
[04.06.2023 17:03:28] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Very good. Systems working nominally then.
[04.06.2023 17:04:20] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: How about yourself, any excitment on your end?
[04.06.2023 17:04:47] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Not particularly-
[04.06.2023 17:05:04] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: This visitor might change that, though.
[04.06.2023 17:05:16] Vigil-7|S8: Zoner vessel, be advised: The RV Pennybrooke is a presumed Nomad sympathizer or infectee.
[04.06.2023 17:05:34] 2023-06-04 17:05:34 SMT Traffic control alert: OSI-Waddlesworth has requested to dock
[04.06.2023 17:05:35] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I haven't seen anything, so you'll mind your manners won't you?
[04.06.2023 17:05:51] Vigil-7|S8: Evidence is publically available.
[04.06.2023 17:05:55] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I prefer "confidante".
[04.06.2023 17:06:05] Vigil-7|S8: They admit to it themselves.
[04.06.2023 17:06:38] OSI-Waddlesworth: Greetings to all guys here
[04.06.2023 17:06:44] Vigil-7|S8: Hail.
[04.06.2023 17:06:58] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Not that it takes much to raise the ire of the Order. Their definition of "dangerous threats" is rather broad.
[04.06.2023 17:07:03] Hyperspace beacon cooldown complete.
[04.06.2023 17:07:13] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Okay, /say/ your telling the truth, and this, rather lackluster gunboat is a /threat/
[04.06.2023 17:07:53] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: What exactly are you looking to have happen, after all the Core also does the same song and dance, threats and damnation
[04.06.2023 17:07:54] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I don't intend to start any trouble at the Freeport. I'm not a barbarian, you know.
[04.06.2023 17:08:41] Vigil-7|S8: The target will be destroyed once a safe opportunity presents itself. Until then, please cease any futher communication with -
[04.06.2023 17:08:43] Vigil-7|S8: the target.
[04.06.2023 17:08:44] Death: 46th|Callum.Hayes was put out of action by Alts (Gun).
[04.06.2023 17:09:20] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: If the Core do show up, I'd be happy to shoot them first. That could be a way to form tentative bonds.
[04.06.2023 17:09:25] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: So, tell me, what does a K'Hara confidante...do?
[04.06.2023 17:09:45] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please cease any further communication with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:10:18] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Sean: (muffled) Let me tell him off, please, Sailas only got a little pissy last time
[04.06.2023 17:10:23] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Much of that is what I suppose would be considered classified intelligence work.
[04.06.2023 17:10:46] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: But an important point is to counter the fanaticism of the Order, and the Core.
[04.06.2023 17:11:03] RV-Pennybrooke: This is quite an easy task, because they are quite eager to antagonize other humans without outside help.
[04.06.2023 17:11:15] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Do you publish your reports....or is there some sort of /paywall/
[04.06.2023 17:11:18] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, the target is admitting to spying for the Nomads and undermining the security of Sirius. Please cease further -
[04.06.2023 17:11:20] Vigil-7|S8: communications.
[04.06.2023 17:12:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I have published a number of articles, but most of them are in relation to atmospheric physics, in scientific-
[04.06.2023 17:12:07] RV-Pennybrooke: journals.
[04.06.2023 17:12:21] RV-Pennybrooke: I'm afraid you'd find them quite boring if you aren't yourself a physicist.
[04.06.2023 17:12:39] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *sneers* ew, rocks, yes I know you study the bit /above/ the rocks, but still....rocks
[04.06.2023 17:13:27] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I did write a few articles on the Sigma war, for some er....rather underground publications. I don't know if they're
[04.06.2023 17:13:30] RV-Pennybrooke: still available.
[04.06.2023 17:14:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Dreadful times. We can be glad that the current day is without major wars.
[04.06.2023 17:14:20] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I don't know, give liberty enough time and there will be a boil over in Penny
[04.06.2023 17:14:45] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please cease further communications with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:14:56] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Indeed. I have been considering moving to Liberty. I do wish to put an ear to this bubbling conflict.
[04.06.2023 17:15:34] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Well, don't go to Erie, or do, but don't be surprised
[04.06.2023 17:15:59] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: The role of a war correspondent is a thankless and risky one, but someone must do it.
[04.06.2023 17:16:42] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *chuckles* I bet the Gazzette would pay you a pretty penny for a frontline story
[04.06.2023 17:17:25] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Oh, it's not about the money. I'm a pacifist. I just wish for honest accounting.
[04.06.2023 17:17:48] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Rather...nutral...of you, sure you aren't a Zoner *chuckles*
[04.06.2023 17:18:20] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I have much in common with many who joined the Zoner movement, true.
[04.06.2023 17:19:13] RV-Pennybrooke: Unfortunately most do not appreciate my affinity for the aliens.
[04.06.2023 17:19:30] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Well, it certainly doesn't make you high on my list of people to meet with /alone/
[04.06.2023 17:19:57] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: But I've met some....rather /fun/ people such as yourself and they are mostly harmless
[04.06.2023 17:20:14] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please cease further communications with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:20:24] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I suppose that would depend on where we met. I'm quite harmless in person, I assure you.
[04.06.2023 17:20:32] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Vigil, you should change your name to polly parriot
[04.06.2023 17:20:48] Vigil-7|S8: I do not know what a parriot is.
[04.06.2023 17:20:54] RV-Pennybrooke: Indeed. We have heard your warning and it is being ignored. Many times over.
[04.06.2023 17:20:55] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: /shame/
[04.06.2023 17:20:56] Vigil-7|S8: Did you mean patriot?
[04.06.2023 17:21:28] RV-Pennybrooke: It is a kind of bird which can mimic human speech and is known to repeat phrases-.
[04.06.2023 17:21:42] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I'm the only weirdo who reads old earth history
[04.06.2023 17:21:50] Vigil-7|S8: You mean a parrot.
[04.06.2023 17:22:14] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Look, the books I find are /old/ and often incomplete, I'm trying my best here
[04.06.2023 17:22:15] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Quite certain that is what they said.
[04.06.2023 17:22:32] Vigil-7|S8: They misspoke.
[04.06.2023 17:22:47] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: The crown jewel of my collection is Green Eggs and Hammersmith....we think, the cover is rather damage, as is the rest of
[04.06.2023 17:22:48] Death: 46th|Callum.Hayes was put out of action by AA<Katheron (Mine).
[04.06.2023 17:22:49] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: The boook
[04.06.2023 17:23:05] RV-Pennybrooke: *she sighs dramatically, spinning in her chair* Goodness! They misspoke! Well then, you have convinced us all of your radical-
[04.06.2023 17:23:15] RV-Pennybrooke: agenda, now that we found out they misspoke!
[04.06.2023 17:24:26] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: You know, my family has quite an impressive aviary back home. You should visit some time, if you like birds.
[04.06.2023 17:24:40] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Wheres home?
[04.06.2023 17:25:22] Vigil-7|S8: Gryphon, please do not accept an invitation from the Nomad sympathizer or infectee.
[04.06.2023 17:25:44] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Cambridge, originally. I can't say I consider it home these days, but it was at one point.
[04.06.2023 17:25:58] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Okay, Vigil, I'm going to blow your mind, you see the Gryphon...is the name of the ship, I know right, blew it out of the
[04.06.2023 17:25:59] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: water
[04.06.2023 17:26:20] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Cambridge....can't say I'm that welcome in Bretiona at the moment
[04.06.2023 17:26:38] Vigil-7|S8: I do not know the identity of who is currently operating the comms and am therefore addressing them by the name of the ship.
[04.06.2023 17:26:43] Vigil-7|S8: As is common custom.
[04.06.2023 17:26:59] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine Pennybrooke, speaking of identities.
[04.06.2023 17:27:34] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Brandon Wright, the extraordinaire Sean: (muffled) Yeah right!
[04.06.2023 17:27:47] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: And you are nameless agent of the Order?
[04.06.2023 17:27:54] Vigil-7|S8: Mister Wright, please cease further communications with the target.
[04.06.2023 17:28:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Pleasure! I haven't had a productive conversation at Eleven in quite some time.
[04.06.2023 17:29:01] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *chrotles* Productive, sure, if Sean wasn't covered head to foot in.../whatever/ was under the deck plate
[04.06.2023 17:29:07] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I'd say it was a grand sucess
[04.06.2023 17:29:39] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I quite enjoy solitude, I can't imagine what it must be like on a vessel like that. How many people are on board?
[04.06.2023 17:30:05] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Not enough to be frank, I'm a wee bit under funded so we're running with only a few hundred aboard
[04.06.2023 17:30:51] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Do you fly as a passenger vessel, or more of a mobile settlement?
[04.06.2023 17:31:25] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: It was orginally a mobile...mall...thing, for a number of years, helping near Freeport 9, we bought her earlier
[04.06.2023 17:31:46] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: This year and have been doing an outfitting to gear her up to handle my hyperspace research
[04.06.2023 17:32:23] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Intriguing. I've been dabbling in the field myself. There are some hyperspace experiments I have done that I believe
[04.06.2023 17:32:30] RV-Pennybrooke: were the first of their kind.
[04.06.2023 17:32:45] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Now you're talking, what sort of tests?
[04.06.2023 17:33:27] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Well, you see, the Nomads have a natural hyperspace sensitivity. I have been pioneering the interfacing of human
[04.06.2023 17:33:36] RV-Pennybrooke: devices with their senses.
[04.06.2023 17:33:50] Vigil-7|S8: Mister Wright, do not continue.
[04.06.2023 17:34:27] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Interface? So our tech is actually better than whatever the K'hara have avialalbe to them?
[04.06.2023 17:34:32] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: At least as long as they can recognize a specific signature, they can find it. If I turn this on-
[04.06.2023 17:34:52] RV-Pennybrooke: *she turns to point off to the side* They will know where I am.
[04.06.2023 17:35:32] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Interesting, I take it they also can track any they choose that also use the same freq range?
[04.06.2023 17:35:45] RV-Pennybrooke: Our technology is a pale imitation. Lanes and gates are based on Daam K'vosh technology, which Nomads also use.
[04.06.2023 17:36:21] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I had assumed as apart of my research the K'hara were dependent on the Damm K'Vosh structure, I just didn't realize
[04.06.2023 17:36:25] RV-Pennybrooke: Perhaps. I don't believe so, though. They must be familiar with the signal already. They cannot simply...detect its existence.
[04.06.2023 17:36:27] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: To what ends they were dependent
[04.06.2023 17:37:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: The relation isn't entirely understood even amongst the foremost xenoarcheologists.
[04.06.2023 17:37:41] RV-Pennybrooke: As best as we can tell, the Nomads are a creation of the K'vosh, and were intended to settle the Sirius sector as a sort of....
[04.06.2023 17:37:48] RV-Pennybrooke: Experiment? Pet project?
[04.06.2023 17:38:00] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: /Toy/ *chuckles*
[04.06.2023 17:38:32] RV-Pennybrooke: You laugh, but that may not be far from the truth. As a human might have an ant farm.
[04.06.2023 17:39:24] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I have seen some quite extensive facilities, especially near Nu, I wouldn't doubt they had some sort of purpose
[04.06.2023 17:40:06] RV-Pennybrooke: The thing is, I'm actually not that interested in this relation. The Daam K'vosh have been gone for millions of years.
[04.06.2023 17:40:20] RV-Pennybrooke: The current status of the Nomads is far more interesting to me.
[04.06.2023 17:40:48] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Ah, we differ slightly, I believe the Daam K'Vosh are still around, likely on a higher plane, such as hyperspace
[04.06.2023 17:40:55] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Or something...more within
[04.06.2023 17:41:22] RV-Pennybrooke: *she grins* Ah, you are my kind of person! I thought of correcting myself to make such an assertion.
[04.06.2023 17:41:34] RV-Pennybrooke: It's possible, of course. Perhaps even likely.
[04.06.2023 17:42:07] RV-Pennybrooke: They might exist in a capacity that is so far beyond our understanding that it registers merely as....neutrino waves, as it wer
[04.06.2023 17:42:11] RV-Pennybrooke: were.
[04.06.2023 17:42:25] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Part of the experiment here, is to enter and map hyperspace from within, to see if there are any supporting structures
[04.06.2023 17:42:47] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Connected to objects here within normal space
[04.06.2023 17:43:32] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I have some experimental data on such things, but I'm afraid that is going into territory of things I cannot openly-
[04.06.2023 17:43:33] RV-Pennybrooke: share.
[04.06.2023 17:44:12] RV-Pennybrooke: I'm a scientist, I believe in the free exchange of information for the betterment of humankind, but I do also have..obligations
[04.06.2023 17:44:41] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I understand, something we might work towards, provided certain safeties were minded
[04.06.2023 17:45:19] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Absolutely. I think there is a great need for human scientists to engage in hyperspace research.
[04.06.2023 17:45:32] RV-Pennybrooke: And human sociologists to engage in alien sociology, for that matter.
[04.06.2023 17:46:31] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I see, which is more your current focus of studies?
[04.06.2023 17:47:19] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Well, in the physics department, my most recent work was a survey of Gaia. Which was...depressing.
[04.06.2023 17:47:50] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I've only ever read propganda about Gaia
[04.06.2023 17:48:45] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: The myths might be most of what remains now. I visited during the Gallic occupation.
[04.06.2023 17:49:07] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I Bet the ransacked the place, if Leeds is anything to muster by
[04.06.2023 17:50:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: They tried to rapid-pace industrialize the place, and now everyone is dead.
[04.06.2023 17:50:25] RV-Pennybrooke: That, I suppose, is the short version. I'll try not to think of it as a metaphor.
[04.06.2023 17:50:39] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: *chuckles* poetic justice I suppose
[04.06.2023 17:51:03] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Perhaps it's for the best. Future biologists might appreciate it.
[04.06.2023 17:51:21] "Caliban": Well, well, well. If it isn't the stinking sack of shit.
[04.06.2023 17:52:04] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: You seem to have many..../friends/
[04.06.2023 17:52:28] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Er...yes. Something like that.
[04.06.2023 17:52:34] "Caliban": Expanding your horizons, or are you just scouting space for your alien friends?
[04.06.2023 17:53:00] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Actually, I was merely having a pleasant conversation, mostly related to my actual field of study.
[04.06.2023 17:54:39] "Caliban": That field of study being?
[04.06.2023 17:54:46] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Physics.
[04.06.2023 17:54:53] "Caliban": That what you call it, huh?
[04.06.2023 17:55:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Well that's what the University of Cambridge calls it.
[04.06.2023 17:55:38] "Caliban": How related is it to summoning your big ass girlfriend?
[04.06.2023 17:56:08] "Caliban": Point taken.
[04.06.2023 17:56:12] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: You're quite welcome to bugger off, you know.
[04.06.2023 17:56:13] "Caliban": Someone's insulted, eh?
[04.06.2023 17:56:16] Vigil-7|S8: Weapons discharge detected.
[04.06.2023 17:56:28] "Caliban": Fuck it. I was going to shoot you anyway, sympathizer.
[04.06.2023 17:56:40] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: Yes. I assumed as much.
[04.06.2023 17:56:52] "Caliban": Freak. Abomination.
[04.06.2023 17:57:11] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: If you think your insults can....insult me, you really don't know me.
[04.06.2023 17:57:39] Adrian.Seth: Raving lunatics, this place hasn't changed.
[04.06.2023 17:57:43] "Caliban": Nah, I'll get under your skin once I chop down your friend's husk. Melia, was it?
[04.06.2023 17:57:57] Vigil-7|S8: Confirmed, Corsair Seth.
[04.06.2023 17:58:00] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: Its not even six yet and it sounds like a drunkn bar
[04.06.2023 17:58:07] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: She would literally eat you.
[04.06.2023 17:58:12] Adrian.Seth: Though my last visit was in a Bastet-class interceptor, and a long time ago.
[04.06.2023 17:58:15] "Caliban": Nah.
[04.06.2023 17:58:36] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: I take your point though. This environment is no longer conducive to learning.
[04.06.2023 17:58:50] "Caliban": Eat some plasma.
[04.06.2023 17:58:56] RV-Pennybrooke: Katherine: It's been a lovely talk, Mister Wright. I hope to see you again.
[04.06.2023 17:59:03] Vigil-7|S8: Viability of engagement confirmed. Receiving clearance to engage.
[04.06.2023 17:59:16] Vigil-7|S8: Engaging Pennybrooke.
[04.06.2023 17:59:28] "Caliban": I've been keeping this ship just for you, Katherine. You, and someone else.
[04.06.2023 17:59:29] Adrian.Seth: You'll have my aid.
[04.06.2023 17:59:35] Adrian.Seth: Tubes primed.
[04.06.2023 17:59:36] SLRC-HV>Gryphon: Brad: I...well then
[04.06.2023 18:01:26] 2023-06-04 18:01:26 SMT Traffic control alert: SLRC-HV>Gryphon has requested to dock

Sensor Sweeps

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