VORTEX

[Irra]

CHAPTER 4 - Sightings

Isis, great piece of engineering. Place of meeting between Gunson and Cauthon. They met in same room as last time.

Cauthon: Please enter now, sorry for interruption but i think we have interesting case. Do you remember civilian killed near Alien gate ?
Gunson: Civilian? Witch one?
Cauthon:Otmar Wagner ...
Gunson: Oh yes. One that was full of artifacts. Whats so interesting about it?
Cauthon:He is alive, we got that info from someone on Freeport 2. Not sure is it correct
Gunson: Everything is possible, but nomads usually finish their job. What stopped them?
Cauthon: That's interesting part. We got record from Freeport 2 too. Apparently that's Wagner talking with someone else, by the sound of that talk seems Wagner was under some kind of direct mind attack, something new, only affect him and for long time or sounded like he was developing their way of communication. Artifacts maybe have something to do with it, but not sure ...
Gunson: Eh? So anyone managed to something like that before?
Cauthon: No records about it.
Gunson: Well, i might try and contact some friends in Liberty. They might know something about it
Cauthon: Alright, you do that , i just received message. Strange nomad ship appeared in Newcastle, we need some info about it , to be precise a picture.

Cauthon used his data pad and opened picture. By the look in his face it was clear, nothing good came out of it.

###Open : Nomad21451###
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Cauthon: There it is, ha ? Only that thing, ehm ... Where is ship? Do you see it Gunson?
Gunson: Negative, try zooming ...
Cauthon: Nothing there, very useful. Anyway we have message

Cauthon pressed something and computer voice started reading message.


###Open : B2231###
*CommID: Battleship Grimsby - Privat channel*
Greetings , others don't know about message or picture ... we got reports of that same nomad ship in Bretonia and one ship was sent to follow it ... seems nomad was trying to avoid contact with humans and he was going directly to area around Grimsby ... for the first couple of minutes nomad was flying around ... like he was confused ... I don't know but probably it had some connection with nomad base there ... anyway when ship finally started to leave area , BAF ensign started shooting down parts of nomad base and that make nomad very angry ... he tried to stop but Templar is one big ship so in the end nomad left area. While ship was still flying around base he managed freak out of one our pilots on battleship. We are still waiting what will happen next.
Signed , *error ... no info*
###Close file###

Cauthon:We have one more picture sent from Liberty, source is similar to last one sent from Grimsby but a bit later .

###Open: Nomad21352###
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Cauthon: Now that's better, seems like morph, agile as hell.
Gunson: I know, what was nomad doing Newcastle. Went there to chat a little ?
Cauthon: I am not sure, we cant send patrol to investigate, there is battleship too close to nomad base.
Gunson: I will contact friend, maybe Navy picked up something more about that nomad and ask about Wagner too.





Days passed, Order was doing its job as best they could and then Gunson got replay from friend in Liberty.
He hurried to Cauthon to inform him about it. He knocked on doors and came in his room.

Cauthon: Yes?! Oh its you Gunson.
Gunson: Sorry for interruption Sir. I got news from friend in Liberty.
Cauthon: Lets hear it.
Gunson: Ok , let me just to adjust speakers.


###Open : L2041###
*CommID: Manhattan - Privat channel*
Greetings, didn't heard from you for a long time Gunson. You finally remember your friend. Well, interesting stuff was picked about one specific nomad morph. It was detected by Missouri scanners matching date from picture you sent me. There are some biotraces of human cells inside of it. Scientists are trying to figure out how did they got in it. I thought it might be one of those hybrids, not many of them is here and they are rare. But still i can't be sure. Now back to other one. Wagner , Otmar Wagner I know him. He used to be in NY from time to time with group called Oracles. They preached about peace and stuff. Anyway as you already now some think they have connections with Nomads. I think i should tell you Wagner called him self Vortex or something like that. Didn't saw in NY any Oracle ship for a long time by the way. Maybe they all died out. And you mentioned record, i heard it. You should see date on it, that hap penned before he showed up in NY so he survived that, i don't know how. Nomads saved him? Maybe. If you find anything new contact me. I remember old they when we both served Navy in Alaska i am retired now not many get chance to retire, I was lucky one to get. I hope i will hear from you soon Gunson.
Signed , Joel.
###Close file###


After message finished Cauthon was looking in Gunson. Looking for explanation. He still had contacts with Navy and messages get intercepted easy.

Cauthon: Navy?!
Gunson: Yes good friend.
Cauthon: You know, this can cause lots of problems if someone in Navy found about it.
Gunson: Joel is careful dont worry, its good to have someone there with acces to Navy files.
Cauthon: Hm..
Gunson: He supports Order and if you can trust me then you can trust him.
Cauthon: I can trust you, but High command will know this. Dont think i will keep this a secret.
Gunson: Alright. I hope there wont be problems.
Cauthon: Hope.

Gunson left room a bit worried. Cauthon informed others about it. After that they waited to see what will happen next. Gunson was interrogated and released after. Gunson scrolled data from Order informatory about Hybrids. On the first page he found interesting part quoted from one Oracle pilot before quite some time. Gunson reads it.

Gunson: And those who accomplish tests and trials will join final reward, masters.

He dropped data pad from hand and sat back on chair in his room. He remembered that Oracles have technology or at least know how to create hybrids and why are they low on activity he figured out they must turned at least some to hybrids and some maybe didn't survived. He sent message to Joel to try scan from closer range that nomad and scan human cell DNA does it match Wagners DNA from BHG data or anyone DNA from Oracles. I think we will find match. After that he left room to alert others.

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