The Doctor's Logs

[Half]

April 4th, 818


Most of the Khonsu's crew is down at Cape Hope for Easter.
I doubt most of them are there for the religious reasons... unless you count the bars as churches and alcohol as God himself. In the Order, that might as well be true. There's precious little for a man do to other than that in these desolate systems. Either he's bored, disturbed, or drunk - the latter being off duty.

Order business is light as usual. The same old nonsense, fighter jocks wanting Corsair pulse cannons, Corsairs saying no and trying to estrange relations - which I'm quite fine with - or Zoners trying to get their greasy palms on a Hathor for some demented reason. This is so frustrating, really. Everything is so bureaucratic, corrupted, and useless around here. Gone is the idealism which created us, gone are the reasons I joined the Order. We do less fighting of the Nomads than we do paperwork and routine patrols in civilized systems.

I continue my research into the Nomads and Daam-K'Vosh, hoping to merit some new weapon from the K'Vosh technology, or locate some weakness in my experiments with the Nomads.

Currently, I'm observing the same cascade resonance between the Major, Minor, and Lesser Nomad neural clusters arrayed in my lab. I've been up for three days straight watching this, and I'm going to bed in just a moment after the computers finish logging the data and locking down the labs.

I think that I might have stumbled onto some vitally important fundamentals of the Nomad "telepathic" network, as I call it for lack of something more scientifically concrete.

The K'Vosh research is going slowly. The artifacts are, as usual, hard to decipher. Roland has been of some assistance, but I know he's involved in another, more secret project to the side. Even I won't press him for details on it. As such, my own research into the Malvada and Theta debris clouds and the artifact strains found within is going quite slowly. I've begun constructing isolation and activation protocols, but it's still not going as fast as I'd like it.

Neither we nor the Nomads can fully comprehend these, save that we both know that they are dangerous. Fortunately for us, we can figure out how to use them to some extent - which is what saved us all in the Nomad War. The Proteus Tome, the Sprague Murals, and the Keystone were what won the war, not the Order's skill... we would have been doomed had it not been for the Daam-K'Vosh. The Nomads have outlawed artifacts in the houses for years with their influence - as they're a threat - but I have found no evidence that they can manipulate them at all.

Perhaps that is no coincidence. The Daam-K'Vosh left the Nomads to look after Sirius, the Sprague research suggests... and I imagine that one wouldn't want the groundskeeper tinkering with whatever is inside the house if one takes a holiday. It could very well be that manipulating artifacts is beyond the abilities of the Nomads completely.


Ah, the data is logged. I'll be finishing this log up.

I'll set the computers to auto-process the cascade data.
I believe that this will give valuable insight into exactly how they interface, and why it is that the Wilde operate autonomously from the Nomads that are not infesting humans even though their cover within human society is non-existent. It seems a paradox, that spies would continue to exist in their disguises long after they were found out... but I'm hoping to apply these results to the Wilde I've captured myself, and reveal their connections to the rest of the Nomads.

A trip out to somewhere might be in order after this. The Order is beginning to wear on me like life itself. It's slowing me in my goals sometimes, rather than expediting the removal of the Wilde and Nomads from Sirius.

Such is the way of all things, I suppose. Decay and corruption meet all on their paths.
That likely includes myself as well.




Ah, well.
Good morning.

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