141| Internal Channel

[Eduard]

Bonsoir. Colonel d'Autoine here.

Observations regarding Valkyries resulted according to the expectations. She has been accepted into the Order Primary Fleet.

But, I have managed to retrieve a report concerning her bio as well as other... useful trinkets. Every significant information is attached below:

Colonel D'Autoine, as ordered I have questioned and made background check on recruit you've sent our way. Everything detailed below has been made available to all members of Overwatch should they require.

Name: Kate Fenrir-Golanska
DOB: 30th April, 798 A.S.
Place of birth: Omicron Gamma, Crete
Known relatives:
Anne Steele, mother (deceased during Nomad war)
James Golanski, father (deceased during Nomad war)
Overwatch Michal Golanski, brother
Sol Fenrir, husband
Medical condition: healthy, good reflexes, concerns related mostly to state of mental health. Fit for service within Order standards.

Civilian episode

Relevant past experience gives picture of higher ranked defectee. Starting from beggining, "Valkyrie" - as her callsign given in Reapers of Sirius - started off as low profile freelancer, part of unnamed minor smuggling circle active in 815-817 A.S. based of Freeport 1 in Omega cluster. Individual changed her home frequently, migrating between several southern Freeports. As close associate to Zoner community which she has worked alongside with, she witnessed first hand Bretonian privateer harassment operations and fall of Zoner Alliance.

As Coalition shifted into state of civil war known to us as "Volkhan war", SCRA started opressing local population of Omega 50 harsher than ever before. Kate's residence at that time was Porto Novo where she was promptly recruited to Reapers of Sirius under promise of pushing communists out of the system.

Reapers of Sirius

I am well aware you have all neccesary information concerning group labelled as "Reapers of Sirius", therefore I will proceed to detail knowledge gained on recruit's military career. Originally assigned to prestigious Fallen Angels squadron, Kate rose in ranks to become equivalent of general in our terms given unnusual ranking system in use.

Exhausting all possibilities, Valkyrie volunteered to take command of heavy assault squadron "Devil Wings" - initially composed of former mercenaries on Outcast's government payroll. Originally tasked to harass Cryer operations within Sigmas, post-Malta episode included drastic drop of squadron's reliability. This incident apparently involved squadron leader attempting to take life of Reaper's chief in command. As assasination plot failed, Devil Wings situation was jeopardized.

Task of Valkyrie was to assume command and ensure loyalty of Devil Wings after these events. She has apparently succeeded and gained notoriety as succesful commander - further increasing her own prestige within high command. Her achievments included incorporating RBS "Valhalla", a Ranseur class battleship into Devil Wings ranks along with some destroyer escorts.

Defection to Order

As I had not been able to verify this piece of information, be careful right here. Reapers apparently fell into more or less disarray, pushed over the limits and nearly collapsing. Seeing it as lost cause, Valkyrie left this organisation - claiming to be peaceful resignation from her duty - and made her way to us.

She claims that her skill and abilities are wasted on group of small potential (claims of insufficient personnel to project changes in the region). She deemed Order to be worth outfit for her, given her views are not that all different from our own - Sirius is incapable to protect itself from apocalypse-grade threats.

Reaper's ideals involve unifying Sirius or at least Hispania in a form of utopian state. Valkyrie claims more pragmatic approach of hers - united Sirius is out of reach for current generation. Reapers have recognized Nomads as a threat, regardless of majority of their personnel being of Maltesan origin.

Diplomatic impact.

I strongly recommend to keep Valkyrie AWAY from Hessians, Coalition and governing elite of Crete - The Elders. During "interview", we also know that she does not approve of current Malta government - trait useful due to our current diplomatic status.

"Lich" class fighter.

Pre-emptive report on her craft says it may be able to be brought into action under our flag. Some Order manufactured parts and publicly available technology will be sufficient to keep "Lich" in active service far from Reaper engineers.

End of report.

Agent Ness, Wedjat.

Artifact Location Coordinates #49aZ

That is all. I am certain that the resources retrieved by moi will prove beneficial.

Au revoir

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King Eduard is the greatest

[Eduard]

Bonsoir, this is Colonel d'Autoine.

I hereby take the liberty of updating you with information of my latest operation.

The operation took several days ago, I took the initiative of using an ongoing Order skirmish operation into the taus, as a distraction so that I may bypass the now occupied battalions and keep an eye on any kind of communication once the Order operation ends and the Outcasts resume their daily habits.

Entering Tau-37 and approaching Freeport 10 as discreet as possible, I managed to obtain visuals of two Nomad Battleship classed vessels, with a couple of... pff.. of zoners, making sure not to venture further away from the Freeport.

What surprised me more, was a freelancer and an Outcast, possibly from the Contari Lance, maintaining an unusually close distance to nomads.

Visual data, as well as excerpts from the communication logs are uploaded together with this report. With the permission of Commander Davids, I would like to commission additional subterfuge, covert operations in the taus, accompanied by members of the 141 to gather more information.

That was all. Au revoir

Data Upload #657Zx866214 Complete

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King Eduard is the greatest

[Mercarryn]

Davids here

D'Autoine, you are hereby given permission to gather some agents and further investigate this matter.
Last encounters with the Contari Lance indicated that they had a less favorable stance towards the nomads.
If this has changed, we need to know more.

Meanwhile, Damian Shaud took out the Feral for a check of our former home.
And there he stumbled upon a Liberty Assault Battlecruise, whose commander
claimed to be a scientist. According to his story, he and his crew wanted to study
the nomads, especially after their former captain was infested.

The crew wants to surrender to the Order in exchange of being granted access to
knowledge about the nomads. Shaud, suspcious about the whole situation,
convinced the commander to head back to Alaska and wait for a signal by us.

Uploading Data...Complete

You will receive further information soon.

[andreo009]

....Incoming Transmission....
...Opening Channel...
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ID: Ares
Encryption: High
Priority: High To: Commander Davids CC: 141| Agents
Subject:Hooked up with the Atum

Sir,

I just spoke with the captain of the Atum and the logistics officer.
They say they have found a suitable spot and won't be manouvering anymore.
It's a long way down here... not a lot of friendlies on the road.

The jumpgate codes work just fine, for now. I suggest we use them while we can. They're ready to receive the Hemuset wings and 1 large asset. Suggested was a gunboat or a supply ship.
I'd recommend the gunboat. As for supplies, Junkers are nearby... you know them.

So, say the word sir.


Ares

.Decryping Complete.
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...Closing Channel...
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BAF|MN ---- Her majesty's Bretonian Merchant Navy

[Mercarryn]

Ares, the Hemuset wing will redeploy to Atum within short time. Hemuset-4 has
already reached its new home for the next time, the rest of the wing should move in soon.

Speaking of #4, I got in ein worrying report about the latest encounter with them in Dublin.

Agents, this is #4 reporting in. While moving to Atum, I stumbled upon the
agents Wasp, Stone and others from the primary fleet. They seemed to have some argument,
not sure what is was all around, but two of them left the frequency soon.
In Dublin I hooked up with Wasp and Stone when we received strange emergency
signals from a Bretonian battleship. Well, I investigated the matter, only to see
that a nomad marduk uncloaked right behind it. Damnit, those poor Bretonian
bastards did not even have a chance to reach the escape pods.

* * *

I was able to put some torpedoes and Anti matter shots into the beast, but it
was able to cloak and disappear, while our attempts to disrupt it failed!
Commander, something is going on with the nomads. I know they are able to
cloak since the first nomad war, but our disrupting technology did not work against them!

*

Agents, I cannot go into detail, but this is not the first report that we received
about this happening. Watch your back, it looks like the nomads have revived their
old habbit of assassination strikes!

[Mercarryn]

Sefegiru here.

While Commander Davids is still at the Atum, I have taken the liberty of patroling our
primary operation zone in the Omicrons again. Zeta and Delta were quiet back then,
but Kappa has turned into a rather hostile area for us.

Some Artificial Intelligence vessels have turned rather aggressive two days ago.
One opened fire on my fighter when I demanded that bloody toaster to get rid
of the nomad remains in his cargo hold. Unfortunately I was not able to get through
its shields so I had to withdraw.

Later on, when agents of the primary fleet and me in Commander Davids' personal
Hathor Wheel of Time were searching for that specific ship, we found some
ships of the BDM in a fight with other AI ships.
Althugh we ordered a cease fire for both sides, the AI kept on shooting, so we
had to move in and toast them. Tough luck, they were able to bring down the
BDM gunship before we suceeded.

Uploading gun camera records...complete.

Well, it looks like we have to pay attention to those AI ships in Kappa again.
Or we might have another enemy right in front of our door.

[Mercarryn]

Commander Davids hier.

As it seems we have more or less ein deal with OSI regarding research on nomad remains.

That also means they need those big ones.

Therefore, I have assigned Dendera to obtain some nomad remains we can trade
in for necessary supplies from OSI.

Any agents, willing to assist may rise their voice over this frequency...

[Mister_X]

Greetings Commander....Agent Dunham speaking...I am willing to assist with this operation...Sadly I don't have any transport ships of my own, but I can help with hunting down the nomads....Let me know when the operation is going to happen and I will do my best to assist...

Dunham out....

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[andreo009]

Hello sir,

I would like to report that the Neferti is in good shape again. Maintenance and repairs had taken her out of the picture for some time. Most of the controls are automated now and do not require additional staff.

In short: she's ready to fly again. I took a shuttle to Mu yesterday. We should arrive some time later today. Since I don't have much to do but go through hardware specs.... again... I'm volunteering for this one.


Signing off


Agent "Slicer" Tanaka

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BAF|MN ---- Her majesty's Bretonian Merchant Navy

[Mercarryn]

Commander Davids hier.

we have ein emergency call from the Omegas. Transports with marines aboard
need to be escorted to Omega-9. This is not a drill.

All escort units, stay close to the transports, they need to reach the destination.

Everything else will be told meanwhile during the journey!