On one of our many smuggling runs to Rheinland we encountered a member of a certain outlawed group known as the VWA, since its full name is probably unpronounceable to our people and rightly so. He was none too happy to see us. [1]
Despite our own opposition to the lawfuls in that House, our ties to the Orange Dream and the spirits have convinced them that they are our enemies. Perhaps they are correct. Fortunately they have seem to have minimal forces and at least in this encounter, our three transports escaped the bomber without damage or personal injury. [2]
As has been noted elsewhere, our own personal involvement in spreading the orange dream to Liberty has been lacking of late. I have taken measures to change that tonight, starting with these two deliveries to the Buffalo base in New York. In return, they have released some of their existing stock to us. Moving these soon-to-be former slaves in this manner is distasteful, but if they can have a lifetime of purpose within our ranks following a few hours cramped in a cargo hold, they are truly better off. [1][2][3][4]
Yesterday I responded to Freeport 10 to investigate a pair of unidentified contacts loitering around. There I met a man calling himself Aramaki Hideo and a GC named Hana Ken, who were involved in some sort of meeting that was ending as I arrived.
We had an amicable, if guarded, conversation, one that branched into the philosophy of the Orange Dream. The GC seemed particularly interested in what I had to say. Attached below are logs of the conversation. Recommend further interaction with Aramaki, who claimed to be the acting leader of the 343rd in the absence of Sakuma Hitomi.
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[14.05.2015 00:58:14] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: But be sure. You won't be receiving comms from Nagasaki anymore.
[14.05.2015 00:58:17] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Contact...
[14.05.2015 00:58:24] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Saludos, 343.
[14.05.2015 00:58:34] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods* Cross.
[14.05.2015 00:58:48] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: You're awfully close to Maltese space. Anything we could assist you with?
[14.05.2015 00:59:18] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: I assure you, my presence here means no harm. This here is a more... private matter, and has nothing to do with the 343rds
[14.05.2015 00:59:20] Hana.Ken: Konbanwa, Outcast-san
[14.05.2015 00:59:23] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: official dutie.
[14.05.2015 00:59:31] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: duties, even.
[14.05.2015 00:59:36] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Madame.
[14.05.2015 00:59:58] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Not often are we graced with the presence of the GC.
[14.05.2015 01:00:29] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: But I see. Well, I'll go ahead and turn around then, if it's meant to stay private.
[14.05.2015 01:00:32] Hana.Ken: *bows* quite, it is a honour to see thus of the cross once more.
[14.05.2015 01:00:39] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: You don't need to.
[14.05.2015 01:00:40] Death: Aquanut was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[14.05.2015 01:00:40] Hana.Ken: It is ok, it was just ending...
[14.05.2015 01:00:52] Hana.Ken: But, i'd like to request he is able to leave unharmed Tomas-san
[14.05.2015 01:00:59] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: If you're certain.
[14.05.2015 01:01:11] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: If it is a civil conversation you're seeking, a freeport is just the right place for it, don't you think.
[14.05.2015 01:01:32] Hana.Ken: *bows deeply* I am, he is not an enemy... at least today
[14.05.2015 01:01:38] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: As to his health, I had no intention of shooting at the Exiles, as we left our initial contact on friendly enough terms.
[14.05.2015 01:01:55] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods* indeed, we did. Although it wasn't me you met.
[14.05.2015 01:02:03] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Especially not here. I and my soldiers are taught to respect the freeport's NFZ.
[14.05.2015 01:02:19] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Indeed not, but as you fly that man's colors you will find no enemy in me, at least not yet.
[14.05.2015 01:02:21] Hana.Ken: *smiles* Domo arigato, Tomas-san *grins*
[14.05.2015 01:02:39] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: That is relieving to hear, Tomas-San.
[14.05.2015 01:03:12] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: It is the truth. I have no overt quarrel with you and indeed respect what your group has done with so little.
[14.05.2015 01:03:13] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: In that case, I'd like to introduce myself.
[14.05.2015 01:03:31] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Especially against the monster that is the Crown of Gallia.
[14.05.2015 01:03:56] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: My name is Aramaki Hideo. Hideo being the first name, in your language. I am the current de facto leader of the 343rd.
[14.05.2015 01:04:22] NET|Speedy.Trial: ???: Greetings, member of The Crimson Cross.
[14.05.2015 01:04:28] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Whom do I have the honour to talk to?
[14.05.2015 01:04:46] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: A pleasure. I am Tomas Mendes, teniente (or knight) of the Crimson Cross, scion and heir to my house.
[14.05.2015 01:04:54] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Not that that means a whole lot.
[14.05.2015 01:05:03] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Greetings, NET vessel.
[14.05.2015 01:05:30] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *bows (a deep sign of respect for a Kusari naval officer)* A pleasure to meet you.
[14.05.2015 01:06:19] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: You mentioned that you were the de facto leader of the Exiles now?
[14.05.2015 01:06:30] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: The 343rd, hai.
[14.05.2015 01:06:41] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Zenith are a... Difficult matter.
[14.05.2015 01:06:46] Hana.Ken: *sits back, and starts preparing a Cardamine breather whilst curiosity takes hold*
[14.05.2015 01:06:48] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I was given to understand that they were mostly one and the same.
[14.05.2015 01:07:00] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Apparently I was incorrect.
[14.05.2015 01:07:20] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Mostly. The 343rd is... Well, we adapted to the situation.
[14.05.2015 01:07:20] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: These Zenith you speak of - I don't believe I have met them. They do not share your beliefs?
[14.05.2015 01:07:34] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Zenith are fanatics.
[14.05.2015 01:07:43] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Some call us thus.
[14.05.2015 01:07:57] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: They are what stereotypes think of Samurai.
[14.05.2015 01:08:43] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Fighting everything and everyone that opposes them, whereas the teachings of Sakuma-Kakka lead the 343rd away from blind rage-
[14.05.2015 01:08:46] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: and hatred.
[14.05.2015 01:08:59] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We would meet as enemies, then.
[14.05.2015 01:09:09] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Strange that they have thus far escaped our official notice.
[14.05.2015 01:09:10] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Most certainly.
[14.05.2015 01:09:22] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: They will stay that way, most likely.
[14.05.2015 01:09:55] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Frankly we are used to people not understanding us or what we've become through the dream.
[14.05.2015 01:10:03] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: One more on a laundry list of enemies.
[14.05.2015 01:10:26] Hana.Ken: The dream?... Tomas-san. What is this dream?
[14.05.2015 01:10:29] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: So, as we meet here and now - be advised that Zeniths actions are not representing the disposition of the 343rd.
[14.05.2015 01:10:54] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: In any way. I believe you were going to ask something?
[14.05.2015 01:11:24] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I was? Probably who this Sakuma-Kakka person is or was.
[14.05.2015 01:11:48] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Then I will explain what I mean about the orange dream, though you are honestly already a part of it, lady -
[14.05.2015 01:11:52] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - GC.
[14.05.2015 01:12:27] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Sakuma-Kakka is the De jure leader of our group. She is the person you made our... Treaty with. She is currently on a long
[14.05.2015 01:12:46] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: mission.
[14.05.2015 01:13:07] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Let us be clear - there is no treaty. I prefer to think that that fact makes this all the more meaningful - us meeting -
[14.05.2015 01:13:27] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - as respected neutral parties, even though we wouldn't have to.
[14.05.2015 01:13:27] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods* I do tend to agree.
[14.05.2015 01:13:59] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I wish her safe passage, then. She was...interesting to talk with.
[14.05.2015 01:14:34] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: She certainly is.
[14.05.2015 01:14:46] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: The sector could use more level headed people, and will only suffer from the loss of one.
[14.05.2015 01:15:16] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Indeed. Peace for the Taus is a goal on what we all can agree on.
[14.05.2015 01:15:23] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Which, even.
[14.05.2015 01:15:34] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Indeed.
[14.05.2015 01:15:48] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Madame, you wanted to know what I meant about the orange dream?
[14.05.2015 01:16:12] Hana.Ken: I do indeed Tomas-san, if you may spare me the time *smiles gently*
[14.05.2015 01:16:26] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *takes out a notepad*
[14.05.2015 01:16:42] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Of course. Any chance to clear up or confirm conceptions about us is one I'm glad to take.
[14.05.2015 01:17:19] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: As you may have guessed it centers around what you know of as the drug cardamine.
[14.05.2015 01:17:28] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: To us, however, it's not a drug at all.
[14.05.2015 01:17:53] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: For the Maltese, it's as essential to life as food, water, air. It has much deeper, subtler effects than a simple -
[14.05.2015 01:18:01] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - burst high from initial, temporary exposure.
[14.05.2015 01:18:22] Hana.Ken: hmm, sodesuka *curiosity sparks across her face*
[14.05.2015 01:18:31] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Living surrounded by it, raised in it, has changed us so fundamentally we may not even be considered -
[14.05.2015 01:18:46] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - human in the strictest sense.
[14.05.2015 01:18:58] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: The effects are well-documented.
[14.05.2015 01:19:06] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: You consider yourselves Post-Human then?
[14.05.2015 01:19:28] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: In a manner of speaking. Only the most conceited ascribe superiority to it.
[14.05.2015 01:19:54] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Post does not necessarily mean superior, I didn't understand you that way.
[14.05.2015 01:20:02] Hana.Ken: So the rest of you consider yourselves... a new species?
[14.05.2015 01:20:07] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: There are undeniable benefits, though, and some, like myself, consider it the next logical stage in human -
[14.05.2015 01:20:11] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - evolution.
[14.05.2015 01:20:21] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Yes, at least genetically.
[14.05.2015 01:20:53] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: They certainly adapted to their environment, so I guess you're not completely wrong.
[14.05.2015 01:21:00] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We are closer to the precursors in this sector than anyone has ever been in the history of our race.
[14.05.2015 01:21:17] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: You're talking about the Daam K'vosh?
[14.05.2015 01:21:21] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Yes.
[14.05.2015 01:21:26] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Interesting.
[14.05.2015 01:21:43] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We know this through only indirect means, unfortunately.
[14.05.2015 01:21:43] Hana.Ken: Impling the K'Vosh were Cardamine breathers?
[14.05.2015 01:22:03] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: No, but implying that the grass was one of their creations, perhaps even specifically left for us to find.
[14.05.2015 01:22:14] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *is suddenly awkwardly silent*
[14.05.2015 01:22:26] Hana.Ken: oh.... intriuging... *once again, cursioty lights up*
[14.05.2015 01:22:34] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Considering the theory of their hypergate network utilized during the Nomad War of 801 AS, -
[14.05.2015 01:22:55] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - it's not inconceivable that they knew of our development if they were still around while we were evolving, -
[14.05.2015 01:23:10] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - or even helping our species along in some way as we grew.
[14.05.2015 01:23:20] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Why destroying Sol then?
[14.05.2015 01:23:31] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: destroy, even.
[14.05.2015 01:23:33] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: They didn't. Their caretakers did, the ones you know as the Nomads.
[14.05.2015 01:23:52] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Beings that you are known to live side-by-side with...
[14.05.2015 01:23:58] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Caretakers that were programmed to defend their master's technology from those 'not them'.
[14.05.2015 01:24:06] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Not offending here, to be clear.
[14.05.2015 01:24:13] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: I'm just curious.
[14.05.2015 01:24:40] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I understand.
[14.05.2015 01:24:44] Hana.Ken: Do these Nomads hunt you and your fellow believers?
[14.05.2015 01:24:48] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: And the Crimson Cross is closer to them than most.
[14.05.2015 01:24:58] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: No, they do not. They do not seem to recognize us as 'not them'.
[14.05.2015 01:25:13] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Isn't that a bit... Contradictory? Leaving their technology for us to find and at the same time creating beings to keep it from
[14.05.2015 01:25:17] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: us?
[14.05.2015 01:25:17] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Usually their interactions refer to us as 'orange brethren'. Their words. If you can call them words...
[14.05.2015 01:25:26] Hana.Ken: *awe* wow...interesting...
[14.05.2015 01:25:40] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: That's the best part, though.
[14.05.2015 01:25:58] Hana.Ken: and others of the Outcasts... they are seen the same way?
[14.05.2015 01:26:20] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I believe that they intended for us to 'grow into' the...hmm, mantle that they left for us.
[14.05.2015 01:26:33] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: As a... Test?
[14.05.2015 01:26:44] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: And, with what the cardamine has done to both our bodies and our interactions with their caretakers, that the grass -
[14.05.2015 01:26:55] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - is the way they intended, or maybe one of the ways, for that to happen.
[14.05.2015 01:27:07] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: As to your question, yes, madame. To varying degrees.
[14.05.2015 01:27:30] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Some are more receptive to the dream than others. Sometimes it's possible for us to interact with, however -
[14.05.2015 01:27:51] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - indirectly, what has become to be known as their 'Mindshare'.
[14.05.2015 01:28:00] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: To us, it's mostly unintelligible.
[14.05.2015 01:28:01] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: An interesting theory. I might touch on it during one of our Tea ceremonies on Nagasaki.
[14.05.2015 01:28:10] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Oh, contact
[14.05.2015 01:28:15] Roach.Coach: Ted: Don't mind me
[14.05.2015 01:28:33] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Most likely a slaver... *grumbles*
[14.05.2015 01:28:53] Hana.Ken: A question then... if you'd permit an answer to it
[14.05.2015 01:29:07] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Of course.
[14.05.2015 01:29:26] Hana.Ken: Considering I too have been taking Cardamine the extension of my lifetime... would they consider me as they consider-
[14.05.2015 01:29:27] Hana.Ken: you?
[14.05.2015 01:29:48] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Individuals should, yes.
[14.05.2015 01:30:01] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *mumbles* *something on the direction of 'kohai'*
[14.05.2015 01:30:04] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: There seem to be two overarching seperate kinds of spirit that we've encountered.
[14.05.2015 01:30:17] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *listens up*
[14.05.2015 01:30:34] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Some, the more individual ones, seem to be directly connected to and receiving instructions from their Mindshare.
[14.05.2015 01:30:50] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Others, the ones you only encounter patrolling their core systems, seem to react akin to our white blood cells.
[14.05.2015 01:31:01] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Interesting.
[14.05.2015 01:31:05] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Only those closest to the precursors are granted passage willingly.
[14.05.2015 01:31:38] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Mendes-San... May I be blunt?
[14.05.2015 01:31:42] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Of course.
[14.05.2015 01:32:02] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Are those 'closest to the precursors'... Incubi?
[14.05.2015 01:32:34] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: No, not necessarily. Members of my order can all pass unhindered.
[14.05.2015 01:32:55] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Scan me as close as you wish. I'm not an incubi, as you call it.
[14.05.2015 01:33:35] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: The singular is incubus, I believe. And I'd need a medical examination team to confirm it - although I tend to believe you.
[14.05.2015 01:33:49] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Another question, if you don't mind.
[14.05.2015 01:33:53] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Go ahead.
[14.05.2015 01:34:20] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: These... Post-humans. What is their stance on the Homo Sapiens Sapiens?
[14.05.2015 01:35:11] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Like I said, only the most conceited consider themselves superior. As with regular humans, though, their methods -
[14.05.2015 01:35:21] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - of enlightenment differ, sometimes to the extremese.
[14.05.2015 01:35:31] |+|-Alacrita: extremes*.
[14.05.2015 01:35:41] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I prefer to discuss it, as you've seen.
[14.05.2015 01:35:49] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Hmm. The difference between the Cross and XTF, for example.
[14.05.2015 01:36:02] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Oh, and be sure that I appreciate this discussion.
[14.05.2015 01:36:19] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: The XTF, in their own words, live only for battle against their enemies.
[14.05.2015 01:36:44] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: It's relieving to talk rather than to fight, even when you consider yourself a Samurai.
[14.05.2015 01:36:47] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Heightened diplomacy is beyond them from what I've seen. I'd steer clear. Fortunately their numbers are -
[14.05.2015 01:37:00] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - extremely few and they have no overarching effect on Maltese politics.
[14.05.2015 01:37:17] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods* I do not see them as a threat to our relations, do not worry.
[14.05.2015 01:37:27] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: There have always been extremists.
[14.05.2015 01:37:33] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: On both sides.
[14.05.2015 01:37:39] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: So you've told me.
[14.05.2015 01:37:50] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We both have people to watch out for, it seems.
[14.05.2015 01:37:55] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods*
[14.05.2015 01:38:33] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Madame, you've been quiet for the past several minutes.
[14.05.2015 01:38:55] Hana.Ken: Hai... sumimasen. I'm a listener mostly *smiles* It's done me well thus far.
[14.05.2015 01:39:08] Hana.Ken: I must say however, I am truly intriuged by your... theories
[14.05.2015 01:39:27] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Impossible to hear when one speaks all the time. It's a valid philosophy, one I suppose I should listen to myself -
[14.05.2015 01:39:30] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: sometimes.
[14.05.2015 01:39:45] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: I don't mind listening to explanations.
[14.05.2015 01:39:56] Hana.Ken: and, as selfish as it is, I wonder where, in this...dream... a flower would stand to grow.
[14.05.2015 01:40:31] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: For now I can only direct you to Malta herself in hopes of meeting a spirit.
[14.05.2015 01:40:50] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: If you do, you can form your own opinions when viewed from a different, nonhostile perspective.
[14.05.2015 01:41:04] Hana.Ken: *smiles* It is in luck then that that was to be my next destination anyhow, as my Cardamine runs low.
[14.05.2015 01:41:19] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: There's also the Skorba Vale, which you'll be guided to should you ask the dock controllers there if you wish to -
[14.05.2015 01:41:23] Hana.Ken: and a harvest is best picked from where it grows.
[14.05.2015 01:41:30] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - investigate further outside of the cockpit, though...
[14.05.2015 01:41:46] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - Some of the priests there are...well, fanatics.
[14.05.2015 01:41:56] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We've already discussed how useful fanatics can be.
[14.05.2015 01:42:21] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Close to useless, indeed.
[14.05.2015 01:42:55] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Your lifelong connection to the orange will be most helpful for you. Those who take it for a thrill usually are -
[14.05.2015 01:43:05] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - blind to the dream, and to the thoughts of the caretakers.
[14.05.2015 01:43:30] Hana.Ken: *chuckles* Quite. Yet it sounds a worthwhile endeavour. If that is true...it has serious repercusions for many.
[14.05.2015 01:43:52] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Only the human race.
[14.05.2015 01:44:01] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Some will always resist change, and others will embrace it.
[14.05.2015 01:44:28] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Hmm.
[14.05.2015 01:44:40] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Still others will watch and wait and decide over time, more carefully.
[14.05.2015 01:45:07] Hana.Ken: Change is but that unspoken truth in a room of seers, prophets, preachers and sheep.
[14.05.2015 01:45:11] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: That's the kind of person we'd be most interested in showing a different path.
[14.05.2015 01:45:25] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We have all four in abundance, trust me.
[14.05.2015 01:45:42] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: To the point of nausea sometimes.
[14.05.2015 01:45:50] Hana.Ken: *smiles gently then chuckles*
[14.05.2015 01:45:54] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Change is inevitable. You have to find the counterbalance for it, otherwise you get lost in it.
[14.05.2015 01:46:12] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Indeed. Your people would know that...more than most.
[14.05.2015 01:46:36] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: This has been a most pleasant conversation, in my estimation.
[14.05.2015 01:46:37] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Neither embrace nor deny the inevitable. Accept it... *seems to be thoughtful*
[14.05.2015 01:46:49] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Indeed, it has been.
[14.05.2015 01:47:01] Hana.Ken: Hai, it has been a pleasurable experience.
[14.05.2015 01:47:02] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Perhaps the best part of this -
[14.05.2015 01:47:12] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Done correctly, the choice is voluntary.
[14.05.2015 01:47:25] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Hmm.
[14.05.2015 01:47:43] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: It is still a hard choice that is not to be taken lightly.
[14.05.2015 01:47:55] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Some of us have no higher opinion of slavers than you do. It is difficult to expunge five hundred years of tradition -
[14.05.2015 01:48:20] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - and desperation from the oldest cartels on Malta.
[14.05.2015 01:48:56] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods* I know what you're talking about. Ever tried talking to the former system prefects, you know what stubborn means.
[14.05.2015 01:49:15] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Indeed. The worst part? It's profitable.
[14.05.2015 01:49:31] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: All the enlightenment in the worlds can't seem to solve that most basic human trait - greed.
[14.05.2015 01:49:38] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: For some, anyway.
[14.05.2015 01:49:47] Hana.Ken: *stern and furious look flashes across her face*
[14.05.2015 01:50:03] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Say, Mendes-San...
[14.05.2015 01:50:22] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Have you ever heard of Zen, or Buddhism, as some call it?
[14.05.2015 01:50:26] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I believe I've touched a nerve....
[14.05.2015 01:50:33] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Heard of it, yes.
[14.05.2015 01:50:52] Hana.Ken: Iie... slavery is... a personal issue. I apologise for the offence *regains composure*
[14.05.2015 01:50:52] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: And while I'm not certain where that nerve was triggered from, I can guess, and I am sorry.
[14.05.2015 01:51:26] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: It is what many of us follow. And I find the similarities... Both troubling and fascinating.
[14.05.2015 01:52:30] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I see a Sirius enlightened past petty squabbles over territory, resources, and old grudges,
[14.05.2015 01:52:51] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: - and reaching out to the legacy left to us by the precursors. Nothing less is acceptable as a goal.
[14.05.2015 01:52:55] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: We're talking... Damn it. Is that a Kishiro IFF?
[14.05.2015 01:53:00] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I imagine that your Zen has you -
[14.05.2015 01:53:04] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: It is indeed.
[14.05.2015 01:53:13] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Hmm.
[14.05.2015 01:53:16] Kishiro|Iki: Konnichiwa
[14.05.2015 01:53:24] Hana.Ken: Aramaki-san, you honoured me with an audience today, for that I thank you deeply.
[14.05.2015 01:53:32] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Perhaps we'll resume our discussion another time.
[14.05.2015 01:53:34] Hana.Ken: but I may no longer been seen here. I'm sure you understand.
[14.05.2015 01:53:45] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: *nods*
[14.05.2015 01:53:57] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: We're not to that future yet. I understand as well.
[14.05.2015 01:54:11] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Until next time, then. I look forward to another pleasant conversation.
[14.05.2015 01:54:17] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: As for the... futher contacts, Mendes-San... I have a proposal for that.
[14.05.2015 01:54:21] Hana.Ken: *bows* Sayonara.... oh, and Tomas-san... I hope we meet again for more of this topic...
[14.05.2015 01:54:37] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: You'll know roughly where to find me, madame.
[14.05.2015 01:54:54] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Oh?
[14.05.2015 01:55:00] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: What is your proposal?
[14.05.2015 01:55:26] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: I'd like to install a constant embassy for the empire-in-exile on this freeport.... Mainly for interactions between our two...
[14.05.2015 01:55:29] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Groups.
[14.05.2015 01:55:52] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: I'll forward that to the Cross' high command.
[14.05.2015 01:55:52] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: I figure that this system is both remote and central enough for these needs.
[14.05.2015 01:56:05] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: You are correct. It is the logical place to meet.
[14.05.2015 01:56:42] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: It is Sayonara, then.
[14.05.2015 01:56:53] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: In fact, I'll speak to the dockmasters about a quiet nook of the station for just that...
[14.05.2015 01:57:04] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Indeed it is. We'll meet again, Aramaki Hideo.
[14.05.2015 01:57:05] {343}Aramaki.Hideo-Daii: Sounds good.
[14.05.2015 01:57:16] |+|-Alacrita: Tomas: Entering the docking pattern now.
Another encounter with new people around Freeport 10 today, as I was returning my fighter to Malta. Attached below are logs of the conversation. It should be noted that under my authorization the two pilots, one Rebecca Kamensky (freelancer) and one Enma Loyola (independent Maltese). were escorted by me into the Siniestre Cloud and through the jump anomaly into Omicron 90 for about two minutes in order to prove that the Spirits were very much real and alive. They were very receptive to what I had to say, and miss Loyola will likely be presenting herself to Skorba Vale for further information; perhaps even to join the Cross.
Code:
[22.05.2015 21:21:03] Enma.Loyola: Not so many thing makes me happy.
[22.05.2015 21:21:21] Enma.Loyola: Senior *bows*
[22.05.2015 21:21:28] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Ah, so good to see another Maltese out and about in the sector.
[22.05.2015 21:21:38] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I hope I am not intruding?
[22.05.2015 21:21:48] Rebecca.Kamensky: One of you`re friends, miss ?
[22.05.2015 21:22:00] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I don't belive we have met, actually.
[22.05.2015 21:22:22] Enma.Loyola: Yes, I don't know...
[22.05.2015 21:22:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: *looks confused* Talking to me ?
[22.05.2015 21:22:39] Enma.Loyola: Why are you happy to see us here?
[22.05.2015 21:22:41] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Both of you, actually.
[22.05.2015 21:23:13] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not 'us', you. It was more a blanket statement really. It's not often we run into unaffiliated Maltese even this far from our -
[22.05.2015 21:23:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - home.
[22.05.2015 21:23:28] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well, i`m just a freelancer hanging around after a hard day of escorting IMG traders. Thats all. *nods*
[22.05.2015 21:23:45] Enma.Loyola: Senior from Cross will be always welcome by me.*smiles*
[22.05.2015 21:23:53] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You provide escort to the miners?
[22.05.2015 21:24:12] Rebecca.Kamensky: That sounds like you offer them more than you should, lady. *smiles*
[22.05.2015 21:24:17] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Best to not let us catch you doing that.
[22.05.2015 21:24:34] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But I am no barbarian - you are safe from me here, at least.
[22.05.2015 21:24:41] Rebecca.Kamensky: Its a job like transporting crates around.
[22.05.2015 21:25:15] Enma.Loyola: You can transporting cardamine instead.
[22.05.2015 21:25:16] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I understand that a freelancer must make a living. Still, it would be best not to affiliate with the miners. They are...in a -
[22.05.2015 21:25:26] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - fragile spot in the sector.
[22.05.2015 21:25:36] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Diplomatically. As are any who align with them.
[22.05.2015 21:26:05] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As the lady said - you might consider spreading our Dream from time to time, in its most basic form.
[22.05.2015 21:26:11] Rebecca.Kamensky: Funny. *hides the laughing* The miners told me the same thing about the outcasts.
[22.05.2015 21:26:35] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The Maltese do not have a fleet of Valors on their doorstep, just waiting for someone they don't like to dock on their stations
[22.05.2015 21:26:57] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Nor must they wade into the four way scrap that is the Omegas to make a living away from that.
[22.05.2015 21:27:02] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Truthfully, we're better off.
[22.05.2015 21:27:18] Rebecca.Kamensky: Drop your voice, buddy. I`m not one of these miners remember.
[22.05.2015 21:27:21] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But relax - I understand what the average Sirian thinks of my people, and I won't press the issue further.
[22.05.2015 21:27:33] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The money is there if you wish it.
[22.05.2015 21:27:35] Rebecca.Kamensky: IF you want to kill each other, do so. But let me out of this.
[22.05.2015 21:27:38] Enma.Loyola: Calm down...
[22.05.2015 21:28:09] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Ahem. I believe we have...hmm, 'gotten off on the wrong foot.'
[22.05.2015 21:28:28] Rebecca.Kamensky: *nods*
[22.05.2015 21:29:09] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I hope I wasn't interrupting anything.
[22.05.2015 21:29:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: Not really. Like i sayed, just hanging around a bit.
[22.05.2015 21:29:39] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Very well.
[22.05.2015 21:30:01] Rebecca.Kamensky: But if you have something to do. Please go on.
[22.05.2015 21:30:46] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I don't really.
[22.05.2015 21:30:54] Rebecca.Kamensky: *whistles* What a wonderful day.
[22.05.2015 21:31:23] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: (speaking to Enma) What about you?
[22.05.2015 21:31:27] Enma.Loyola: Crusader with free time, something new...
[22.05.2015 21:32:26] Enma.Loyola: I've firt mind sharing with Spirit yestarday
[22.05.2015 21:32:29] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well, sometimes introducing oneself while sitting around at a freeport can qualify as 'doing nothing'.
[22.05.2015 21:32:49] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: (inquisitively) Oh?
[22.05.2015 21:32:54] Enma.Loyola: And after it I can't 'back'
[22.05.2015 21:32:59] Enma.Loyola: completly...
[22.05.2015 21:33:12] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I'm afraid I don't understand, miss.
[22.05.2015 21:33:46] Enma.Loyola: I hope Dream will help
[22.05.2015 21:34:37] Enma.Loyola: I used liquid... it was.
[22.05.2015 21:35:03] Enma.Loyola: Very hard still, sorry
[22.05.2015 21:36:08] Rebecca.Kamensky: *unwraps a sandwich and starts eating*
[22.05.2015 21:36:27] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: ...Oh.
[22.05.2015 21:36:29] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well.
[22.05.2015 21:36:52] Enma.Loyola: Bone appetit
[22.05.2015 21:37:02] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You have overdosed badly and now are still suffering withdrawal...
[22.05.2015 21:37:08] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Should you really be flying a ship?
[22.05.2015 21:38:12] Enma.Loyola: I've a huge overdosing flying experience.
[22.05.2015 21:38:24] Enma.Loyola: *trying to smile*
[22.05.2015 21:38:38] Rebecca.Kamensky: *speaks with her mouth full of sandwich* Mell, she masnt crashed minto the mation yet.
[22.05.2015 21:38:59] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Indeed. Well, you can make your own decisions...and we shall help you out where we can, medically or otherwise.
[22.05.2015 21:39:21] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I am curious as to what the spirit revealed to you, if it is something that can be described.
[22.05.2015 21:40:38] Enma.Loyola: It was two of them, one huge, one little... they gave me a song...
[22.05.2015 21:41:07] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You spoke with one of the guardians directly?
[22.05.2015 21:42:38] Enma.Loyola: What guardians?
[22.05.2015 21:43:02] Enma.Loyola: I'm sorry I was just... simple person...
[22.05.2015 21:43:19] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Oh. My apologies - that is the name given to the 'big ones' as you called them - the battleship analogs.
[22.05.2015 21:44:12] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Don't worry - no one is merely themselves after such an encounter.
[22.05.2015 21:44:38] Enma.Loyola: Yeas, we had a conversation, they told me to eleminate the resistance and practice...
[22.05.2015 21:46:22] Enma.Loyola: I felt how my little ago is weak and pathetic...
[22.05.2015 21:47:20] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Human. Only human. Now you can begin to become something more. Though I wouldn't recommend the overdosing.
[22.05.2015 21:48:08] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: There are easier ways to become closer to the spirits, I assure you.
[22.05.2015 21:48:18] Enma.Loyola: I'll try, it is hard, I'm doing it more than a week.
[22.05.2015 21:48:54] Enma.Loyola: I don't need easy ways, I can give as much as they'll ask
[22.05.2015 21:49:33] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You have to survive the process, though.
[22.05.2015 21:50:13] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Take it slower. You are Maltese, are you not? Your life is not measured as the rest of Sirians - time doesn't mean quite as -
[22.05.2015 21:50:17] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - much to us.
[22.05.2015 21:51:10] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You can thank the Dream for that, and those that left it for us.
[22.05.2015 21:51:12] Enma.Loyola: I'm... they gave us the Dream... ?
[22.05.2015 21:51:44] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I apologize, I do not know your history - but if you have been exposed to it for long enough to be considered Maltese, whatever
[22.05.2015 21:52:18] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - your caste and position, you will have received the benefits. All you must do to begin is breathe.
[22.05.2015 21:52:31] Enma.Loyola: Loyola family came to Sirius on Hispania
[22.05.2015 21:52:43] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Then yes, you are part of it.
[22.05.2015 21:53:06] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As to who left it to us...it was left by the same ones that left the spirits.
[22.05.2015 21:53:34] Death: DeniS6 was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[22.05.2015 21:53:36] Enma.Loyola: *nods*
[22.05.2015 21:54:24] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As a gift, for us to find. You should be proud to be a part of such an ancient and storied history.
[22.05.2015 21:55:06] Enma.Loyola: I'm proud and we have many 'work' to do... still
[22.05.2015 21:55:43] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: What about you, freelancer? I'm always interested to hear a different perspective.
[22.05.2015 21:56:29] Rebecca.Kamensky: *wakes up* What ? Sorry i fell asleep as soon as you started your spiritual chat. Sorry again.
[22.05.2015 21:57:37] Rebecca.Kamensky: But if you really want to know. I`m dont believe in such things.
[22.05.2015 21:58:00] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You don't believe in the ones you call Nomads?
[22.05.2015 21:58:18] Rebecca.Kamensky: I`m enjoying my life while i can. I dont need drugs, well some rum or beer from time to time.
[22.05.2015 21:59:03] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Hmm. Well, it's refreshing to meet someone who is perfectly happy the way they are.
[22.05.2015 21:59:15] Rebecca.Kamensky: Ohh these jelly thing ? Yeah heard of them but as soon as i havnt seen one with my own eyes it doesnt mean anything to me.
[22.05.2015 21:59:32] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: For that at least I can respect your decision.
[22.05.2015 22:00:03] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: They are quite real. I can even show them to you, though the secondary kinds will simply blindly open fire on you.
[22.05.2015 22:00:07] Rebecca.Kamensky: Sometimes its better not to know all the details, my friend.
[22.05.2015 22:00:27] Enma.Loyola: Any of us have his road, future will show who was right
[22.05.2015 22:01:13] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Knowing the details is what makes us something better than what we are, though.
[22.05.2015 22:01:30] Rebecca.Kamensky: One of my girlfriends told me she meet one of these ``nomands``. Together with an gallic junker.
[22.05.2015 22:01:40] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As to history, it's indeed written by the winners, as they say.
[22.05.2015 22:02:07] Rebecca.Kamensky: Told me ``it `` wanted to know something about ``human reproduction`` or something.
[22.05.2015 22:02:32] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: A curious desire for those such as them.
[22.05.2015 22:02:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: Sounds like a big lie to me.
[22.05.2015 22:02:43] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Hello, captain.
[22.05.2015 22:03:23] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If you ever wish to have your conceptions of the universe challenged, you need but to ask us.
[22.05.2015 22:03:28] Enma.Loyola: They know of us much, maybe even more than we do.
[22.05.2015 22:03:32] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: We can do that for you, in spades.
[22.05.2015 22:04:11] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I can tell you this - it's worth the look.
[22.05.2015 22:04:52] Rebecca.Kamensky: Yeah, maybe . But it will be the last thing i see, i guess.
[22.05.2015 22:05:26] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I would argue that, under the right circumstances, it would be the -first- thing you'd truly see, the first in all your life.
[22.05.2015 22:05:39] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Something beyond air, and credits, and the next job.
[22.05.2015 22:06:18] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Enlightenment is too campy a term...'realization' works better. Realization that we have a much bigger part to play than -
[22.05.2015 22:06:18] Enma.Loyola: Listen to him... It's hard for me to talk now
[22.05.2015 22:06:41] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - just the petty squabbles of Sirius and where everyone's next meal is coming from.
[22.05.2015 22:06:41] Rebecca.Kamensky: Sounds like a greater good.
[22.05.2015 22:07:05] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not even. A group of people who decide that they are ready to embrace a bigger destiny for themselves.
[22.05.2015 22:07:25] Rebecca.Kamensky: And what will happen after you showed me this, let still call it nomand ?
[22.05.2015 22:07:28] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I at least wish to force the dream on no-one; it loses all meaning if you must believe this, must believe that under pain of de
[22.05.2015 22:07:30] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: death.
[22.05.2015 22:08:22] Rebecca.Kamensky: Its not like i can simply walk away.
[22.05.2015 22:08:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: Ignoring what i saw.
[22.05.2015 22:09:07] Enma.Loyola: If you will not offends them it would be fine
[22.05.2015 22:09:56] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I don't think they would be offended.
[22.05.2015 22:10:13] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: With us along, you might even be welcomed by them.
[22.05.2015 22:10:36] Rebecca.Kamensky: So i can simply walk to the nomand as look at him ? From what i heard they like to gun down everything in sight.
[22.05.2015 22:10:42] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not with us.
[22.05.2015 22:11:16] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You see, they defend themselves from everyone, it's true.
[22.05.2015 22:11:39] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But to us, we are their 'orange brethren', their impressions, and we are able to interact with them peacefully.
[22.05.2015 22:11:55] Rebecca.Kamensky: Its some weird form of defence if the target is an unarmed transport. Dont you think ?
[22.05.2015 22:12:12] Death: Katanablade suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[22.05.2015 22:12:23] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You're thinking on too small a scale.
[22.05.2015 22:12:33] Rebecca.Kamensky: Maybe.
[22.05.2015 22:12:34] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: To them, they scratched at an inch and killed a few microbes.
[22.05.2015 22:12:43] Death: [HF]-Adam.Williams was put out of action by LH~Nicole.Hunter. (Gun).
[22.05.2015 22:12:49] Enma.Loyola: Mental agression is so importand for them as materil ones.
[22.05.2015 22:13:19] Enma.Loyola: So if persons who was in transport did it...
[22.05.2015 22:13:29] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not even that - humanity's sins against them are many.
[22.05.2015 22:13:40] Death: [FL-ER]Cpt.Nathan.Z. was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[22.05.2015 22:13:45] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Some of which date back before the founding of the sector itself, though it continued here.
[22.05.2015 22:13:47] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well men died every day right ? Guess you`re right, from a weird point of view.
[22.05.2015 22:14:12] |+|-ET-L'ira.di.Dios: Erika: Mendes. What have we here
[22.05.2015 22:14:38] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Inquisitor. We're having a discussion about the higher philosophies.
[22.05.2015 22:14:41] Rebecca.Kamensky: *nods* Greetings lady.
[22.05.2015 22:14:47] Enma.Loyola: *bows to new crusader*
[22.05.2015 22:15:24] |+|-ET-L'ira.di.Dios: Erika: Oh? Masquerading as one of the higher familias are you Mendes?
[22.05.2015 22:15:39] |+|-ET-L'ira.di.Dios: Erika: Adorable. I assume you've filled your day's patrols then?
[22.05.2015 22:16:24] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: (chuckling) I suppose I am. I enjoy the banter, particularly if it leads a curious person to a higher understanding of -
[22.05.2015 22:16:38] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - deeper mysteries.
[22.05.2015 22:17:00] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: And yes, the patrols are largely finished and I was returning to Malta.
[22.05.2015 22:17:40] |+|-ET-L'ira.di.Dios: Erika: Good to hear.
[22.05.2015 22:18:07] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I had extended an invitation to Malta and slightly beyond for the freelancer miss here.
[22.05.2015 22:18:19] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Seeing is believing, after all.
[22.05.2015 22:18:43] |+|-ET-L'ira.di.Dios: Erika: Mmmhm... And what be your curiosity Miss... Kamensky?
[22.05.2015 22:19:56] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well, miss. Lets say its not that bad to see something different from time to time.
[22.05.2015 22:20:28] Rebecca.Kamensky: Besides i really like to see where all the ships came from the miners told me about.
[22.05.2015 22:21:10] Enma.Loyola: Tomas, may I ask you?
[22.05.2015 22:21:14] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well, let's be clear - the primary production would of course remain secret.
[22.05.2015 22:21:23] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Of course, miss Loyola.
[22.05.2015 22:22:31] Enma.Loyola: I heard many times that Spirits gifts visions, but in my case it was a song, it means something?
[22.05.2015 22:22:51] |+|-ET-L'ira.di.Dios: Erika: everyone Interprets their messages differently.
[22.05.2015 22:23:21] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: And they may have chosen to send you that for a specific reason as opposed to a vision. If they really wanted to, -
[22.05.2015 22:23:57] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - particularly the battleship analogs, they could overrun your mind with relative ease.
[22.05.2015 22:24:12] Rebecca.Kamensky: * talking to herself* Great now the spiritual chat again. I need a drink.
[22.05.2015 22:24:27] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It's not much of a stretch to believe that they could send you music instead of a vision.
[22.05.2015 22:25:02] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If that helps, then by all means.
[22.05.2015 22:25:02] Enma.Loyola: I understood. First time in my life I want to teaching.
[22.05.2015 22:25:43] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: All you need to do is come take that look with us, to see them up close, and maybe it won't seem so boring to you.
[22.05.2015 22:26:24] Rebecca.Kamensky: *looks up* Did it speak this out loud again ?
[22.05.2015 22:26:41] Rebecca.Kamensky: I really need to learn to turn the volume off.
[22.05.2015 22:26:41] Enma.Loyola: I want, pleased you...
[22.05.2015 22:27:00] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: 'It'?
[22.05.2015 22:28:45] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I'm sorry, miss Loyola...what are you asking?
[22.05.2015 22:29:57] Enma.Loyola: I... sorry, still hard to me. I want to ask shall I seek for them or they will find me?
[22.05.2015 22:30:12] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It's best to let them find you.
[22.05.2015 22:30:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: At least at first.
[22.05.2015 22:30:47] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Our order may travel to their domains unaccosted under dire circumstances, but you would run into their...reflexive defenses.
[22.05.2015 22:30:58] Enma.Loyola: They did... glad, thankfull them
[22.05.2015 22:31:18] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: There is a numerous subclass that react as our white blood cells do, best as we can tell.
[22.05.2015 22:31:45] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Their responses are quick, violent, and without mercy or indeed higher thought. Parts of a very ancient, very angry whole.
[22.05.2015 22:31:51] Enma.Loyola: I will not offend them entering their home.
[22.05.2015 22:32:07] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But we are invisible to them under most circumstances.
[22.05.2015 22:32:14] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: My order, that is.
[22.05.2015 22:33:23] Enma.Loyola: We offending them and they don't want us beg for mercy, they come and helped me.
[22.05.2015 22:35:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The individuals are misunderstood by most.
[22.05.2015 22:35:39] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Sometimes they really do just want to talk, even to those not of the dream.
[22.05.2015 22:37:16] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Anyway.
[22.05.2015 22:37:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: Let me guess. If they appear the pilots and captain didnt understand what they wanted and start shooting. so the defence -
[22.05.2015 22:37:44] Rebecca.Kamensky: thing comes in. right ?
[22.05.2015 22:38:12] Enma.Loyola: *pause* Sure.
[22.05.2015 22:38:25] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not always. Sometimes they find their enemies and they attack them, as would any other group in the sector.
[22.05.2015 22:39:01] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Other times they wish to take the measure of the individuals they encounter.
[22.05.2015 22:39:16] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It has taken a long time to us, but they do recognize that not all of us are like the others.
[22.05.2015 22:39:38] Enma.Loyola: I was defended small Spirit from the Order ship with other Maltese. *trying to smile*
[22.05.2015 22:40:00] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Some may wish to talk, or be aggressive, or learn about them, or run away.
[22.05.2015 22:40:04] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: We are all different.
[22.05.2015 22:40:23] Rebecca.Kamensky: So the story my miner girlfriend told could be real ? Not a lie ?
[22.05.2015 22:40:37] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Yes, it could most certainly be real.
[22.05.2015 22:40:46] Enma.Loyola: Why do Order attack them, just animal-like fear?
[22.05.2015 22:40:59] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Reproduction is a process for which they have no analog, so they might have wished to explore it.
[22.05.2015 22:41:23] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The Order have their roots in Liberty, as many know, dating back to the founding of that House.
[22.05.2015 22:41:29] Rebecca.Kamensky: So basicly gathering knowlege.
[22.05.2015 22:41:55] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: In our brief encounter with them they had technology they should not have...
[22.05.2015 22:42:31] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Could not have, in fact, without...
[22.05.2015 22:42:54] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well. It's just supposition. I suspect however that the Order are the aggressors at first, at least to the spirits.
[22.05.2015 22:43:04] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: In fact, knowing humanity, I can about guarantee it.
[22.05.2015 22:45:09] Enma.Loyola: So, Rebecca, you don't change your mind at least for a bit?
[22.05.2015 22:46:25] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: She must change her mind on her own.
[22.05.2015 22:46:25] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well, cant say i`m not impressed by the chat you had.
[22.05.2015 22:46:46] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Our responsibility is to provide her a means to explore that decision if she chooses it.
[22.05.2015 22:46:50] Rebecca.Kamensky: But like i told you before, i like to see things with my own eyes.
[22.05.2015 22:47:09] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well, if you want, I can show you proof that they exist.
[22.05.2015 22:47:15] Enma.Loyola: As you say, Senior.
[22.05.2015 22:47:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It will be dangerous for you.
[22.05.2015 22:47:27] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But the proof is there, if you want to see it now.
[22.05.2015 22:48:06] Rebecca.Kamensky: dangerous ehh ? Didnt you told me you can make them not engage everything in sight ?
[22.05.2015 22:48:12] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not at all.
[22.05.2015 22:48:27] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I told you that my order was immune to their 'immune system
[22.05.2015 22:48:31] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: '...
[22.05.2015 22:48:38] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not that we had any control over them.
[22.05.2015 22:49:35] Rebecca.Kamensky: Lets start with a picture of the planet you call home. how about that ? And maybe i invite you to see my home, too.
[22.05.2015 22:49:54] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You wish to see Malta herself? Very well.
[22.05.2015 22:50:05] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Ensure your hold is empty and we'll go.
[22.05.2015 22:50:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Miss Loyola, you are of course welcome to accompany us.
[22.05.2015 22:50:56] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well nothing in there. Just my personal sidearm, something to eat and something to drink. Guess its ok for you ?
[22.05.2015 22:50:59] Enma.Loyola: Thank you, I'll use that opportunity
[22.05.2015 22:51:04] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It should be...
[22.05.2015 22:51:17] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If one of the random patrols ask you to drop it, though, please cooperate.
[22.05.2015 22:51:25] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Come.
[22.05.2015 22:51:31] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: No time like the present.
[22.05.2015 22:51:32] Rebecca.Kamensky: Sure. sure. No problem.
[22.05.2015 22:53:29] Rebecca.Kamensky: Is there any life on the planets ?
[22.05.2015 22:53:43] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not in this system.
[22.05.2015 22:54:36] Enma.Loyola: We need only one planet.
[22.05.2015 22:54:53] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well, there is another, but...colonizing it fully has proven problematic.
[22.05.2015 22:54:55] Enma.Loyola: And we have it.
[22.05.2015 22:54:58] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Welcome to Malta, miss Kamensky.
[22.05.2015 22:55:16] Rebecca.Kamensky: Its impressive. I have to admit.
[22.05.2015 22:55:34] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It has a beauty all its own.
[22.05.2015 22:55:40] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I would prefer more water, personally...
[22.05.2015 22:55:44] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But it is our home.
[22.05.2015 22:56:30] Rebecca.Kamensky: The people on New Berlin call it the best planet, too. Guess everyone has to love his home.
[22.05.2015 22:56:30] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: This is not what I wished to show you, though.
[22.05.2015 22:56:50] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Because while impressive, what comes next is...
[22.05.2015 22:56:56] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: ...well, you'd need to see it.
[22.05.2015 22:57:08] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I would like to show you something else, though, while we're here.
[22.05.2015 22:57:11] Enma.Loyola: Am I allow?
[22.05.2015 22:57:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Of course!
[22.05.2015 22:57:18] Rebecca.Kamensky: Say, what is this giant piece of an old ship back there ?
[22.05.2015 22:57:38] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: This is the wreck of the sleeper ship Hispania.
[22.05.2015 22:58:09] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: This is the source of all you see here.
[22.05.2015 22:58:36] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You have my permission to fly inside, if you wish.
[22.05.2015 22:58:39] Rebecca.Kamensky: The teachers call it the `` lost ship `` back in school. Guess there right at some point.
[22.05.2015 22:58:40] Enma.Loyola: long long long time ago Roberto Loyola flyed on it...
[22.05.2015 22:59:18] Rebecca.Kamensky: Is it safe ?
[22.05.2015 22:59:41] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Yes, it's stable. Despite the ever expanding debris field, the inside has largely been cleared.
[22.05.2015 22:59:55] Enma.Loyola: They are someplan I hered of to repair Hispania
[22.05.2015 23:00:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: None that I know of, at least in Cross circles.
[22.05.2015 23:00:24] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It's impractical, and a crusade needs its warships.
[22.05.2015 23:00:52] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Miss Loyola, you can enter as well if you wish.
[22.05.2015 23:00:58] Rebecca.Kamensky: So this is the same kind of ship my country uses to get here ?
[22.05.2015 23:01:08] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well i`m impressed.
[22.05.2015 23:01:11] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: This is a museum to our people's struggle and hardships, and should be shared with all.
[22.05.2015 23:01:18] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Thank you.
[22.05.2015 23:01:35] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The ship arrived here in this state - it was heavily damaged when it arrived in roughly 20 AS.
[22.05.2015 23:02:05] Rebecca.Kamensky: Looks like some very big guns where pointed at this side.
[22.05.2015 23:02:10] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: (Yes, this is the class of ship the houses all used to get to Sirius. It's the only one left somewhat intact.)
[22.05.2015 23:02:44] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Yes, probably.
[22.05.2015 23:03:03] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The ship was hit by the Coalition on the way out of Sol, the recordings show that.
[22.05.2015 23:03:04] Rebecca.Kamensky: I mean look at the hole. Not even one of our warships can create such damage.
[22.05.2015 23:03:25] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Orbital artillery of a type no longer used or practical here in Sirius.
[22.05.2015 23:03:33] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: But they were very big guns.
[22.05.2015 23:04:15] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well at least she survived all of this.
[22.05.2015 23:04:18] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It also captured the destruction of Sol and all its remaining inhabitants as the ship was leaving.
[22.05.2015 23:05:00] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Sirius, Gallia. We're all that's left of humanity as we know it.
[22.05.2015 23:05:16] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Then there are the Maltese, who have over time become something...else.
[22.05.2015 23:05:27] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Genetically we barely qualify as human.
[22.05.2015 23:05:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: *wipes away some tears*
[22.05.2015 23:05:58] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: You understand then when I see all of this, and the spirits, and the ones who came before...
[22.05.2015 23:06:36] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: ...and think that there must be change, there must be something more than just humanity destroying itself over the -
[22.05.2015 23:06:39] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - scraps.
[22.05.2015 23:06:57] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: In the spirits, and the precursors that left them behind, there is that purpose.
[22.05.2015 23:07:31] Rebecca.Kamensky: Better than crawling in the ruins of our own destruction, right.
[22.05.2015 23:07:40] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Not to mention theirs.
[22.05.2015 23:07:58] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: There are monuments to the precursors all over Sirius for those who look.
[22.05.2015 23:08:12] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: They are gone, but their guardians, the spirits, and their legacy, through cardamine, remains.
[22.05.2015 23:08:46] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If you're willing, I'll now dispel all doubts you have to their existence.
[22.05.2015 23:08:57] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: All you have to do is follow me, and survive.
[22.05.2015 23:09:21] Rebecca.Kamensky: So what will you do ? The people wont simply welcome you with arms wide open.
[22.05.2015 23:09:23] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Miss Loyola, you would also be in a fight for survival...but you would get to see the spirits.
[22.05.2015 23:09:50] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: For now, I will seek out individuals that will listen, and show them this higher purpose. Being Maltese has always been -
[22.05.2015 23:09:53] Enma.Loyola: And wish to see them again...
[22.05.2015 23:09:56] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - exclusive by its very nature.
[22.05.2015 23:10:20] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: To me, spreading the dream by force defeats its purpose - it must be -chosen- to mean something.
[22.05.2015 23:10:45] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: So I will take my time and explain it to individuals such as yourself and show you each a different universal.
[22.05.2015 23:10:45] Rebecca.Kamensky: *empties a glass of rum and wipes away a tear*
[22.05.2015 23:10:51] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: universe*
[22.05.2015 23:11:03] Rebecca.Kamensky: Fine ! Show me the thing you call spirits.
[22.05.2015 23:11:11] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As you wish.
[22.05.2015 23:11:21] Rebecca.Kamensky: If i die while looking at them. SO be it !
[22.05.2015 23:11:22] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I'll recover your pod if you die...we won't be in there long.
[22.05.2015 23:11:28] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: *get blown up
[22.05.2015 23:11:36] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Come with me.
[22.05.2015 23:11:40] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It will open your eyes.
[22.05.2015 23:12:05] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Keep an eye on your scanner and be ready to do some fancy flying.
[22.05.2015 23:12:31] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As I explained these seem to act similarly to a human's immune system...except most of humanity is the disease.
[22.05.2015 23:12:41] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: These will not do anything but attack you.
[22.05.2015 23:12:52] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: The individuals on the other hand will make themselves known to you.
[22.05.2015 23:13:12] Rebecca.Kamensky: I`ve avoided battleship fire some days ago. so i guess i can dodge what they throw at me-
[22.05.2015 23:13:21] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Good.
[22.05.2015 23:13:50] Rebecca.Kamensky: Ermm....
[22.05.2015 23:13:51] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Prepare yourself.
[22.05.2015 23:14:02] Death: StarOne was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[22.05.2015 23:14:26] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Here they come.
[22.05.2015 23:14:34] Rebecca.Kamensky: Now thats scary.
[22.05.2015 23:14:50] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: As you can see, they do exist...
[22.05.2015 23:14:59] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Leave through the jump hole at any time.
[22.05.2015 23:15:14] Rebecca.Kamensky: how about self defence ?
[22.05.2015 23:15:29] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If you need to to escape, do so.
[22.05.2015 23:15:43] Rebecca.Kamensky: just asking .
[22.05.2015 23:15:46] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Otherwise, please leave them be. This response seems automatic for this kind of nomad.
[22.05.2015 23:15:59] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Spirit, even.
[22.05.2015 23:16:17] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: More are coming, and they can stop cruise engines. It's time to go.
[22.05.2015 23:16:23] Rebecca.Kamensky: Well you made your point very clear. for me we can go back.
[22.05.2015 23:16:34] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Go ahead, you two.
[22.05.2015 23:17:14] Rebecca.Kamensky: SO they followed us ? Great !!
[22.05.2015 23:17:38] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: We'll need to chase them off, unless you can get to cruise.
[22.05.2015 23:18:04] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Good.
[22.05.2015 23:18:18] Enma.Loyola: Tomas, shall we acting like this?
[22.05.2015 23:18:36] Rebecca.Kamensky: *breaths heavy* Well, that was something new.
[22.05.2015 23:19:24] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Contact.
[22.05.2015 23:19:29] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Oh, wait a minute.
[22.05.2015 23:19:42] "The-Zealous": Enfield: Its only me...
[22.05.2015 23:19:46] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I thought so.
[22.05.2015 23:19:50] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Welcome back to Malta.
[22.05.2015 23:19:56] "The-Zealous": Enfield: I never left.
[22.05.2015 23:20:06] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Indeed.
[22.05.2015 23:20:08] Rebecca.Kamensky: *still breaths heavyly* Hey there captain.
[22.05.2015 23:20:16] "The-Zealous": Enfield: I'm here for a few days.
[22.05.2015 23:20:29] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Well, it's hard for one man to keep track of all the comings and goings, even for a higher profile ship such as yours.
[22.05.2015 23:20:40] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Have you made any progress towards your recovery mission, I wonder?
[22.05.2015 23:21:12] "The-Zealous": Enfield: No... I'm possibly looking to return a smiliar favour to the Order for my companions Kidnapping
[22.05.2015 23:21:23] Enma.Loyola: What do you feeling, Rebecca?
[22.05.2015 23:21:43] Death: Vardamir was put out of action by Meneldur (Collision).
[22.05.2015 23:22:00] Rebecca.Kamensky: A lot. From joy to scared to death.
[22.05.2015 23:22:01] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Are you now.
[22.05.2015 23:22:12] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Miss Kamensky, that's a good thing.
[22.05.2015 23:22:28] "The-Zealous": Enfield: Yes... Its ballsy, thats why they won't see it coming.
[22.05.2015 23:22:29] Rebecca.Kamensky: Being scared to death is a good thing ?
[22.05.2015 23:22:30] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Joy at the awakening, fear of the unknown?
[22.05.2015 23:22:58] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If the outcome is a greater awareness of the universe around you, yes, it is.
[22.05.2015 23:23:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Wouldn't you prefer that to the clouded slumber you had been living in?
[22.05.2015 23:23:33] Rebecca.Kamensky: Lets say i`m not used to fight for my life against things i cant even damage with my guns, all right ?
[22.05.2015 23:23:40] Enma.Loyola: Spirits don't like when we fear of them, didn't they?
[22.05.2015 23:23:55] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Some do. Like humans they might have whims...
[22.05.2015 23:24:11] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: There were some for a while that wanted humanity to tremble at their approach.
[22.05.2015 23:24:24] Enma.Loyola: So some of them could like fear?
[22.05.2015 23:24:28] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Now I think they have taken a more inquisitive approach.
[22.05.2015 23:24:46] "The-Zealous": Enfield: Knowing nothing is dangerous, knowing enough is dangerous, Knowing too much is dangerous.
[22.05.2015 23:24:48] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Yes, they could have. I would imagine that they looked upon it as being paid the respect they were due.
[22.05.2015 23:24:54] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Life is danger.
[22.05.2015 23:24:58] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Ignorance, more so.
[22.05.2015 23:25:14] "The-Zealous": Enfield: Mphmm~ *He sips his tea*
[22.05.2015 23:25:26] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: We have taken the first steps to dispelling that ignorance for Miss Kamensky here today.
[22.05.2015 23:25:30] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Oh!
[22.05.2015 23:25:34] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Where are my manners -
[22.05.2015 23:25:57] Rebecca.Kamensky: *empties a big glass of rum* Well thats something you dont see in the Omegas, thats for sure.
[22.05.2015 23:26:15] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Enfield, these are acquaintances of mine - Enma Loyola of House Loyola of Malta, and miss Rebecca Kamensky, -
[22.05.2015 23:26:20] Enma.Loyola: Zelaous you told me yestarday about the Order attack? I've some memory collapsing because of overdosing.
[22.05.2015 23:26:22] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - a freelancer we met around Freeport 10.
[22.05.2015 23:26:48] "The-Zealous": Enfield: I see, you have taken her down the path of enlightenment?
[22.05.2015 23:26:52] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: This is Geoffrey Enfield, a man with a most peculiar problem, and dangerous enemies.
[22.05.2015 23:27:03] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Merely opened the door to the greater possibilities.
[22.05.2015 23:27:03] "The-Zealous": Enfield: And dangerous allies...
[22.05.2015 23:27:28] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Realizations, such as they are, will require more effort.
[22.05.2015 23:27:47] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It is possible now, though. That much we have ensured.
[22.05.2015 23:28:16] Enma.Loyola: I like to see non-Maltese, who doing a good things.
[22.05.2015 23:28:59] Rebecca.Kamensky: Easy hot shot. My head try`s to kill me right now. How about we head back to the freeport and i can get some rest.
[22.05.2015 23:29:18] "The-Zealous": Enfield: I see... I visit the path, request tasks, but merely to go around my day and see if anyone else has tasks that need...
[22.05.2015 23:29:23] Rebecca.Kamensky: Or do you have a room to rent down there ? *points at the planet*
[22.05.2015 23:29:28] "The-Zealous": Enfield: Tending too...
[22.05.2015 23:29:36] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Of course, miss Kamensky.
[22.05.2015 23:29:54] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: If you want I can direct you to the Skorba Vale, the home of the Crimson Cross - elsewise there is room and board in any -
[22.05.2015 23:29:58] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: - major city on the planet.
[22.05.2015 23:30:47] Rebecca.Kamensky: Thanks for the offer. Go a head. I will follow you.
[22.05.2015 23:30:59] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I'll lead you down then. This should only take a moment.
[22.05.2015 23:31:01] Enma.Loyola: Tomas, can I work more close to the Cross?
[22.05.2015 23:31:08] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Of course, miss Loyola.
[22.05.2015 23:31:20] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Back shortly.
[22.05.2015 23:31:22] 2015-05-22 23:31:27 SMT Traffic control alert: |+|-Tomas.Mendes has requested to dock
[22.05.2015 23:31:23] Enma.Loyola: I'll do my best
[22.05.2015 23:32:13] Rebecca.Kamensky: *shakes head slightly* I need rest. This is too much for a simple female. And a good breakfast. *try`s to giggle*
[22.05.2015 23:32:25] Enma.Loyola: Rebecca, do you want some Dream?
[22.05.2015 23:32:48] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: I'm sure they have all the amenities. A lot of Malta is still farmland.
[22.05.2015 23:32:59] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: So they have the classics, as well as fare you'd be more used to.
[22.05.2015 23:33:10] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Ready to land?
[22.05.2015 23:33:22] Rebecca.Kamensky: What ? Yeah yeah, sure.
[22.05.2015 23:33:32] 2015-05-22 23:33:37 SMT Traffic control alert: |+|-Tomas.Mendes has requested to dock
[22.05.2015 23:34:34] "The-Zealous": Enfield: Please, munitions will injure sheild integrity... Please i'd advise you to check your systems
[22.05.2015 23:34:35] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Okay, then.
[22.05.2015 23:34:57] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Right then.
[22.05.2015 23:35:18] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Miss Loyola, you are of course welcome to remain unaffiliated and work more closely with us.
[22.05.2015 23:35:40] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: Or, you can fly down to the Skorba Vale and request an audience with the priests there...
[22.05.2015 23:35:57] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: They can initiate you and you may wear our tag and fly our ships.
[22.05.2015 23:36:07] |+|-Tomas.Mendes: It's up to you.
[22.05.2015 23:36:35] Enma.Loyola: Thank you. I need to teach more and more about
[22.05.2015 23:36:52] Enma.Loyola: Because I know nothing, onlt feelings
At this point I docked my fighter with the Zealous liner mooring right behind me, and we discussed his plans in private. Command should be on the lookout for a communication from him in the near future concerning operations in Omicron Delta.
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_______________________________ To: Teniente Mendes From: Inquisitor Espinosa
You overstep the bounds of your rank Mendes; such an act as escorting an outsider anywhere near the graveyard, much less the the Wormhole anomaly would normally be met with grave punishment.
However, your heart was in the right place, and blackbox logs indicate you speak the truth in the terseness of your stay in the system so, Administration has agreed to let it slide.
This time.
Regardless, Mendes you've proven yourself quite an asset to the Cross given the number of contacts and individuals you've directed to Skorba. I'll be streamlining your promotion application to the top of Administration's priorities. You should hear back and have a ceremony date within the next few days.
Gods' speed.
[ sci·am·ach ]
/sīˈamək/
A simple, angry man casually working his way through life on a personal quest to acquire copious amounts of street cred.
Today marked our first significant cooperation between the Crimson Cross and the new upstart syndicate 'Bloodrose', and I am pleased to say that our escort acted with honor and courage as befitting a soldier of Malta. Capitan Venneri and I left Malta in our trains with Antonio Bloodrose as escort, after a discussion with the PRIME drone Minerva while he was being yelled at for using GC tech by signora Hana. Reference Inquisitor Erika's full report for the details on that argument.
Upon leaving Tau-23 we picked up some unfriendly attention from a small wing of Unione Corse fighters. We made it into Tau 29, and then across the system to Baffin. At this point Antonio stayed behind to hold them off while we made our escape with the Dream. Antonio was subsequently shot down, but not before giving us an entire system's head start.
We proceeded with the spirit in tow to Buffalo Base in New York, traded our Dream for slaves that the Rogues had collected, and departed for Rheinland via Bering in order to circumvent the surviving Corse. On our way down Antonio, who survived being podded and had been delivered to a base ahead of us, met us in a new snubfighter and resumed his escort role into Rheinland. [1]
We proceeded through to Frankfurt, and narrowly avoided a group of those VWA radicals, escaping into a tradelane while Antonio again stayed behind just long enough to disable the nearest ring and assure our escape. He caught up to us in Sigma 13, and we proceeded back to Malta without further incident. Capitan Venneri and I both rewarded him for his heroism, and we parted ways amicably.
Addendum: If a freelancer Sutinga class VHF broadcasting an identifier of 'Flopasaurus' is spotted in Malta, he is to be turned away at the borders or destroyed.
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_______________________________ To: Crimson Cross Command From: Alonso Rosario
Hola fellow Crimson Cross Command,
Long time since I did one of these report looking things. Anyways, back on track, today was a slow day, until I decided to take a stroll in Tau 23 system, where I was encountered by three brave Unione Corse pilots. I didn't really care to listen to them, but they mentioned they were going to chase me until I dock. I'll let the guncams speak for themselves, I guess. Enjoy. Oh, and one of them escaped, I was sad.
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_______________________________ To: Crimson Cross Command From: Sabina Venneri
This is Capitán Sabina Venneri onboard the reconnaissance vessel, Resto di Pilgrim. I have brought the Resto di Pilgrim back to Maltese space for repairs and to allow the crew a chance for some R&R. Up until recently the Resto di Pilgrim and Pilgrim wing have been successful in accessing the strength of our various enemies present in the deep Omicrons.
However, a recent rise in Core activities has caused me to reconsider certain aspects of the Pilgrim Wing operation as a whole. It might be time to take a more offensive approach to our incursion into the deep Omicrons. This will of course mean devoting more resources and men to the sector which may to too costly to the Crimson Cross at this time. I leave the decision up to the Crimson Council whether or not such an operation would be feasible at this time.
If the Council determines that such an operation be worth it I will begin drafting up a plan immediately. If not, I will order the Resto di Pilgrim to continue observing hostile forces in Omicron Delta and its neighboring systems. Also I would like to officially designate Teniente Taylor Adams as the commanding officer of the Resto di Pilgrim and Pilgrim Wing when I am not aboard.