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Stoner_Steve · 09-15-2022, 03:20 AM,

Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: What I don't see can't hurt me

Encryption Strength: Impossible

Why Hello There My Fellow slavedrivers Researchers,

I am his excellency the exceptional, Brandon Wright, researcher extraordinaire and Chair of the Starlight Research Consortiums R&D division. While I have only had an opportunity to meet with a few of your...representatives within the Tau-23 system. The Director has approved us moving towards a more meaningful relationship. To that end I was voluntold selected to begin first contact.

Now of course this isn't the first time you've worked with me or my fellow brethren, no doubt Freeport 10 has provided more than ample use to the Don's in these intervening years. But this will be the first time we, as the Starlight Research Consortium, have officially made contact. Now a full sheet regarding the publicly available information about our program is available on the nural net. But what isn't publicly available are the services we can provide, from system surveys, to hyperspace mapping (including jump drive reference points), and what's rapidly becoming todays hot item, Scientific Data. While this is only a small sampling of all we can provide we do hope you'll keep us in mind for all your scientific inquiry needs.

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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WiseTaurus · 09-15-2022, 08:59 PM,

Excepcional Dr. Brandon Wright:

This is Audaz Alarcón, Alpha Explorer of Malta Hyperspace Starfleet and the maximum representative of our organization. It was unexpected to see such a scientific community gathering themselves in the Taus, taking all the risks that involves this type of endeavor. Still, there are several points to clarify.

First of all, and speaking of exceptional, while the Freeport 10 administration has proved their usefulness to us, this is an aspect that needs to be checked first on your own group. Let me remind you that your presence, not as individual but as Consortium, will be carefully overwatched during the next months, as you should know that adding a new neighbor into our borders is not particularly desirable to our kind. Furthermore, Maltese forces from certain families could be more than unsatisfied by your company, depending on the Dons who sent the orders. I understand that all of this could be unsettling for you, but taking necessary precautions towards foreigners have always been the best course of action, for our people, to maintain our dominions safe.

Having said that, rest assured that our organization will treat Starlight Research Consortium with the adequate respect as we are interested in what a joint effort can offer us, for the time being. Needless to say, our organization is composed of several families with their Dons and the pursuit of technological advancement that we aspire can be improved considering different sources. Change is not unknown to us and we are willing to cooperate, if that entails benefits that can justify the collaboration itself.

Regarding services, there are 2 aspects that I would like to discuss:

First, I would like to know what fields of studies are you focusing at this moment, as a group. As blunt scientific data can be certainly good for diverse tasks, we would like to go deeper. Our divisions work tirelessly to do the best results in different areas and there are projects that we would like to impulse. Suffice to say, depending on the nature of research, we can disclose certain information and provide assistance, if necessary. Additional to that, it is no secret that Cardamine is important to us, and we would be more than delighted if you want to continue a route on this matter; keeping particular restrictions on high consideration. Keep in mind, we hold a great aversion towards Cryer and their developments are not the type of research we would like to see in you. Nevertheless, if Cardamine is in not on your current interests, we may be attracted to other ventures; according on what you can tell us about them.

Second, our surveillance throughout the Taus have taken us through Tau-61, an especially uneventful system. I personally went there a couple of times and we detected strange readings in the planet that has been named, in the neural-net database, as Hascosay. Standard communications there, as the whole system, seemed inert; but there was a radio frequency spike during our travel around it, a couple of microseconds of transmission that vanished as quickly as it emerged. Maybe it is nothing, probably an unfortunate pilot that crashed landed and, in his last breath, tried to desperately communicate through rudimentary methods; or a system on our end that needs a proper maintenance. Unfortunately, other matters in Malta require my attention and we have not continued further exploration there. If you are up to the task, a complete system-wide survey from your side could be helpful to see if this is just pure speculation or false alarm, or there really is a mystery to uncover there.

One last reminder since I mentioned this before, but I would like to be quite clear on this, to all outsiders: All non-Maltese ships with survey devices are not welcome in Omicron Alpha or Omicron Beta, and our brethren are authorized to use lethal force. Make sure that we do not see you doing that, as it would be most unfortunate.

¡Por el Sueño Naranja!
Audaz Alarcón
Alpha Explorer

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Stoner_Steve · 09-16-2022, 04:26 AM,

Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: What I don't see can't hurt me

Encryption Strength: Impossible

My Dearest Alarcón,

While I will heed your warnings I do believe any intelligent Don would recognize the mutual benefits that come with having, if you don't mind me tooting my own horn, such a fantastical neighbor. Especially when others have tried and failed over the years to unseat us, with the plight of Freeport 11 when pressed by the Core coming to mind as one of the more spectacular failures at an attempted deposing.

Now with the usual threats and pleasantries dispensed with we can move onto business.

Officially, publicly, the Consortium focuses on all major branches of science. Anything for the benevolent benefit of humankind. This benevolence, per the Director, should include items such as jump physics, to mining yields, even physiological assessments.

Unofficially, and I cannot stress this enough, unofficially, I happen to be both greedy and short on funding. While I'm no chemist I do remember Sean, a rather close friend and fellow colleague at Ingenuus. Talk about planetary terraforming devices in conjunction with the Crimson Cross that would in essence allow the creation of a second planet seeded like Malta. But this was a number of years ago, and again, as it was Seans project with the Cross I'm not entirely sure to what end that project reached. If any. But, in essence, I will work on any need, anywhere, for a price. Which is usually close enough to the market rate. But only unofficially, as the Consortium would never work with the production, development, or enhancement of Cardimine.

This of course brings us to point 2. Officially, I would be happy to perform a system survey of Tau 61. However we would need to discuss your wants and needs. A simple flyby sensor sweep might only run you a few dozen million, whereas pulling ground samples, terrain surveys, and mineral analysis might run you several hundred million. Now I'm happy always to find a happy medium. Which I believe in this case should consist of a system survey, a sensor sweep, and the deployment of a type EIS-2250 sensor lansat relay for overwatch and long term monitoring. This would allow a brief overview of the system to be conducted. Which in conjunction with the sensor sweep of this Hascosay will provide a detailed view of any major development. Now keep in mind a standard sweep isn't all encompassing; but if there are any active starports or any settlements larger than 250 individuals it likely would be visible. Additionally these sweeps include your standard metrics, atmospheric data, survivability, and if there are any significant mineral resources. This will run you a total of 56 million credits, with the lansat relay costing an additional 12 million credits and providing an additional 3 months of overwatch, monitoring for such things as localized solar disruptions, to nearby vessel traffic should any happen to come within its sensor range.

Let me know of your goals with regards to Tau-61, and any other proejcts

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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WiseTaurus · 09-17-2022, 01:50 AM,

Dr. Brandon Wright:

I am glad that we are having an understanding between each other, contrary to some outsiders that could easily misinterpret our claims. The situation between Freeport 11 and Core must be quite the story, considering that the station is still operational, but it will have to be completely told in another day, as work takes priority.

Concerning your scientific approaches, I will highly consider your proposal on Cardamine, as it is not the first time that we have discussed the possibilities of a breakthrough to cultivate Cardamine on more hostile environments, and we are willing to accept those who cooperate to boost the Orange Dream. Although, the enhancement of Cardamine on a planetary scale is not a priority at this moment. In fact, the Crimson Cross terraforming project that you have mentioned seems to be forgotten, at the very least, as it has not taken enough relevance to the Maltese scientific community nowadays. As for the other types of studies, the official ones, our interest towards jump technology could reach us a consensus between our organizations. For now, we will keep all these items pending; as we will internally discuss the next steps and, additional to that, we would like to see your performance on the survey task at hand.

In regard to Tau-61 sweep, we are interested in every type of spacecraft activity that can appear on that system, so the activation of a relay would be most preferable. Also, I would like to emphasize the fact that we do not require deep geological studies as we do not intend to perform mining operations or similar endeavors that require such revisions there. However, superficial scans on mineral composition should suffice for our needs (down to 100 [m], at least 5,000,000 iterations with 98.5% reliability; nothing that a basic telemetric sweep could not do). Survivability data is desirable, but not a priority, same goes with atmospheric data; as our estimations, from our previous journeys, do not drop valuable information to take into account. Besides finding any sort of settlements, the main idea is to focus on any sort of anomaly that our sensors did not detect at first glimpse, but trying to extend the scan area as much as possible.

In summary, the total cost of 68 million credits is agreeable to what you are offering and we require of you the exact credit account where to deposit this amount, so we can make this operation go on.

¡Por el Sueño Naranja!
Audaz Alarcón
Alpha Explorer

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Stoner_Steve · 09-17-2022, 03:06 PM,

Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: What I don't see can't hurt me

Encryption Strength: Impossible

My Dearest Friend, and Financier Alarcón,

Preparations will begin post haste. As I'm sure you'll understand given travel time, and of course our own exceptional standards, that it may be awhile before a full report is available for your review. With regards to the actual funds themselves, please have the credits transmitted to our vessel, SLRC-RV>Aurora.Borealis, in care of our purser. Please also feel free to reach out at any time to receive a status check on the progress of the survey.

Finally, I'm going to need you to check out the attached images and voice logs. Tau-23 is apparently more, ah, neighborly than either of us were expecting

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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WiseTaurus · 09-17-2022, 05:09 PM,

Dr. Brandon Wright:

Credits sent. It is comprehensible that this operation will take time and we will be looking forward for your progress.

About the interloper, it is amusing that a single corsair travelled to the Taus only to say empty claims. I appreciate that you have sent this to us and our forces have already been advised for his intrusion. If he reappears to bother, let us know.

I am personally eager to see what comes next for this cooperation.

Buen viaje.

¡Por el Sueño Naranja!
Audaz Alarcón
Alpha Explorer

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Stoner_Steve · 09-24-2022, 01:44 AM,

Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: What I don't see can't hurt me

Encryption Strength: Impossible

My Dearest Friend, and Financier Alarcón,

I regret to inform you that our expedition to survey Tau 61 has been met with, not all that unexpected, delay. Following our immediate entry to the Orkney system we were beset upon by a group of fighter type Slomon K'Hara entities numbering over a dozen. While they did not share as strong a bond as those I have encountered on the edge. Making them realatively easy to dispatch. I was still greatly perturbed. Even these, frenzied few forms are more than enough to point at a nearby hive, much like one can deduce an anthill from a few ants. Additionally the destruction of the systems infrastructure has made travel significantly more hazardous to say nothing of making inter system communications limited.

With these issues in mind I elected to deploy the lansat relay into a resonant orbit of Planet Rousay to allow our own dedicated stream to be active in the system. I believe you can understand my reasoning from both a practical and security standpoint. Now before you get all upset that I stole your lansat. I've already started the process to acquire another relay which has necessitated our return to our Facilities in Tau-23. And of course this replacement will be provided at the consortiums expense.

I will advise you if we run into any further issues in this regard.

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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Stoner_Steve · 10-13-2022, 12:11 AM,

Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: What I don't see can't hurt me

Encryption Strength: Impossible

My Dearest Friend, and Financier Alarcón,

I am reaching out again to provide a final copy of our report, there will be a follow-up data burst containing ancillary data files. Such as our burst surveys, access codes to the Lan-Sat arrays, some crew logs, I'm sure you get the picture.

In general its quite an unremarkable system. But from a personnel standpoint. Its a little, dodgey. About a week after entering the system several departments noted a reduced work throughput. Further investigations concluded that a wave of insomnia was affecting almost all crew and departments. Sleep aids, even as strong as prescription strength. Did little to assist with the lack of restful sleep. This insomnia wave took many forms, from some crew sleeping in reduced hours, to others not entering REM sleep. And in one rather disturbing instance. A crewmember started to disassemble an atmospheric regulator claiming it was ruining their sleep cycle.

I believe that some of this may be attributed to the vast distance between us and the nearest habitable station. This crew is still rather new and not as of yet, fully accustom to deep interstellar travel. In any case our full report is available for review at your leisure.

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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Stoner_Steve · 02-26-2023, 03:55 PM,

Starlight Research Consortium
Chasing starlight since 829 A.S.

From: The Aurora Borealis - Dr. Brandon Wright

Subject: What I don't see can't hurt me

Encryption Strength: Impossible

My Dearest Friend, and Financier Alarcón,

While it has been a few intervening months since our last meaningful work together I wanted to take an opportunity to again offer up many of our services and specialties. From pulling hyperspace surveys well beyond what could reasonably be expected from more, distinguished individuals such as yourselves. To advanced equipment, such as CODENAMES, hyperspacial technology, and other fun.

--Dr. Brandon Wright
Research and Development, SLRC

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