Location: CLASSIFIED
Sender: Director V. Steiner To: SIS Control
Developments from the Kusari front today, contact was made with one Fiorella Arianna de Marco, captain of the ship Amalfi who also made an appearance in Agent Robinsons report. She is still largely an unknown although our conversation ranged from the personal to the professional and even to the slightly unusual. She is believed to have information regarding the Anomalies and is apparently willing to work with us provided we can gurrantee safe passage through the Taus. A situation made slightly more complicated due to the Maltese relationship with Crayter, Kusari's expanding region of interest and influence and our own relocation of assets. Nevertheless I believe we can navigate these issues and find a solution, although it will require no small amount of statecraft.
In short, if she is who she says she is, then her information would be invaluable to the Service and Bretonia, on a more practical front she also maintains contacts with the Golden Chrysanthemums which would prove useful to us as well as contact with Malta, something we no longer have since the conclusion of the Gallic War. Caution is advised, I am taking a great deal on faith.
[22.11.2022 13:22:27] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Oh.
[22.11.2022 13:22:33] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Hello.
[22.11.2022 13:22:49] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Buongiorno, Signor Steiner.
[22.11.2022 13:23:22] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Have you come in here to honor the dead?
[22.11.2022 13:23:36] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Answer questions more like.
[22.11.2022 13:23:43] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I'm told you know more than you let on.
[22.11.2022 13:23:57] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Since the Navy is no longer here.
[22.11.2022 13:24:51] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I do know a lot, that is correct.
[22.11.2022 13:25:17] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You know about the anomalies?
[22.11.2022 13:25:33] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Si, I know about them.
[22.11.2022 13:25:44] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: How do you know?
[22.11.2022 13:26:23] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I have wandered in the darkness and seen them.
[22.11.2022 13:26:53] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: What do you know?
[22.11.2022 13:27:39] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I do -sense- their presence.
[22.11.2022 13:27:55] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Whos?
[22.11.2022 13:28:17] MNS-Amalfi: CO: The anomalies - if that was your question.
[22.11.2022 13:28:33] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Why did you wander into the dark?
[22.11.2022 13:29:27] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I was curious about it. I am a woman of science.
[22.11.2022 13:29:41] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: A rational mind..
[22.11.2022 13:30:11] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Forgive me I have encountered so much insanity in the wake of these...orbs .
[22.11.2022 13:30:40] MNS-Amalfi: CO: But very soon I learned that there are both the Dead and Death lurking around.
[22.11.2022 13:32:50] MNS-Amalfi: CO: There is something calming about the storm around us.
[22.11.2022 13:33:20] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: If you say so.
[22.11.2022 13:33:47] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I believe that my perception is quite different from yours.
[22.11.2022 13:34:15] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Are you..
[22.11.2022 13:34:22] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You're not Auxesian...
[22.11.2022 13:34:30] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Are you?
[22.11.2022 13:34:34] MNS-Amalfi: CO: No, I am from Malta.
[22.11.2022 13:35:05] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: That's not what I asked.
[22.11.2022 13:35:29] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Auxesians will accept most folk.
[22.11.2022 13:35:43] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Yet not us.
[22.11.2022 13:36:05] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Aligned with the Kusarian girls?
[22.11.2022 13:36:37] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Golden Chrysanthemums?
[22.11.2022 13:36:51] MNS-Amalfi: CO: They are our intermediaries, si.
[22.11.2022 13:37:00] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: For what, exactly?
[22.11.2022 13:37:57] MNS-Amalfi: CO: You almost got me, Signor Steiner.
[22.11.2022 13:38:13] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I will not tell you the details of our operations.
[22.11.2022 13:38:31] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: 'Our'?
[22.11.2022 13:39:11] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Our, si. I have my people in mind, of course.
[22.11.2022 13:39:48] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Do you study the Anomalies in this system?
[22.11.2022 13:40:37] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Si, I do study them, yet their true nature still eludes me.
[22.11.2022 13:40:49] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I...think we have a common goal.
[22.11.2022 13:41:47] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You met with my man along with a number of Golden C's a few days ago. In it you showed him the location of a destroyed vessel.
[22.11.2022 13:42:24] MNS-Amalfi: CO: The Three Eyed Prophet?
[22.11.2022 13:42:34] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: If that is what you call it.
[22.11.2022 13:43:27] Death: Tarnanis suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[22.11.2022 13:43:37] MNS-Amalfi: CO: That is how I call it, si. A liner torn apard by a constellation of three anomalies, keeping it in place.
[22.11.2022 13:43:51] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Yes....are there others
[22.11.2022 13:43:53] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: ?
[22.11.2022 13:44:11] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Almost as something snatched it from the Other side.
[22.11.2022 13:44:55] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Si, there are few others.
[22.11.2022 13:45:06] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: But none like this?
[22.11.2022 13:45:35] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You speak as though something is using these things like windows, or eyes. Watching from somewhere else.
[22.11.2022 13:45:52] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I believe that the Three Eyed Prophet is something more than just a subject of study.
[22.11.2022 13:46:14] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Please explain.
[22.11.2022 13:47:20] MNS-Amalfi: CO: It is a feeling I have when I am nearby. I am watched.
[22.11.2022 13:48:11] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Do you have a way to contact the Golden Cs from here?
[22.11.2022 13:48:37] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Only through the Neuro Net.
[22.11.2022 13:48:55] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I'd like to arrange a meeting with you and them.
[22.11.2022 13:49:36] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You see, there are developments back in Bretonia which have relevence to your field of study.
[22.11.2022 13:50:13] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Developments? Do you have your own anomalies like these?
[22.11.2022 13:50:43] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: And I am not overly thrilled at what has been happening. If there is a way to end this, I'll take it.
[22.11.2022 13:51:54] MNS-Amalfi: CO: How do the Golden Chrysanthemums fit in these issues?
[22.11.2022 13:52:26] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You and them took my man along, they know of it. They also might know what interest, if any, the Kusari government has.
[22.11.2022 13:53:33] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: This is also their home. They would be familiar with...well those who live here.
[22.11.2022 13:53:48] MNS-Amalfi: CO: And why should we be bothered by whatever is happening in your House, Signor Steiner.
[22.11.2022 13:54:12] MNS-Amalfi: CO: If anything, your House complicates our matters.
[22.11.2022 13:54:20] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: How's that?
[22.11.2022 13:55:08] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Your incursions in the Tau Region.
[22.11.2022 13:55:34] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You're going to have to narrow that down a little I'm sorry.
[22.11.2022 13:56:23] MNS-Amalfi: CO: The blockade of Gallia which is enforced by your dear House, Kusari and the Crayterians.
[22.11.2022 13:56:42] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Er...yes..what of it exactly?
[22.11.2022 13:57:33] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Our operations have to take into the consideration.
[22.11.2022 13:57:48] MNS-Amalfi: CO: We are not pleased by it, to word it simply.
[22.11.2022 13:58:20] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I could lessen the burden on you.
[22.11.2022 13:58:49] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I am aware that you, Sirians, do not care much about the lives of your kin, yet - for us - every life is precious.
[22.11.2022 14:00:02] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: What would you have me do?
[22.11.2022 14:01:09] MNS-Amalfi: CO: What -can- you do, Signor Steiner?
[22.11.2022 14:01:54] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Perhaps I did not introduce myself properly. Victor Steiner, Head of Bretonian Intelligence.
[22.11.2022 14:02:21] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: In answer to your question, a great deal if given time and a reason.
[22.11.2022 14:02:34] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Let me be....very honest with you my dear.
[22.11.2022 14:03:11] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I do not know what your interest in Gallia or the GC's is exactly, but if you can potentially assist me in my investigation
[22.11.2022 14:03:55] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Not only will you receive information you yourself may find interesting but perhaps a slightly easier time in traversing the
[22.11.2022 14:04:04] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: blockade. If that is your wish.
[22.11.2022 14:04:14] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: If not, then you are going to have to be more specific
[22.11.2022 14:04:24] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Gallia is encroaching deep into our territory and do not see as humans - it is very simple.
[22.11.2022 14:04:42] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Ah
[22.11.2022 14:04:55] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well now *That* is something I can absolutely assist with.
[22.11.2022 14:06:21] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Weapons, intelligence, support, safe haven even.
[22.11.2022 14:06:36] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: If that is not to your liking....name something that is
[22.11.2022 14:06:41] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Molto bene - it appears we have an understanding.
[22.11.2022 14:07:12] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Understand two things.
[22.11.2022 14:07:29] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: One, this offer is also extended to the GCs if they are in any way interested.
[22.11.2022 14:07:57] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Two, I do not give this entirely free, I do wish for something in return
[22.11.2022 14:08:22] MNS-Amalfi: CO: It is a business, Signor Steiner. I am well aware.
[22.11.2022 14:08:52] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Time may reveal things to us both my dear.
[22.11.2022 14:09:35] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I have a lot of time. I am in no hurry with my matters.
[22.11.2022 14:10:30] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: If you want to inform your allies, I assume they are allies, within the GCs then my man will be in touch.
[22.11.2022 14:11:01] MNS-Amalfi: CO: If I would do everything right now, then the next few centuries could prove to be rather boring for me.
[22.11.2022 14:11:02] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: In the meantime, take stock of what you need from me and write a letter. I'm not hard to find.
[22.11.2022 14:11:17] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Ah.
[22.11.2022 14:11:24] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I forget the age of the Maltese.
[22.11.2022 14:11:41] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Young, and yet so very wise and...ethereal
[22.11.2022 14:12:51] MNS-Amalfi: CO: That is true in some way.
[22.11.2022 14:13:50] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: How old are you, exactly?
[22.11.2022 14:14:26] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I do believe that this is a quite rude question to ask if I happen to be a lady.
[22.11.2022 14:15:19] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: On the contrary, it is a question, designed not as insult, but rather as a manifestation of curiosity.
[22.11.2022 14:16:48] MNS-Amalfi: CO: While I do not have any formal title in my name, I do happen to own my own estate and surrounding countryside.
[22.11.2022 14:17:07] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: So....twenty one then.
[22.11.2022 14:17:35] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I have passed thirty years.
[22.11.2022 14:18:18] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well good Lord my dear, I should expect so.
[22.11.2022 14:18:27] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: No teenager ever commands a ship quite that large.
[22.11.2022 14:19:25] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Our ships are owned by families - it is up to them who will command them.
[22.11.2022 14:19:56] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I'd love to see this estate of yours but alas I feel it would be on Malta.
[22.11.2022 14:20:27] MNS-Amalfi: CO: It is. I would not own land anywhere else - even if I could.
[22.11.2022 14:20:52] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I should like to invite you to mine as well. Although I suspect you may not feel as at home.
[22.11.2022 14:21:37] MNS-Amalfi: CO: No planet is like Malta for me - our world is a paradise.
[22.11.2022 14:21:57] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well I'll take your word for it.
[22.11.2022 14:22:23] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Send me a photo
[22.11.2022 14:22:55] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Swathes of sunny dark golden plains up to the horizon.
[22.11.2022 14:23:28] MNS-Amalfi: //* strehcting up to the horizon.
[22.11.2022 14:24:02] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I'm sure you've made it home with your partner.
[22.11.2022 14:24:46] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Our cities, towns and villages have their own unique cultures, depending on the familes and clans living in them.
[22.11.2022 14:25:31] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Our buildings have only a few stories at best, with large windows and brightly colored walls.
[22.11.2022 14:26:11] MNS-Amalfi: CO: No pollution, no poverty, no crime and we are all worthy for our society.
[22.11.2022 14:26:37] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Sounds almost too good to be true
[22.11.2022 14:26:44] MNS-Amalfi: CO: That is my homeworld and I have not seen a planet like it.
[22.11.2022 14:27:22] MNS-Amalfi: CO: It took us several centuries to turn into the world it is now.
[22.11.2022 14:27:30] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: And what of Loyola?
[22.11.2022 14:27:47] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I do not know her, personally.
[22.11.2022 14:28:14] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Hm.
[22.11.2022 14:28:25] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: By reputation eh?
[22.11.2022 14:28:48] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I do, she is quite famous.
[22.11.2022 14:28:59] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Or infamous.
[22.11.2022 14:29:09] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: depending on one's perspective.
[22.11.2022 14:29:09] MNS-Amalfi: CO: But Signora Loyola is not my role model in any way.
[22.11.2022 14:29:22] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Who is?
[22.11.2022 14:29:54] MNS-Amalfi: CO: My mother, as it should be.
[22.11.2022 14:30:49] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I do not respect women who have to use curses and insults to make their point.
[22.11.2022 14:31:09] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well...I must be doing alright then.
[22.11.2022 14:31:17] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Although I'm not a woman so...it doesn't count.
[22.11.2022 14:32:09] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Signora Loyola was not very feminine by the my understanding of the term itself. That is all I can say.
[22.11.2022 14:33:05] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well I suppose you would know.
[22.11.2022 14:33:23] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: And if that is not the done thing according to the morals you abide by, who am I to say different
[22.11.2022 14:34:44] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Now then my dear. I shall have to love you and leave you.
[22.11.2022 14:34:48] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I would not call it morals - it is more like 'good manners'.
[22.11.2022 14:34:54] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: HA
[22.11.2022 14:34:59] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You sound Bretonian
[22.11.2022 14:35:37] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Do I?
[22.11.2022 14:36:11] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: My dear, Bretonians have manners. Perhaps we do not employ them as frequently as we should, but we do have them.
[22.11.2022 14:37:18] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Perhaps because you do not have enough time to employ them. Life can be rather busy in Bretonia.
[22.11.2022 14:37:41] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Especially if you happen to be from the lower working classes.
[22.11.2022 14:38:06] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: I suspect so. But even they have their manners and honour
[22.11.2022 14:38:38] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I would not consider the Mollys to be honourable.
[22.11.2022 14:39:05] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Not every working man is a molly my dear.
[22.11.2022 14:39:41] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Yet they have a lot of sympathizers among them.
[22.11.2022 14:40:27] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Who wouldn't
[22.11.2022 14:40:38] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: They are like folk law outlaws
[22.11.2022 14:40:46] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Fighting the good fight.
[22.11.2022 14:40:53] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: it's not true, but that is the perception.
[22.11.2022 14:41:25] MNS-Amalfi: CO: House societies are not equal at all.
[22.11.2022 14:41:49] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Humanity is not equal to all, it is a law of nature.
[22.11.2022 14:41:52] MNS-Amalfi: CO: The Mollys or Xenos, they voice the frustration of the working classes.
[22.11.2022 14:43:08] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: The working classes must always be given the means to travel upwards
[22.11.2022 14:43:12] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: locking them into place never works
[22.11.2022 14:43:30] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Everyone knows it, but none does it.
[22.11.2022 14:44:22] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Heh. No. No they don't.
[22.11.2022 14:44:36] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: But don't fall into the trap of thinking you would be different in a position of power.
[22.11.2022 14:45:41] MNS-Amalfi: CO: My people do it differently.
[22.11.2022 14:46:29] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You may well do
[22.11.2022 14:46:33] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: But you are still human
[22.11.2022 14:46:42] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: still guilty of the same vices as I am
[22.11.2022 14:47:04] MNS-Amalfi: CO: I care about my kin, Signor Steiner. Our lives are precious to us.
[22.11.2022 14:47:20] MNS-Amalfi: CO: We are not the same in this regard.
[22.11.2022 14:47:46] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Your societies are cruel and inequal, rotting with poverty and discontent.
[22.11.2022 14:48:36] MNS-Amalfi: CO: We are all equals in our society, every life matters, every skilled worker is appreciated for his or her skills.
[22.11.2022 14:48:57] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: And the unskilled?
[22.11.2022 14:49:17] MNS-Amalfi: CO: There is none unskilled.
[22.11.2022 14:50:09] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: hm
[22.11.2022 14:50:22] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well I have nothing to disprove this assertion
[22.11.2022 14:50:42] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Even the farmers live comfortable and fulfilling lives, years of experience with the crops matter.
[22.11.2022 14:52:07] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Do you despise us?
[22.11.2022 14:53:00] MNS-Amalfi: CO: It is not as easy.
[22.11.2022 14:53:11] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: The hell it isn't/
[22.11.2022 14:53:24] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You sound like you don't like us very much
[22.11.2022 14:53:44] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: If anything you sound like you're speaking to a monkey, rather than another person.
[22.11.2022 14:53:46] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Your ways are self destructive, yet there are some things in Sirius worthy of my respect or even admiration.
[22.11.2022 14:53:59] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Just not the people.
[22.11.2022 14:54:21] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Even -some- of the people.
[22.11.2022 14:56:00] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Well maybe I will be one of them but somehow, I doubt it very much.
[22.11.2022 14:56:28] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Now. I have been on the road for a very long time and I am rather tired. I don't wish to be rude, but I should like to sleep.
[22.11.2022 14:56:57] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: You have my offer, and know how to contact me. I shall look forward to your letter.
[22.11.2022 14:57:05] [SIS]-Victor.Steiner: Good evening my lady.
[22.11.2022 14:57:12] MNS-Amalfi: CO: Arrivederci, Signor Steiner.