The current events transpiring in the Independent worlds have had this operation pushed back long enough. It's now reached a point where we can no longer wait for a safer opening than the one we have now. Thus I'm making a rather quick change to our third party involvement. Outside contact, untested. They'll be offered a large sum to perform the job.
With this in mind, I'm going to ask one final favor of you. Before we fell out of touch I had made a request to Valente Rossi about the possibility of obtaining a fighter, as mine is well out of date. He informed me of the technical difficulties your people were having with the craft and had made it clear that it would require a lot of work to put a Lich into operational capacity again. Given my involvement as an outside source these days, I'd like to obtain one as payment. It doesn't need to be functioning completely, but functional enough to fly out of Cayman and act as a rather intimidating escort until the rendezvous with the undercover assets. Whatever work needs to be done on the craft from there, I'll sort out myself.
Sit tight and be ready. You'll be getting out of there as soon as possible.
Things have been getting steadily worse with the growing pressure, and as you stated, the window is narrow. There have been large amounts of chaos caused by the growing attacks and raids that have been pressing our defences and I'm concerned whether they'll hold for much longer at all. In this time we've lost members of the Angels as well, even Commander Greif is nowhere to be found which leads me to believe is been killed or has deserted, neither is a something I'd like to consider.
We've prepped the more valuable remnants of our technology aboard a few of our surviving gunboats and transports and the RRV-Mytilus has been changed to carry all the equipment it can. We've managed to scavenge a ship for you to fulfil our end of the deal at least, so you'll have what you request, but I do warn you - if you're in combat in that thing you will not live long. Will luck we'll be able to carry enough people and equipment out to help our continued survival.
What is the ETA for our evacuation?
Regards, Archon Calatrava,
RRV-Mytilus, Cayman System
NEURAL NET ID:Joshua Hunt SECURITY CLEARANCE: Absolute ENCRYPTION LEVEL:Extreme PRIORITY: Medium FREQUENCY: Blocked DELAY: N/A TOPIC: Response
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Archon Calatrava,
Good to hear that you're ready. I only have to make one call and connect two neural net transmissions to finish establishing the coordination network, then you'll be ready to move.
Thankfully I have no intention of putting that craft in combat yet. It's going to require some work. Regardless, expect to hear from our contact soon.
Origin: Freeport 11, Omicron Delta, Core Space| LOCATION NN-GUID HASH OK Sender: FREELANCER NODOKA HANAMURA | SENDER NN-GUID HASH OK Recipients: K-02 "L"/JOSHUA HUNT; FALLEN ANGELS; DOC HOLIDAY; MED FORCE ENTERPRISES| RECIPIENT NN-GUID HASH OK Encryption: AGERA BASE-2048 PRE-SHARED KEY | PRIVATE-PUBLIC KEY MATCH! Format: Text Subject: A Helping Hand
Greetings.
I'll be partitioning this message to their respective recipients.
For the Reapers,
I'm the contact that will be aiding in the transport of your people from Cayman. My AI have informed me of the strife you have encountered, and you have my deepest sympathies. I will do what I can to transport these people to safety. I will be having, given he agrees to it, a escort aid me in protecting the VIPs, one Nerva Regis. He is no stranger to me, and I have gone into battle with him against Nomads during recent situations in Delta. Give me a time and date to start the operation, and I will be ready to exfiltrate the VIPs.
For Med Force One:
Doc Holiday,
It's a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance. One of your colleagues, Nerva Regis, will hopefully be aiding me in transferring these people to their destination in Inverness, unless there has been a change of plans. Nerva has said some good things about you and your organization, and the fact that you have even personally offered to aid them wins respect in my book. But I digress.
Joshua "L" Hunt:
I would like to know what our general plan is, so that we have it down pat. Are we going to Shadowhaven directly or are we going to act as a relay waiting at Gran Canaria? And what flight path do you advise we take?
Origin: Freeport 11, Omicron Delta, Core Space| LOCATION NN-GUID HASH OK Sender: NODOKA HANAMURA | SENDER NN-GUID HASH OK Recipients: ALL CONVERSATION MEMBERS| RECIPIENTS SORTED, HASHES OK Encryption: AGERA BASE-2048 PRE-SHARED KEY | PRIVATE-PUBLIC KEY MATCH! Format: Text Subject:A Helping Hand - Change of Plans
To those who recieve this message,
I regret to inform you that due to a position I have had to undertake which requires utmost neutrality, I will be unable to personally see to their rescue. I do wish to see those people transported, and would like to send my AI Honya and Pale Bride, both of which will in a few days' time be able to be present in physical form to transport the VIPs to Inverness. The vessel will not change, as I will be lending Pudica to them for the purpose of this mission. I'm sorry for the change of plans, everyone, but the situation at hand in Delta and the Omicrons at large requires my utmost attention, and I can't just sit and do nothing about those VIPs or the situation here. I have known the two of these AI very personally for the past two years, and I assure you that they share the same mentality as you and me, that these people must be taken to safety, and that I trust them with my life, as well as ending it, should I succumb to the Nomad threat - So I assure you they can be trusted with this task.
As for Nerva, I'm not sure if he'll be able to handle the job, but that isn't to say Honya or Pale Bride aren't capable on their own to handle this situation.
Due to the nature of this operation and the failure on the outside contact's part for reasons not required to be noted, Zeta Section is now inheriting this operation. A team under the leadership of Star Sentinel Tacitus was dispatched with a false logistics asset to collect and guide the Fallen Angels assets to Ismara. Following the relocation, Archon Calatrava will be requested to meet with The Inner Phalanx in person to discuss the next step.