⧫ O.C.V. Osiris
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 08/11/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch, Sara Shepard
⧫ TO: Shinta Nagasaki
Your message
Nodoka,
I can understand the frustration that you have with the assault on the Freeport's annex. We are currently engaging in aid supplies towards the freeport and its citizens. I hold great respect for all you people that came to the Zoner's aid, despite having needed to flag your vessels as hostile.
I read through your ultimatum, and while I can see the point you are trying to make - change does not come from outside, but from within. I am trying to steer the Order from its ways of interfering in human conflicts back to our original cause of interfering only there where the Nomads attack, or where the war is orchestrated by the infected beings, like the current conflict in Sigma 13.
You arent the only one together with the freeport defenders to have engaged the Nomads. When we could, we also dedicated our warship - and even went as far as to fight alongside our enemies to drive the Nomads away from you. I know this will mean little to you, but I felt like it had to be said.
I cannot say yes to any of your points, but rest assured that I will do what I can to prevent this from getting a repeat elsewhere.
Sara Shepard
Admiral of the Order Overwatch
Black Fleet, 2nd Fleet "Homefront"
This Galaxy is vast; its wonders and beauty are almost unfathomable. But the galaxy also hides dark secrets, some of which have lain dormant since the beginning of time itself. There is a danger in secrets, both in seeking and in knowing. Some things are meant to be hidden from view. Some mysteries defy understanding, and sometimes even the things we think we know are untrue. Some secrets should remain untouched.
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Hi there, Miss Shepard!
Nodo-chan told me to handle relaying your message to her! I dunno how to tell you this, but I've tried contactin' her and she's really busy.. Last time I heard, her ship got blown apart and she couldn't... what's that term.. it's like a word for telling someone to shoo, but... mou.. I can't.. Aa~! SCRAM! The SCRAM procedure on her ship failed, and the ship went up like a really big firework. I've heard she's okay, but a little injured, but I can't really get a hold of her right now..
If you have anything else to say, feel free to let me know and I'll send it to her soon!
⧫ O.C.V. Osiris
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 08/11/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch, Sara Shepard
⧫ TO: Shinta Nagasaki
Your message
Shinta,
Pass along my well wishes. If she needs help, there is a good doctor by the name of John Henry Holliday. You can trust him with your life. He's a Zoner, and the most skilled one in the galaxy.
Sara Shepard
Admiral of the Order Overwatch
Black Fleet, 2nd Fleet "Homefront"
This Galaxy is vast; its wonders and beauty are almost unfathomable. But the galaxy also hides dark secrets, some of which have lain dormant since the beginning of time itself. There is a danger in secrets, both in seeking and in knowing. Some things are meant to be hidden from view. Some mysteries defy understanding, and sometimes even the things we think we know are untrue. Some secrets should remain untouched.
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Hi there, Miss Shepard..
Nodo-chan sent me a response..
Nodoka Hanamura Wrote:Sara,
Shinta has made me aware of your response. I was made aware, as was Sirius at large, of Michal Golanski's ultimatum towards Freeport 11. I'm most dissatisfied by what Golanski has stated, as this only harms my beliefs that you can quell that beast, unless you're working to fix this as we speak.
Kyu has left Freeport 11 and gone into hiding as a result of multiple organizations wanting his head. I've sent a request to CoF to take the position of Administrator pro tempore of Freeport 11, until a suitable replacement can be found. If they humor me and allow me to take such a position, I'll try and help deescalate the situation. Although I don't take kindly to the Order or Golanski right now, I would rather this be deescalated peacefully and without nuclear armageddon.
I'm going to be brutally honest with you. I am originally from Earth - Terra Mater, the Cradle of mankind. I was part of a Kusari-Kishiro project to experiment on the effects of drastic changes in reality over time that, from the perspective of the subject, happen near instantly. I was born in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan in 2190. Around the turn of the century, I was chosen to leave earth for Sirius when the Coalition was bearing down on us. I boarded the Kusari and said my goodbye, only to be frozen for 800 or so years. Only recently was I unfrozen. I know quite a bit about about Sirius, even some things that are not well known, such as the disappearance of Orillion - one of the men that I personally Idolize, as well as Freelancer Edison Trent and LSF Commandant Jun'ko Zane, for that matter. Orillion's beliefs are very similar to mine, and if he were alive and still leading the Order, I assure you the situation would be very different betwixt you and me.
On earth, if you've learned your history about the place, from 1950 AD to the end of our time on earth, we were in a state of constant fear. One of those big factors in the fear was one that we take for granted for no reason other than the fact we have forgotten how devestating they are -
The Nuclear bomb.
Nuclear devices of the caliber of the "NEMP" shouldn't be taken lightly. most of them are, from what Honya has told me, worse than the Tsar Bomba, a weapon made by the USSR, the Coalition's predecessor - amassing a detonation strength of 210 petajoules - about the same amount of energy used in all weapons from the 80-years war, if what she's told me is correct - and we're well aware of what that did to Rheinland. Two of these were dropped on my earthly jus soli, Japan - in 1945 AD. Over 200,000 people died in both bombings, in a near instant. This may not be much now, but imagine a Hypothetical. Say the Nomads were to drop a equivalent of one of these bombs on Planet Manhattan. I can assure you Tens of millions would be dead - and the bombs dropped on Japan were around 200 times weaker than the Tsar Bomba.
The use of Nuclear weapons against military vessels is a entirely different story, but the use of them against civilians, who may even be supportive of you - would be heartbreaking, at least to me. Knowing that people who just want to live their lives in peace have been vaporized in a mere second makes me depressed to the point of contemplating suicide. I know this may not be the case for Golanski, no offense - but that is how I percieve such actions.
Now you and, if he reads this, Golanski - can see how devastating these weapons of mass destruction are. I don't know what happened to bring us to this situation, as I was asleep when Carthage was destroyed, but I can tell you this - the Zoners, nay - no faction in Sirius deserves such a horrific fate as what he has given as a threat to the people i've sworn to protect. I implore you and Golanski to call off this war and make peace. We have a larger threat lurking in the darkness, one larger than any war in humanity's history. We must face this threat united, or perish.
With that aside, I take a slight digression.
Like I said prior, I have sent a request to the CoF to become Administrator pro tempore of Freeport 11, until they can find someone to supplant Kyu Akibara. I can assure you that in this position, if I do get it, I will help try to mend the wounds and bring about peace, for the greater good of all peoples of the Omicrons, if not Sirius at large - Core, Order. Zoner, Corsair, Auxesian. We all may have our differences and interests, but we all have one vital thing in common as humans - the drive to survive.
Nodoka Hanamura
Sorry about making you wait.. I hope you have a good day.
Shinta
P.S. - Nodo-chan has removed you from her blacklist - you won't need to contact me to get a hold of her. Take care, Miss Shepard.
⧫ O.C.V. Osiris
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 11/11/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch, Sara Shepard
⧫ TO: Shinta Nagasaki
Your message
Nodoka,
The only reason we would ever resort to using NEMP warheads is when one is fired against, which it was during the conflict. I believe you yourself bore witness to it. Imagine the following. A battleship is crewed by an average of 1000 up to 2500 men for the largest class. Now imagine a NEMP warhead hits a fleet closely huddled together taking them all out. The death toll goes into the tens of thousands.
While these numbers may seem insignificant like you said, these are still our comrades, and it hurts a lot. Now I oppose the NEMP strike since it wasnt a Zoner who fired it, but a Forlorn mercenary, who will be hunted down till the far reaches of the galaxy for this horrendous deed.
Rest assured, no NEMP will be fired at the Zoner community if I have a say in it.
As for your idea to take over Freeport 11's administration; you have my blessing. Together we would work towards a outcome that would benefit everyone. Not just Zoners, but Order aswell, making Omicron Delta safe again from the Nomads. Together.
Sara Shepard
Admiral of the Order Overwatch
Black Fleet, 2nd Fleet "Homefront"
This Galaxy is vast; its wonders and beauty are almost unfathomable. But the galaxy also hides dark secrets, some of which have lain dormant since the beginning of time itself. There is a danger in secrets, both in seeking and in knowing. Some things are meant to be hidden from view. Some mysteries defy understanding, and sometimes even the things we think we know are untrue. Some secrets should remain untouched.
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11-11-2017, 03:58 AM, (This post was last modified: 11-12-2017, 03:36 AM by Nodoka Hanamura.
Edit Reason: "Please pay no attention to the Nodoka operating the Shinta Puppet.. Apparently."
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Sara,
I've seen nuclear munitions used in war, in fact, I use them, but only against targets. However, these are not of the devastating nature that NEMPs are. You don't need to tell me how devastating it is to you, because irregardless of how these things are used, they're devastating anyways - heartbreaking to those who have lost loved ones to them, and frightening to those who see their devastating light. The difference in this age is that NEMPs are not like Novas or Supernovas. Torpedoes can be avoided. The blast from these NEMPs guarantees a hit, and is a weapon fit for genocide, not anti-shipping warfare. Back on earth, the NATO was a predecessor to the Alliance. their founding organization, the United Nations, had signed a agreement known as the Geneva Conventions on Certain Conventional Weapons. The goal of this agreement was to mitigate the use of weapons that are "Indiscriminate". Things such as my ships' Nuclear mines, Torpedoes and cannons, can be fielded as to discriminate targets - as Pale Bride, my FCS AI handles Guidance for all of them, sans guns. Even conventional and low yield nuclear and anti-matter weapons are discriminate when used properly. Weapons that are classified as CBRN, which are non-conventional, as well as conventional un-guided munitions with a wide area of effect, are indiscriminate. They do not know friend from foe. Combatant from Civilian, and have a wide area of effect, be it direct or indirect.
NEMPs - actually, that is a improper term for them, because that is just the side effect of what the damn thing actually is - A nuke - a Overpowered nuke, that can kill more than just the men who lost their lives that day. Nuclear weapons are considered unconventional - CBRN, is a shortword for all non-conventional weapons - Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear. These weapons have the capability to cause devastating damage, and Unconventional weapons, most if not all, do not discriminate. Zoner, Core, Order, and so on would suffer at the hand of such weapons be them used against us in the same location, irregardless of who fired it or who it was intended for. It would be the best for all of us as humans, to stop the proliferation and use of these weapons, at least for use against each other. Given what hellish devices the Nomads created, There's going to be a time where such devices would be needed to fend them off, if not defeat them.
I Propose that, if we in the Omicrons cannot come to peace entirely, that the Order, Core and other organizations in the Omicrons, if not Sirius at large, agree to ban the use of "NEMP" bombs against Human targets, be them combatant or not - for it is inhumane and overly destructive.
Furthermore, I would appreciate it if you would contact the CoF and make them aware of this conversation. If anything, it will help me convey the fact that I am not your enemy like it had seemed before our talks, and that I merely want to ensure the safety of non-combatants here in the Omicrons, be them Zoner, Core civilian, Order Civilian, Auxesian non-combatant or a citizen of the Corsair Empire.
Nodoka Hanamura
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⧫ O.C.V. Osiris
⧫ Omicron Mu
⧫ 11/11/824
⧫ FROM: The Order Overwatch, Sara Shepard
⧫ TO: Nodoka Hanamura
Your message
Nodoka,
I am patching in the Confederation of Freeports with read only access.
I know firsthand the destruction WMD's can bring. I was there on Toledo the day it was lost to the Core and Nomad onslaught. I saw the nomad lances pierce the atmosphere and blow up the fault lines. I witnessed my entire family and all my friends, safe for my sister, die on that wretched day. I can not in any state of my mind endorse the use of WMD's. Infact I wont be the one to allow their usage against the Forlorn either. If it were up to me, they would've never even been invented. However, it isnt, and I had to adapt accordingly. I would only endorse their usage against the nomads, but that might just be because of the personal vendetta i have against their kind.
Sara Shepard
Admiral of the Order Overwatch
Black Fleet, 2nd Fleet "Homefront"
This Galaxy is vast; its wonders and beauty are almost unfathomable. But the galaxy also hides dark secrets, some of which have lain dormant since the beginning of time itself. There is a danger in secrets, both in seeking and in knowing. Some things are meant to be hidden from view. Some mysteries defy understanding, and sometimes even the things we think we know are untrue. Some secrets should remain untouched.
Origin: FREEPORT 11, OMICRON DELTA , CORE SPACE| LOCATION NN-GUID HASH OK Sender: NODOKA HANAMURA| SENDER NN-GUID HASH OK Recipients: SARA SHEPARD| RECIPIENT NN-GUID HASHES OK Encryption: KSHIRO TECHNOLOGIES AES-2048/PSK | PUBLIC KEY MATCH! Format: Text Subject: Answer
Sara - and the CoF, if they're still monitoring this conversation,
I want to make one thing clear. When I call for peace, I call for peace for all parties in the Omicrons.
When I broadcasted that song, calling originally for the Order to turn against Golanski, I had misunderstood the depth of the situation, but the song still rings on in my head. I've nearly lost my life for this station, and me, Honya and Pale Bride have done everything in our power to keep it and its' people safe. However, the longer this war goes on, unabated by efforts to bring peace amongst the factions of the Omicrons against a common threat, I can't see it lasting much longer. I know you have lost a lot to the Core. I lost a lot to the Coalition back on earth. But I will have to come to terms with their successors in Sirius, as they too are human, and they too are in danger from the Nomads, as are all of us. I have learned to forgive the Core for their actions, as now am also I ready forgive the Order if they stand down and aid me in bringing the Omicrons together for the sake of the Human race if not in the universe, then in Sirius.
I do not expect this unifying peace to last forever. Things change, organizations collapse. People die. You and I both know that, Sara. However, The Zoners have lost enough, as have the Order, as have the Core, the Corsairs, the Auxesians. It's time, at least for the foreseeable future, that we stop this petty conflict, and realize that we are facing a threat that will end us all eventually if we don't do so soon. The Nomads have been more active here at 11 as of late, and if that's a sign of anything, then it's a sign that the proverbial floodgates that keep the majority of the Nomads out of House space are well on their way to collapse - and It'll be very difficult, given everything that has plagued Sirius in recent years, from Gallia, who are probably unaware of the Nomads even existing, to the trouble in Kusari and the Sigmas - to stop them from killing us all.
Remember Toledo. Remember what you lost. That will happen to 11. That will happen to Akabat. That will happen to Gran Canaria. It will happen across Sirius, if we don't do something as a unified force to push them back. I am no Fleet commander, at least - not yet - I will leave that to whatever Joint Command that hopefully comes of a successful negotiation between the Order, Core, Auxesia, Zoner Organizations such as IRG and OSI and the Corsairs - but I know for a fact, that if we work together, we can drive back this threat. Back to the deepest reaches of the Sirius sector, and guarantee relative peace in the Omicrons for years to come.
The only question for everyone in this little corner of Sirius we all call home, after all this is - Are you all willing to join me? To step into the light of hope that shines before us, showing us a path not just as denizens of the Omicrons, but of the Human race, to a new era?
Nodoka Hanamura
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11-13-2017, 03:11 AM, (This post was last modified: 11-13-2017, 03:15 AM by Nodoka Hanamura.
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Sara,
I've been made aware of a situation that concerns me and will require your aid. First off, I will be meeting with a member of the Core in Breto-Libertonian Border Worlds, Coronado to be precise, in the coming days, and I wish you to join me. I'll be patching you into the communique I've had with him shortly. The reason I chose to stay away from the Omicrons for this is, for the forseeable future, I do not want either paramilitary organization at large aware of what I'm trying to do, as chances are it will foil such plans to end this hellish conflict. Please bring a Order Fighter vessel or something suitable that is not a capital. We don't need unwanted attention, and we don't want to come off as posing a threat to either of the parties that we represent.
Secondly, given your high-ranking position within the Order, You are bound to have some diplomatic connections to the Corsairs. Dr. Erzie of IRG, as you are aware, has been aiding the defense of Port Carthage and Freeport 11, be it through ships of IRG defending the station or otherwise. I am also personally indebted to him due to a favor he has assisted me with in regards to the AI I have. Just before this entire conflict regarding the Core and Carthage kicked off, I had requested two bodies be made for the purpose of granting my AI the ability to live as human a life as possible. Especially so that they can succeed me and carry on my efforts should I either perish or be corrupted by the Nomads. Both of which, I hope never come to fruition. I would appreciate it if the Order could lessen hostilities towards IRG in the field if possible. I know Erzie and the IRG have caused loss and anger for you and your men, but as part of the peace process, we must forgive each others' transgressions. This is by no means a call to forget such acts, as it would be foolish to do so. To quote a wise man, those who forget their past are doomed to repeat it. In regards to the Corsairs, I ask you to talk to them and see about my settling of issues regarding IRG. I am not representing them in any way, that is Erzie's job. I am merely trying to help mend wounds.
Furthermore, I've been listening to both sides a lot, and I've heard a lot about Nomad Infectees being part of the chain of command of both the Order and Core. Given how you've been so open and welcoming to my proposals so far, I doubt the Nomads have a grasp on you, but I'm concerned in regards to Enma Loyola of the Core and Golanski of the Order. I mean this not as a insult but as a genuine concern. With Nomads in the chain of commands of these organizations, if there are any, they pose a extremely dangerous threat to the peace process. The Nomads are most definitely not going to take this kind of plan laying down. The only reason they have lasted as long as they have is because of this wretched war. As such, I'm requesting the installation of Anti-Nomad countermeasures at Freeport 11, as well that the Order (and I'll be asking the same of the Core) demand all personnel, regardless of rank or status, undergo mandatory medical exams to weed out infectees. I know this may sound like I'm barking orders, I'm not - but we cannot take any chances if we want this to go off without a hitch.
Nodoka Hanamura
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