Apologies I couldn't stay to finish the conversation.
I abruptly disappeared... Because...
I uh -... Ionstorms...
... Probably.
Regardless of such inconvenience.
I wanted to ask your thoughts on all of that. It was a lot to take in for sure, but I hoped you understand it is not all simple as most would like to with willing ignorance. That we can shove all the blame on them and believe that we are faultless, to villianify the unknown.
With that in mind, is there anything else you'd like to have cleared up?
Name: "Civil Servant" IFF/ID: The Platform Encryption access:[TRACE ERROR] Location:[ERROR] Subject: New Frontier
"Revenant, I'll admit the event was... Unsettling. I appreciate the check in on this, when you said you had an audience who could explain the situation we're about to face, I didn't expect them to the hives. It was a hard habit to fight back, .
"I know you never visited Rheinland frequently until now but I hope you too understand what we've been facing here within the Thuringia front but for those of us that stand on this frontier... The issue is attempting to open the eyes of those we consider all that we have known from them is relentless bloodshed, violence and the total desperation to resist becoming something worse than what we already are. This is something that I understand is different, taking a moment to listen to them... Its not the same aggressive and painful song; Unlike the stolen soul we met prior to the event.
"If we are to discuss this, I think it would be best to do this in person, Tennstedt will be suitable for now as Viper's experiment has restricted most travel to the station. If you were to join me some time to my home, I think it would be suitable considering the sensitivity of the subject. I have more to unravel due to my new circumstances... I think you're possibly the only other person I trust to act rationally and accordingly to analyse the situation and history I need to present.
"A covert passenger shuttle on Bruchsal transverses to Tennstedt every day, I've alerted the teams to your potential arrival if you so wish
Regards - "Civil Servant"
Cell of the 'Damnatio Memoriae'
Perseverance in desperation
I have come and gone when it is related to Rheinland. Always something going on there with the Imperials keeping check or running an erratic experiment.
But to see Harbinger, Psyche, Ashura, Leviathan, all these familiar faces... I'm sorry for that. I had no idea they were all going to be there, I hope it was not too loud for you. My original intention was to have a one to one with Psyche to gain a bit of perspective and to allow you to ask questions.
I have my respect for the Nomads. But their thralls? Their little death cult? I do not appreciate them. They are antithesis of soul, of intellectual self. A creature. Feral creatures. Majority of them only serve the purpose of getting in the way. I do not feel bad putting down the ones who exist as hunting dogs, as lobotomites.
Indeed, we should meet up. But there is a fair warning I need to warn you of. My biology is modified. I have tried to keep the modifications to minimum, but what with my affliction, it was unfortunately neccessary with the... experimental extent I had to go. Please do not be alarmed by it.
Our liner is operating within the area, I will be able to visit in discretion if it makes logistics easier.
Name: "Civil Servant" IFF/ID: The Platform Encryption access:[TRACE ERROR] Location:[ERROR] Subject: New Frontier
"The sight of so many nomads willing to talk, the issue I face is the unpredictable and elusive nature of these splintered hives, to differentiate between those who follow Sho'zak and those who are willing to negotiate for the better...
"We must talk about what Harbinger has apparently forgotten about as I think it's time I stopped ignoring what I've refused to let go, and to do that I need prying eyes away from the Buro and malicious entities, with the security that Tennsdedt offers along with their equipment, we can probably work along with the answers it provides. I don't want to risk our diplomatic situation deteriorating with our assisting neighbours from pure speculation.
"The discussion we had in that far system were... Not what I was expecting. The loudness isn't the cause and the fault was my own, this extends onto your modifications as until they present themselves as a genuine threat to us, we will maintain it as our memorandum of understanding and In return we trust our differences.
"The only other individual I've discussed in great detail about you is Doctor Forlorn Hope, but that is for my mere personal maintenance, the good doctor has high degree of confidentiality that she insists that removing overly invasive security for your visit is the right course of action, for once I am in agreement.
"I will expect your visit soon, just be warned... Seems the Buro are stepping up patrols in the system and aren't as suspicious of Gotha's graveyard, the stolen souls of Sho'zak are also taking interest of our tomb. Bring your assets to the station if you so wish."
Regards - "Civil Servant"
Cell of the 'Damnatio Memoriae'
Perseverance in desperation
Each of them are somewhat unpredictable. Each have their own interests, desires, thoughts, feelings... mental biases. It is hard to determine sometimes. An individual, warped by a million echoes of instinct and thoughts.
I'll be willing to hear you out on your history with Harby. The last I recall it was surrounding... Kansas?
Much appreciated on the lax of the security, I do not want to scare any of you. But I'll be arriving shortly. Fortunately for you, I had forgotten Leviathan is not capable of consuming baked goods, so I have a cake with no one to share with. We get to talk over tea time, how quaint!
I'll deploy the Velvet Coronet and fly over from the Scylax. They'll stay nearby and keep tabs on radar.
We will need to convene and come up with plans on how to deal with the now-inbound Sentinel outbreak and other likely hostile Nomad activities. I'm skeptical of the storm that has engulfed Munich. It's quite possible it may have been motivated - but I have posted some expeditionary scouts to go study the movements of the great storm.
There are details we cannot overlook in these matters, such as Caliban's presence, including one other psychic imprint - but fortunately the second one is more easier to control.
Are we still up for investigating the aftermath with the relics?
"Of all the things that happened today, I still need to process it all while trying to formulate some contingency plan to ensure minimal damage to Platform interests.
"We need to be careful if we're going to look at these relics. I don't know if my position with Viper has ceased... She was going to be my ticket into the Northern Temples but I might have to resort in breaching the quarantine zone around the north pole... Stealth insertion pods, it'll be a long ride.
Viper... I think she is compromised, but not totally yet.if she's involved with Caliban, unable to handle what breach exploded In Thuringia, and blinded by the overwhelming control of her programming within the Agency environment that she's going to be used as a manipulated tool by Sho'Zak or Caliban's bloodlust... I think my objective to meld her into a capable and open minded director is at jeopardy, a major risk of someone in her position.
Now Caliban. I think I see this beast for the corruptive power that Harbinger can seed. I look at him and sometimes I think it's a mirror that I'm glad I never recognized. I can't say much about him but boy, does he have an attitude like an agent always in no man's land. He can talk, and he lets me talk... Plays it well, but behind that... His weaponised mind and imprint, I don't want this individual cohering Viper into their ways because she's being told she's doing the right thing.
Regards - "Civil Servant"
Cell of the 'Damnatio Memoriae'
Perseverance in desperation
Of course, of course, the survival of your own people obviously takes precedence.
I am severely concerned for Rheinland's safety. You can probably imagine why.
Caliban, and his previous identity as Vincent, was always unstable. Vengeful. A fragile ego. Quite humoring how he fittingly named one of his vessels as Ego.
He hurt himself and kept hurting himself more and more in some twisted idea that it was Harbingers fault for the mark. Yet, it was his reckless abandon that inflicted the grevious pain to himself. This... desire to 'resist' - to delude himself with free will against the force of nature itself, a will that he damaged. I don't think he even knows who he is anymore truly. Corrupted by this sentiment that he is important, some manipulator. Perhaps he and Viper are in a relationship again, but we cannot tell.
Naturally, I don't trust everything from Harbinger too. A song is being sung. A dance being danced, but the tunes are all over the place. Each have their own intentions. And right now, Shozak has had his minions sent out to brutalise individuals in the area. Truthfully, I still suspect Caliban might be desperate enough to believe that he can use Shozak's paranoia against Harbinger - ... I still cannot believe he thinks he can try to take Lazurith out of the picture.
Mmmm. I anticipated that we would have to be incognito regarding this incursion, but perhaps wait for the dust to settle? Or shall we get it out of the way before security increases?
Either way, we need to get down plans of action and fast. It's possible we could fall to the Temple itself, we do not know what awaits us. If there is anything left.
Did you tell Klugmann much of the Sentinel crisis?
"I apologize for my absence, much has happened as of late that I'm finding myself neck deep in the Platform's civil administration. Klugmann has become begrudgingly indisposed and I can't explain why...
"He was there during the experiment and he didn't hesitate on my orders to open fire on the Nomad ships, maybe he judged my advice to be better than his own in these matters and I'm still coming to terms with that. Unfortunately I think it cost him more than I would have like to have seen... I don't know when he'll be back, I don't know if he will. Probably still coming to terms with his hopes for the Rheinland people coming under threat from a force that can hardly be fought by our means.
"But soon, I hope to change that. I'm sure you've had correspondence with a few of the Bundschuh's goals for this current stage in an attempt for us to finally use the breathing room provided by the implosion of influence once held by the Unioners and Hessians. I'm looking to do that by subsidising our limited cosmo-forces with a rapid advancement of our technological access and automation of civilian infrastructure. But I think i've spoken enough about that already.
"Also Weimar, somethings telling me thats its already too late to try and get there with the consent of Viper... Not that its stopped me, I should be able to find a way back for myself. But first we need a ship to get us close enough to that damn planet without setting off every alarm bell in the MND defence net. So its about time we made a move on the XU-001, we should be able to dispatch a heavy support wing to where its located in an attempt to repair the vessel and get it secured back to Geneva for immediate repair. And I may have worked out a way to find it...
"Residual slip-space energy. Probably the best option we have at trying to find her is looking at what was dragged along in the emergency jump. I imagine when the phase-aligned passage was breached and the XU-001 deviated off its course in the middle of its jump, the Suhl it dragged along with it must have absorbed that slip-space energy until it almost shines like a trailing star-streak. The Suhl fragments doesn't tend to disperse and thrive under certain conditions, best bet is finding a combination of collapsed jump-holes that supply these anomaly fragments to make them glow on sub-scanners. This should illuminate the path..."
Regards - "Civil Servant"
Cell of the 'Damnatio Memoriae'
Perseverance in desperation