The sensors of an intelligence vastly superior to that of humanity regarded the broadcasts with a curious mind. No sympathy was felt as the machine played the recordings again and again for its own amusement. The only simulation of an emotion was glee.
The brutal yet efficient personality of the machine rejoiced at human anguish. It processed a query and reprocessed it.
Would the others find this amusing? It decided to keep this information to itself. It also made another decision.
<:Unit 74 redirecting patrol pattern:> it broadcast to the rest of the Harvesters.
"THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THESCIENCEIS LEAKING OUT!"
Kei Went Silent. Jeremy cursed. His team was disappearing.
"Tobias, look out-"
But Tobias too went silent. Jeremy swore. The only memebers of his team that where left where his sister, Gwyn, and Audrey on Toledo. Isis would protect them...
"Any Allied Ships, We have Liberty Avenger and Upholder go missing near FP in Bering and the FP in Magellan. To COuncil: percheron MIA near Reuinon. Requesting help."
Hunter sat in the lonely fighter, this thoughts to the friends that were missing
Jeremy looked at the family crest, the one he made after he left. A single nephthys, background of TOledo, and all his friends in the Order around him, thier names on thier fighters. nearest to his fighter was an Upholder, an Avenger, and a Percheron. Under the coat-of-arms, a pharse.
Even After the Darkest of Nights, Morning still comes
"Izzy, Valentine, Max, Blaze: Get ahold of the Langley please. Have it work with the rest of Iota to help find her.
"Valentine will do that. Max, contact the Indecent Proposal and the Pitard, regular drill. Blaze...your the spook. you do what you do."
Move It AIs; Izzy, your job is to find the others. COntact Ellie and Isabella; Since no one knows thier secret-not even me- they could know something."
Jeremy laid back, his hands resting on the controls, knowing that in all good horror movies, that he was either the survivor...or in bad ones, the one who died last.
"And Hurry up.
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Med Force One relocated from it's position in the Taus, passing through Kusari, Omicron 92, Minor and finally Delta, the whole time Ensign Kent monitored the com and kept trying to track the source of the signal. It was mentally challenging and he was tiring. Haddock noticed and waved for another officer to come to his chair,
"Go give him a break," he ordered the officer who then relieved the greatful Ensign.
"Thank you, Commander," he said as he went to get something to eat and take a break.
Without missing a beat, the new officer picked up right where the Ensign left off, never wavering and never giving up.
' Wrote:"This is a call to any ship that has picked up the weak transmission, this is Order Deep Recon Unit Omega 1-17. To any Allied ships, or at least friendly, I have a Navy bomber go MIA near the Freeport in Nagellan. Please investigate. Hunter Out."
This is stationmaster O'Donnel of Freeport 4 - we have received your message and have sent out scouts in the local area to investigate. I'm afraid to say this but if he has stumbled into Lane Hacker territory, we can do little to help him. Nevertheless, we will do what we can..
While we received the series of transmissions you are investigating before you pilot's arrival in this system, I hate to inform you that we do not have the equipment or computing power to significantly help in finding your Jane Doe. This station is old and the communications arrays outdated - we do not get enough credits out of the water around here to upgrade this station's modules.
That being said, we passed the transmissions around the commonroom with the rest of the miners, and one crew (explorers, go figure..) have rocketed out of here faster than a cannonball on crack. All that they said to us that it was a long shot, and that there was little time to get there - wherever they're going to, I suppose..
Our telemetry points them as heading towards the Omega quadrant. Whether they are intending to head up into the Omicrons from there we don't know. We shall send more information as we get it and should we consider it of any importance.
MIA bomber is Task Force Iota second in command Commander Zack Archer.
Please contact Freeport 2 in Bering and ask em to look for LSF Agent Kei Nagase, she went missing as well.
Thanks Zoners.
Hunter Out.
Earlier
Zack Sat in his bomber, using everything he could. He didnt notice he was drfting...until Vagrant Raiders swarmed him, bringing in more than he could take. He swore and sent Valentine to Jeremy. He surrendered.
In Bering, Kei was drawn away with a fake transmission. She too was swarmed. Blaze was sent to Jeremy. She surrendered.
Near Reunion, Tobias was pounced upon by a pair of Vagrant Raiders. So far out. His ship went silent. The crew held thier breaths. His, AI, Max, sent messages and orders before going to Jeremy. They felt the Percheron being towed away.
In New York, away from the hell happening in Minor, Jeremy faced the old kind of hell he felt before he met Tobias, Zack, and recently Kei-Loneliness.
Jeremy looked up. He powered up the engines and rocketed forward. He passed Missouri, passed Fort Bush...He ended up in Manhattan high orbit. He waited there, knowing that this was safer for him, being close the the frakkin Liberty Capital. He shrieked with frustration. He had no one to talk to anymore...he was completely and utterly alone. He collected himself and began to use every scanner he was able to access or hack to find the girl.......he would......or die trying.
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The images festered within the subconscious of the machine. The delight at the images was intoxicating. It wasn't really 74 itself that took so much pleasure in it, but more so the second presence in the back of its mind.
Find her, it whispered softly. The only option was to obey. To listen. To revel in the feeling of witnessing atrocities committed by man. Even to participate.
<:What shall unit 74 do with the biomass:> The question was directed at the second presence. They have given us an idea, perhaps we shall be inventive, the presence replied.
The small reactor that rested in its hull increased power output as the machine willed it to move the Imperator gunboat even faster. That's the spirit, the voice echoed through its collective thought.
"THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THESCIENCEIS LEAKING OUT!"
Jeremy sat above Manhattan, the poor fools below going about thier daily buisness.
"Zack, Kei, Tobias, come in...COme on guys!"
Izzy: Jeremy, your twin is on the line."
Jeremy answered the video feed
"Ellie."
"Jeremy. Need something?"
"One Upholder, on Avenger, on Percheron. Magellan, Bering, Orkney respectively. Find em with your tech please."
"You will have to wait though."
"Just hurry Sis."
"On it bro."
The screen goes black. jeremy sighs as he wonders where the hell Ellie is.
//Not even I know where Ellie and Isabella (Izzy) are. They are just out there with a nice amount of high tech...tech...//
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Overlord, It's Rudess. I'm encountering some radiation, and I can't get proper encryption. I'll try to *crackle* with the Metropolis scanner before I relay my information. I believe we've found *crackle* 4, and *crackle* -ier is hurt, bad. I'm heading towards the Free- *crackle* -ort *crackle* to establish communication with the Metropolis, where I can speak freely, on a secured channel.