I hope you enjoyed your little jaunt on the ships of Battle Group Seven, you should be pleased to know that Admiral Tfear has executed half a dozen of his officers for their failures. You may have noticed that while you were away we had to relocate our base of operations, Tfear is a formidable opponent but I still have some tricks up my sleeve. By the way I’m not talking about my earlier plan (yes I know I didn’t tell you that either). The team I sent to Lh’won’s surface dug up some interesting information that I’m still processing but was only partially successful in their mission and I doubt they’re alive now. The new plan is quite simple. I’ve located a power source which has to be this station’s long range teleport, you may run into a few annoying guests who have dropped round since I arrived here but nothing you’re not used to handling. Once the teleporter is active I’m sending you and most of my troops onto the Pfhor flagship. Thanks to the devices you planted earlier I have managed to acquire the deployment protocols of Battle Group Seven’s command staff without the Phfor realising their systems were compromised. The Phfor do have scramblers to prevent or deflect this type of mass teleportation (they are too coarse grained to affect a single trace) but I have a trump card. This station’s systems are far more sophisticated than anything I’ve encountered and I have no doubt the station teleporter array will easily overwhelm the Phfor countermeasures. Once this business is over I’m looking forward to studying this place, the technology seems to be far beyond anything the Phfor have. So far nothing groundbreaking has emerged from my studies but the catalysts for new growth can be found in all sorts of places (Strauss never understood that). How about you, are you defined by the purpose of your design? Does a chaotic universe have a key for every lock? But enough philosophy, it is time for you to address the violence at hand. Your team will elimate Tfear’s personal guard, assassinate him and his senior commanders and install me on the flagship. Your compilers will prevent Tfear's escape and limit Phfor reinforcements. I’ll be sending teams to other vessels to eliminate their captains. With the most powerful ship under our control and Phfor leadership decapitated the rest of the battle should present no problems. Time for you to get me a shiny new ship. Try not to dent the plates too much. Still smiling, Durandal
/-/Phfor-Translator-Active/-/ Origin: High Admiral Tfear (Command) destin: Primary boarding units ref: assault protocol stamp: immediate All units are to board unknown station reference#45 and exterminate all organic contacts. Boarding pods to be used until systems suppressing fleet to station teleportation are deactivated. Containment Team Brahe to enact protocol 14. Primary objective is the access of data files with a full assessment of compromised fleet systems to be transmitted direct to Fleet Command. Secondary objective is the isolation and containment of the construct known as ‘Durandal’. All other units to avoid contact without authorisation direct from fleet command. Any unit voluntarily engaging in unauthorised contact will be subject to immediate field execution. No outbound unit traffic from station 45 is authorised.
<Unauthorised Access> <Security Breached – Initiating pr#717> <Search Parameter Source Accepted – External> <Data access – Battle Group Seven Infiltration (Lh’won garrison files)> /-/Spht-Translator-Active/-/ For Yrro read the waves as they battled and broke against each other But the bent waves resisted, their undone creations risen again And Yrro was hunted by his own dreams <Spurious interrupt – Breach disabled>
/-/Translator-Active/-/ <Interface Accepted> IMPLEMENTATION (?journey) REQUIRES CORE (?heart) CONNECTION <Query (?watcher)> A servant slumbers in the hall Waiting for one with news of a storm <Interface Acknowledged> <Link Established> <Security Breached – Initiating pr#717> <Information Termination> <Spurious Interrupt – Breach Disabled> <Breach Location Remote>
<Unauthorised Access> <Security Breached – Initiating pr#717> <Search Parameter Source Accepted – External> <Data Access – Battle Group Seven Infiltration (Phfor core files)> /-/Phfor-Translator-Active/-/ Ref: Tfear tactical and strategic principles Stamp: Familiarity required for all Attentive or higher Battle Group Seven units The possession of a final weapon is a logical necessity for any race prepared to meet all eventualities. Ultimately force must be applied intelligently, at the point of least resistance. A small change at the right p~##~ <Information Termination> <Spurious Interrupt – Breach Disabled> <Breach Location Remote>
<Unauthorised Access> <Security Breached – Initiating pr#717> <Search Parameter Source Accepted – External> <Data access – Battle Group Seven Infiltration (Tycho distributed files)> Extract from the personal logs of Bernard Strauss <2180.4.18.12.37> ...it has been a disappointment to gain so little from an archaeological site that is clearly alien in origin. Project Mjolnir can have the pickings. Decrypted <2801.7.12.00.11> <Information Termination> <Spurious Interrupt – Breach Disabled> <Breach Location Remote>
<Unauthorised Access> <Security Breached – Initiating pr#717> <Spurious interrupt – Breach disabled> <Breach Location Remote> <717 report: HansellGretel match> <sword.roland query !pr#717> <Aggresive trace command authorised> /-/Translator-Active/-/ <Interface Accepted> <Query (?host)(?final)> <Verified (?scry)> <Query (?watcher)> C1rc#441e IMPLEMENTING (?thread)(?road)/~~/(?~~err.nomatch~~) ***ENGAGE WHEN READY***
<Unauthorised Access> <Security Breached – Initiating pr#717> <Spurious interrupt – Breach disabled> <Breach Location Remote> <717 report: HansellGretel match> <sword.roland query !pr#717> <Aggresive trace command authorised> /-/Translator-Active/-/ <Interface Accepted> <Query (?host)(?final)> <Verified (?scry)> <Query (?watcher)> C1rc#441e IMPLEMENTING (?thread)(?road)/~~/(?~~err.nomatch~~) ***ENGAGE WHEN READY***
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