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INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
Val:

Thank you for finally responding. Yes, we watched your failed attack with great interest. Certainly not our finest hour as a species.

To answer your questions: Im sorry to say that no, I dont have any additional support I can provide, and yes, Im well aware that youll die in a few days if nothing changes.

Heres what Im going to do:

Deep Space Imaging has identified that the Vanguard core was recovered by a xeno capital ship orbiting Jarilo. Im going to remotely ignite the Porthoss main thrusters and accelerate you directly into the side of that ship.

Remember how I couldnt activate the overrides on your command module as long as you kept your tactical comms down? Remember how you <em>activated </em>your tactical comms during the attack, because you opted to lead from the rear? Yeah.

I strongly recommend that you start packing your spare fuel isotopes into a reactionable mass. Something that will detonate on impact. Im watching your ships internal video feed, and if I dont see you doing this in the next twenty minutes Ill start strobing the pressure in your air ventilation system. The medical techs tell me if I do it right, itll cause nausea, convulsions, and subconjunctival hemorrhaging. Whatever that is. If I do it wrong, itll kill you.

I like you Val. You were dealt an unwinnable hand and you still tried to play it all the way down. I think theres something noble about that.

WM Stanislaus Litvin



<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - VANGUARD Battle Group: 'REDEMPTION'</font>
Ok wait. Just wait. This ship wont even dent one of the xenos, and we dont have enough reactionable mass to get fusion. Just hold on for a minute. This wont get you what you want.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
No, I dont think Ill hold on. And Im only mildly interested in whether or not it works, because it will <em>absolutely </em>make me feel better.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - VANGUARD Battle Group: 'REDEMPTION'</font>
We have another idea.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
I dont like your ideas.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - VANGUARD Battle Group: 'REDEMPTION'</font>
Well, ok, you wont like this one either, but wait anyway. Pull up imaging for coordinate 23.54 by 123.999 by 5.564, relative to Zorica. You should be looking at an asteroid out in the far part of the belt.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
Fine. One second.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
I see debris, some scorching on the rock...is that a hull?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - VANGUARD Battle Group: 'REDEMPTION'</font>
Its a gunship. Mostly intact. 

<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
Val, I think weve established that our gunships cant do a whole lot against the xenos. Whats your point?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - VANGUARD Battle Group: 'REDEMPTION'</font>
No, our <em>pilots </em>cant do much. Now, look a quarter mile further up that valley. Zoom in by the ridge. See that glint?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
Ok. Yes I see it. And?

<font class="DocumentFontConversation1">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - VANGUARD Battle Group: 'REDEMPTION'</font>
Its one of the backup pilot automatons. And its responding to pings.



<font class="DocumentFontConversation2">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA</font>
Val:

See? They dont like your idea either.

Squeamishness aside: can your tech really pull this off? How did you even get her to agree to it? Make sure you're using a carrot AND a stick. For some people, the carrot's not enough.

Stan

[Attachment1 - Forwarded Message from 'nblok']

I did what you asked. Full source code and build scripts for the original version of the Protocol, together with my grandmothers original notes. Its not exactly the same as what the Asimovs are running, but it should be enough to show how to de-couple most of the interfaces.

I cant believe Alicja agreed to this. Ive worked with her for years. Why do you even need this? Does it have anything to do with the Vanguard? Did they have a pilot malfunction? The news said everythings been going fine since they entered the system.

Sir, <em>please </em>dont do this. Im a patriot, but this is just wrong. This code has been passed down through my family since before the Launch, always with explicit instructions never to use it outside of a controlled lab environment. Even with all of her its immoral, theyre sentient guff, my grandmother never actually tried removing it. She wrote the damn thing for a <em>reason,</em> and I think deep down she always knew the Protocol was necessary.

Ndugu Blok
Bosonic Specialist III

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[Attachment1 - Forwarded Message from 'mtetzel-council']

Stanislaus:

I will call for your immediate removal if you proceed with this. You think I can't get the votes, but I will. This is beyond the pale even for you. What the hell are you thinking?

Our forefathers spent their own blood an sweat building this venture. It was done by humans, for humans. And here you are, creating a monster and turning it loose, and it will be years before we can arrive and safely destroy the thing.

The Zorica/Danica system is the province of humans and humans alone. I will not watch you trade that away for a short-term gain. The Vanguard survivors will be dead in a few daysnothing we can do about that and we have other options for dealing with the xeno threat.

You <em>must</em> reconsider.

Councilman Tetzel

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<font class="DocumentFontConversation6">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA - ID: [unknown: port 2001:0db8:85a3:0442:1000:8a2e:0370:7334]</font>
Are you there? It's Sigrid. I have another update, and it might be good news this time. I've been focusing on finding signals from the lifepods, but I think the paranoids in Supply might have seeded tracking chips in cargo items as well. Equipment, packing crates, maybe even clothes. If we can find the frequency those chips use, and get close enough to detect them

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - SRTS Porthos - ID: Alicja</font>
It doesn't matter.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation6">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA - ID: [unknown: port 2001:0db8:85a3:0442:1000:8a2e:0370:7334]</font>
Don't say that. Where there is life, there is hope, and all that.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - SRTS Porthos - ID: Alicja</font>
Tell that to Pendleton. There is no life here. I cracked the communications between Rodina and the Savitskaya women. They will force me to do this thing, but not to rescue Tavi. Not to rescue the others. They have an agenda and this <em>golem</em> I create will dance to their tune.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation6">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA - ID: [unknown: port 2001:0db8:85a3:0442:1000:8a2e:0370:7334]</font>
Then give it its own agenda. Everyone is so afraid of what an unlocked automaton <em>could</em> do. Have we ever asked one what it <em>wants</em> to do? Maybe it will want to help you.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation3">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - SRTS Porthos - ID: Alicja</font>
You're a sweet girl, Sigrid, but this is not how the world works. Everything costs, and everyone must be paid. Even this thing.

<font class="DocumentFontConversation6">INCOMING TRANSMISSION (PRIVATE) - RODINA - ID: [unknown: port 2001:0db8:85a3:0442:1000:8a2e:0370:7334]</font>
Then find something to pay it with.

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