[[SOURCE: ZARIMAN 10-0 COMMUNICATION LOG BETWEEN USER: “LIASON TO EXPEDITIONARY COMMAND: QUINN” AND USER: “HEAD OF SECURITY: CAVALERO”]]
[[ARCHIVAL DATE: UNKNOWN-andbsksbejsbdbdan PRE VOID JUMP INCIDENT]]
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[[BOTH USERS LOCATED IN THE ZARIMAN 10-0.]]
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Quinn: I suppose you have met our latest addition, considering what I have heard?
Cavalero: That I have, kid has a mean right hook. The other guy is still in the infirmary wing. Heard he’ll be there for the next week.
Quinn: I did not expect the Dax our masters would send to be so … unruly.
Cavalero: Oh for-not this shit again. He’s not a fucking Dax Quinn. He’s a kid, no older than your boy-Executor’s tits man, your boy is probably older than him.
Quinn: Do not take the Golden Lords’ words in vain. And I asked the Executor for Dax reinforcements at your request and you’re complaining?
Cavalero: He’s not a DAX, Quinn. He’s a Dax Initiate-there’s a difference! One has Kuva blood and can drop most things in under a minute and the other is still a fleshy human being like the rest of us. The Executor is playing you for a damn fool-he’s giving you the leftovers if that.
Quinn: I wasn’t aware there was a difference, much less you. “Above your pay grade” as you would say.
Cavalero: If you got off your high Kaithe for five seconds you’d understand that even if it’s above our pay grade-us Mercs still need to know shit. This is one of those things.
Quinn: And why would the immortal Dax need such a rank regardless?
Cavalero: Even the mighty Dax need replenishing of the pool sometimes. Either cause they need new talent or the genetic pool is getting a little thin. So occasionally, they open the gates just a little and “invite” people to try to become Dax.
Quinn: “Invite”? You make it sound like a threat.
Cavalero: It effectively is. They take young people-kids cause they’re easier to shape to mould into something proper-the smartest and the strongest of our clans and put them through trials.
Quinn: And what are these trials?
Cavalero: No one knows. The only people who know are the people who run them and the people who do them. And well, they wipe the memories of the kids.
Quinn: I…see…and what of their families? Surely they are honoured by the Golden Lords for their sacrifice?
Cavalero: You gotta get into your mind, Quinn, those Lords don’t care. You give up everything to be an initiate. Family, clan, name-you give it all up to become an initiate.
Cavalero: They didn’t give you a Dax Quinn.
Cavalero: They gave you a traumatised kid who’s had his very identity taken from him and only knows how to fight and kill.
Cavalero: Even your boy still has you. And even if his mum denies it, he still has her when it comes down to it.
Quinn: Don’t. Cavalero.
Cavalero: Quinn, even if your relationship ended. And she…disowned him. She cared enough about either you or him, perhaps both to help out with the teaching of the void travel. You got to make that clear to your boy. And…you got to forgive yourself for it too.
Quinn: I will…think on it. What about the Initiate? What will you do for him?
Cavalero: Right now, I’m letting him stay with me. Kid has no where to go and until we can get a dormizone cleared for him-he’s on his own. Probably get him into the classes as well. Don’t want the other security guys getting suspicious that we’re using kids now.
