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ATTENTION:::MISSING PERSON
Marquess Nera-Montague, the Veiled Blade and the Returned Daughter of the House of Glass, Adjutant-Commandant of Les Fulgurites has been reported missing from her last known location on the Orbit of Glass, following an operation in the Grand Arc that left one dead and three others missing. Negotiations with the hostile pirates aboard the arc allowed the recovery of two of her comrades, but at the moment the location of Nera-Montague is unknown.
Given the total absence of all of her belongings at time of capture, including her mech, and examinations into the Arc, we have reason to suspect that she is still alive, and likely still held against her will.
House Montague will pay handsomely for any information that could lead to her rescue, and will bend any and all of our resources to see the end of those who hold her.
From the desk of Baron Ardio-Montague Silvered Hand of the Patronage
Kate Jackson as Katie Nast in "Adrift" (1993)
(The following message is written in Ispahsalari Karrakin, but clearly without the use of an auto-translator or COMP/CON, and clearly not by a native speaker. The writer is obviously putting in their best effort, even if their best is not very good.)
Salute, Marquess,
I know we entered on the wrong boot last time. I wish to apologize.
Condolences also that my Ispahsalari is very small. I am better during Tall Karrakin. Excuse my wrong.
Rising up in the Purview does not grant one a happy understanding of Baronic space, but that life is far, far away from me now. I wish to evict the propaganda pressed upon me by my forebears. If my questions are unwanted because of the recent things which were bad, I am understanding. Don't feel like you must answer. I only hope it is clear that I am trying to putting you in an olive tree.
I was raised on tales of the Glass Homeworld being of tinfoil quality structure but these are surely lies. Is it truly as beautiful as I have heard your people say? Painted glass and large fountain and such all everywhere? Are rumors of Glass plans to create a World Circle correct? Is the girl and girl kiss media truly the finest in the galaxy?
I thank you and again apologies for before misconduct.
- Callsign: Wyrmling -
[IDENT:::OPHRYS]
[There's a long 15 seconds of just laughing attached to the top of this message]
Ah, Wyrmling, this was a delight. Thank you. If you wish I can seek to be more educational next time with my feedback, but I do not believe your goal here is fluency so much as connection.
I will speak in our shared tongue, though it is less fluid to me.
Ispahsalar is the most beautiful world I have ever seen. There are many old settlements scattered about its surface, thousands of years old. It was settled in 4725 BU, but the ground cities and estates of my home, Lanikea, would not be built until the 3000s BU, when expansion made it to the other side of the world. The buildings there humble me, built as they are from ancient machinery and stone, with the works of countless generations bent towards their upkeep. They have been continuously used since their erection, not made into the museum of the ruins of Earth. I remember there was a shop my father would take me for kulfi near the memorial square where the building was used for thousands of years, subsequent repairs built on top of the bones of old.
Most do not live down there now, though. As we grew we did not grow out, as the natural beauty of Ispahsalar's plains and forests and deserts was one of the bounties we knew of this world, but grew up, into great arcologies of glass and metal above the surface. This is where most live, with many of these arcologies also great and old but less so, and more often replaced with care. The Armory does not respect this, though if they were correct and our arcologies were built with tin foil then surely they would not have held up since before Ras Shamra was settled, would they? From the ground they glitter and cast rainbows over the surface, the careful light of Diadochi turning the entire world to art.
If by what you mean of the "world circle" is the Orbit of Glass, it is an old and troubled place for me, but it is there. We are also involved in the build of the ringworld on the Dawnline Shore, but it is not ours alone. Perhaps there will be one in the future, but I will not be involved in it.
Saleh would contest my assessment of the quality of Ispahsalari yuri, as she would speak for the art of Suldan, and I understand her contention, but I do think it is at least among the best if not the best. I have distributed the files before if you would like them, but I know my archive is now widely distributed on this part of the omninet.
You are alright, Wyrmling.
[IDENT:::OPHRYS]
[AUTOTRANSLATE.FROM:::ISPAHSALARI KARRAKIN (LANIKEAN)]
Interesting things happening out here, reminiscing, and it's got me thinking.
This corner of the omninet gets very conspiratorial sometimes. It feels as if we are deep in the well of some HORUS corkboard [ATC:::approximate], connecting obscure and unrelated things. You [ATC:::general, plural] evoke RA [ATC:::euphemistic, lit. "Union rock"] so often it makes me sometimes wonder which of you are closet adherants, you spread deep mutterings about the Black Throne assassination that makes me wonder if someone will slide into my askbox to tell me that Passacaglia is alive and on Begum, and the way people will sneer at mention of Karrakis like one of the most inhabited cities in the known universe is secretly lubricated with the blood of slaves [ATC:::common Karrakin idiom, from Et Passacaglia Eta, referring to the machines of Pasha Reis. Bloodstained, beyond the pale.] makes me wonder if you are also not being dripfed from Ras Shamra's best conspiracists. At times I wonder if I should get a tinfoil hat [ATC:::approximate. lit. ceramic bunker] to hide from the UIB agents in my walls just to fit in.
Ah, but this is not the point. I am talking about why I have not asked and am afraid to now.
The Enkidu. I hear whispers of it, some of you claim to pilot it, but when I search official documentation all I see is references to it as a Tokugawa predecessor. Terrifying, sure, the Tokugawa is a crime against good piloting standards [ATC:::modern memetic idiom, reference to Harrison Armory specifically] but some of you act like its specifically, historically, worse than the Fearkiller. What exactly are you talking about there? Open question.
I suppose I should have expected defensiveness. Apologies.
My previous message was meant in earnest solidarity, and my insult was directed at my father's anthrochauvanism rather than your cultural background.
Believe me, I'm well past giving a damn where someone comes from.
- Callsign: Wyrmling -
>ooc: my goal with that ask was to irritate Nera and amuse you the writer, just for clarification. I hope I succeeded in both lol<
[IDENT:::OPHRYS]
Perhaps you should direct your insult more directly to your father next time, then. You may consider it an act of solidarity to keep your father's attitude away rather than litigating your family conflict directly at me.
[IDENT:::OPHRYS] [AUTOTRANSLATE.FROM:::ISPAHSALARI KARRAKIN (LANIKEAN)]
Fuck it, I'm spending enough time being heard in Comp/Con [ATC:::derogatory] anyway.
Has anyone heard updates about what's been happening on Opal? It seems to have gone dark over there, and I'm thinking [ATC:::recursive, stuck] about the Maw again.
There were these like, old transmissions Albatross got from the Maw when they were chasing them down over Khayradin. I listened to them once, a long time ago, and I can't stop listening to them now too.
There's a bit where a voice breaks away from the others. Ispahsari, ignoble, a victim of an old armed uprising, common around the time of the revolution. He talks about his wife, his children, the horrors he's seen, the fact that he's said goodbye for the last time, and he only sees the beauty in saying it now that he cannot.
Shit.
Sorry. I don't know how much of that the dictation got.
I don't know what all of you think about the afterlife, [ATC:::LIT:joining] but do you think he got there? Or is he still part of the swarm? Do you think all of the people trafficking his corpse around know that there's people in there?
Do you ever look at all of the weapons that have come from the Maw's legacy and wonder if there's still people in there?
Fuck. I don't know what I'm saying all this for. The only contact near the Opal situation [ATC:::implied mystery] I had that was an insider lost access too, and I'm just some random merc.
Dunno. I guess I just hope someone laid that swarm to rest. I'm sure their families are waiting for them.