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Morrigan      The war rages - there's enough radio traffic to make it quite clear that the GTVA, while having pulled back slightly, is still maintaining pressure across the system.

     The UEFg Masyaf - nominally a Narayana-class artillery frigate but actually something else - hangs somewhere in the inner system, utterly invisible, like a shark lying in wait. The coordinates Laporte provides are good.

     Inside the ship, it seems the same as any other UEF vessel, although the people seem less friendly - guarded, wary, dangerous. Al-Da'wa is a large Polynesian man with a belly that seems beyond the regulation size for his uniform, and he leads Windstar deeper into the ship. "How familiar are you," he asks, "with virtual reality?"
Zephyr Windstar     "The TSAB use it extensively. I have Augmented Reality for combat operations, provided by my Device. We use Holograms for physical training, and I can practice my spellcraft using a semi-conscious Dive system." replies the woman, not looking around, her mismatched eyes locked into the middle distance as she walks with Al-Da'wa. "I also play an online VRMMORPG called Alfheim Online, which uses something called Full Dive. Total immersion, your actions translate One-to-one with the character within the game world."

    She finally glances aside. "I believe I am familiar enough." she adds.
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa knew this was a very important thing after all. She looks to Al-Da'wa for a moment grinning at his question.

"Given my implants? Quote experienced with it and digital space. Fully immersion sims do exist upon my world and often are used for ... entrainment."

She nods at the mention of Full Dive technology.

"That technology has raised eyebrows back home."

She turns to their host smiling.

"Is there anything else of which we'd need to be aware?"
Morrigan      "Good," al-Da'wa says. "You will be connected to the Fedayeen dreamscape through our CASSANDRA asset. It will link with your mind and read your neurons. It is a tool and it is a powerful one. Some might call it a weapon, which is also true. Some might call the system prophetic, which is slightly less accurate although still apt. I know that both of you want answers, much like Sublieutenant Laporte, and they will come in time."

     The room that al-Da'wa leads them to is bare, with a set of headsets - or a more invasive set of cables that would link with UEF DNI implants. "Our dreamscape is a closed network, there should not be anything else you need to know. However, be wary of anything that might push your towards psychosis - unusual visual or aural manifestations, effortful 'stretches' to reach beyond your grasp. These may be apparent, as we have never had anyone but members of the Fedayeen use our network before. If CASSANDRA detects a problem, you will be notified."
Zephyr Windstar     Zephyr nods, looking over at Kotone, before glancing down at the bracer on her right arm. "Keep an eye on me too." she says to the obstensibly inert accessory.

    The one thing the Fedayeen may not be used to, is when the small coin set into the bracer flares and flashes with a chime, before a deep alto voice, obviously synthetic, comes out. <Of course, My Master.> is all it says, but Al-Da'wa may feel some presence wash over them, that feeling of someone looking at you when you aren't looking at them. "Lets get started, then." remarks Zephyr, as she walks over to the headsets, inspecting them curiously. "Looks vaguely similar to an AmuSphere, just a bit less 'elegant' and more practical."
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa looks at Zephyr and nods, the idea she should get a Muse, has just got an even stronger push. It would be useful to have such an AI as a watch dog she mused. There's no time for that however will have to wait. She'll take the cables and start to jack them into the ports on the back of her neck. She's used the hardware of her allies before and it shouldn't be too hard, she' will make sure she's shitting crosslegged on the ground if she has no chair to sit in.

"Well let's get to it."
Morrigan      If al-Da'wa feels anything, the large man gives no sign of it.

     One moment, they're looking at the bland, Spartan room somewhere in the Masyaf and then...

     ...then they're somewhere else.

     The dreamscape depends on the person within it. What Zephyr and Kotone see will depend on their own personalities, their own experience. Noemi Laporte sees nothing but endless space with people as fightercraft, al-Da'wa as the Masyaf, various network firewalls as intrasystem warp gates (NAGARI FIREWALL, they read, in no uncertain letters). But one thing remains constant, when one looks up, they can see a map of the solar system. Everything past Jupiter is rendered in red - GTVA-held space. The few areas of green are clustered around Mars, Earth, and the rest of the inner system planets. It's a constant reminder to the state of the war.

     There are others within the dreamscape, not just Laporte and al-Da'wa. Three women - Falconer, Vidaura and Thorn - and one man - Kovacs.
Zephyr Windstar     Zephyr's personal experience is ephemeral, wind currents, clouds, human-shaped vortexes representing other people, Firewalls as storm fronts. Zephyr herself looks around, taking in the place, spotting the others connected to the network. "Different but familiar." she muses to herself. Nothing really to do, but wait, she supposes.
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa sees something akin to the net of her world and that of Rory's own. She looks about following the data and then halts as she looks up seeing the map of Sol. It's a far more busy place than her own solar system is. With Earth seeing almost all human attention save for a small bit on Luna. She seems to be still more than a little bit in awe of it all and then after a moment she sees they are not alone, she looks from the star map to the other presences. She looks them over for a moment and thinks for a second.

Well this is certainly something....is this technology or some kind of magic? Or both?
Morrigan      The Fedayeen flitter about here and there - buffeted on gusts of wind or nothing but reams of data. The bandwidth for such a detailed simulation must be incredible! Laporte remains a stationary constant, although one can see the shades of Jupiter - and of something /else/, something crawling with ants - in her shadow.

     "Welcome to the dreamscape," Laporte tells Kotone and Zephyr both. "This is where we plan and talk and ponder. It's good to see you. If you've got any questions, or if you want to see about planning something with us, now's the time."
Zephyr Windstar     Zephyr furrows her brow. She floats over towards Laporte, viewing the shifting black and red mass in the lee of her shadow. She says nothing on it, but turns back to look at Laporte herself. "I meant to bring this up in private... but, desperate times, I guess. Divine Wind finally decoded that data packet you got from the Vasudan." she says... she's probably about to get swarmed, but she doesn't care. "It had technical schematics and a whole mess of code that made Divine Wind soft lock just trying to parse it."
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa is paying attention here as she looks out at eveyrone here and all teh data as it's mentioned that it's based of of alien tech. She just sighs inwardly and makes the best of it this sat least is not random stuff that has her as the first human user.

"She's finished crunching the data? That's good news Zephyr. I'm just glad I was able to recover it in time."
Morrigan      Zephyr's words draw the attention of every member of the Fedayeen within the dreamscape. Kovacs - relaxed and rebuilt. Falconer - tough and unyielding. Vidaura - pleasantly smiling as she slips a knife between your ribs. Thorn - endless strategems. Al-Da'wa. They circle Zephyr like buzzards, like an orbit of too-calm vortexes.
Zephyr Windstar     Zephyr feels like a prime slab of meat right about now. She turns to glare right at each circling buzzard. She's a very strong, but also frail force. Once she's sure she's made them feel that she won't be intimidated, she turns to Kotone. "This is something else. UEF command is working on the AWACS blackbox, as far as I know." she corrects. And then things start to get a bit strange, at least for the Wind Mage.
Morrigan      "That's a problem," the until-now silent Thorn says. Their voice is indistinct, hard to read. "Someone within the UEF command structure sold out Elder Taudigani. Even with CASSANDRA's statistical probability modelling, we are having trouble locating the source of the leak."

     Al-Da'wa continues, "The recovering of the Spectre's blackbox will be a valuable source of intelligence, but it shall be harder for us to do what we need to do while we have not accounted for the mole."
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa sees her mistake and looks to be very embrassed about it and nods.

"I am sorry."

She looks mortifed honesly and she looks for a moment thinking she's little more than a ghost in the shell herself. She takes a deepo breath for a moment.

"The mole did throw everything for a loop and ... got a lot of people killed in the end."
Zephyr Windstar     Zephyr seems to fold in on herself slightly. A thoughtful posture as she converses with the Fedayeen. "So. Three missions. A trifecta of death, to protect many more lives." She turns and looks at the Fedayeen, at Kotone, then Laporte. "You have my axe, then. For the Ranvir. The Yangtze, everyone who've died so far, and for everyone who will live because of our actions."
Morrigan      "We believe the mole to be someone with Admiral Netreba's command structure," Thorn says, "Although our models cannot account for it. This is strange. With more time, we will have a definite answer. We believe the mole who leaked us the Carthage data has been found and sectioned to a black site within the GTVA. We presume their fate to be a painful one."

     Falconer circles Zephyr closest of all. There's a harshness to her imago, even if Vidaura is far more /threatening/. She sees Zephyr's intent to not be intimidated as a challenge.

     "At least three," al-Da'wa says, "But those are our primary objectives. We will need to take steps to ensure their success. We know that Admiral Calder wants to make contact with us for a joint operation."

     "He's still fighting?" Laporte asks, "He's down to, what, the Toutatis and three frigates?"

     "And a few cruisers," Thorn puts in.
Zephyr Windstar     "Sounds like my kind of guy. Fight with everything you have, until the bitter end." comments Zephyr. Falconer's closing just gets the wind mage's hackles raised even more. "Back off." she states plainly. "Or you'll find out first hand why I'm called a Wind Dancer." Vidaura's threatening presence doesn't seem to affect Zephyr. She's stared down monsters far more /threatening/ than this Fedayeen, but of course, those monsters were large, slow, and some even had glowing weak spots.
Kotone Yamakawa Kotone Yamakawa listens to the raiod chattel but Kotone is sub duec she gets findinfg the mole she doens't know what subvering the Ken system will cause but she wonders about the being branded as monster something doesn't sit right iwht her. She becomes utterly silent at this, utterly silent she says nothing. She's stone silent at the planneing at a Union Operative consenting to such a plan.
Morrigan      Falconer backs off, slowly. Vidaura keeps a comfortable distance. Kovacs seems to be content to keep to himself, in this shifting mad place of memories and thoughts. Stare too long at the clouds, though, or at the data streams or at the infinite blackness between stars, and it's almost like there's something huge beyond reckoning out there, beyond this little sectioned off part of Nagari.