[b][u]Brilliance 3.2 [i](3)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Internal, OS-I6 3 RAM: Berriole found a trove of laboratory notes in a locked section of the Dust Palace. Some dead scientist named Shirazi. Some forgotten experiment under the auspices of Willa Bray. [b]The experiments of Dr. Shirazi were overseen by Willa Bray. Genealogy is yet unknown.[/b] QUI: She's good as a bloodhound for secrets. [b]Beriole is female. Quist repects her.[/b] SHU: You could use a bit more sheepdog, yourself. [b]Shun enjoys irritating Quist.[/b] RAM: Our Guardians will honor the ban on City travel. This has been relayed on all channels as far as Saturn. QUI: They might have honored the quarantine. [b]Quist is bitter about the Guardians disregard for his methods.[/b] SHU: They're Guardians, Quist. Means the Light has cooked their brains. Haven't you seen them dancing in the Plaza, for no reason, with no music at all? We'll take what we can get. [b]Shun understand that the Guardians are ... special. And must be treated as such.[/b] [b][u]Fortitude 3.1 [i](3)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Geographer Quist, OS-I6 3, for Owl Sector records, not that anyone reads them, assigned to incident TRANSMISSION under protest. [b]Quist is a pessimist.[/b] In consultation with the Vanguard, the Owl Sector decided to restrict travel between City and Tower. Checkpoints have been installed. Landing clearances have been revoked. We can fly as far as the stars, but we can't walk under the Traveler. This will last as long as it takes to determine cause and cure. All Tower residents fall under this restriction. Guardians. Civilians. The sick and the well. When I joined the Owl Sector, I pledged to uphold and support the Tower and its Guardians, our best and last defense against the Darkness, no matter what threat arose. No matter the cost. I am forbidden to go home. [b]Quist seems bitter that he cannot return to the City, as he may have become contaminated, and with no means of decontamination yet discover, he is stranded on, what I would assume, is the Tower. Clearly he feels that the Tower and the City are two very separate environments, and while he does not specifically say he resents being there, he does not refute this perceived anxiety.[/b] [b][u]Glory 2.1 [i](2)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Debrief to Ikora Rey, OS-I6 3 IR: Your team is observing strict sterilization, firewall, and decontamination procedures, I hope. SHU: It's touching to know you still care. IR: The effects on ordinary humans, Awoken, and EXOs are unknown, and I'd rather not experiment. SHU: The great Ikora Rey doesn’t want to know? [b]Shun has a similar sense of humour to Cayde - 6.[/b] IR: There are higher priorities in this situation. SHU: You'd be worried sick if I caught the mite. IR: The suffering of any lessens us all. [b]Shun attempts to draw an admittance from Ikora. Perhaps theirs was once more then a professional relationship?[/b] SHU: C'mon, Korrie. IR: Liaison Shun, please confirm your operating procedures. SHU: Standard Amber 6 protocol, no deviations. IR: That will be everything, thank you. [b]Ikora is blunt and short with Shun. Shun seems to take this in stride.[/b] [b][u]Magnificence 2.0 [i](3)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Bypass Authority Berriole, OS-I6 3, for Owl Sector records, assigned to incident TRANSMISSION. Quist, Shun, I'm hearing the strangest things from you. Is everything shipshape? At any rate, Dr. Shirazi's password was a combination of musical tones and a Persian phrase that loosely translates as "Remember who watches you." [b]This may suggest that Shirazi did not wish to to forget, that despite the helpful nature suggested by Clovis Bray, the conglomerate was not necessarily working for the betterment of mankind. Though, this also point to a lack of trust in the scientist's overseer, Willa Bray.[/b] Her entries are individually locked. The first is below, and more will follow. [i]Z. SHIRAZI CB-PZ-1.1 I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to work with Clovis Bray. No more clawing for research grants. No more hopping universities. The volunteers enlisted for this study are likewise in good spirits.[/i] [b]Such is the generosity of a company that sees great potential in it's brilliant employee.[/b] [i]Patient A, Susan, believes with all her heart in the colonization effort and will do anything to support it. Twelve hours have passed since injection with Magnificence 2.0. Her vital signs are strong, but she complains of phantom insects.[/i] [b]Perhaps she is able to see the nannites? The fact that after twelve hours, she is only just seeing this side effects suggests that the Magnificence 2.0 either has asymptomatic characteristics (meaning a patient is a carrier for a disease or infection but experiences no symptoms, or can develop symptoms later one) or this is simply a prototype for the nannites that will eventually infect the Guardians, during the Transmission Crisis.[/b] [b][u]Splendor 2.6 [i](3)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Records of the Vanguard, OS-6I 3 ZAV: All Guardians are observing the prohibition on City visits. Ikora reports that appropriate crisis protocols are in place in the Owl Sector. CY6: A watch-and-wait operation? You know I'd rather be shooting something. Can we sprinkle some of this stuff on the Fallen? IR: Be careful what you wish for, Cayde. [b]Foreshadowing the infection of the Splicers of the House of Devils on Earth.[/b] ZAV: The Bypass Authority's researches have borne some fruit, I hear? IR: It's slow going. I'm offering backup computational and decryption support, but she's fiercely self-sufficient, like most of the Owl Sector. [b]Berriole prefers to work alone.[/b] CY6: You mean she isn't asking you for help. IR: I think she likes having secrets. CY6: That doesn't sound familiar at all. IR: In spite of my reservations, she's earned my commendation, Cayde. It's high-risk work for a civilian. [b]Cayde - 6's comment refers to Ikora's work with The Hidden. Ikora clearly respects Berriole.[/b] ZAV: Speaking of civilians, this Dr. Shirazi troubles me. IR: Her choice of passphrase is interesting. As is her decision to lock each separate entry, a security precaution disproportionate to her project's classification as Level 2. [b]Ikora points out the extent to which the SIVA scientist has protected her work. This supports my belief that the doctor was protecting her work from Clovis Bray, by proxy of Willa Bray.[/b] CY6: Not the probable association with a high-velocity technological mite that could bring the City's defenses to its knees? It's her passphrase that bothers you? [b]Cayde - 6 fails to see the implications that Ikora and I do. The fact that Dr. Shirazi protected her work so fervently, may suggest that she would have provided some means of eradicating the nannites in case of misuse, or security breach. Or that he is more concerned with the present threat, then a past or potentially future solution.[/b]