[10.3.1] There may be someone else out there - Syntax - 7/2/08

**Shimada**

I'd like to thank everyone who helped us get what we needed from Caacrinolaas, TheSousChef, and the Sculptress.

With the storm and the Machines out there, reaching the no-fly zone isn't going to be easy, but I'm confident that we have the crews to get it done. It seems like that's the place to go for answers: not only about the area itself, which the Merovingian has already made an attempt to penetrate, but also, just who left a copy of the Machine map to that area on a dismantled hovercraft computer in an old maintenance tunnel near old Zion, and why they had the map in the first place.

~Shimada

Steelle

In lieu of missing this particular operation I would like to make an offer for my HvCFT, the Hand of God, go and explore the no-fly zone. My crew and I are well aware of the risks but we are prepared to do what must be done.

((I am so *CENSORED* pissed I missed this. Stupid job))

**Tranque101**

What? People in the No Fly Zone!? Thats peculiar! Its almost as if.. as if... there is some form of colony!

/endsarcasm

Do you EPNites always get left a step behind?

Steelle

Lets all bow to tranque and his all knowing brain.

Sometimes I wonder how you fit through a doorway with a head that big.

**Tranque101**

Ah stuff it steelle, I'm not the only one who knows about the colony, I'm simply saying that the EPN seems to be a step behind if they are just now catching a whiff of this Colony business. Also, who in gods name are you? Have I ever even interacted with you? You have no right to even inquire as to the extents of my ego if we haven't even held one discussion. Most if not all of the Merovingian organization knows about "them". All it takes is the right ears in the right places and the EPN could have figured it out.

**LtCmdr_Tsusai**

((*Beats head on desk*. Just had to have the pics with the URL >_> ))

Not too many people can go somewhere without a map ya know....

**shinpseudo**

**ZippyTheSquirrel** · 07/04/2008 07:55:59

Tranque101 wrote:

Also, who in gods name are you? Have I ever even interacted with you? You have no right to even inquire as to the extents of my ego if we haven't even held one discussion.

As a person who has interacted with him, might I tell you, Steele, that he does indeed have to finagle his ego through some doorways.

On to the subject of the "no-fly" zone; I wouldn't recommend going to explore that unless you're fully prepared for tactical engagements with superior foes. Just a warning.

**GamiSB**

Well done EPC! You have successfully completed your mission at above an 85% brain capacity!

Now then I feel as if I should voice two questions that have been plaguing me sense this and every other random and sporadic operation we have been sent on. What do these missions have to do with Neo and his mission let alone our own? What does any of this gain us in solving the fragment of data the Oracle gave us?

Serisouly has command been checked for ADD? I didn't and I know several other members of EPN did not join the cause so we could go running around playing geologist but rather to make a difference and help those who needed help. We have a gift from a program that died soon after giving it to us and we don't so much as check a mainframe to help us solve the *CENSORED* thing let alone talk to someone that knew her but when it comes to random downed hovercrafts we find in the real. By golly we just gotta see which poor saps got blown to kingdom come.

**7h0r**

I'm right on the money with good ol' Gami on this one. I am getting burned out from having to always do operations and such that have little to nothing to do with why I joined EPN in the first place. I will do what is needed, but in turn I ask our command to review their priorities and perhaps look at why they started this organization in the first place. Otherwise, we may as well be zionists.

Steelle · 07/04/2008 11:21:21

Tranque101 wrote:

Ah stuff it steelle, I'm not the only one who knows about the colony, I'm simply saying that the EPN seems to be a step behind if they are just now catching a whiff of this Colony business. Also, who in gods name are you? Have I ever even interacted with you? You have no right to even inquire as to the extents of my ego if we haven't even held one discussion. Most if not all of the Merovingian organization knows about "them". All it takes is the right ears in the right places and the EPN could have figured it out.

First off, this isn't the first we've heard of it, but I can understand that some find it easy to take pot shots where they can because it makes them feel all warm and tingly. Secondly, we have met. I believe you were one of the Mero ships that sat around and then negotiated rather than fight at the massive hvcft brawl where zion and epn cleaned shop.

7h0r wrote:

I'm right on the money with good ol' Gami on this one. I am getting burned out from having to always do operations and such that have little to nothing to do with why I joined EPN in the first place. I will do what is needed, but in turn I ask our command to review their priorities and perhaps look at why they started this organization in the first place. Otherwise, we may as well be zionists.

And wow wow wow. Lets not say anything we can't take back. Now I understand where you and Gami are coming from, and yeah it can be frustrating not going in the direction we need to but at the same time, you can never write off anything. We don't know where this heads and as such we should carefully investigate it. It is frustrating that it seems all of our resources are going towards it when only say a quarter should be but I am not about to put down my guns just yet. Our command certainly needs to rethink priorities I agree with you there. But I can understand the need to investigate. Perhaps it is because I spend more time in the real than most, but you need to realize that there are threats outside of the matrix too, and this could be a brand new one.

And as for the no-fly zone. I am fully prepared for a tactical engagement with any foe. Superiority is just a state of mind.

**7h0r**

We aren't against doing other things Steelle, but it's all we have been doing.

**Coro**

Have you considered that the answers to your questions might be found from this mysterious place? May be the recent missions have more pertinence than first thought....

**GamiSB**

Steelle wrote:

7h0r wrote:
I'm right on the money with good ol' Gami on this one. I am getting burned out from having to always do operations and such that have little to nothing to do with why I joined EPN in the first place. I will do what is needed, but in turn I ask our command to review their priorities and perhaps look at why they started this organization in the first place. Otherwise, we may as well be zionists.
And wow wow wow. Lets not say anything we can't take back. Now I understand where you and Gami are coming from, and yeah it can be frustrating not going in the direction we need to but at the same time, you can never write off anything. We don't know where this heads and as such we should carefully investigate it. It is frustrating that it seems all of our resources are going towards it when only say a quarter should be but I am not about to put down my guns just yet. Our command certainly needs to rethink priorities I agree with you there. But I can understand the need to investigate. Perhaps it is because I spend more time in the real than most, but you need to realize that there are threats outside of the matrix too, and this could be a brand new one.

And as for the no-fly zone. I am fully prepared for a tactical engagement with any foe. Superiority is just a state of mind.

I have no problem with following leads. My problem is that it is already known what is out there and the General has quiet a few new dents in him that show us what is waiting. A fortified colony of humans that apparently has part of its network set up within the city. But this gets us no where in freeing minds from the Matrix. Also it is wasted effort when we already know of two programs that were in on the Oracles grand plan before her death. Neither of which have even been talked to by anyone from EPN sense. We are off looking for leads when two are already right in front of us. Lets cross those off shall we before we go looking into new ones.

Our general agenda has for far to long been stuck side by side with Zion's. If Zion so much has spelt something funny we are always there soon after confirmed said smell. This is getting tiring I thought we left them for a reason. Not to play investigator for them just under a different name.

Steelle

Like I said, I do find the current one track mind of our missions frustrating but I am willing to see where this takes us. I would be right there beside you guys no matter what the operation, you guys know that.