[u][b]Ghost Fragment: Meridian Bay[/b][/u] [u]Primary Text:[/u] [i][None][/i] [u]Secondary Text:[/u] We want your grandchildren. [b]Disturbing.[/b] Does that sound grim? Don't panic. We aren't talking about human babies, yours or anyone else's. We're talking about your inventions. The children of your mind. [b]Less disturbing, though, still could have been expressed in a less disturbing fashion. There are no recorded entries involving a Human Resources facility in Clovis Bray ... or a Public Relations division ... though both are clearly sorely needed.[/b] Come join us. Come to Clovis Bray and build the laboratory of your dreams. Anything you need. Demand it and it's yours. At Clovis Bray, we have a singular understanding of genius, and we appreciate how brilliant minds flourish when they enjoy total freedom. [b]Demand it, as it proves you are possessed by a fervor and obsession that will only improve their experiments. As a inter-planetary conglomerate, money is not a concern, so long as the cost is exceeded by the outcomes.[/b] This is Freehold, the realm where the new and the best is born. This is where your brilliance, freed of budget constraints and managers, makes the universe dance. [b]Freehold was advertised as the den of miracles, as it is yet known.Scientists may have had freedom to study and experiment without the hindrance of a manger/director. Though, as Doctor Willa Bray shows when she is overseer of Sr. Shirazi's work, this isn't always true. Propaganda is rarely ever accurate.[/b] Clovis Bray is a nursery, a nursery to a million marvels. Your inventions belong to no one but you. Cherish them, praise them. Or tell them they aren't worthy and set them inside a deep dark drawer. [b]Clovis Bray does not want a single invention destroyed, merely set aside for other projects. Perhaps there are many, many more experiments or prototypes that have yet to be uncovered. An unnerving thought...[/b] But as every parent soon learns, children grow up. And every technology matures. At some point, your inventions are going to find mates. They'll join with other marvels and produce a new generation of offspring. [b]Clovis Bray hopes to meld experiments their scientists create, in order to benefits from the massive amount of knowledge it was accumulated.[/b] Maybe you'll build a better reactor. Meanwhile, the genius in the lab next door devises an elegant way to fold machines into tiny spaces. Your device meets hers, and a fierce little reactor is born. Your children are yours forever. And we are happy to arrange for their grandchildren to prosper. [b]The scientists experiments will always be their creations. However, Clovis Bray takes the information gathered from these experiments, and creates hybrids. Hybrids, that they will claim as their own, which will be stronger, faster, smarter, then their predecessors. Very very clever. The scientists gets the personal glory, while Clovis Bray fashions itself a legacy.[/b] [u][b]SIVA[/b][/u] [u]Primary Text:[/u] [i][None][/i] [u]Secondary Text:[/u] RECIPIENT: Assembly of Masters, S14 Cryptarchy SENDER: Tyra Karn SUBJECT: SIVA SUB-ENTRIES: Nanotech; Self-Assembling Materials; Cosmodrome; Warmind; Iron Lords; Clovis Bray SUMMARY: We must reopen all previous entries on SIVA. What we once believed to be a colonial tool of the Warminds, destroyed long ago, appears to be active again.[b][Perhaps SIVA was always meant to be implemented by the Warminds. This may be an example of how Loud Saladin hid any existence of SIVA in an attempt to protect humanity from making the sane mistakes as the Iron Lords.][/b] This time, there is no sign of any active Rasputin networks. [b][Why is Rasputin not responding to the Guardians infiltrating the SIVA replication chamber? He knows the capabilites of these guardians better then most intelligent beings, yet he does nothing when SIVA is released by the Devil Splicers or when we enter to seal the chamber itself...][/b]My summation: SIVA is actually a nanotechnology capable of breaking down any existing matter very similar to Glimmer. Unfortunately, these SIVA mites reuse the energy and matter based on a set of programmable directives. SIVA does not cease until said directives are complete.[b][This refers to the SIVA directives 'consume, enhance, repeat'][/b] I fear what this could mean for us all and suggest we instigate a system-wide scan for anything bearing the enclosed signatures. [b]Tyra Karn fears SIVA may have spread to other planets or perhaps it has other replication chambers on different planets.[/b] [i]This record contains the events of The Transmission Crisis. For the purpose of a clear view of the unfolding evens, I, Teréz Sebők, Grand Scribe of The IX Gatekeepers, will be breaking down these recordings as they were received. As this information has been confirmed to relate to SIVA, it also pertains to Clovis Bray, and by extension, the Bray Family. The actually names for the affiliated abbreviations as follows: [SHU] Shun - Owl Sector Liason to the Tower [QUI] Quist - Owl Sector Geographer [BER] Berriole - (Female) Owl Sector Bypass Authority [RAM] Ramos - Owl Sector Acting Liaison [IR] Ikora - (Female, Human) Warlock Vanguard Leader [CY6] Cayde - 6 - (Male, Exo) Hunter Vanguard Leader [ZAV] Zavala - (Male, Awoken) Titan Vanguard Leader [/i] [b][u]Brilliance 3.2 [i](1)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Internal, OS-I6 1 SHU: How long since we last convened? QUI: I can still recall the Dawn Calamity, so not long enough. [b]The Dawn Calamity is yet an unknown event. The only other time the term 'Dawn' is used, is by Rasputin, when we exercises control of orbital strikes on Mars, witnessed by a single Guardian.[/b] BER: I've got consistent and strange reports coming in from across the system. SHU: Try me. BER: A few Guardians in the field report being swarmed by some kind of electronic mite. The first few after visiting the Dust Palace on Mars, but the rest from all over. [b]The source of the Transmission Crisis occurred in the Dust Palace, where Dr. Shirazi was employed, by Clovis Bray, to create SIVA.[/b] SHU: How bad? BER: Fantastic, apparently. At least, that's what they're yelling over comms. Is happy shouting a medical issue? Do we take this to the Vanguard? QUI: Ikora first. The Hidden might know something. [b]Ikora is the Owl Sectors first choice, instead of notifying all the leaders of the Vanguard. From important intel gathering by Alexander Kourakis, I have summarized that Ikora leads the clandestine spy organization, The Hidden.[/b] [b][u]Fortitude 3.1 [i](1)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Geographer Quist, OS-I6 1, for Owl Sector records, assigned to incident TRANSMISSION. Current assignment is to quarantine and monitor the group of Guardians carrying overrides, care for any casualties, and so on. Easy peasy. No off-world missions and a dozen Guardians with flickering vision. My kind of job. ...Sorry, Shun, what was that? Make that two hundred, then. Manageable. ...or a thousand. ...or ten thousand. Oh Traveler... [b]The Transmission Crisis quickly grows in a matter of seconds. Seeming to replicate at a increasingly alarming speed.[/b] [b][u]Glory 2.1 [i](1)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Owl Sector Debrief to Ikora Rey, OS-I6 1 IR: So what you're telling me is that an unknown substance or virus or curse is spreading among our Guardians. SHU: I wouldn't put it that way, but yes. IR: What are you doing about it? SHU: We thought we'd ask you. It's not like anything we've seen before. We thought you or the Hidden might know. [b]The fact that the Last City's intelligence sector is asking for The Hidden's input, speaks volumes about the capabilities of the secret organization.[/b] IR: Nothing in my experience resembles this. SHU: For what it's worth, our Guardians aren't worried. It's a carnival out there. IR: But you and I know— SHU: We do. [b]Perhaps this speaks to the general ignorance of the average Guardian? "If it isn't hurting me, it doesn't matter!" Poppycock. Do they not wonder where the machines come from, that whiz over their heads in the Plaguelands? Or how the Batadactyls survived the Collapse? Or ... yes, yes, I am rambling. Thank you ... I degress...[/b] [b][u]Magnificence 2.0 [i](1)[/i][/u][/b] Primary Text: [None] Secondary Text: Report of Bypass Authority Berriole, OS-I6 1, for Owl Sector records, assigned to incident TRANSMISSION. I have been tasked with returning to the Dust Palace on Mars, which as far as we know is the only link between the Guardians first affected by these overrides. Appropriate contamination equipment has been requisitioned, although specs are for the Dawn Calamity and have not been adjusted. [b]The last time the containment equipment was used, it was adjusted for the Dawn Calamity. Perhaps, this is simply because the Dawn Calamity was the most dangerous event to occur in recorded history, thus the equipment was not adjusted. Or, perhaps the equipment had been adjusted to suit Mars' conditions, which is why they were never adjusted from this latest crisis?[/b] The Owl Sector has determined that our acutest need is information. Which is where I come in. The area of interest includes former Clovis Bray buildings, so I expect my skills in cryptography, biosignature falsification, and historical architecture to be thoroughly exercised. [b]Berriole has skill that include, but are not limited to cryptography, biosignature falsification, and historical architecture.[/b]