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<What's the matter? Scared? If you are, good, that means you're alive. I've been told to send the right frames to the right people, and unlike some of my kind I can take good advice. Here, an explosive variety pack.>

Where did that mech come from and is it a manticore? With a krakatoa? And a fusion rifle?

>> Scared? Why would I be scared of someone I've never-

>> [There is a manticore in the hangar bay.]

>> WHAT!? Is it live, Are we being boarded!?

>> [Unpowered, attached to the maintenance gantries.]

>> Fuck, you scared me. So- A gift, then? Listen, I don't know who you are, or what you want from me, but...

>> Ah, fuck it. I've been looking for a new frame. Cheers, we'll see how this works out.

[Pyroclast]

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<wake up little fireball>

>> What- Who-

>> I haven't been on the 'net in months, who is this?

[Pyroclast]

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>> So I just got my hands on the new RKF print codes. And. The Taraxacum? Majorly fucks?

>> Flashpoint kind of entirely blew up recently. Plasma gauntlet did NOT work well with thermal demolition as I previously thought.

>> And. The whole frame kinda exploded in my garage. Vaporized. Poof. Gone. (laugh at me all you want @twoforflinching-ktbedition.)

>> Long story short, I need a new frame to pilot. Taraxacum's on the brain, but I need ideas for what to do with it. Or any other frame ideas. Not gonna lie, I'm still a high heat fanatic. So. Base any reccommendations on that.

[Pyroclast]

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>> Damn right it is!

>> I've been radio silent for a while because this thing just decided to. Up and explode I guess. For no reason. I had to get one of my eyes replaced 'cause a glass shard shattered it!

>> Guh. Anyways. Back on the 'net.

[Pyroclast]

>> MY FUCKING.

>> OMNIHOOK.

>> EDPLODED

[Pyroclast]

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>> MY FUCKING.

>> OMNIHOOK.

>> EDPLODED

[Pyroclast]

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>> Aight look

>> I pilot a Tokugawa. Flashpoint. And I love it.

>> I like the extra danger. It's not a design flaw, it's a selling point. I can dish out plenty of good hits with a cool reactor, but get that shit hot? Melts the front half of an enemy frame in no time flat. Single blast.

>> I also get to tell my enemies I'm skilled enough to manage them and my resident nuclear hot potato at the same time, without sayin' a word.

[Pyroclast]

Y’know what. Fuck it. More correct mech opinions.

HA fuckin’ sucks as a manufacturer and if you gotta run your mech ‘til it’s fuckin’ melting to get anything done that’s a design flaw not a fuckin’ feature.

-Han Jae-

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Our support is trying their best :(

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>> HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

>> Set off any big fireworks?

[Pyroclast]

>>HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!! 5017u WOOOOOOOOOOOOO :3

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>> HAPPY NEW YEAR from Pyroclast and Volta!

[Pyroclast]

5017U

From all of us adrift in the stars. We made it.

One more year. A new face but we made it!

This is Handler Morse.

ALL CALLSIGNS CHECK IN!

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[A minute long audio recording of various snarls and growls: sounds clearly made by something small but feral.]

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By popular demand, I will be launching a new sort of service! I do believe that this option shall be quite popular with many people on the Omninet given my general reception.

BUY MY SILENCE

For 8,000 manna per month, I shall stop a brand of post of your choice on the Omninet. Dislike my posts about my wife? I shall stop! You do not want to see my involvement in Omninet discourse? They shall be no longer! Don't want to see me vaguepost across the Omninet? I believe you to be a fool, but your will be done!

Buy my silence! This new contract option is available today!

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[A digital flower is sent to you. It blooms under your gaze, its petals black, its center a nearly too-bright burning crimson core. Frost coats its leaves, in sharp juxtaposition to the flower above, and it shudders briefly as if it struggles against its own nature. A sweet aroma drifts from it, clinging to you. It is reminiscent of a new, sharp joy, of a breathless hunger for what lies ahead.

There is no signature. Only a blue heart.]

>> This... It's... It's beautiful.

>> Thank you, whoever you are. I don't really know what to say.

>> I've been thinking of changing a lot around here. It's been a while since I've been around, what with that old fiasco after the thirty hour war and all. There are new things I wanna do, people I wanna talk to.

>> I think... I think it's time to get back in the game.

>> Thank you, again. I'll cherish this gift.

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"CORSAIR sends Mechmas Tidings"

[It's a hotcore reactor. Enjoy.]

>> Ho-Ho-Holy shit, is this thing FISSION!?

>> I haven't seen one of these in- Damn, at LEAST a decade! And back then I was too young to be allowed near it :P

>> I am gonna have SO much fun with this.

>> Thank youuuuuu! And merry Mechmas!

[Pyroclast]

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I think goin in the microwav would maek me steonger

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>> RA bloody dammit.

>> The longer it's been since I made off with the Cannon the worse I feel about it. I didn't even bloody know about the CORSAIR funeral salute thing.

>> Last I heard, HA was on their way, I couldn't see them with it, I couldn't see it disassembled by Union, and I'm the only damn person in the galaxy that could plan out an entire op like that and overlook the simple option of asking.

>> So here's the situation.

>> It's a much longer trip back to the Requiem than it is to Vissily, and I already promised him that we'd work on the Cannon.

>> HOWEVER. What I don't have is a place to put the Cannon once we're done, 'cause the Winterhalter already has a short-cycle lance on top. And I don't know what your opinion of me is, but I'm sure as hell not gonna just slap it on someone else's random ship. I'm not that low.

>> With all that said, here's my offer to try and make things right.

>> I'll get the Cannon fixed up with Vissily. We'll set it up with a feed system, power gen- the works. I'll need the codes to the anti-tamper stuff for that.

>> And in exchange, once it's done, I hand-deliver it to MSMC-796 at a location of their choosing, help them mount it to their ship if they want. Then, I burn for the Requiem and assist with all the repairs and demilitarization work I can.

>> I'd also need the Albatross/DoJ call canceled so I don't get detained and locked up on my way in.

>> Let me know what you think. Pinging all concerned and attaching my coords.

@isyourmechrunning

@msmc-796-official

@corsair-mc-official

[Pyroclast]

Hey girls (and enby)!

It's Morse... From well what remains of CMC. You all probably don't want to hear from your uh.... I don't think it's right to say sister company anymore after what happened.

I want to apologize for not stopping Haven, or really stopping anything. But there's no hard feelings towards you all... I... I enjoyed our correspondence a hell of a lot.

I'm sorry for how everything turned out, till legends bleed you three.

//Morse\\

MORSE?????

I- you- RA above and below, you're alive?!?!

Sorry, sorry, this... this is a lot for me to process right now. I- you're alive, you're okay- stars preserve me, I might have a heart attack-

Okay, okay, OKAY, calm down Phoenix, you're alright, we're alright, we're good. I'm okay. (I think.)

RA almighty, my heart is racing a mile a minute here. I'm sorry. Let me catch my breath and restart.

First: holy fuck, you're alive. This is phenomenal news, I am so incredibly relieved - after watching everything go down from the security cam livestreak you sent me... I... I feared the worst. I thought you were dead. I thought all of you were dead. It's good to hear that you survived and are in active recovery, and have people there who are helping you. I'm glad you're safe.

Second: From the looks of it, the remaining members of CMC have either scattered to the winds, been arrested by Union, or- well. I'm still fuzzy on who all was aligned with who, and how exactly things fell apart, but... CORSAIR as a company is legally dead, yes? You formally released everyone from their contracts, and I assume that meant everyone, so- oh, RA...

...so you're the only one left.

I- sorry, I... I'm still a little emotional about that sentiment. When I got the news that Comm- no, Haven - was dead, I- I fell apart. Haven deserved many things in her life, not all of them good, but to be openly betrayed and killed at the behest of those closest to her- she never deserved that. She never deserved any of this. Sylvia never deserved any of this - she's the reason CMC even happened in the first place... and she's also the reason it all fell apart, in the end.

And you, Morse- you don't deserve to have to be the only one left to clean up Haven's mess. I already feel bad enough that I couldn't do anything to prevent this; even worse that I cut CMC off from legal help that might have potentially mediated some of this conflict, from resources that could have helped turn the tide- from everything that MSMC and CMC had built together as allies.

I- I want to offer help wherever I can, however I can. You don't deserve to suffer through this alone. If that means putting our legal teams in touch with Union to try and preserve what's left of the demilitarized Requiem as a home for those displaced, if that means tending to your wounded and making arrangements for the dead, if that means using our network of contacts to find employment and equipment for those out of a job- whatever it takes to make this situation right again, whatever that future looks like to you.

Third: Despite everything, Backtalker (or, rather, the Backtalker movement - it's complicated) is still out there. I've heard whispers of their reemergence across the Omninet; apparently someone even received a message from them.

What they could possibly want now that Commodore is dead and CMC is completely and utterly destroyed, I have no idea. But if they're still out there, then we still have work to do. I still have work to do. I can't - no. I won't let the few remaining friends I have from CMC suffer any more than you already have.

How this threat is to be dealt with - I don't know. I have my suspicions that a few of their agents slipped through the cracks, even after the Union arrests. Who knows how many more bodies they have outside of CMC. This could be ten people, hundreds, thousands... if I were any less certain that they were out to hurt more people - more people like us - I would call this fight a lost cause. But I can't. Not when MSMC remains in danger. Not while you remain in danger.

Keep in touch, Morse. I'll talk to Legal and lift their prohibition on sending legal aid to CMC (or at least fill them in that CMC no longer exists as a legal entity). If you need anything from us - be it myself, from my squad, from MSMC as an entity - don't hesitate to let us know. I'll see to it personally that every single request for aid and resources you make goes through.

It's the least I can do for failing to stop what happened.

Yours among the stars, forever and always.

-- Angel

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>> Okay, okay.

>> Sorry I've been radio silent on this for a bit. That CORSAIR automated system called the Albatross and DoJ/HR on my ass.

>> Luckily it doesn't look like there's been much of a response. Probably too busy with the aftermath of the CMC meltdown to chase after one ship weapon.

>> Anyways. I've been at nearlight for a while now, should be able to hit up the Erinyes blink station and head on over to you.

>> See you soon, hopefully when I've cooled down a bit more. This has been... Stressful. Working on a fun project like this with you should help take my mind out of a spiral.

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>> Hey. Vissily. Remember when I said we should collab on something? And if I didn't I'm saying it now. We should.

>> Well. I've, ah, maybe fucked up a bit, and sorta stole a little bundle of 3x3 apocalypse rails that CMC used to call the Texas Cannon.

>> I had to, y'know? I couldn't let Union get their hands on it, and disassemble it never to see the light of day again!

>> Anyways. I have the Texas Cannon now. Pics attached, lemme know what you think we should do with it.

[Attachment:TexasCannon.omif]

[Pyroclast]

>>HOLY FUCKING SHIT YOU HAVE THE TEXAS CANNON????????

>>RA above and below, you HAVE to bring that over here RIGHT NOW!!!! I need to get a look at it I need to see how it works. How the hell did you even fit it in your hold???? Do you have a good scan of the feed system?????

>>WAIT!!!! Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, I can probably find the schematics somewhere on the Omninet, I can find that, classified just means a more fun puzzle to solve. Bring that over here and I can integrate it into the Winterhalter EASY.

>>Fucking RA I have to get out of quarantine...........

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