Well I've been hinting at this big mission for awhile, so it's time to start in with some details finally. I'm having some fun lining up who all is being held captive by MEDUSA on the old Cobra Island (now a large prison compound). Still have much work to do, but here is a start.
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Knighthawk’s Journal
February 28
Well I finally got a digital copy of the big briefing we’d been waiting on. Couldn’t meet at the Round Table in person this time, as duty called, but things are starting to get heavy for sure. Here’s what we’ve learned:
A Paladin Knight codenamed Hound Dog has been missing for the past 60 days. His trainee testified before the other knights, and it is clear he had no part in what went down, but he did help to fill in the blanks. Seems that Hound Dog, his strength lying in the field of surveillance, decided to recon Cobra Island on his own. His trainee said Hound Dog seemed to be impatient with the delay in EXCAL’s long planned raid. He always was a bit of a renegade, so nobody is really surprised. He was able to transmit some images to his airship, which the trainee received, but the feed went dead almost 45 days ago. After waiting a short period for Hound Dog’s return, the matter was brought to Director Queen’s attention. Word is that the feed has recently been re-activated, though apparently not by Hound Dog. I haven’t seen it first hand, but the images apparently are quite disturbing, and everyone now fears the worst. I will comment on them later if I get to see them.
Regarding the trainee, I did meet him in passing while docked at BSG. Former Army man, given the codename of ‘The Duke’ by Hound Dog. I hear it rubbed some of the ex Joes the wrong way, in light of what happened to Sgt. Conrad Hauser, but tact isn’t…wasn’t… one of Hound Dog’s strong points anyway. Apparently the spark for the codename is The Duke’s file name: Jonathan Wane. Here’s a file pic:
I’ll post more later if I get ahold of some. Sounds like he’s going to be promoted to full Paladin status shortly.
Other developments include an update on Commander Tigh. We all know now that his capture was staged, and that he had an optical chip implanted in his eye, which has apparently been transmitting for awhile now. Well it’s finally paying off. We got confirmation as to who is running the prison compound: none other than “Commandant” Sebastian Bludd, as seen in these pics recently received:
We also got confirmation that our old friend Stalker is indeed being held. He was one of the former Joes that Rock N Roll thought would be here. So that is very encouraging:
Unfortunately, however, Commander Tigh’s optical chip has also now stopped transmitting. Intel is processing the last few images it sent, and those were not yet available at the time of the briefing. However, word is that the Silent Master has been called for an emergency briefing. I wonder…
It also seems that the reactivation of the Hound Dog transmission coincided with the deactivation of Commander Tigh’s. That doesn’t sound like an accidental coincidence to me.
March 1, 2010
Quick update. Intel has the first image taken from the reactivated Hound Dog signal, and it seems my guess was unfortunately right:
