Apparently, the Obsidian Crown is commanded by a subroutine of "Glitter Edifice", a so-called warmind. These are, to the best of my understanding, the most advanced sentient AI's, of which only a few exist. They are far above human intelligence, and among them Glitter Edifice is perhaps it is the strongest one. It survived the raids and attacks in Eugales and may still be involved in counterattacks.
And it is involved in rescue missions for their own people, clearly.
The subroutine on board the Obsidian Crown identified itself as a "HunterSeeker" routine. That does not sound good. It made it clear that it can harm us, but does not prefer to. It told us DERAIL or the Black Eagles would definitely harm us in case we notified them. Moreover, I am thinking, we still have a traitor amongst us, even if we would call in help, the Obsidian Crown would be warned. And retaliate swiftly.
The group caved in, students crying for their life.
A decision was made. We will allow the UNF forces to rescue Rife. In exchange for secrecy (to keep the team from being persecuted, and to hide my involvement as LUMEN member) I offered to guide a rescue team down to the tomb, as Rife is restricted to the info matrix down there and is not connected to the surface.
[to be continued]
