As Texas started to move towards the back of the ship, Maori kept her embrace of Effie. A soft sigh escaping her lips as she rested her head upon Effingham's bust. "Ah, Effie. you always did have the best Rack of the entire fleet." The small destroyer sighed happily as she nuzzled her face deeper while holding onto the cruiser tighter.<br/><br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>For Abby, her preliminary search of the construction of Node was pretty uninformative. There was nothing really special about the casing. It was nothing more than a normal Data node. Exact same construction as all of them. The surface was a dull silver color, marring any of the blackened sections from Maori's boredom. Abby was right, all FoF ships had their own unique Fingerprint to them, and their constructs. Meaning that in a normal case scenario, once past the encryption, She should know whom put the Node here, and turned it on.<br/><br/>Though soon, the two would come to find out that this was no normal situation. There was nothing, nada, Zilch! Nothing to show who built the node, or even placed it there. Who ever set this all up went to a whole lotta trouble to keep their secrets. The only spot of information was the tracer. Pulsing steadily as if teasing the Girls to follow.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=194682.msg11556776#msg11556776">Quote from: pendarious on 18-08-2015, 04:31:29</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Iya looked at Ari as she appeared and could see how apparently worn she was. "To what do you owe the honor of this invitation? well I suppose it would be that I have something important to say.....however I would like to hear what has you so frayed first" she then lightly clapped her hands and a bottle of wine appeared on the table between them along with two glasses. The submarine poured the two some wine and set the glass for ari down closer to her on the table while she held her own. She had a feeling that she knew what was coming given the information shared between the members of the fleet but she still decided to let the redhead get it all off of her chest by explaining for herself. <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Arizona looked over at Iya as she asked what was wrong. Arizona was trying to think how to relay what she discovered, and ultimately how to break it to the others. If they not found out already. "We have located our "Contact", and it is not that Destroyer. It was a data node that was simply floating around the island. It was taking in all our reports, and simply storing them. They have not been transmitted, or relayed to another point. Apparently the reason why we lost contact with our Contact was because the destroyer, Maori, decided to get bored, and use the node as target practice. I was able to power it up, and analyze its data stores." Arizona explained as she looked at the glass of wine, and simply shook her head. She wasn't thirsty. "I don't know anymore Iya. I feel that I may have unnecessarily endangered my fleet, you, the others in leading you all here. That I failed at being a Flagship. At this point, I don't know what our next step should be." Arizona admitted.