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Message no. 1
From: "Thomas W. Craig" <CRAIGTW1@******.JUNIATA.EDU>
Subject: Diana
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 12:57:48 -0400
>>>>>[Dr. Jackson, I may be of some assistance. I have done work for the
High Prince in times past. I might be able to pull some strings. "Prince"
Solarial, you are messing with people that I have offered to help in the
past, and I am going to help them NOW!]<<<<<
--Dr. Veggie Table
Message no. 2
From: "Adam E. Buchanan" <JVXNSYA@***.BITNET>
Subject: Diana
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 09:19:38 -0400
*****Encrypt Helping hand AJ & Crew*****
>>>>>[AJ an' Crew, I am willin ta 'elp ya ou' with gettin back Diana. I
hate
it when a female is in trouble. I 'ave had similar problems before. An' I
really hate blackmail. Count me in if ya wanna go an' try an' break 'er
ou'.]<<<<<
-- STREETWOLF(Fire is an Elf's Best Friend)(09:20:10/10:12:54)
Message no. 3
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Diana
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1993 16:36:00 -0700
>>>>>[ Prince Solarial, I truly am impressed with the awards you have been
given
in your career. I am also impressed that you received your first award at the
young age of 16, a great achievement for any Tir citizen, and one that I doubt
will be equaled since the legal age was changed to 18. What bothers me though
is how you are acting now. I do not doubt that you where an honorable and
driven man when you entered into our fair countries service. But what you do
now makes me truely question you. For one, you save a fair lady, but then you
expect something in return. It is up to the person you save to recognize the
debt of honor and act upon it. Further more, you do not expect the debt to come
from that person, but rather from her friends. In the view of those friends you
have saved her from one form of capture only to be put in another. It is
honorable for a friend to try and help another, but to coerce this assistance
into an act that they find reprensible destroys the honor on all sides. You
saved the fair lady, now it is time to let her go safely free, for that is the
honorable thing to do.]<<<<<
--Dimitri <16:22:35/10-14-54>

>>>>>[ Hear Hear! Such a nice and bright Elven lad, he must make Maria
proud.
Ah... what even happened to those fine days of honor and truth.

Lord, Prince or whatever SorryButt, I see that you are showing your true colors
now that it is not so advantagious for you. And allying yourself with such a
reprehesible elf as Dorian, tch tch tch. What a calmity for the 'Noble' Tir
elves.

Etsy?.... Etsy?....... Etsy?......... OHHHH! ETSY!!!!! Ah I understand.
Still as racist as ever are you my not so fine elf. I do hope your still mad at
me for gutting that little follower of yours. I do not regret it, he was
getting rather anoying at the time. All that trying to kill me and such. I
actually had to sharpen my claws afterwords. Oh, and I do hope you liked all
you flowers turning into stink weed, it was one of my better practical jokes.
Oh yes, you might want to stay away from Sorry there, he's almost as bad as you
are!!!

Ah... those where the days, Yes when Men where REAL MEN, when Women where REAL
WOMEN (sigh) and Dragons got to sit a eat pastries all day long.]<<<<<
--Seraphylanjaligigusnort <16:35:22/10-14-54>
Message no. 4
From: "Adam E. Buchanan" <JVXNSYA@***.BITNET>
Subject: Diana
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1993 09:47:10 -0400
>>>>>[AJ an' crew, I wan' in on tryin' ta 'elp ou' Diana. Send me in wi'
Roxey. i ca' jus' be there ta do some recon. An' i ca' also be there incase
somethin' 'appens ta them also.]<<<<<
-- STREETWOLF(Fire is an Elfs Best Friend)(09:47:50/10:19:54)
Message no. 5
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Diana
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1993 16:16:27 -0700
***** Seraphy only.
I shall try to save the dark flower. She is in danger there with him.*****
--Nightfox < N'Ralan Filox >


***** Encrypt Gems: Nightfox.
>>>>>[ Do not try and save Diana, she is safe for the moment. Yes I know
that
you could probably enter without a problem, so would I. But now is not the time
to do it, to much is going on that neither of us know about. She will hopefully
be safe. And if she is not, I will personally see to gutting the arrogant
prince. You will not do it.

As to our friend Etsy, he knows who you are and has known for some time now. I
am not yet sure what game he plays, but I do not think he will come after you as
of yet. He has waited this long for some reason, he will wait more.]<<<<<
-- Seraphy <16:13:18/10-22-54>
Message no. 6
From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Diana
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 15:11:35 -0700
***** Diana, I shall endevore to show up tonight, there are a few things that I
need to discuss with Roxey and Spirit and tonight seems to be the most
conveniant time.*****
-- Nightfox <N'Ralan Filox>
Message no. 7
From: "Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Diana
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:14:03 -0800
>>>>>[
+++++unresolvable return route, continuing...

A rather grim view, Diana. Has it ever occured to you that those rejected by
the masses and exalted in their individuality could be the ones who are
experiencing what it truly means to be alive? Every mountain has only one
peak.

And as for love,

"Oh Night, thou was my guide
Oh Night, more loving than the rising sun
Oh Night, that joined the lover
To the beloved one
Transforming each of them
Into the other."

Caveat emptor. ]<<<<<
-- Thelienista <18:03:20 / 01-31-58>
Message no. 8
From: Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Diana
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 11:42:04 -0700
>>>>>[Perhaps you are right, Thellinista, but consider for a moment what we
miss
in the process of living a truly individual life? Certainly, we see the
world more clearly, but in doing so place ourselves at trememdous physical
and psycholocial risk. Yes, we live outside the system, but in doing so
relinquish any rights or privilages which that system grants. True, we are
beholden to no one but ourselves, but become lonely, bitter, and outcast in
the process.

So what if the trids portray us as avenging angels fighting against the
uber-corp? We remain mere pawns, all of us, in a life we try to control
ourselves.

We have turned our backs on the very civilization which spawned us. We're
all of us throwbacks, evolutionary dead-ends doomed to flame out, crash,
and burn far before our time. Corps needs us, yes, but only as much as
they need metahumans to provide convenient boogymen, other corps to provide
a focus for employee paranoia, and governments to provide the essentially
dirty services they don't want to pay for themselves.

Yeah, I love being different.]<<<<<
-- Diana, Mistress of the Night <11:41:26/02-01-57>
Message no. 9
From: Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca>
Subject: Diana
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 95 14:31:28 EST
*****PRIVATE TO: Andrew Jackson
>>>>>[ We don't like to impose in this manner, but could we request
some information relating to Diana? Specifically, who is she, and what
is her current condition?

Thankyou.

Dana's hand is better. The healing was a complete success. We
apologize for the disruption in what was otherwise a very pleasant and
enjoyable party.]<<<<<
-- Righteous <14:33:08/11-05-56>
Message no. 10
From: Baldandar@***.com
Subject: Diana
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 22:16:09 -0500
*****Private: Roxey
>>>>>[I have heard of your sorrow. I want you to know that if I can help
you
in any way, I will. A friend of mine was genetically altered to another form
once. I spent some years of my life figuring out a treatement to reverse the
effects, so that he could be human again. It did involve cell regeneration,
and some help from some spirits; but if you think that the research might
help you, merely say the word and it will be yours. It is one of my most
prized possessions.

If I could write the beauty of your eyes,
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say, "This poet lies ---
Such heavenly touches ne'er touched earthly faces.]<<<<<
-- Shade <15:05:58 / 11-5-56>
Message no. 11
From: Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: Diana
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 95 3:18:53 EST
*****PRIVATE TO: Righteous
>>>>>[
Authorization: JRAAA9786M
Authorization Key: >>encrypted<<
Decode Time Pip: <03:17:40/11-12-56>
Message Target System: Shadowland
Message Target User: Righteous.

Well, it looks as if your mid-level authorization from above payed
off. The following is the primary pass of what the daemons pulled from
AlphaCore. I also found a bit myself from DeltaCore. Dump follows.

+++++FILE INCLUDED: Friette.Janice.comp
*****display file.
Diana's real name is Janice Friette. She was born in New Orleans blind
from an unwed mother. Her mother owned a small shack out on the bayou,
and she worked to feed herself and her daughter. Diana had
cybereyes (fully normal ones) implanted at age 3, and then had
repeated surgery's until she reached phsical maturity to upgrade her
eyes. The upgrades were payed for be an unnamed outside source,
thought to be Alexander Jackson.

She attended school until her mother died, and exhibited magical
talent in her early teens. When she was 15 her mother was killed in
an accident. Janice Friette then disappeared.

The first evidence of her continued existance was a murder
perpetrated a few weeks following the mother's death. The corporate
manager |LOCKED DATA REMOVED| oozing blood from every pore and
orifice. According to coroners report the blood had been magically
boiled out of him. According to subsequent corporate reports |LOCKED
DATA REMOVED|. Janice Friette is/was a bokor.

! This is where I leap in. Regrettably, not even mid-level clearance
! will get you all the information you need. Bokor are voodoo. Try
! MagicNET for more detail.

Janice Friette then lead a sketchy existance, mostly as a smalltime
weapons dealer and grey operative. Records of her movements and
actions become more complete as she again starts to kill.

She targeted HMHVV sufferers in the New Orleans area. Her motives for
these actions are unknown, although it was possible that she was
aware of her fathers identity and was acting in rage. |LOCKED DATA
REMOVED|

Again Janice Friette disappeared, only to reappear a few years later
in Seattle. Having moved fully into the world of mercenary crime, she
had erased what little evidence of her identity remained and was
known only as Diana.

! No apparent signifigance to this 'nym. But heres a file of meanings
! and histories anyway.
+++++FILE INCLUDED: Name.Diana.history

Her reappearance was marked once again by a rash of slayings, ending
in the discovery of Alexander Jackson.

! Snip.
! The rest was put together by Brioreous.

She has managed to keep herself out of the limelight except for actions
relating to The Org, Maxim, and Alexander Jackson, alias Action Jackson.

AJ's relation to The Org is that he's the founder. However, due to the
destruction of all the available documents that Interpol and the German
BIS had on The Org, we do not know much beyond that. Our sources say
that he had, and perhaps still has, contacts throughout the arms
industry. He used to have a corporation that utilized these contacts to
steal weaponry which AJ sold to the highest bidder. The corp was
Military Technologies Inc, and blew itself up 3 years ago, literally.

More current develpoments: Well, AJ is wanted by Maxim Arms for numerous
crimes. The current CEO was originally two rungs down and there's
evidence that she assassinated her way to the top. She was originally
not in a position to know about The Org's likely connection to Maxim
Arms, but as she advanced, she would have become aware of it and it's
connection to AJ. Further connections show that AJ lead the raid on the
BIS datavault in Berlin that killed several dozen personel and a full
platoon of MET2000 mercs with very advanced technologies. It is also
known that the raid was held in Maxim hovertransports that had been
stolen from the MET a week prior, and that had been sold to them a month
earlier. Evidence points to the use of powered armor, vectored thrust
vehicles and what likely qualifies as micro-guided missiles. After a
barrage of 12 of these impacted a MET panzer, nothing larger than a
couple of centimeters survived the explosion. AJ disappeared and then
reappeared several weeks later, very injured, and then was arrested by
Maxim security, where he was later transfered to Maxim HQ in Boulder, Ute
sector, FRFZ. Several weeks later, there was a raid by many Seattle
runners that, while successfully retrieving AJ, should have failed. But
they all reappeared again, minus one runners known as Caine. His body
was found in the South Platte River with a single Beretta bullet in the
back of the head.

Diana is known to have led the raid on Interpol, NY. There were no
fatalities and it was simultaneous to the Berlin raid. The speed of the
assult was impressive, as was the devastation after the building was
imploded with explosives. None of the attackers was ever caught, and
Drake of Interpol was pulled from the wreckage barely alive.

During the hostilities between Maxim and the Big 8, there were many
unusual fatalities worldwide, at all levels of corporate and national
hierarchy. To this day, the reasons for some of them remain unknown due
to the lack of evidence. However, the idea of mindlock fits. The Org
was known to have used it extensively, but the proof of this does not
exist. Apparently the magical aspects of the lock are such that they do
not show up even to magically trained coroners.

Diana is not known to have had any contact with Maxim after the Org
disappeared, but she did disappear for three months from Seattle.

! Thats it.]<<<<<
-- GhostMailer <CORRUPTED/CORRUPTED>
Message no. 12
From: Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca>
Subject: Diana
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 15:48:14 EST
*****PRIVATE TO: Righteous
>>>>>[
Authorization: DV00000000
Authorization Key: >>encrypted<<
Decode Time Pip: <15:39:06/11-16-56>
Message Target System: Shadowland
Message Target User: Righteous.
Priority: HIGH <9>
Relay NetDaemon: ALEX-02

TOP PRIORITY

Servailence of Interpol's target is to take top priority. The
target's progeny is to be located and brought under immediate
protective guard. All actions that must be taken to keep the progeny
both safe and monitored are to be taken.

This over-rides all initiatives excluding the Primary
objective.]<<<<<
-- GhostMailer <CORRUPTED/CORRUPTED>
Message no. 13
From: Evan Hughes <ehughes@****.carleton.ca>
Subject: Diana
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 15:50:27 EST
>>>>>[ Any news on Diana? We apologize for our previous
unwarrented coolness to natural questioning. We've been in this
business to long...]<<<<<
-- Righteous <17:49:04/11-16-56>

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