This is going to be a series of supposedly secret intercepted and stolen messages that aren't supposed to make it into the public eye.
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System Origin: MCC 686
Ship Origin: Hauler.
Ship ID X5-C7Q
Message transcription follows:
"Hi honey. Just doing an early morning diplomatic run to Gateway. They want me to deliver 8 tonnes of legislative documents. Yes, tonnes. Apparently they write things on stone tablets around here. One of the cannisters had a hole in the bottom, but it's documents, so no big deal, right?"
[Unidentified sound.]
"It shouldn't take too long, so I'll be back in time for breakfast."
[Sound of a light slap.]
"Urgh ... I thought the stations had filters to keep bugs out. I think I just got bit by a"
[Transmission continues for 127 seconds with only light breathing and ship noises discernible.]
Ship ID X5-C7Q recorded leaving MCC 686 and docking at Dublin Citadel, Gateway 10 minutes after the end of the transmission.
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System Origin: HIP 93645
Ship Origin: Keelback.
Ship ID 6SQ-TB
Message transcription follows:
[Fighter pilot] "Tell me again why we're killing these people?"
[Pilot] "I just do what the bosses tell me to do."
[Fighter pilot] "I get that, and so do I, but aren't you curious?"
[Pilot] "Sure. And the first time I asked, they told me to just kill the ships that the module they installed tells me are enemies."
[Fighter pilot] "That's it? Just some AI telling you what to do?"
[Pilot] "Well, I'm sure there's more to it than that. When I asked about it they just gave me some bull gibberish about biology."
[Fighter pilot] "Biology?!?
[Pilot] "No idea - I don't like them or their ideas, but they're still human."
Transmission ends.
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System origin: Badjarans
Ship origin: Asp Explorer
Ship ID: GL-2Z1
Message transcription follows:
[Male voice] "That's quite the mess someone left around here."
[Female voice] "Yeah. Think there are any survivors?"
[Male voice] "A drink says we'll find one."
[Female voice] "Deal!"
[Male voice] [Laughter] "I win!" [Short pause, change of tone] "I don't like how I'm winning. This container is labelled 'Marked Slave'. It's one of Archon's goons that was destroyed in here.
[Female voice] "Good riddance. Let's get this poor soul on board and help them out."
[171 seconds of silence broken only by ship noises.]
[Female voice] "Good work. If you put on some coffee and tea, I'll open the container."
[79 seconds of silence broken only by ship and mechanical noises.]
[Female voice, soothing] "Hey. Hi. Are you okay? You're safe now. Coffee? Tea?"
[Male voice] "Are you okay, buddy? No offence but you look like you've just seen the ghost of a monster eat your family."
[Female voice, scolding] "Don't make fun of him! He's probably been "
[201 seconds of screaming, yelling, sounds of struggle, terminated by two heavy thudding sounds intermingled with sounds of bones breaking.]
[100 seconds of ship noises]
[20 seconds of unidentified noises.]
Ship ID: GL-2Z1 last seen docking at Gabriel Enterprise, Harma, 71 hours later.
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System origin: Gateway
Station origin: Dublin Citadel
[Security Chief] "Piera, disable all recording equipment. Compromised Hauler inbound. Ship ID X5-C7Q. Alert the Bureaucrats. Security staff, keep all other station personnel away from the ship. Standard procedure - any one or anything tries to approach or leave the Hauler, shoot to kill. Station gunners, stand ready.
[Station Gunner Alpha] "Alpha, ready."
[Station Gunner Bravo] "Bravo, ready."
[Security Chief] "God damnit, Piera, why is this still recording?!?
[Recording ends]
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System origin: 114 G. Aquilae
System location: Nav beacon
Ship origins: Wing.
Wing Alpha: Viper Mk IV. Ship ID SV-TRE
Wing Bravo: Viper Mk IV. Ship ID 604-4W
[Alpha] "Target acquired. Hauler and two Sidewinders. Target Sidewinders."
[Bravo] "Copy that."
[Alpha] "Under fire from Hauler, keep focus on Sidewinders."
[Bravo] "Wait .. the HAULER is shooting at you?"
[Alpha] "Yup."
[Bravo] "But ... why?"
[Alpha] "My Sidewinder is down, and I've no idea, but I'm about to return the favour."
[Bravo] "But ... why would a Hauler pilot ever start to shot back? Sidewinder down by the way."
[Alpha] "Hauler down. I've no idea, but he kept saying the same stupid thing over and over. It's like he was a robot."
[Bravo] "So did the Sidewinder pilots. Weird."
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System origin: Eotienses
Ship origin: INV Imperial Freedom
[Transciption begins]
[Communications officer] "Baron Rosales, Clipper ID WJ-EID, just dropped in, Sir. He wants you to know he's just completed his final Sortie in Ao Kond."
[Captain] "Tell him he did well."
[Communications officer] "The Baron wants to know what to do with the Alliance Legislative Records they returned."
[Captain] "Alliance Legislative Records are not to be touched or brought aboard Empire ships. Tell him dump them in space."
[Communications officer] "Yes, Sir." [Short pause] "Sir, the Baron reports one of the cannisters had a hole in it, and that"
[Captain] "All weapons, open fire on the Clipper!"
[Weapons officer] "But isn't that your"
[XO] "THE CAPTAIN SAID OPEN FIRE!"
[Weapons officer] "The Clipper is destroyed, Sir. No life signs, a few pieces of debris."
[XO] "Target and destroy anything that even remotely looks like a cargo cannister or escape pod! And the next time you obey a direct order, you will find yourself on the wrong side of an airlock!"
[Captain] "XO - file a report with the admiral. I'll notify me ... the family."
[XO] "Aye, aye, captain. Bridge officers - delete all records of this encounter. We found Baron Rosales' Clipper in this state - it must have disintegrated during the transition from to normal space."
[Recording ends]
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System Origin: MCC 686
Ship Origin: Hauler.
Ship ID X5-C7Q
Message transcription follows:
"Hi honey. Just doing an early morning diplomatic run to Gateway. They want me to deliver 8 tonnes of legislative documents. Yes, tonnes. Apparently they write things on stone tablets around here. One of the cannisters had a hole in the bottom, but it's documents, so no big deal, right?"
[Unidentified sound.]
"It shouldn't take too long, so I'll be back in time for breakfast."
[Sound of a light slap.]
"Urgh ... I thought the stations had filters to keep bugs out. I think I just got bit by a"
[Transmission continues for 127 seconds with only light breathing and ship noises discernible.]
Ship ID X5-C7Q recorded leaving MCC 686 and docking at Dublin Citadel, Gateway 10 minutes after the end of the transmission.
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System Origin: HIP 93645
Ship Origin: Keelback.
Ship ID 6SQ-TB
Message transcription follows:
[Fighter pilot] "Tell me again why we're killing these people?"
[Pilot] "I just do what the bosses tell me to do."
[Fighter pilot] "I get that, and so do I, but aren't you curious?"
[Pilot] "Sure. And the first time I asked, they told me to just kill the ships that the module they installed tells me are enemies."
[Fighter pilot] "That's it? Just some AI telling you what to do?"
[Pilot] "Well, I'm sure there's more to it than that. When I asked about it they just gave me some bull gibberish about biology."
[Fighter pilot] "Biology?!?
[Pilot] "No idea - I don't like them or their ideas, but they're still human."
Transmission ends.
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System origin: Badjarans
Ship origin: Asp Explorer
Ship ID: GL-2Z1
Message transcription follows:
[Male voice] "That's quite the mess someone left around here."
[Female voice] "Yeah. Think there are any survivors?"
[Male voice] "A drink says we'll find one."
[Female voice] "Deal!"
[Male voice] [Laughter] "I win!" [Short pause, change of tone] "I don't like how I'm winning. This container is labelled 'Marked Slave'. It's one of Archon's goons that was destroyed in here.
[Female voice] "Good riddance. Let's get this poor soul on board and help them out."
[171 seconds of silence broken only by ship noises.]
[Female voice] "Good work. If you put on some coffee and tea, I'll open the container."
[79 seconds of silence broken only by ship and mechanical noises.]
[Female voice, soothing] "Hey. Hi. Are you okay? You're safe now. Coffee? Tea?"
[Male voice] "Are you okay, buddy? No offence but you look like you've just seen the ghost of a monster eat your family."
[Female voice, scolding] "Don't make fun of him! He's probably been "
[201 seconds of screaming, yelling, sounds of struggle, terminated by two heavy thudding sounds intermingled with sounds of bones breaking.]
[100 seconds of ship noises]
[20 seconds of unidentified noises.]
Ship ID: GL-2Z1 last seen docking at Gabriel Enterprise, Harma, 71 hours later.
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System origin: Gateway
Station origin: Dublin Citadel
[Security Chief] "Piera, disable all recording equipment. Compromised Hauler inbound. Ship ID X5-C7Q. Alert the Bureaucrats. Security staff, keep all other station personnel away from the ship. Standard procedure - any one or anything tries to approach or leave the Hauler, shoot to kill. Station gunners, stand ready.
[Station Gunner Alpha] "Alpha, ready."
[Station Gunner Bravo] "Bravo, ready."
[Security Chief] "God damnit, Piera, why is this still recording?!?
[Recording ends]
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System origin: 114 G. Aquilae
System location: Nav beacon
Ship origins: Wing.
Wing Alpha: Viper Mk IV. Ship ID SV-TRE
Wing Bravo: Viper Mk IV. Ship ID 604-4W
[Alpha] "Target acquired. Hauler and two Sidewinders. Target Sidewinders."
[Bravo] "Copy that."
[Alpha] "Under fire from Hauler, keep focus on Sidewinders."
[Bravo] "Wait .. the HAULER is shooting at you?"
[Alpha] "Yup."
[Bravo] "But ... why?"
[Alpha] "My Sidewinder is down, and I've no idea, but I'm about to return the favour."
[Bravo] "But ... why would a Hauler pilot ever start to shot back? Sidewinder down by the way."
[Alpha] "Hauler down. I've no idea, but he kept saying the same stupid thing over and over. It's like he was a robot."
[Bravo] "So did the Sidewinder pilots. Weird."
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System origin: Eotienses
Ship origin: INV Imperial Freedom
[Transciption begins]
[Communications officer] "Baron Rosales, Clipper ID WJ-EID, just dropped in, Sir. He wants you to know he's just completed his final Sortie in Ao Kond."
[Captain] "Tell him he did well."
[Communications officer] "The Baron wants to know what to do with the Alliance Legislative Records they returned."
[Captain] "Alliance Legislative Records are not to be touched or brought aboard Empire ships. Tell him dump them in space."
[Communications officer] "Yes, Sir." [Short pause] "Sir, the Baron reports one of the cannisters had a hole in it, and that"
[Captain] "All weapons, open fire on the Clipper!"
[Weapons officer] "But isn't that your"
[XO] "THE CAPTAIN SAID OPEN FIRE!"
[Weapons officer] "The Clipper is destroyed, Sir. No life signs, a few pieces of debris."
[XO] "Target and destroy anything that even remotely looks like a cargo cannister or escape pod! And the next time you obey a direct order, you will find yourself on the wrong side of an airlock!"
[Captain] "XO - file a report with the admiral. I'll notify me ... the family."
[XO] "Aye, aye, captain. Bridge officers - delete all records of this encounter. We found Baron Rosales' Clipper in this state - it must have disintegrated during the transition from to normal space."
[Recording ends]