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»»» Sender ID: Elena Voigt
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Hello again.
I suggest we meet directly on Freeport Ten in Tau-37, in the hangar. This Friday, around 18:00 Sirius Standard Time. I hope it won't be needed, but bring fancy toys with you.
I'm afraid my vessel, the Eremiel, has been hit a few times too often, when I tried to access the blackbox, the latter died. Maybe I can still reach the logs of interest, but if so, it will definitely take a few days for me to do so.
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»»» Sender ID: Elena Voigt
»»» Recipient ID: Operative Red
Red.
I must admit I'm quite reluctant to do this, informing you about such a possibly unimportant matter, but I believe it is something that could very well be in your own personal interest to learn about. However before we come to the point, let me ask you: How have you been since, well, last time? I couldn't locate him - you surely know who I am talking about - anywhere in Liberty lately sadly. I hope you know anything about him, whether he's alright or not?
Anyway, let's come to business. I know that you are in general interested in such stuff, so let me tell you that Liberty is falling into chaos lately, at least from my point of view. Sightings of what I assume to be infected humans over weird, inexplicable Neural Net malfunctions to voices that suddenly appear in people's head and tell them very weird crap are pestering New York. If you ask me, it seems Liberty is currently becoming one of the more important playgrounds of such individuals. They are trying to play with us, to drive us insane and to make us going for each others' throat. Perhaps you wish to have a closer look at it as well from time to time, observing them and their behavior? I'm gonna be honest with you, most of the stuff I'm seeing or hearing I'm not able to handle or categorize into anything else I've encountered so far. Talking about the stuff that happened together with somebody who knows more about it as a whole would be very, very helpful I believe.
Not to mention it might be in your personal interest.
I'm looking forward to hearing from you once again.
He is alright, we already took care of him ourselves. You don't need to worry about him anymore.
Miss Voigt, times are getting more and more dangerous, and you should really leave Liberty as long as you are still able to. I'm afraid I underestimated the consequences of my intervention to protect you, and now I have to find a way to fix the issue, preferably without you getting harmed. We can meet on at the same place again, in a week at the evening. Come alone, make sure you don't have anyone following you silently. We can talk then.
In the meantime, get out of Liberty, and also avoid New London. The nomads are currently using a conveniently placed jump hole to access the heart of Bretonia and attack her directly. Maybe it is time to return to your home, Miss Voigt, as it seems Rheinland is mostly ignored by those greater troubles.
Please be very careful. My hands are tied from now on.
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Seems like the whole thing backfired even more than I expected at first. Very well, a stay in Rheinland should be doable, I agree, even though the activity of certain individuals in Liberty has been dropping again from what I've seen.
I will meet you again where you have pointed out, in the evening, exactly at the same location. Nobody will be following me, that I'm going to safeguard.
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I hope you haven't forgotten about this. The last days have provided some circumstances over which a really big question mark hangs. We need to talk, more urgently than before - I want my answers, besides that I'd like to learn of what exactly I got to deal with now. Judging from what I've seen, it will be anything but easy-going.
Miss Voigt, I would like to hire you and your friends to have an eye open a woman named Lily Austin. She is a friend of mine and managed to get missing. I would pay you for any helpful information about her status and location or her rescue and return to Curacao. Do you think you can do this?
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Curious. Miss Austin has become a more or less regular acquaintance of mine as of late, but the news that she went missing is actually surprising me. I would have thought the journeys she undertakes for Orbital to not bring her into any troublesome regions, actually. And she seemed to be somebody who knows her ways around in case bad things happen.
Anyhow, you can expect us having our eyes and ears open on that matter. Many people saw her in Liberty, I doubt she could just vanish off the face of the earth without anybody knowing why. However, I take it from the fact that you have contacted us out of any people that attempts to gather information from OS&C have been fruitless? Has anybody already invested the time of re-enacting Miss Austin's last flight paths before her wondrous disappearance? If this is not the case, I guess that could be a good way to start the investigations.
Some more information on the matter could prove helpful, as you can see. Have you been able to ascertain anything so far? Because reinventing the wheel was never my thing.
And yes, we can do this.
Yours sincerely, Knight Captain Voigt
The Forlorn Hope
OS&C notified Lily Austin's promoter about her not having come to work on July 31th 824. Her promoter was not able to contact her for 36 hours. From that point, I was ordered to find out about her whereabouts. Sadly I am currently not in a position that allows a full scale search for Miss Austin all by myself, but since you have been proven to be a valuable asset, I contact you about this. Since Miss Austin was mostly basing herself off from Curacao, I'd advise to start the search for her there.
One word of advice, Miss Voigt. Other assets will be looking for her as well. It might be wise for you to not go there yourself but coordinate the search from the distance while your friends do the dirty work. I hope you understand the implications of this. If you find her and can return her to Curacao and report to me, the payment would be about 20.000.000 Credits, which should be enough to motivate the Forlorn Hope to do this.