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My name is Claire DeFrance, a member of the royal family of the Kingdom.

I appreciate that this message may be unexpected, however I hope that the current political climate will not be a factor in this conversation.

I have been informed by my advisor that the Lane Hackers are dedicated information gatherers and dealers despite engaging in piracy, and I am in need of your services. The information I am seeking is related to the Outcasts, which is unfortunately out of the scope I can investigate, and would be immensely grateful for assistance in this matter.

Naturally, I would be willing to provide appropriate compensation for any services rendered.

Before I delve into any details, is this something that you could assist me with?

Thank you for your prompt response, I'm happy to hear that we will be able to cooperate.

Without going into too many formalities, the core of the matter is surrounding the Lucullus-class liner Calliope and, more importantly, its passenger: Charlotte DeFrance.

According to archived reports I have managed to gain access to, the ship was supposedly attacked in the Lorraine system by none other than the Outcasts. This attack took place on the 2nd of February last year, with the ship having never been seen since that date. It has completely disappeared from the Royal Navy ship tracker, so it either went out of range, or the tracking system was disabled.

I can recall that this group has actually managed to capture the Calliope, and a source from the Royal Intelligence assured me that conversations with them would soon be underway. Unfortunately, everything after that went completely quiet. Days turned to weeks, weeks to months; there were no updates to the situation, no reports to be seen. Either they were highly classified, or the Kingdom has given up. I fear for the worst, Professor.

I want to know what happened to the ship and the person in question after that incident. I do not know any contacts with the Outcasts, and as far as I'm aware, they wouldn't be particularly very helpful or pleasant given the current situation.

I would be greatly in your debt if you could investigate this further and see what happened with Charlotte. Please tell me what would you require in exchange, and I'll see to it.

Unfortunately, this would be an off-the-books investigation; my resources in that regard are quite limited. The Royal Intelligence and Navy aren't interested in answering any of my queries, to put it bluntly. It is likely that the Marechal has his own plans on how to deal with this situation, however with the war raging on, I don't believe anything will be done in time considering over a year has already went by. It is truly baffling that this was handled the way that it was.

This is actually the reason I am contacting yourselves. If the GRI had caught wind of this, or even worse, noticed activity from Sirius on their networks, things would end very poorly for both myself and the Lane Hackers. I would appreciate it if this would reach as few ears as possible, and as a result, I will not be able to provide direct access to the EFL networks.

While the networks are out of the question, I have previously come across sensor data from the Luneville Guard Station. It did detect numerous ships traversing through the minefield which sealed the Omicrons. The only ships that caused concern were codenamed, and a few individual names that were not present in the Gallic Citizen database. They were tagged as 'L\-Eliza.Valdez' and 'L\-Ezio.Aquila' by our IFF system and were seen entering the system prior to the attack.

Lastly, the Royal Navy has received a message a few days after the attack. This confirmed that it was the Outcasts that have done this deed. I am making this available in the attachments. This has been picked up by the higher-ups of the Navy, but again, I do not know what happened afterwards.

Please tell me if this is of any use, or if anything else is required.

Thank you for the update. I look forward to hearing who is the person responsible for the attack so we can finally take action on recovering her.

In regards to the payment, I appreciate your concern. Finding data on the requested personnel will take some time, but I will see what can be done.

Please let me know immediately if there's any further updates to the investigation.