to Corona Battlegroup and Liberty Navy*

[Ingenious]

Hello, folks! My name's Lowell Whutt. I used to work on Nansei . . . Anyway, in my exploring of the Omicron systems, I have somehow managed to dispatch a minor mind-node. I subsequently tractored this odd specimen into my ship.



I was hoping that you would be interested in performing more detailed analysis of this sample. I have it safely packed away in a freezer on Freeport-11 right now, but I'm willing to make preparations to deliver it to a Liberty research station.

I'm not asking much in the way of credits for this sample, as I know how hard scientific funding is to come by. I might be interested in some state-of-the-art plasma weapons if you fellas would like to recommend me to the main office in the Navy, but credits could work too.

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