Subject: Ain't that a kick in the head? Encryption:Yikes Location: Checkpoint CharlieERRORERRORERROR
Escher,
Weaver downloaded me, and I sent him my data dump, but I thought you'd be the better person to talk to about the real deal.
Kane and the others are out there somewhere. They're not in the western or southern Independent Worlds, that's for sure, but we built that drive to fail safe. Anything out of spec more than a 10% variance on the target rip and it'd just go nowhere. I think we just didn't build the navcom to fail safe enough, which means they ended up in a 2 AU ring around a stellar-size gravity well somewhere. Weaver tells me you got bounced near a neutron star; I'm glad to hear you're alright. Your near-death experience there might be a good path to follow up on.
We're going to find them. But in order for us to do that, we need to think it through with all the data we have available to us. Together. No running off on me, okay?