Comm ID : Doctor Jason Reed Location : Queen Carina Hospital, Planet Leeds Subject : Guildmaster Stoat
Dear Mr DiVirgo
My apologies for the direct method of contacting you, but I was unsure of the correct route to take. We currently have in our care Guildmaster Stoat. He was rescued from his heavily damaged gunship by a Captain Searles of the merchant vessel ITV Mary Celeste, and brought to us earlier today. We have run extensive tests upon the guildmaster, and while we have been unable to detect any physical injuries, he remains in a semi-comatose state.
From what we have been able to discern, both from the few words the guildmaster occasionally says, and from the Captain of the Mary Celeste, is that the attack on the guildmasters vessel appears to have been the work of the Wilde, and possibly the Nomads. We are in no way set up to deal with the possible psychological ramifications interactions with these beings might trigger. If your organisation has any specialists that might be able to bring fresh ideas to the table, we would be delighted to accomodate them here.
I include the results of our medical checks, and full details of the symptoms the guildmaster is displaying. Your quick response would be appreciated.
I have included Captain Searles in this data transmission so that he can forward you any of the data he was able to retrieve from the stricken gunship. I also believe he holds a data crystal he was able to retrieve from the vessel during the rescue operations.
Due to the potential for long term psychological damage, my medical staff recommends that you place Guildmaster Stoat in a protective suspended animation state until we can get a group of specialists from our own medical staff there.
We have, of course, worked diligently with Cryer Pharmaceuticals and their research staff at Cambridge, so they may have some additional, temporary measures that they may recommend that you take while our staff is en route. Any time that a human is exposed to contamination from the Wilde or the Nomads, it is of cause for concern. Fortunately, our medical team is expert in helping with these issues.
They will gather their equipment and leave our facility very shortly.
The Guild is grateful for your assistance with Guildmaster Stoat. We would like to see copies of your logs, sensor information, and anything that you may have salvaged from the wreckage of his ship. We will, of course, compensate you for your troubles.
Please let me know as to how and when we may acquire these copies.
---End Transmission---
(11-21-2013, 12:53 PM)Jihadjoe Wrote: Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.
COMM ID: Ian Throckmorton Searles Location: Landing Pad 04-B, Industrial District, Planet Leeds Subject: Your requests.
Guildmaster DeVirgo:
First off, you needn't be grateful for my rescue of Guildmaster Stoat. I am a Bretonain gentlemen, and it would be most unbecoming if I were to pass a stricken vessel by, regardless of its affiliation. It is, after all, only human nature to protect the life of a person in harm's way. (However, any compensation you can afford would be much appreciated. My ship doesn't run on kindness and well-wishes, if you understand my meaning.)
Secondly, my crew did indeed manage to retrieve something from your Master Stoat's stricken vessel before we left. My chief of engineering, a master Cale Rossburg, retrieved the vessel's data storage crystal from its damaged computer core. The crystal contained ship's logs - encrypted, of course, so that we could not crack them (it is most ungentlemanly to examine locked data; despite mister Rossburg's statements to the contrary) - and several video files and stills from what I assume to be Master Stoat's gun-cam.
You may contact me via my ship's Neural Net identification (ITV_Mary_Celeste) at any time, and I will do my best to meet you. I am a busy man, Master DeVirgo, but I can make time for official Guild business. This seems to be a most troubling issue, both for myself and the Guild.
Wishing you well,
~I.T. Searles, Captain
Independent Tradesman's Vessel Mary Celeste "Sequere Pecuniam"
COMM ID: Ian Throckmorton Searles
Location: Landing Pad 04-B, Industrial District, Planet Leeds
Subject: Your requests.
Guildmaster DeVirgo,
Rossberg was combing through our databanks recently and turned up more data I had thought lost, data that will (hopefully) expedite your investigation of Guildmaster Stoat's encounter.
This further communication is to provide you with the detail of the events of our rescue of Guildmaster Stoat from his stricken gunship in the Omega-3 system. This was the automated recording of the rescue operation taken by our ship's computer.
I hope the enclosed data file assists in your investigations.
Wishing you well,
~I.T. Searles, Captain
Independent Tradesman's Vessel Mary Celeste
"Sequere Pecuniam"
###Datafile begins###
The ITV Mary Celeste picked up a distress signal from an unidentified BHG vessel upon entering the Omega-3 system from Omega-7. The stricken vessel was located in the immediate vicinity of Freeport 1. A communication attempt was immediately initiated. The data file which follows is a direct recording from the moment we first attempted contact with the heavily damaged Guild gunship.
Docking systems are inactive, forcing the ITV Mary Celeste to attempt a risky dock with one of the larger hull breaches on the gunship. The docking sequence is successful, allowing suited members of the crew of the Mary Celeste to access the gunship through the hull breach. The breach docked with is in the engineering section of the gunship. The crew of the Mary Celeste again attempt to open a comms link
but there is still no response. As they inspect the engineering section it is apparent that although the ship is heavily damaged, most of the internal doors to the rest of the vessel are secure, and most of the vessel remains pressurised. The three crewmen easily open the doors allowing access to the rest of the ship, closing the doors carefully behind them to ensure the corridors re-pressurise. Access through the gunship is simple, as emergency lighting is functional and internal damage appears minimal. They reach the main bridge within minutes.
The attempt to open the bridge doors is successful, allowing the crew access. Slumped over the flight chair is a man, barely breathing, his body wracked by frequent spasms. Spittle runs freely from the side of his mouth. As the medical officer, Del Rojo, examines the man, another vessel comes into the vicinity of the wrecked gunship.
Del Rojo's examination of the man reveals no sign of physical injury. The symptoms displayed are similar to those associated with an epileptic fit, though the continuing spasms that ripple through the man's body are unusual. As Del Rojo reports his findings to Captain Searles, he spots an insignia on the flight suit of the man he is examining that marks him as a guildmaster of the Bounty Hunters Guild.
Del Rojo and Metzger succeed in getting the guildmaster in the emergency pressure suit. As Del Rojo prepares to carry the body out, Metzger attempts a vocal communication with the computer systems of the gunship, requesting the flight logs. There is no response from the ship, but Del Rojo hears the guildmaster trying to say something. Opening the pressure suit to hear better, Del Rojo's face blanches bone white as he catches what the guildmaster is saying. A single word, repeated over and over'¦'¦'¦..
'Wilde
Del Rojo lifts the guildmaster and heads back to the engineering section, while Rossberg and Metzger try to trace a path to the AI Core. They are able to pinpoint the location of the core, using the sensor array on the Mary Celeste, and head for the section immediately. Access to the core has been badly damaged, but they are able to force open the doorway allowing a single person entrance.
Rossberg squeezes into the core, looking for the AI's CPU amongst the debris. Finding nothing there, he spots what appears to be the core access port. Three buttons are placed underneath the port, one red, one blue, one green.
He presses the blue button, moving one hand to the butt of his pistol. Nothing happens. Breathing deeply, he slowly extends a hand again and presses the red and blue buttons together. A loud click causes him to jump back, hauling his pistol from its' holster, but nothing further occurs.
The access port slides free, revealing the core data crystal. Sweat drips off Rossberg's nose as he reaches for the crystal.
Rossburg and Metzger make their way back to the hull breach, and together with Del Rojo, still carrying the guildmaster, they all cross back to the Mary Celeste.
On board the Mary Cleste, Rossberg and Missy (Captain's Note: Millicent Rossburg, nickname "Missy"; Cale's younger sister) start to try and access the flight data. They are able to ascertain that a fight occurred with two other vessels, one easily identified as a Rheinland military ship, the other completely unknown. Beyond that they find out the name of the person they rescued from the wrecked gunship.