The Betrayal of Emilio Torres

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Tethys was one of the Brotherhood's most secret projects. The main reason of it's existence was vast loss of skilled pilots during pirate raids in past few years. Captured Corsairs were usually imprisoned for the rest of their lives by militaries or police departments of lawful houses who usually tried to avoid capital punishments even when dealing with pirates.

Tethys was built by Ageira Technologies engineers for one dummy company (hired by Corsairs) and it was later improved and installed on Crete. The Tethys' mainframe was placed in a Corsair Deep Underground Vault (DUV) along with other comm and hacking mainframes. It was connected to a field of parabolic antennas somewhere high in mountains. It was able to locate a chip implanted into someone's body using hacked comm devices of any ships or objects in the close proximity anywhere in Sirius. It was also able to monitor some vital bodily functions.

Corsairs were obviously guarding their secret, most of the brothers didn't even know that they have a Tethys chip implanted into their body as it was undetectable by all commonly used scanners. However it was rumoured that Rheinlandic Intelligence already discovered a way how to jam the chip's transmissions.

Only the Brotherhood Elders had access to Tethys and were fully aware of her abilities. Most of the time, Tethys operated on fully automated program, only contacting Elders in case of an anomaly. Pedro Maniaco always supported the idea, however he never agreed to have an implanted chip in his body...


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Corsair DUV, Somewhere on Planet Crete

An LCD monitor wakes up from stand by mode...

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> WARNING: Heartbeat for #00:80:48:ae:4f:12 above average, location Pl.Hamburg, Hamburg system
> WARNING: Subject #00:80:48:ae:4f:12 lost consciousness, location Pl.Hamburg, Hamburg system
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several minutes later
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> Jump Hole usage detected for #00:80:48:ae:4f:12, location JH:Hanburg>Frankfurt
> subject #00:80:48:ae:4f:12 heartbeat back to normal, still unconscious
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1 hour later
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> Jump Gate usage detected for #00:80:48:ae:4f:12, location JG:Frankfurt>Munich
> Subject #00:80:48:ae:4f:12 re-gained consciousness, location BS Regensburg, Munchen system
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several minutes later
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> Jump Hole usage detected for #00:80:48:ae:4f:12, location JH: N/A, Munich C6
> WARNING: signal lost for #00:80:48:ae:4f:12
> Forced attempt(s) (124) to locate #00:80:48:ae:4f:12 failed
> ALERT procedure commenced...
> Finding subject #00:80:48:ae:4f:12...
> Subject found: Emilio Torres, member of the Brotherhood.
> Last known location - JH: N/A, Munich C6
> Scan NAV database for Munich C6
> Object found: Halle Jump Hole, Munich C6
> Scan NAV database for Halle system
> [Entries missing], Elbe station, Munich JH, 2 other JHs [missing data]
> Scan NAV database for Elbe station
> [Entries missing], Elbe station, Rheinland Police Guard, Class unknown, details missing
> Open new message, to: Brotherhood Elders, Secure Channel ACx43
> Create report...

Message to: Brotherhood Elders
Secure Channel ACx43
Comm ID: Tethys

Elders!

Tethys lost contact with subject Emilio Torres a few minutes ago. His last locations entries were as follows:
- Planet Hamburg, RepEx HQ [with 96,7% probability]
- Subject left Planets orbit, heading to JH:Hamburg>Frankfurt
- Subject jumped to Frankfurt, used trade lanes to get to Munich JG
- Subject jumped to Munich, used trade lanes to get to Halle JH
- Tethys lost signal after the jump

Subject was experiencing a strong commotion at Planet Hamburg, lost consciousness when leaving the orbit, and regained it back in Munchen. His vital functions were normal, no serious wounds detected.

Possible scenarios:
- Subject was arrested by Rheinland Police [93,6%]
- Subject was kidnapped by Bounty Hunters [5,3%]
- other possibilities (63) have the probability ratio below [0,1%]

Halle System Details:

Station(s): Elbe Station, Rheinland Police Guard
System Defense: [No details]
Jump Hole(s): Munich, [N/A], [N/A]
Accessible from: Munich System, Jump Hole at C6, see attached image(s)...



Tethys out.

> send report, priority Urgent
> message sent
> continue attempts to locate #00:80:48:ae:4f:12
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LCD remained online but no more entries appeared...