A murder most foul

[Serpentis]

A rainy day, the people at the weather control station must have gotten orders to change from the normal quiet sunny climate Eden normally has ever single day. A strange request, Jack Derringer had just gone on duty when it began to pour down, I mean really pour.. People where running across the streets to get indoors.
"Silly.." He thought to himself..
Jack knew that running trough the rain wouldn't matter, and hell, he enjoyed it. It was way to nice in Eden to feel comfortable. He took on the job as a security officer in Eden almost a year ago and became a citizen shortly afterwards.. Having been in security his entire life he had no other way to see life then work.. Working to make sure others live in safety.. And this place, Eden, was surely the closest he had come to complete peace..
When he was called in to secure a crimescene he almost laughed, not cause he was morbid you see, because he wasn't. But because it hadn't happened a real crime in months, latest being an hit and run down at the Trade district, but that was solved only minutes afterwards by looking at the cameras places across the streets.. But.. A murder..
That had never happened before.

Jack arrived at the scene in the patrol car about 10 minutes after the call was made..
'Female, late 30's, none Virulian'
'Cause of death: unknown'
His Infolink pad on his arm lit up...

A none Virulian, so a new citizen probably..

He walked into the lobby of the appartment building in the residence quarters, several security forms where standing on guard in the lobby, each nodding at Jack as he entered.
He met his boss by the elevator, an older Virulian by the name of Joffrey an former Priest to add to that.. Most logical and downright.. Well, tenacious in his work..

"Mr Derringer.."
"Joffrey.. What do we have?"
"A murder of course..."
"...."
"Yes Joffrey but what kind of murder?"
"Well, the female have been scorched.. We do not know who she is.. All we know is that she had no cybernetics or nanites in her body."
They had walked into the elevator by this time.
"Ok.. So she's not a Virulian, but what about DNA? We must have had her DNA on file right? Every citizen is on file after all.."
"Well Mr Derringer.. I think it's best if you just see it.."
As the elevator stopped Jack had been staring at Joffrey for a good 5 seconds without getting an answer..
Joffrey walked them both over to the room on the sixth floor where in the murder had taken place. Room 651.
As they entered the stench of burnt flesh was apparent..

The room was quite luxorious, even more so then most of the diplomatic quarters..

There was no sign of a break in or any sign of disturbance in the first few rooms..
'Wow.. This is huge..' was all that Jack was thinking..
'How could she have the rights to this appartment while I live in a dingy 3 roomer in EDF district..'

Joffrey showed him into the bed room, where on the bed lay a body.. But it was clearly not burnt.. Not by any normal means.. The skin on the female had been burnt open, as her entire body inside was burnt into a crisp.. Not even the EDF's experimental Plasma rifle would be able to do that.. This.. This was something completely different.

An science form entered the room, this one was named "Eros" and had been assigned to scan and present a cause of death if one was impossible for the investigative group to determine one.

After an hour Eros detirmined that the scans showed only that she had died of the extreme burns.. But not how or why..

"Minimal signatures of an unknown radiation type detected how ever.."


"Damnit.. Joffrey, I think we need outside help on this one.."
"To true.. I'l call it in.."




Grand Marshal Khaleen was going trough the training reports coming from the EDF training fascilities on Canaria when he got a message on his second console from Eden Security.

Code:

Homocide, unknown cause of death.. Unknown female
Requesting assistance from outside source

Another message appeared directly afterwards..

Code:

"Council recomends that both castes choose a select group to investigate the murder.. Who'm do you recomend Grand Marshall Khaleen?"
'Sent by Arin'

Khaleen sat and thought over this for a long time then he typed in the following:

Code:

'Sentry Serj Dahlin'
'Curate Nathan Ward'
'Lector Explorer'
'Preserver Lyra Frost'

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