Subject: Phoenix Report Encryption:Burns While Read Location: Freeport 10
Did a sweep of a few systems for the Phoenix project. We gotta get a better name for this op by the way. Just sayin'. Had a bit of a run with Mindcrime after I got back, but she's covered that.
First up, Cortez:
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Oceana Shipping Platform. Publicly-accessible Gateway base. Visible from Curacao mooring, not of any strategic note. Seems like a stopover for ore sometimes, but nothing there right now.
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I passed by the local Gallic brick for a recon scan. The Tau-31 camo doesn't work so well down in Magellan. They haven't replaced the depot that... someone destroyed. We ever find out what happened there?
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The Junkyard. Junker-operated freeport. Holy shit the weapon selection there. I haven't seen this many black-market guns in one place since... uh, let's not get into that. Anyway, this isn't part of the contract, and I don't want those stuffy Brets shutting the place down. Way too useful.
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A scan probe identified the system on the other side of this hole as a very bad place. So I stopped there. Due to certain known variables in the southern half of the system, my scan kept to the north.
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Shiranui, is this the Forres the Gaians were talking about? Because there's no goddamn way this place is livable. Between the heat even at the poles and the humidity that comes with a planet that has to be about 95% ocean... no. No way in hell.
I did a run around the Taus and found fuck-all. They've got a ship stationed, no point recording a location. It's a ship. Not a single installation of note, either for the contract or for our own reference. Known complications limit their work.
One stage of the project remains. I can already guess, but I'll get it done anyway.
