Incoming Transmission from Fleet HQ
Canberra Star City, Tau-44
24. JANUARY 828 A.S.
To: The Spider's Watch, Canberra Star City, Tau-44 Priority: Elevated Topic: I spy with my little eye...
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Buenos dias,
Allow me to be the first congratulate your people on the new firmware updates for the LIMELIGHT scanner. They've exceeded all expectations. My scanner team won't shut up about the increased resolution and more efficient power management. All in all, it's a job well done.
Aside from my crew's enthusiasm, the upgrades have already borne fruit. During patrols of the Canberra-Roussillon corridor passive scanning picked up some unusual ion emissions and gravimetric anomalies somewhere southeast of the patrol corridor in the Sumatra Cloud, sector C-4. My scanner crew tells me that it's consistent with a large ship that's running silent, though they can't entirely rule out drifting wreckage from the recent battle. Active scanning would've cleared it up, but if someone is trying to sneak about out there, I felt it best if they weren't aware we noticed.
Could you task one of your people to poke around quietly? I'm aware that finding something in such a broad area is like finding a needle in a haystack, and it may just be a piece of errant wreckage after all, but as volatile as the Taus can be, I'd like to be sure.
Taskmaster Eva Flores, OCS Weaver of Fate
Fourth Octavarium Fleet