TO: Caitlyn Cross | CC: Leon | FROM: Jonathan Seabourne

[Jonathan Seabourne]

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ID: Jonathan Seabourne

Location: OS&C|Widdershins, Shasta Orbital Skyhook, Baffin System

To: Caitlyn Cross, Leon

Subject: Please Don't Get Mad

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Kallisti!

So, how are my two FAVORITE people the sector doing today? Good? Great? Hopefully great because this is going to knock you down a few pegs.

First, the good news: extradition laws are incredibly complicated for the Taus! If I know Orbital's legal department (and I like to think I do) I think commandeering a liner, falsifying an emergency broadcast, and killing an endangered species still keeps me on the favorable side of "not worth the company's time to deal with." To be fair, Cambridge still has 15 breeding pairs of the geese to work with.

Now, the bad news: I might have misplaced Scotty. Not lost, per se, but definitely not immediately locatable. Given the grand scheme of space and time, I think it's actually quite the accomplishment that we know what system he's currently in (probably) and how much time we have to find him (probably). We were making our exit from Orlando and may have (did) accidentally (negligently) activated an escape pod. With Scotty in it. Fortunately, those pods are equipped with enough air scrubbers, supplies, and media to keep him alive and occupied for 30 days!

The really bad news is that most of the included media are shows that only lasted two seasons, and they didn't get renewed for a reason.

The really, really bad news is that said life pod was custom modified for something called "ultimate hide and seek." Meaning while half of its function is completely intact (i.e. keeping a person alive until rescue), Orbital seems to have done everything in its quite considerable power to undo the other half (i.e. draw rescue crews to said pod before you run out of episodes to binge). The thing has no transponders and no lights, but it does have thermal and EM shielding (I found a binder with the specs, its in Orbital's system somewhere. You should vary up the fonts a little). The only reliable way to see this thing is with the mark one eyeball.

The juuuuuuust right bit of news in this Goldilocks clustermess is that we know the pod is in Cortez... somewhere. Seems Orbital in its quest to keep things interesting jammed an intrasystem jump drive in the pod. So we know it's not where Orlando was found and we know its not outside the system. That just leaves... a massive amount of icefield to manually sort through to find a lifepod doing everything in its power to not be found.

But, seeing as Oribital and the Starfliers are both well like organization, surely y'all can rally some friends to help, right? Bretonia, Liberty, Crayter, MFE, Union Corse, Zoners, Freelancers, Exotic Dancers, whatever, all of it and any of it! Put enough eyeballs in the field, and SOMEBODY's gonna jam their eye on the needle in the haystack! Hopefully before Scotty runs out of serials.

And air. I only met him once but he seems like the type who enjoys breathing.

Regards,
Jonathan Seabourne
Titles(???)

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