Subj: IW7-GA

[Kauket]

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Entry Twenty Two... Seventeen - Oh One - Eight Thirty.

Well... The war has been terrible for business.

The station was raided by some ne'er-do-wellers when my hired techies were fixing up the leaking reactor! Apparently there was some kind of backdoor in the station security software. They scrambled a bunch of the data from our terminals and stole some crates! Typical! There goes a few months of financial records and our security codes! Bahhhh...

And to make things better, the benefactors paid a visit with a few men in black. Oh! They were not amused at all! They noticed that my staton wasn't "operating within acceptable parameters of the contract"! Well! What am I to do when you have these horrid Navy renegades, these... horrible marauders ... and - And! Mines! Of all things! We had a stray mine hit the facility a few weeks back. That's why we had to order in more containment gear, but oh goodness, that made a huge dent in the bank.

Pah! They're threatening to cut our pay if we don't start upholding the end of our deal...

Well, this is a problem. The reactor isn't fully patched up... Maybe we can cut a few corners...? Hm. Ah. I think we can kick-start the reactor without setting up the outer shield emitters. Surely containment would be fine with just the inner shields?

Operator Zachary Maras

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