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[Whesto]

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ID: Whesto Dwanian

LOCATION: Durban Station, Omicron Rho

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Ave,

As I came back from Dagger Outpost with my new Pleco into Omicron Delta, I flew into a Zoner Whale loaded with Iridium, callsign Zach.Peterson. He greeted me and made his presence known and thanked The Core for keeping the security in our Omicron systems. He inquired if we knew of any Iridium miners present at that moment, which I knew not. His intent was to load up his Whale faster he said. A rather uninteresting conversation at first.

However.

I asked if he'd seen any activity on his trade mission that would be of interest to The Core, which he had not at that exact time. He did however tell me there had been problems in Omicron Zeta near Planet Palmyra. There had been some of his fellow Zoner pilots venturing there that ended up disappearing, but he could not specify further as he didn't know the cause. The Zoner said he would be grateful if I or any other members of The Core could look into it, if it pleased us.

Since this Zoner "threat" couldn't be specified and I didn't want any hostile presence in Zeta, I decided to venture with Mr.Peterson since he was going through there and on to Omicron Minor and I would patrol our interests either way. Core|Ariel joined in on this precarious patrol.

Once in Omicron Zeta there were no tangible threats on the scanners near Planet Palmyra or the route to Omicron Minor jumphole. We left the Zoner to jump and went on our business.

I can't say if this threat is or was real, if this independent Zoner had other motives or both. Perhaps this was all a decoy. I will keep an eye on the Iridium mining activity with an extra eye and visit Planet Palmyra at least once per shift just in case he was speaking the truth.

The way he spoke and asked about us seeing any miners was odd, this whole thing had decoy written all over it but nothing showed on my scanners at least.

Something is off.

Whesto Dwanian.
Guardian, The Core.

Out.

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