The Apparatus Does Not Exist

[CO. Slate]

Bailing him out was as easy as a thirty-minute sit in a waiting room to talk to another overweight balding middle manager's younger secretary with a put-upon attitude befitting a woman twenty years her senior, to then wait three hours for the prisoner to be fished out of the tank and ostensibly handed over to his family, his fine paid. But he would pay for this. He would pay dearly indeed. He would be sent to slum it until his superiors believed him to have redeemed himself.

End of Day

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• Cyan:
  FA. Forest located multiple possible staging points, no permanent hideouts. Local corporate captains report zero losses due to piracy in the area beyond regular Xeno harassment at Detroit. Several raider groups presumably operating out of a nearby carrier, observed engines had been in continuous operation for hours.
  
• Lime:
  SA. Lime reports Corsairs driven from Freeport 9, few to no Insurgency personnel sighted in deep Omicrons as of yet. FA. Cherry reports uptick in smuggling operations traveling to Rheinland, GMG presence still minimal barring convoys and patrols around installations.
  
• Silver:
  Routine patrols turn up few criminals barring disorganized bandits. Informant in Navy warning criminal groups of patrols, simple observation of patrol timing, or blind luck?
  
• Platinum:
  FA. Platinum to be sent to assess allied defense readiness at the ground level.