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ID: Hector Balzac

Location: Luxury Liner Barbados, Vespucci

To: Directors, Sub-Directors, Employees

Subject: The satellite that shouldn't be there

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My dear colleagues, esteemed co-directors,

This morning I found myself aboard the Barbados, approaching the liner with my personal shuttle along an unconventional vector. In doing so, I came across a communications satellite in orbit around Iridescencia. For your review, I have attached the images I personally captured.

Satellite

As you will see, the satellite appears to be active, yet entirely devoid of any form of identification. Attempts to access its servers yield no information whatsoever.

Are any of you aware of this asset? Could it be one of ours, simply absent from the registry—something which, as our dear Schmidt can attest, would not be entirely unprecedented? And if it is not ours, to whom might it belong? A remnant of our “neighbors” on Veracruz, perhaps? Or something else entirely? More importantly: how much of our communications traffic is routed through that satellite—and who, exactly, has access to it?

With your consent, and by virtue of my position as subdirector of the SEC, I would propose dispatching a technical team to inspect it, possibly with the support of Deep Space Engineering or our friends among the Starfliers.

Should we manage—without provoking any regional complications—to secure full control of the asset, it could be repurposed to far more useful ends. As matters stand, the Barbados remains the only lawful port of call in the entire Vespucci system. The rest is a graveyard: wreckage, silence, and whatever unsavory elements choose to hide among the debris fields and asteroid belts. To present such an exposed and valuable target in so desolate a system is an unnecessary risk for the company.

If we were to convert that satellite into an early warning system, or equip it with long-range sensors and advanced radar capabilities, we could gain a significant strategic advantage against any potential threat.

I look forward to your thoughts. In the meantime, bonne soirée to you all.

Respectfully
Hector Balzac

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