The S/D Agency Files

[Agmen of Eladesor]

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To: The Director
From: Special Agent DeVirgo
Priority: HIGHEST

Subject: Patrol Report

Sir -

I went on a routine patrol with Agent Starr in New Berlin. During this patrol, we assisted the Rheinland Military in forcing an Outcast - call sign Bulldog - in a Lane Hacker Gunship to leave New Berlin. We tried but failed to destroy him, and he was able to flee before we could collect on his bounty.



During this same patrol, we encounterd two hunters that refused multiple hints to vacate Rheinland space, since their presence was in violation of Rheinland law. Specifically, one of them was in a Bounty Hunter BattleCruiser, and the other was in a Gunship. Quite frankly, Agent Starr and I were asked to assist the RM if it came down to blows against these 'gentlemen' for violating Rheinland law.

Since we had spent quite a bit of time previously in conversation with these two mutts at Bonn Station prior to their moving on to New Berlin orbit - and they wouldn't listen to us then, either - we told the RM we would assist.

Then one of them made a statement that should have him thrown out of the guild. His comments were such that I could not help making my comments.



Well, this disgrace to the Bounty Hunters Guild finally moved on. My personal recommendation is that he be removed from the guild rosters, as a minimum. Agent Starr docked, and I headed out as well. I had heard a report from one of my sources that there had been no communication between Rostock and Capetown for two days. Since I am our intelligence director, I thought I'd go check it out.

What follows ... well, if I hadn't seen it myself, I wouldn't have believed it.

Capetown and Durban are empty.

Oh, the ships available for purchase are still there. The ammunition reloads are still there. The food and drinks in the bar are still there. In fact, I found several drinks and meals still sitting on tables, half consumed. The important point to this is that NONE of them had been spilled or dropped. No forks on the floor, no puddles from spilled drinks - nothing out of place.

It's just that there's no one there except for the station maintenance robots.

Those 'alien' bounty hunters that had moved out there are all gone. All of their ships are gone. All of their equipment is gone. All of the station PERSONNEL are gone. The station logs are clean and show nothing - and I mean NOTHING. It's like their computer cores have been wiped clean. I checked the security rooms on both stations - all recording devices go back no more than 20 hours before I docked - and that's it. Everything prior to that has been wiped clean. It's like about 20 hours before I docked, everything there just - reset itself.

I'd almost check myself in for psychiatric evaluation if I didn't have a co-pilot that saw - or didn't see - the same thing. On a special comm channel, I contacted one of our Wild Geese operatives that was in Omega 15. He came out there with HIS crew - and they found - or didn't find - the same thing.

I recommend - hell, I don't know WHAT to recommend. It's not like there's anything to quarantine - both our ships crews have already been checked out by Rostock medical for anything known. Our equipment doesn't show anything abnormal anywhere in Omega 56. Oh, and I didn't mention - there's NO sign of combat damage anywhere, either. It's like everyone in the system just ... vanished.

Request advice...

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.