To the Search/Destroy Agency

[pieguy259]

INCOMING TRANSMISSION
FROM: Constable Lachlan McArthur, Bretonia Police Authority
LOCATION: BPA Newgate, Manchester System
TO: The Search/Destroy Agency

I need your help with the job described in your name. Not... not the destroying part, the searching part. I need someone found, specifically, my sister Carrie. Full name, Carolyn Susan McArthur. My parents have given up, and the LPI and BPA have admitted the case has gone cold. I saw your commercials on the neural-net, and I thought you might be able to help.

She was last seen on planet Denver, in the Colorado system, flying a basic Train, about... five months ago. I've enclosed a picture of her, to help with your search. Please. Find her, and bring her home to Leeds. I'll pay whatever reward I can.

Yours,

Lachlan James McArthur

END TRANSMISSION... ATTACHMENT RECEIVED. OPENING...

The photo was of a young man, presumably Lachlan, and a very familiar-looking red-haired woman.

In fact...

If one imagined the girl's wavy red hair pulled back into a short ponytail... a hard, steely look in those eyes, the kind every Bounty Hunter got eventually from one too many battles... if one removed the plumpness from her cheeks, gave her a gaunt look, such as you might find on someone who had recently suffered a severe bout of food poisoning... replaced the casual clothes with a flight suit...

...then one would have a very good likeness of a certain Search/Destroy Agent.

Carolyn Susan McArthur... went missing on Denver...

The puzzle was not hard to put together.

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