63rd|CV-Trident

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Conference Room B, Deck 4

The Voice laughs, then walks into the light

Your right Alex. Now, I think I should explain how the 63rd is involved. After leaving the Society, I retired.
What everyone else knows is that I have been doing some digging of my own into what actually happened.

Blain pulls out a datapad, and taps a few buttons. A recording starts to play

Marshal: Hello, are you Mr. Creed?
Unknown: Who wants to know?
Marshal: I will take that as a yes. I have a job for you.
Unknown: Ok, whats the assignment?
Marshal: Information. The target is Alex Drake, Bretonian Armed Forces.
Is this going to be a problem?
Unknown: No. Whats the payment?
Marshal: Twenty Million. Five up front, fifteen on transmission of data.
Unknown: Ten up front, not unsociable. Transmits the credits and all known data
to the neural net account 55d054 and I will begin.
Marshal: Remember. Intel only. Nothing else.
Transmission corrupted

Blain types a command into the comm pad and puts it back in his pocket

This conversation was at a terminal only used by order operatives to communicate with operatives
who may be under surveillance by Foreign powers, which is why you missed it. Marshal, nor any of the
63rd operatives are part of this conspiracy. This mercenary was obviously on some other persons pay role
and wanted to mess with your career in the Armed Forces, so they framed you. I have yet to find any solid
evidence on who did this, but believe me, it was hard enough to even find the recording of the conversation.

Blain picks a seat at the table, and sits

Look, I know this is a bit of a shock to you, how you have come so far but all the information you have
gathered is useless. My assumption is that these people wanted the order to take the fall, so I started
with the anti-Order groups first. The BAF framing narrows it down to one of a few possible suspects.
The Kusari Government is to busy with the war to even notice, and there is no motive to get one person
framed for something. Then I thought possibly this was the Societies goal all along to get you to be
recruited in, as they needed a computer genius at the time. But honestly, I don't know. The only real
person who can give us any information at all is our friend Julian Creed, who vanished off the face of the
Omicrons.

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.