--- Encryption: Order only ---
--- Origins: ---
--- CFC Primary Administrative Complex, Reserach Annex ---
--- Armat Settlement, Planet Toledo, Omicron Minor ---
--- Subject: CFC Logistic Support Vessel acquired and commissioned ---
Salve, esteemed colleagues!
This is a memorandum to all Order personnel to inform you that the CFC Research Branch has finally been able to acquire a civilian cargo vessel to act as its storage, supply and transfer capability.
The vessel is a used Civilian Heavy Tanker, or 'Titanic', named the 'Scientific Harvest' and will be captained by Antoinette Sarus, who has been running supplies to Order facilities for several years now.
This ship will be used to:
- Transfer expedition supplies procured from other systems to depots on the surface of Toledo or other locations
- Ferry scientific equipment and materials to and from Order installations
-- This includes alien samples and artefacts
Given that our supply ship must be able to traverse Sirius House Space unhindered to procure supplies or reach some of the research facilities of the Order and our scientific collaborators, it was equipped with a fake ID.
To avoid detection and evade the military and police, the vessel will use an indeterminate house corporation ID, which will be changed periodically. For obvious reasons, the use of an Order ID, even a hidden one, is out of the question. It cannot, therefore, be identified simply by verifying the ship ID.
Instead we have embedded a ghost signature in the IFF transponder of the ship. This will allow ships using Order sensor and target acquisition systems to detect that the vessel on their sensors is ineed a CFC-controlled ship.
It is essential that the true agenda of the ship remain hidden from all outside parties. Therefore you are requested to:
- Allow the ship regular passage as any Order vessel
- If third parties (including allies of the Order) are present as witnesses
-- Do not, under any circumstances, identify the ship as an Order asset
-- Treat it as any other civilian intruder, i.e. demand an immediate retreat (Captain Sarus will comply to maintain her cover)
-- Similarly do not provide escort services or any other form of aid beyond those other neutrals may be given. An Order Escort would expose the ship.
