Director of Pontifical Service of Intelligence Magister Yuri Orlov
Good day agent.
Epsilon, who is on the ground in Pygar, has reported worrying news about a certain food shortage in the settlements on the planet. I suspect that Phoenix may be using the control they now have over Corfu Base to divert some of the food shipments intended for the civilian population. I imagine that huge amount of soldiers they've been bringing in lately must have quite large food needs, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were using the colonists' Synth Paste to sustain those troops.
Your mission will be to use your cover in Corfu and investigate whether this is true, and if it is, provide me with evidence. If they're playing dirty, we'll expose them publicly.
Deux vigilat.
Director's Office Pontifical Service of Intelligence NCC Curia
I received your orders, so I've been investigating this last two days.
Corfu has been extremely active lately. There are a lot of ships constantly arriving with different goods. Mainly food, but others are bringing people and even various weaponry, I assume the latter is to arm Phoenix soldiers. Some of these weapons are being shipped to the planet, but the delivery notes don't specify where.
A Phoenix transport with a couple hundred people has just arrived as well. The way they dress and behave they look like civilians, quite convincing, but they are... well, too martial, if you know what I mean. I suspect they are Phoenix soldiers too, or at least some kind of undercover field agents they brought along, but I have no proof of that. At the moment they are staying here, totally isolated from the rest of the station, and I haven't been able to get close to any of them.
As for what you're mainly interested in, food deliveries, I've mostly focused in the quartermaster's office. There is a guy, a drunken half-gambling addict who works as a secretary. He likes to play cards and drink Molly whiskey, so last night we were at the bar playing some hands and I managed to stay making him drink until the bartender kicked us out to close. The poor bastard was very intoxicated at that point and he confessed me that he had a hidden bottle of whisky in his office, for when the quartemaster wasn't looking, so I got him to invite me there for drinking the last one.
When we arrived he was already half unconscious, so it was easy for me to start a conversation about the destination of the food shipments that arrive at the station. While I served him a couple more drinks, he told me everything about his work in Corfu Base. He seemed to be delighted when I asked him about it, surely his grey job is not something very interesting for most people. He was so flattered that even showed me on his personal terminal the delivery notes and flight sheets for the shipments that are sent to the planet.
From what I could read, food arrivals come primarily from some ships owned by Phoenix, and also from one MFE ship and one more from OSI. MFE ships the food from the General Academy, OSI from several different sources, and as for Phoenix it seems that most of it is brought in from a place called Kadesh. I have no idea where that is, but from what I gather from the delivery notes it looks like it could be somewhere in the Omicrons.
All food shipments are temporarily stored in the hangar warehouse area at arrival, and then delivered by freighters to local distribution centers in each settlement. Shipments are sent to the planet quite often, so food doesn't usually spend much time here. This morning I witnessed several freighters taking off loaded with food that had arrived just yesterday. I was able to even to get closer and place a tracker on the hull of one of the ships before it took off, and when it returned several hours later I extracted the information. The freighter made exactly the route planned on the flight sheet, and delivered the cargo to the place indicated on the delivery note that I saw last night.
Director, although I know you have a vested interest in finding proof that Phoenix is doing a corrupt use of the food for the settlers, I'm afraid that everything appears to be in order. I can repeat what I've already done for longer, but I'm quite sure that if this food is disappearing, the problem is not here.
There is also... well, you know, Your Eminence... the possibility of fabricating evidences. I can place more trackers on some ships and then manipulate the logs to make it look like they're headed to places other than their flight plan. I also think it might be possible to use my new friend to delete selected shipment records from Corfu's database, so that they appear to arrive but then disappear. Of course this would imply a risk of being discovered, but I think I would be able to achieve it if that's what you want.
I will wait for your further orders while maintaining passive surveillance.
Director of Pontifical Service of Intelligence Magister Yuri Orlov
Good morning.
I can say that I'm surprised, I didn't expect this result.
No, I don't want evidence against Phoenix to be fabricated, at least not now. I wanted to find out something specific, and I've already done so.
Maintain passive surveillance and silence in communications until you receive new orders, or until something that deserves my personal attention happens. Anyway, keep working on that guy from the quartermaster's office. He seems like the typical idiot with access to information that could be useful to us in the future.
Good job, and Deux vigilat.
Director's Office Pontifical Service of Intelligence NCC Curia
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