To:Bretonia Armed Forces, High Command.

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Event Notice



:::Incoming transmission::: Priority Alpha
Encryption level:::: HIGH.

To Commander, Bretonian Armed Forces.

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I'll be brief.

A [CSA] barge carrying a full payload of Niobium Ore has gone astray.

Last known communication happened a short time ago, and I'm sure you heard it:

..._/\_/Vv:::..._/\_/Vv:::......_/\_/Vv:::Mayday fragment

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We request your vigilance and assistance in this matter.

We understand there is an embedded signal in the transmission which can be used to triangulate the trajectory of the vessel, and determine when and where it will enter Bretonian space.

Our AI has given a best-guesstimate of a location one-fifty-thousand-clicks from Cambridge, and has determined that the vessel is heading to that system. Our data processing is not sufficient to recover the lost fragments and piece the coordinates together with any more exactness, but we hope you can put a forensic team on it and give us this information.

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We have a recovery team heading to Cambridge now, and I hope you can provide us a suitable escort, once the vessel is located. We worry that the vessel will traverse Corsair-contested space.

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Our concern is for our people, and the vessel.
The cargo is of no consequence, and may be distributed as salvage, and expense reimbursement to whichever groups are responsible for recovering our assets safely (We estimate the cargo value on planet Denver to be in excess of 400 million credits).

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I must stress: This vessel represents the fortunes of our company, and the livelihoods of many tens of thousands of Sirius citizens are tied up in it, as well as the 30 or so souls currently aboard.

We ask only that you do your best to deliver them to us.




Yours in gratuitude, good faith, and utmost humility

Adam Smith,

Communications Officer,

CSA,

Denver.



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