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Kenny had traveled to a nearby settlement, located 213km SSW of Nedila and discovered that it had been under some kind of attack. He was there check in on the Estada family (Michael (38), Corene (37), Uli (17) and Madina (7)) who had not been heard from for several days after failing to attend his child\u2019s birthday party (on 2946-03-01). Kenny called out for any survivors before calling local authorities. Our office was contacted after local police conducted an initial sweep of the scene.\n\nThreshold Assessment\n\n2946-03-04_19:15 SET: I made my way to the settlement without reviewing the local investigation reports in an effort to maintain a fresh perspective of the scene. Circling the settlement from the air, I noted five residences and two water farms. Based on the arrangement of the buildings, it didn\u2019t seem that they were constructed to repel attacks. Three sets of scorch marks indicated that one to three small ships had recently landed and taken off nearby. Outside of the local comm tower, the buildings didn\u2019t appear to have sustained any damage from ship-borne weapons. Swept a search pattern away from the settlement to look for any other clues. Saw nothing, so I decided to land and continue on foot.\n\nOn the ground, buildings were damaged from prolonged small arms fire. Chem analysis of the burn patterns indicate plasma-based weapons were used. Moving through the buildings, it looked like some of the inhabitants barricaded themselves inside a reinforced room. More plasma-char were consistent with a breach. No bodies inside. Some blood spray across one of the walls; probably from an impact. Definitely not enough to be a lethal strike.\n\nMoved between the ruins, seems one of the families collected Sataball memorabilia. I\u2019m not a fan, but even I could tell that these items would fetch a small fortune, but they were left here.\n\nAnother curious detail, the communal storage for the settlement was filled with food supplements. Unlike the memorabilia, these supplements would be impossible to trace and easy to sell. Like the memorabilia, they were untouched.\n\nMoved to the center of the settlement to take in the scene and review local law enforcement\u2019s assessments. Looking at the attack patterns, the angles of approach, the valuable resources abandoned, made me believe less and less that this was an attack by Humans.\n\nI sent comms to the UEE Navy as I prepared my findings.\n\nSummary\n\nReceived confirmation from the UEE Navy that border sensors from Leir had been tripped, scans indicate that a small Vanduul raiding party (two Scythes and another vessel) slipped into the system on 2946-03-01. This would validate the earlier theory that the attack was not perpetrated by Humans. This would suggest that the Vanduul strike originated from Vanguard and used the Leir jump point, undoubtedly avoiding the increased military presence along that front.\n\nWithout the bodies, it\u2019s difficult to ascertain whether they attacked the settlements for resources or to capture the inhabitants. I\u2019ve collected all of my findings along with Personal Files for the nine missing persons and passed them along to Naval Intelligence.\n\nSincerely,\n\nMarina Naves\nSpecial Agent\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\n2946-03-07_09:38 SET\nTO: SA Marina Naves\nCC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds\nFROM: SAC Douglas Grath\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nSpecial Agent Naves,\n\nThank you for your diligent work. Hopefully, the Navy will be able to find these poor people.\n\nBest,\n\nDouglas Grath\nSpecial Agent in Charge\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\n2946-03-08_21:23 SET\nTO: SAC Douglas Grath\nFROM: SA Marina Naves\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nSAC Grath,\n\nSomething about the raid outside of Nedila hasn\u2019t been sitting right with me. If you\u2019ll indulge this non sequitur for a few minutes, I\u2019ll explain.\n\nThere was a moment near the end of my investigation where I sat in the center of the settlement to take in the scene. It was a visualization technique I picked up from my TO back on my first assignment. While I was thinking over everything I had seen and gleaned from the impressions from the local police, I noticed a discarded Stim canister half-buried in the dirt by my feet.\n\nIt was the same brand I used back when I smoked. I kicked them five years ago, but there are times when I get that flash of impulse when I see one. When something is a habit for so long, it\u2019s hard not to instinctively slip back to that old, practiced behavior.\n\nThat night while writing my findings, I was reviewing the personal files of the victims and thought about the Stim again. I was a little disturbed by the effect it was having on me. I even thought I was slipping for a second.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t until tonight that I realized the connection.\n\nUli Estada had struggled with Kilos\u2019 Malady, which is an inflammation of the respiratory system that, in Uli\u2019s case, left him particularly vulnerable to toxins in the air. It was the reason the Estadas moved from Nedila in the first place.\n\nI went back and recovered the initial comm exchange between Michael Estada and Lydia Swan (the previous owner of their house). It\u2019s attached for your review, but here\u2019s a transcript of the interesting part:\n\nMichael Estada: \u2026 the climate sounds ideal. My oldest suffers from Kilos\u2019 so we have to be very careful about what kind of atmosphere he\u2019s living in.\n\nLydia Swan: I\u2019m so sorry to hear that, but your oldest will benefit greatly here. Everyone who\u2019s moved out here is committed to clean living. It\u2019s a little unofficial thing we all signed up for a couple years ago. It\u2019s voluntary, more like a Better Living Club really.\n\nMichael Estada: That sounds fun.\n\nI\u2019ve sent along the tenets of this community mandate. It was a basic health regimen, but one of the guidelines specifically forbade Stim use. To be sure, I ran an initial DNA scans of the Stim canister and it didn\u2019t match any of the settlement\u2019s inhabitants.\n\nIn short, sir, I think we\u2019re looking in the wrong place. I suspect everything from the ships in the border sensor image to the scene itself were arranged to look like a Vanduul attack and the discarded Stim was the only slip-up in an otherwise perfectly executed frame.\n\nI would like to reopen the case to pursue this angle. If I\u2019m right, then we have a slaver group operating within the UEE that is not only intelligent and efficient, but knowledgeable in evidence collection methods and investigation techniques. And if that\u2019s true, who knows how many abductions were incorrectly attributed to Vanduul attacks.\n\nSincerely,\n\nMarina Naves\nSpecial Agent\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\n2946-03-08_21:52 SET\nTO: SA Marina Naves\nFROM: SAC Douglas Grath\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nYour connections sound tenuous at best, Marina, and we just received a report that three inmates were boosted from a holding facility in system, so my instinct is to assign you to that pursuit.\n\nBut for the sake of that family, I\u2019ll give you one day to change my mind.\n\nGood hunting,\n\nDouglas Grath\nSpecial Agent in Charge\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\nEND EXCHANGE","de_DE":"ADVOCACY-ARCHIV\nINTRA-AGENTUR-NACHRICHTEN\n2946-03-06_13:04 GESETZT\nTO: SAC Douglas Grath\nCC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds\nVON: SA Marina Schiffe\nRE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung\nVorfallsbericht\n\nUnter 2946-03-04_14:38 SET erhielt die lokale Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rde in Nedila einen Anruf von Maxwell Kenny (PersonalFile#ES4-78438-652). Kenny war zu einer nahegelegenen Siedlung gereist, die sich 213 km SSW von Nedila befindet, und entdeckte, dass sie unter einer Art Angriff stand. Er war dort, um bei der Familie Estada (Michael (38), Corene (37), Uli (17) und Madina (7)) einzuchecken, von der mehrere Tage lang nichts geh\u00f6rt worden war, nachdem er an der Geburtstagsfeier seines Kindes nicht teilgenommen hatte (am 2946-03-01). Kenny rief nach \u00dcberlebenden, bevor er die \u00f6rtlichen Beh\u00f6rden anrief. Unser B\u00fcro wurde kontaktiert, nachdem die \u00f6rtliche Polizei eine erste Durchsuchung der Szene durchgef\u00fchrt hatte.\n\nSchwellenwertbewertung\n\n2946-03-04_19:15 SATZ: Ich machte mich auf den Weg zur Siedlung, ohne die lokalen Untersuchungsberichte zu \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen, um eine neue Perspektive der Szene zu erhalten. Als ich die Siedlung aus der Luft umkreiste, bemerkte ich f\u00fcnf Wohnh\u00e4user und zwei Wasserfarmen. Basierend auf der Anordnung der Geb\u00e4ude schien es nicht, dass sie zur Abwehr von Angriffen konstruiert wurden. Drei S\u00e4tze von Brandspuren deuteten darauf hin, dass ein bis drei kleine Schiffe k\u00fcrzlich in der N\u00e4he gelandet und gestartet waren. Au\u00dferhalb des lokalen Kommando-Turms schienen die Geb\u00e4ude keine Sch\u00e4den durch Schiffswaffen erlitten zu haben. Fegte ein Suchmuster von der Siedlung weg, um nach anderen Hinweisen zu suchen. Ich sah nichts, also entschied ich mich, zu landen und zu Fu\u00df weiterzugehen.\n\nAuf dem Boden wurden Geb\u00e4ude durch lang anhaltende Kleinwaffenfeuer besch\u00e4digt. Chemische Analyse der Verbrennungsmuster zeigt, dass Plasma-basierte Waffen verwendet wurden. Durch die Geb\u00e4ude hindurch sah es so aus, als h\u00e4tten sich einige der Bewohner in einem verst\u00e4rkten Raum verbarrikadiert. Mehr Plasmakohle war mit einem Bruch vereinbar. Keine Leichen im Inneren. Etwas Blut spritzt \u00fcber eine der W\u00e4nde, wahrscheinlich durch einen Aufprall. Definitiv nicht genug, um ein t\u00f6dlicher Schlag zu sein.\n\nZwischen den Ruinen bewegt, scheint eine der Familien Sataball-Memorabilien gesammelt zu haben. Ich bin kein Fan, aber selbst ich konnte erkennen, dass diese Gegenst\u00e4nde ein kleines Verm\u00f6gen einbringen w\u00fcrden, aber sie wurden hier gelassen.\n\nEin weiteres merkw\u00fcrdiges Detail, das kommunale Lager f\u00fcr die Siedlung, wurde mit Nahrungserg\u00e4nzungsmitteln gef\u00fcllt. Im Gegensatz zu den Erinnerungsst\u00fccken w\u00e4ren diese Erg\u00e4nzungsmittel nicht nachvollziehbar und leicht zu verkaufen. Wie die Erinnerungsst\u00fccke waren sie unber\u00fchrt.\n\nUmzug in das Zentrum der Siedlung, um die Szene aufzunehmen und die Bewertungen der lokalen Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rden zu \u00fcberpr\u00fcfen. Wenn ich mir die Angriffsmuster, die Ansatzwinkel, die verlassenen wertvollen Ressourcen anschaue, glaube ich immer weniger, dass es sich um einen Angriff der Menschen handelt.\n\nIch schickte Kommunikationen an die UEE Navy, als ich meine Ergebnisse vorbereitete.\n\nZusammenfassung\n\nScans zeigen an, dass eine kleine Vanduul-Raupe (zwei Sensen und ein weiteres Schiff) am 2946-03-01-01 in das System eingedrungen ist. Dies w\u00fcrde die fr\u00fchere Theorie best\u00e4tigen, dass der Angriff nicht von Menschen begangen wurde. Dies w\u00fcrde darauf hindeuten, dass der Vanduul-Schlag von Vanguard ausging und den Leir-Sprungpunkt benutzte, was zweifellos die verst\u00e4rkte milit\u00e4rische Pr\u00e4senz entlang dieser Front vermeidet.\n\nOhne die Leichen ist es schwierig festzustellen, ob sie die Siedlungen nach Ressourcen angegriffen oder die Bewohner gefangen genommen haben. Ich habe alle meine Ergebnisse zusammen mit den Personalakten der neun vermissten Personen gesammelt und an den Marine-Geheimdienst weitergeleitet.\n\nMit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen,\n\nMarina Naves\nSonderbeauftragter\nAnwaltschaft - Elysium System\n\n2946-03-07_09_09:38 GESETZT\nTO: SA Marina Schiffe\nCC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds\nVON: SAC Douglas Grath\nRE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung\nSpecial Agent Naves,\n\nVielen Dank f\u00fcr Ihre flei\u00dfige Arbeit. Hoffentlich wird die Marine in der Lage sein, diese armen Leute zu finden.\n\nAm besten,\n\nDouglas Grath\nZust\u00e4ndiger Sonderbeauftragter\nAnwaltschaft - Elysium System\n\n2946-03-08_21_21:23 GESETZT\nTO: SAC Douglas Grath\nVON: SA Marina Schiffe\nRE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung\nSAC Grath,\n\nIrgendwas an dem \u00dcberfall au\u00dferhalb von Nedila hat mir nicht richtig gefallen. Wenn du diesem Unsinn f\u00fcr ein paar Minuten nachgibst, erkl\u00e4re ich es dir.\n\nEs gab einen Moment gegen Ende meiner Untersuchung, in dem ich im Zentrum der Siedlung sa\u00df, um die Szene aufzunehmen. Es war eine Visualisierungstechnik, die ich bei meinem ersten Auftrag von meinem TO mitgenommen habe. W\u00e4hrend ich \u00fcber alles nachdachte, was ich gesehen und aus den Eindr\u00fccken der \u00f6rtlichen Polizei gelernt hatte, bemerkte ich einen weggeworfenen Stim-Kanister, der halb im Dreck an meinen F\u00fc\u00dfen vergraben war.\n\nEs war die gleiche Marke, die ich damals benutzte, als ich rauchte. Ich habe sie vor f\u00fcnf Jahren getreten, aber es gibt Zeiten, in denen ich diesen Impulsblitz bekomme, wenn ich einen sehe. Wenn etwas so lange eine Gewohnheit ist, ist es schwer, nicht instinktiv zu diesem alten, ge\u00fcbten Verhalten zur\u00fcckzukehren.\n\nIn dieser Nacht, als ich meine Ergebnisse schrieb, \u00fcberpr\u00fcfte ich die pers\u00f6nlichen Dateien der Opfer und dachte wieder \u00fcber das Stim nach. Ich war ein wenig beunruhigt \u00fcber die Wirkung, die sie auf mich hatte. Ich dachte sogar, ich w\u00fcrde f\u00fcr eine Sekunde ausrutschen.\n\nErst heute Abend wurde mir die Verbindung klar.\n\nUli Estada hatte mit Kilos' Malady zu k\u00e4mpfen, einer Entz\u00fcndung der Atemwege, die ihn im Falle von Uli besonders anf\u00e4llig f\u00fcr Giftstoffe in der Luft machte. Es war der Grund, warum die Estadas \u00fcberhaupt von Nedila weggezogen sind.\n\nIch ging zur\u00fcck und fand den ersten Kommunikationsaustausch zwischen Michael Estada und Lydia Swan (der fr\u00fcheren Besitzerin ihres Hauses) wieder. Es ist f\u00fcr Ihre Rezension beigef\u00fcgt, aber hier ist eine Abschrift des interessanten Teils:\n\nMichael Estada:.... das Klima klingt ideal. Mein \u00c4ltester leidet unter Kilos', also m\u00fcssen wir sehr vorsichtig sein, in welcher Atmosph\u00e4re er lebt.\n\nLydia Swan: Es tut mir so leid, das zu h\u00f6ren, aber deine \u00c4lteste wird hier sehr profitieren. Jeder, der hierher gezogen ist, ist dem sauberen Leben verpflichtet. Es ist eine kleine inoffizielle Sache, f\u00fcr die wir uns alle vor ein paar Jahren angemeldet haben. Es ist freiwillig, eher wie ein Better Living Club.\n\nMichael Estada: Das klingt lustig.\n\nIch habe die Grunds\u00e4tze dieses Gemeinschaftsauftrags mitgeschickt. Es war ein grundlegendes Gesundheitsprogramm, aber eine der Richtlinien verbot ausdr\u00fccklich die Anwendung von Stim. Um sicher zu sein, habe ich eine erste DNA-Untersuchung des Stim-Kanisters durchgef\u00fchrt, und er passte zu keinem der Bewohner der Siedlung.\n\nKurz gesagt, Sir, ich denke, wir suchen an der falschen Stelle. Ich vermute, dass alles, von den Schiffen im Grenzsensorbild bis zur Szene selbst, so arrangiert wurde, dass es wie ein Vanduul-Angriff aussah und der verworfene Stim der einzige Ausrutscher in einem ansonsten perfekt ausgef\u00fchrten Rahmen war.\n\nIch m\u00f6chte den Fall erneut aufgreifen, um diesen Aspekt weiterzuverfolgen. Wenn ich Recht habe, dann haben wir eine Sklavengruppe, die innerhalb der UEE operiert, die nicht nur intelligent und effizient ist, sondern auch \u00fcber Kenntnisse in Methoden der Beweisaufnahme und Untersuchungstechniken verf\u00fcgt. Und wenn das wahr ist, wer wei\u00df, wie viele Entf\u00fchrungen f\u00e4lschlicherweise auf Vanduul-Angriffe zur\u00fcckgef\u00fchrt wurden.\n\nMit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen,\n\nMarina Naves\nSonderbeauftragter\nAnwaltschaft - Elysium System\n\n2946-03-08_21_21:52 SATZ\nTO: SA Marina Schiffe\nVON: SAC Douglas Grath\nRE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung\nDeine Verbindungen klingen bestenfalls d\u00fcrftig, Marina, und wir haben gerade einen Bericht erhalten, dass drei H\u00e4ftlinge aus einer Gef\u00e4ngnisanlage im System gesto\u00dfen wurden, also ist mein Instinkt, dich dieser Verfolgung zuzuordnen.\n\nAber um der Familie willen, gebe ich dir einen Tag Zeit, meine Meinung zu \u00e4ndern.\n\nGute Jagd,\n\nDouglas Grath\nZust\u00e4ndiger Sonderbeauftragter\nAnwaltschaft - Elysium System\n\nENDAUSTAUSCH","zh_CN":"ADVOCACY ARCHIVE\nINTRA-AGENCY MESSAGES\n2946-03-06_13:04 SET\nTO: SAC Douglas Grath\nCC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds\nFROM: SA Marina Naves\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nIncident Report\n\nAt 2946-03-04_14:38 SET, local law enforcement in Nedila received a call from Maxwell Kenny (PersonalFile#ES4-78438-652). Kenny had traveled to a nearby settlement, located 213km SSW of Nedila and discovered that it had been under some kind of attack. He was there check in on the Estada family (Michael (38), Corene (37), Uli (17) and Madina (7)) who had not been heard from for several days after failing to attend his child\u2019s birthday party (on 2946-03-01). Kenny called out for any survivors before calling local authorities. Our office was contacted after local police conducted an initial sweep of the scene.\n\nThreshold Assessment\n\n2946-03-04_19:15 SET: I made my way to the settlement without reviewing the local investigation reports in an effort to maintain a fresh perspective of the scene. Circling the settlement from the air, I noted five residences and two water farms. Based on the arrangement of the buildings, it didn\u2019t seem that they were constructed to repel attacks. Three sets of scorch marks indicated that one to three small ships had recently landed and taken off nearby. Outside of the local comm tower, the buildings didn\u2019t appear to have sustained any damage from ship-borne weapons. Swept a search pattern away from the settlement to look for any other clues. Saw nothing, so I decided to land and continue on foot.\n\nOn the ground, buildings were damaged from prolonged small arms fire. Chem analysis of the burn patterns indicate plasma-based weapons were used. Moving through the buildings, it looked like some of the inhabitants barricaded themselves inside a reinforced room. More plasma-char were consistent with a breach. No bodies inside. Some blood spray across one of the walls; probably from an impact. Definitely not enough to be a lethal strike.\n\nMoved between the ruins, seems one of the families collected Sataball memorabilia. I\u2019m not a fan, but even I could tell that these items would fetch a small fortune, but they were left here.\n\nAnother curious detail, the communal storage for the settlement was filled with food supplements. Unlike the memorabilia, these supplements would be impossible to trace and easy to sell. Like the memorabilia, they were untouched.\n\nMoved to the center of the settlement to take in the scene and review local law enforcement\u2019s assessments. Looking at the attack patterns, the angles of approach, the valuable resources abandoned, made me believe less and less that this was an attack by Humans.\n\nI sent comms to the UEE Navy as I prepared my findings.\n\nSummary\n\nReceived confirmation from the UEE Navy that border sensors from Leir had been tripped, scans indicate that a small Vanduul raiding party (two Scythes and another vessel) slipped into the system on 2946-03-01. This would validate the earlier theory that the attack was not perpetrated by Humans. This would suggest that the Vanduul strike originated from Vanguard and used the Leir jump point, undoubtedly avoiding the increased military presence along that front.\n\nWithout the bodies, it\u2019s difficult to ascertain whether they attacked the settlements for resources or to capture the inhabitants. I\u2019ve collected all of my findings along with Personal Files for the nine missing persons and passed them along to Naval Intelligence.\n\nSincerely,\n\nMarina Naves\nSpecial Agent\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\n2946-03-07_09:38 SET\nTO: SA Marina Naves\nCC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds\nFROM: SAC Douglas Grath\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nSpecial Agent Naves,\n\nThank you for your diligent work. Hopefully, the Navy will be able to find these poor people.\n\nBest,\n\nDouglas Grath\nSpecial Agent in Charge\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\n2946-03-08_21:23 SET\nTO: SAC Douglas Grath\nFROM: SA Marina Naves\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nSAC Grath,\n\nSomething about the raid outside of Nedila hasn\u2019t been sitting right with me. If you\u2019ll indulge this non sequitur for a few minutes, I\u2019ll explain.\n\nThere was a moment near the end of my investigation where I sat in the center of the settlement to take in the scene. It was a visualization technique I picked up from my TO back on my first assignment. While I was thinking over everything I had seen and gleaned from the impressions from the local police, I noticed a discarded Stim canister half-buried in the dirt by my feet.\n\nIt was the same brand I used back when I smoked. I kicked them five years ago, but there are times when I get that flash of impulse when I see one. When something is a habit for so long, it\u2019s hard not to instinctively slip back to that old, practiced behavior.\n\nThat night while writing my findings, I was reviewing the personal files of the victims and thought about the Stim again. I was a little disturbed by the effect it was having on me. I even thought I was slipping for a second.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t until tonight that I realized the connection.\n\nUli Estada had struggled with Kilos\u2019 Malady, which is an inflammation of the respiratory system that, in Uli\u2019s case, left him particularly vulnerable to toxins in the air. It was the reason the Estadas moved from Nedila in the first place.\n\nI went back and recovered the initial comm exchange between Michael Estada and Lydia Swan (the previous owner of their house). It\u2019s attached for your review, but here\u2019s a transcript of the interesting part:\n\nMichael Estada: \u2026 the climate sounds ideal. My oldest suffers from Kilos\u2019 so we have to be very careful about what kind of atmosphere he\u2019s living in.\n\nLydia Swan: I\u2019m so sorry to hear that, but your oldest will benefit greatly here. Everyone who\u2019s moved out here is committed to clean living. It\u2019s a little unofficial thing we all signed up for a couple years ago. It\u2019s voluntary, more like a Better Living Club really.\n\nMichael Estada: That sounds fun.\n\nI\u2019ve sent along the tenets of this community mandate. It was a basic health regimen, but one of the guidelines specifically forbade Stim use. To be sure, I ran an initial DNA scans of the Stim canister and it didn\u2019t match any of the settlement\u2019s inhabitants.\n\nIn short, sir, I think we\u2019re looking in the wrong place. I suspect everything from the ships in the border sensor image to the scene itself were arranged to look like a Vanduul attack and the discarded Stim was the only slip-up in an otherwise perfectly executed frame.\n\nI would like to reopen the case to pursue this angle. If I\u2019m right, then we have a slaver group operating within the UEE that is not only intelligent and efficient, but knowledgeable in evidence collection methods and investigation techniques. And if that\u2019s true, who knows how many abductions were incorrectly attributed to Vanduul attacks.\n\nSincerely,\n\nMarina Naves\nSpecial Agent\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\n2946-03-08_21:52 SET\nTO: SA Marina Naves\nFROM: SAC Douglas Grath\nRE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment\nYour connections sound tenuous at best, Marina, and we just received a report that three inmates were boosted from a holding facility in system, so my instinct is to assign you to that pursuit.\n\nBut for the sake of that family, I\u2019ll give you one day to change my mind.\n\nGood hunting,\n\nDouglas Grath\nSpecial Agent in Charge\nAdvocacy \u2013 Elysium System\n\nEND EXCHANGE"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":56,"created_at":"2016-03-09T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"10 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-07 23:58:57","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":15229,"next_id":15231}}