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2946-03-06_13:04 SET
TO: SAC Douglas Grath
CC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds
FROM: SA Marina Naves
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
Incident Report

At 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’s 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.

Threshold Assessment

2946-03-04_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’t 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’t 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.

On 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.

Moved between the ruins, seems one of the families collected Sataball memorabilia. I’m not a fan, but even I could tell that these items would fetch a small fortune, but they were left here.

Another 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.

Moved to the center of the settlement to take in the scene and review local law enforcement’s 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.

I sent comms to the UEE Navy as I prepared my findings.

Summary

Received 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.

Without the bodies, it’s difficult to ascertain whether they attacked the settlements for resources or to capture the inhabitants. I’ve collected all of my findings along with Personal Files for the nine missing persons and passed them along to Naval Intelligence.

Sincerely,

Marina Naves
Special Agent
Advocacy – Elysium System

2946-03-07_09:38 SET
TO: SA Marina Naves
CC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds
FROM: SAC Douglas Grath
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
Special Agent Naves,

Thank you for your diligent work. Hopefully, the Navy will be able to find these poor people.

Best,

Douglas Grath
Special Agent in Charge
Advocacy – Elysium System

2946-03-08_21:23 SET
TO: SAC Douglas Grath
FROM: SA Marina Naves
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
SAC Grath,

Something about the raid outside of Nedila hasn’t been sitting right with me. If you’ll indulge this non sequitur for a few minutes, I’ll explain.

There 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.

It 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’s hard not to instinctively slip back to that old, practiced behavior.

That 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.

It wasn’t until tonight that I realized the connection.

Uli Estada had struggled with Kilos’ Malady, which is an inflammation of the respiratory system that, in Uli’s case, left him particularly vulnerable to toxins in the air. It was the reason the Estadas moved from Nedila in the first place.

I went back and recovered the initial comm exchange between Michael Estada and Lydia Swan (the previous owner of their house). It’s attached for your review, but here’s a transcript of the interesting part:

Michael Estada: … the climate sounds ideal. My oldest suffers from Kilos’ so we have to be very careful about what kind of atmosphere he’s living in.

Lydia Swan: I’m so sorry to hear that, but your oldest will benefit greatly here. Everyone who’s moved out here is committed to clean living. It’s a little unofficial thing we all signed up for a couple years ago. It’s voluntary, more like a Better Living Club really.

Michael Estada: That sounds fun.

I’ve 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’t match any of the settlement’s inhabitants.

In short, sir, I think we’re 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.

I would like to reopen the case to pursue this angle. If I’m 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’s true, who knows how many abductions were incorrectly attributed to Vanduul attacks.

Sincerely,

Marina Naves
Special Agent
Advocacy – Elysium System

2946-03-08_21:52 SET
TO: SA Marina Naves
FROM: SAC Douglas Grath
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
Your 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.

But for the sake of that family, I’ll give you one day to change my mind.

Good hunting,

Douglas Grath
Special Agent in Charge
Advocacy – Elysium System

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2946-03-06_13:04 GESETZT
TO: SAC Douglas Grath
CC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds
VON: SA Marina Schiffe
RE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung
Vorfallsbericht

Unter 2946-03-04_14:38 SET erhielt die lokale Strafverfolgungsbehörde 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 gehört worden war, nachdem er an der Geburtstagsfeier seines Kindes nicht teilgenommen hatte (am 2946-03-01). Kenny rief nach Überlebenden, bevor er die örtlichen Behörden anrief. Unser Büro wurde kontaktiert, nachdem die örtliche Polizei eine erste Durchsuchung der Szene durchgeführt hatte.

Schwellenwertbewertung

2946-03-04_19:15 SATZ: Ich machte mich auf den Weg zur Siedlung, ohne die lokalen Untersuchungsberichte zu überprüfen, um eine neue Perspektive der Szene zu erhalten. Als ich die Siedlung aus der Luft umkreiste, bemerkte ich fünf Wohnhäuser und zwei Wasserfarmen. Basierend auf der Anordnung der Gebäude schien es nicht, dass sie zur Abwehr von Angriffen konstruiert wurden. Drei Sätze von Brandspuren deuteten darauf hin, dass ein bis drei kleine Schiffe kürzlich in der Nähe gelandet und gestartet waren. Außerhalb des lokalen Kommando-Turms schienen die Gebäude keine Schäden 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 Fuß weiterzugehen.

Auf dem Boden wurden Gebäude durch lang anhaltende Kleinwaffenfeuer beschädigt. Chemische Analyse der Verbrennungsmuster zeigt, dass Plasma-basierte Waffen verwendet wurden. Durch die Gebäude hindurch sah es so aus, als hätten sich einige der Bewohner in einem verstärkten Raum verbarrikadiert. Mehr Plasmakohle war mit einem Bruch vereinbar. Keine Leichen im Inneren. Etwas Blut spritzt über eine der Wände, wahrscheinlich durch einen Aufprall. Definitiv nicht genug, um ein tödlicher Schlag zu sein.

Zwischen den Ruinen bewegt, scheint eine der Familien Sataball-Memorabilien gesammelt zu haben. Ich bin kein Fan, aber selbst ich konnte erkennen, dass diese Gegenstände ein kleines Vermögen einbringen würden, aber sie wurden hier gelassen.

Ein weiteres merkwürdiges Detail, das kommunale Lager für die Siedlung, wurde mit Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln gefüllt. Im Gegensatz zu den Erinnerungsstücken wären diese Ergänzungsmittel nicht nachvollziehbar und leicht zu verkaufen. Wie die Erinnerungsstücke waren sie unberührt.

Umzug in das Zentrum der Siedlung, um die Szene aufzunehmen und die Bewertungen der lokalen Strafverfolgungsbehörden zu überprüfen. 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.

Ich schickte Kommunikationen an die UEE Navy, als ich meine Ergebnisse vorbereitete.

Zusammenfassung

Scans zeigen an, dass eine kleine Vanduul-Raupe (zwei Sensen und ein weiteres Schiff) am 2946-03-01-01 in das System eingedrungen ist. Dies würde die frühere Theorie bestätigen, dass der Angriff nicht von Menschen begangen wurde. Dies würde darauf hindeuten, dass der Vanduul-Schlag von Vanguard ausging und den Leir-Sprungpunkt benutzte, was zweifellos die verstärkte militärische Präsenz entlang dieser Front vermeidet.

Ohne 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.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Marina Naves
Sonderbeauftragter
Anwaltschaft - Elysium System

2946-03-07_09_09:38 GESETZT
TO: SA Marina Schiffe
CC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds
VON: SAC Douglas Grath
RE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung
Special Agent Naves,

Vielen Dank für Ihre fleißige Arbeit. Hoffentlich wird die Marine in der Lage sein, diese armen Leute zu finden.

Am besten,

Douglas Grath
Zuständiger Sonderbeauftragter
Anwaltschaft - Elysium System

2946-03-08_21_21:23 GESETZT
TO: SAC Douglas Grath
VON: SA Marina Schiffe
RE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung
SAC Grath,

Irgendwas an dem Überfall außerhalb von Nedila hat mir nicht richtig gefallen. Wenn du diesem Unsinn für ein paar Minuten nachgibst, erkläre ich es dir.

Es gab einen Moment gegen Ende meiner Untersuchung, in dem ich im Zentrum der Siedlung saß, um die Szene aufzunehmen. Es war eine Visualisierungstechnik, die ich bei meinem ersten Auftrag von meinem TO mitgenommen habe. Während ich über alles nachdachte, was ich gesehen und aus den Eindrücken der örtlichen Polizei gelernt hatte, bemerkte ich einen weggeworfenen Stim-Kanister, der halb im Dreck an meinen Füßen vergraben war.

Es war die gleiche Marke, die ich damals benutzte, als ich rauchte. Ich habe sie vor fünf 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, geübten Verhalten zurückzukehren.

In dieser Nacht, als ich meine Ergebnisse schrieb, überprüfte ich die persönlichen Dateien der Opfer und dachte wieder über das Stim nach. Ich war ein wenig beunruhigt über die Wirkung, die sie auf mich hatte. Ich dachte sogar, ich würde für eine Sekunde ausrutschen.

Erst heute Abend wurde mir die Verbindung klar.

Uli Estada hatte mit Kilos' Malady zu kämpfen, einer Entzündung der Atemwege, die ihn im Falle von Uli besonders anfällig für Giftstoffe in der Luft machte. Es war der Grund, warum die Estadas überhaupt von Nedila weggezogen sind.

Ich ging zurück und fand den ersten Kommunikationsaustausch zwischen Michael Estada und Lydia Swan (der früheren Besitzerin ihres Hauses) wieder. Es ist für Ihre Rezension beigefügt, aber hier ist eine Abschrift des interessanten Teils:

Michael Estada:.... das Klima klingt ideal. Mein Ältester leidet unter Kilos', also müssen wir sehr vorsichtig sein, in welcher Atmosphäre er lebt.

Lydia Swan: Es tut mir so leid, das zu hören, aber deine Älteste wird hier sehr profitieren. Jeder, der hierher gezogen ist, ist dem sauberen Leben verpflichtet. Es ist eine kleine inoffizielle Sache, für die wir uns alle vor ein paar Jahren angemeldet haben. Es ist freiwillig, eher wie ein Better Living Club.

Michael Estada: Das klingt lustig.

Ich habe die Grundsätze dieses Gemeinschaftsauftrags mitgeschickt. Es war ein grundlegendes Gesundheitsprogramm, aber eine der Richtlinien verbot ausdrücklich die Anwendung von Stim. Um sicher zu sein, habe ich eine erste DNA-Untersuchung des Stim-Kanisters durchgeführt, und er passte zu keinem der Bewohner der Siedlung.

Kurz 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 ausgeführten Rahmen war.

Ich möchte 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 über Kenntnisse in Methoden der Beweisaufnahme und Untersuchungstechniken verfügt. Und wenn das wahr ist, wer weiß, wie viele Entführungen fälschlicherweise auf Vanduul-Angriffe zurückgeführt wurden.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Marina Naves
Sonderbeauftragter
Anwaltschaft - Elysium System

2946-03-08_21_21:52 SATZ
TO: SA Marina Schiffe
VON: SAC Douglas Grath
RE: Falldatei #EA-89549v, Erstbewertung
Deine Verbindungen klingen bestenfalls dürftig, Marina, und wir haben gerade einen Bericht erhalten, dass drei Häftlinge aus einer Gefängnisanlage im System gestoßen wurden, also ist mein Instinkt, dich dieser Verfolgung zuzuordnen.

Aber um der Familie willen, gebe ich dir einen Tag Zeit, meine Meinung zu ändern.

Gute Jagd,

Douglas Grath
Zuständiger Sonderbeauftragter
Anwaltschaft - Elysium System

ENDAUSTAUSCH
ADVOCACY ARCHIVE
INTRA-AGENCY MESSAGES
2946-03-06_13:04 SET
TO: SAC Douglas Grath
CC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds
FROM: SA Marina Naves
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
Incident Report

At 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’s 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.

Threshold Assessment

2946-03-04_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’t 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’t 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.

On 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.

Moved between the ruins, seems one of the families collected Sataball memorabilia. I’m not a fan, but even I could tell that these items would fetch a small fortune, but they were left here.

Another 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.

Moved to the center of the settlement to take in the scene and review local law enforcement’s 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.

I sent comms to the UEE Navy as I prepared my findings.

Summary

Received 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.

Without the bodies, it’s difficult to ascertain whether they attacked the settlements for resources or to capture the inhabitants. I’ve collected all of my findings along with Personal Files for the nine missing persons and passed them along to Naval Intelligence.

Sincerely,

Marina Naves
Special Agent
Advocacy – Elysium System

2946-03-07_09:38 SET
TO: SA Marina Naves
CC: SC Weston Klim, ASC Quentin Leeds
FROM: SAC Douglas Grath
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
Special Agent Naves,

Thank you for your diligent work. Hopefully, the Navy will be able to find these poor people.

Best,

Douglas Grath
Special Agent in Charge
Advocacy – Elysium System

2946-03-08_21:23 SET
TO: SAC Douglas Grath
FROM: SA Marina Naves
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
SAC Grath,

Something about the raid outside of Nedila hasn’t been sitting right with me. If you’ll indulge this non sequitur for a few minutes, I’ll explain.

There 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.

It 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’s hard not to instinctively slip back to that old, practiced behavior.

That 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.

It wasn’t until tonight that I realized the connection.

Uli Estada had struggled with Kilos’ Malady, which is an inflammation of the respiratory system that, in Uli’s case, left him particularly vulnerable to toxins in the air. It was the reason the Estadas moved from Nedila in the first place.

I went back and recovered the initial comm exchange between Michael Estada and Lydia Swan (the previous owner of their house). It’s attached for your review, but here’s a transcript of the interesting part:

Michael Estada: … the climate sounds ideal. My oldest suffers from Kilos’ so we have to be very careful about what kind of atmosphere he’s living in.

Lydia Swan: I’m so sorry to hear that, but your oldest will benefit greatly here. Everyone who’s moved out here is committed to clean living. It’s a little unofficial thing we all signed up for a couple years ago. It’s voluntary, more like a Better Living Club really.

Michael Estada: That sounds fun.

I’ve 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’t match any of the settlement’s inhabitants.

In short, sir, I think we’re 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.

I would like to reopen the case to pursue this angle. If I’m 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’s true, who knows how many abductions were incorrectly attributed to Vanduul attacks.

Sincerely,

Marina Naves
Special Agent
Advocacy – Elysium System

2946-03-08_21:52 SET
TO: SA Marina Naves
FROM: SAC Douglas Grath
RE: CaseFile #EA-89549v, Initial Assessment
Your 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.

But for the sake of that family, I’ll give you one day to change my mind.

Good hunting,

Douglas Grath
Special Agent in Charge
Advocacy – Elysium System

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