Timeline:
12/2505 (94:10 hours local time, nearly midnight) The attack. 27/2505 The present day. It's around noon local time (47:58) and in the morning of the Standard Day on which the indoor lights run. (0730).
Amy
Counter-Piracy
In your investigations so far, you've learned something about the local piracy situation and threats made against the shipping company.
Space Piracy on Rosmerta generally takes the form of extortion. Pirates threaten to destroy the freighters of companies that don't pay them off - a sort of 'protection money' scheme.
The local pirate ring, the Rusty Spears, extorted 50 AEC worth of Rosmertine Blockchain Units from the shipping company for the safety of the lost freighter, named Delicious Algene Health Drink The shipping company (Throbbing Bonobo Shipping) report that they've paid up in the past and, obviously, never had a freighter destroyed.
You have decent underworld contacts, but none of them seem to think the Spears were responsible. They were paid, after all. If you nontheless desire to get more information, you might try Feelgood Wanabe, an erotic virtual reality simulation programmer and operator in the 2784th Ward. He's supposedly in with the Rusty Spears, though nothing serious has ever been pinned on him. He'll want some sort of bribe. Money, maybe fresh fruit, or something more interesting.
Nice
Weapons Technology
In your investigation so far, you've learned some facts about the missile that was used to destroy the freighter.
Igor
Local cultural knowledge
You've looked at the freighter's manifest, and have an idea of someone who might stand to gain by the destruction of the freighter and who might have a score to settle with the Allied Worlds.
The drone freighter IS137 Delicious Algene Health Drink
Item |
Mass |
Declared Value |
Sender |
Destination |
Recipient |
photocurable superconducting resins |
82 tonnes |
8140 AEC |
Heidelberg-Rosmerta Chemical Corporation |
Heidelberg Prime Station |
Europa Spaceworks |
proton-permeable membranes |
40 tonnes |
1140 AEC |
Hesselland Membranes |
Heidelberg |
City Government of Islee |
ultrapermeable isotopic separation membranes |
13 tonnes |
61400 AEC |
Hesselland Membranes |
Heidelberg Prime Station (transfer) |
Allied Worlds Space Force Materiel Command |
semi-permeable membranes for reverse osmosis |
25 tonnes |
2200 AEC |
Hesselland Membranes |
Heidelberg |
Wathersi-Zhuang-Ho Life Systems |
composite structural members |
1200 tonnes |
3600 AEC |
Rosmertine State Construction Materials |
Heidelberg Prime Station |
Europa Spaceworks |
programmable elastomers |
185 tonnes |
1900 AEC |
Rosmertine State Construction Materials |
Heidelberg Prime Station |
Europa Spaceworks |
Those isotopic separation membranes are used to mine the atmospheres of gas planets rich in helium; they can be used to separate helium 3 from the more common helium 4. Their destruction will delay the construction of a nearly completed refinery on Lord British in the Guo's Star system, an Allied investment project in the infrastructure of the Dirac system.
You know a local investor and wealthy businessman with his own dome in the posh 2807th Ward, Simon Ione, has gone long on Helium 3 futures (i.e. he expects the price of Helium-3 to go up) despite most people thinking it will go down due to the new refinery. Did he know that the freighter would be destroyed ahead of time, and decide to do some insider trading? And then, people say he lost a lot when Rosmertine Fleet Yards went out of business... does he have a score to settle with the Alliance?
Sandal
Signals/IT, local cultural knowledge
In your investigation so far, you've gotten some logs from the wireless station that controlled the missile. It was hacked from a network infrastructure point in the 2784th Ward of the Worldhouse, not too far away, with a stolen access credential. It happened