Log 2 - Alexis Bright - Back to Old Habits
15 Sep 2021Alexis Bright
Log status: Private - EncryptedDate: 15 SEP 3307*START OF TRANSMISSION*Alexis Bright checking in.
After an urgent missing that squadron commander Aurora Adair went missing, I also received a transmission from this //-AC person after trying to get more on his good side:
No bother, Commander. Usually, I would have wanted to avoid violence, but with Aurora being persistently defended by the operations team and the majority of her squadron, diplomacy is off the table now.
We will take matters into our own hands. I don't wish to diminish the help you have graciously offered towards my cause - but unless you want to suffer the same fate as Aurora and Tori, you will not get involved any further.
Needless to say, I feel kind of responsible and decided to go and find Adair myself.
I announced this in the squadron and swiftly got warned about Operative May.. Apparently she's done some dodgy stuff as a Praetor and a CMDR is still suspecting her involvement in his fleet carrier's bombing.
I'll definitely keep an eye out on her if I stumble upon her.
A CSF soldier, who wanted to stay anonymous, disclosed Adair's destination to me, after hearing that I wanted to get a lead on whatever happened. It's Tsarenko Lodges in HIP 9452, and his reasoning was that... 'a Commander might be able to... operate a little outside of the law to get the info needed'.
After some time flying, I reached Tsarenko Lodges and decided to investigate.
There were CSF units and a ship at the location, but they didn't seem to be aware of my arrival. This allowed me to roam the settlement freely.
At first glance it seemed a fairly normal place.. Just a standard, boring tourist settlement like you have in about every system.
Still, I decided to... "bend the law" a little bit...
Long story short, I snuck into the power room and switched off the alarms so I could access the dataports and see if anything useful got through. You know, the standard procedure.
I found a dataport that had a very strange, encrypted communication log stored.
I downloaded it, which revealed some encrypted contents. Sadly I'm not that good at decryption, so I couldn't decrypt it at location if I didn't want to risk being detected.
I'll attach the encrypted content. I'll ask around in the squadron to see if anyone managed to decrypt it, hopefully yesterday.. Time is of the essence if I want a chance to find Adair.
88 90 54 68 5f b4 1f ad 07 94 cd 0f 8e dc 23 4f bb 4e a3 87 4d fc 38 b5 29 ef 00 bd 0b 93 94 c3 ac 44 bc 55 a0 3d 71 9a 40 32 ff fb d7 c4 a6 e2 ab 21 16 bf 44 49 40 72 e2 91 70 ca 9c 35 91 71 7c 24 ca e1 50 8c d4 4b 7f 55 e1 81 3d 4b b5 7c 15 4d 79 a1 77 19 59 45 53 0f 6f 91 0f de 7d d6 a8 bf 69 ca 9a b1 6e e9 8f 4d 94 46 fd f2 d2 e8
Alexis out.
*END OF TRANSMISSION*Thanks for Radium for the help by giving advice and proofreading. Also a huge thanks to allow me to build on top of the awesome lore you write!