The Suspects
07 Mar 2016AVON NOVA
Ashley has spent the week investigating the destruction of the Sirius Navy ship.
Ashley met with Emmalyn Mathis a Sirius Corp executive running operations on the station and demanded to see those with the security level clearance to have been able to sabotage the iCutter. Mathis was clearly concerned, she was only a month into the job when the Sirius ship had been destroyed under her watch. Although Mathis is a Sirius Corp employee she could not be ruled out because of that.
The station served as the transit hub for mining operations in Sothis and temporary home to 297 people but apart from Mathis only 3 people other than the iCutters dead crew could have entered the ship to sabotage it. Nina Taylor, a Sirius Mining employee and the Stations IT systems administrator; Amanda Ripley a Federation Unite employee and the stations flight control officer and Christopher Samuels the stations chief medical officer, a Deep Space Clan member.
Taylor and Ashley had reviewed the telemetry from the iCutter black box and the analysis of the debris and confirmed it had been a detonation charge placed in the ships Power-plant that had destroyed it. Ashley confirmed that this was now an official navy investigation and that they were all suspects.
Samuels was outraged that he was being considered a suspect. He said that the Deep Space Clan would no longer accept the Sirius Corporation meddling in things that didn't concern them. Ashley knew that Sirius Navy had been secretly helping Liberate Ceos in their war against the "Clan" and that this could be an act of revenge but said nothing. Mathis however, got very angry accusing the "Clan" of perpetrating acts of terrorism and having a distain for any laws outside its own attempts to govern its members behavior.
Ripley said that the "Clan" would never attack a Sirius ship and Mathis laughed out loud, mocking Ripley for defending Samuels and saying that everyone on the station knew about their relationship. Mathis then said she suspected Ripley was involved in a deliberate undermining operation by Federation Unite to take control of the station. Ashley advised Mathis to calm down and promised everyone that the Sirius Corporation would exercise caution and wanted proof, not a diplomatic incident.
- What have we gotten ourselves into?