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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1827087" data-attributes="member: 9646">And so, you all get acquainted with the Telarion, walking around to familiarize yourself, and inspect if everything is okay. There is indeed a small laboratory, as well as a medical bay with the latest equipment and enough pharmaceutical supplies [every medical serum listed in the d20 Future equipment list is there]. After a few minutes of exploration, everyone begins what he is supposed to do. It quickly appears that the ship is well prepared, thus all should run smoothly. Then, HAR-Vee finishes processing the data regarding the dead crews of the lost spaceships, and doesn't find anything significant. Meanwhile, Vincent begins reading about the residents onboard Ashira_29.<img src="http://www.dcrouzet.net/scifipics/ashira2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Photo of the Ashira_29 station taken one year ago.Ashira_29 is an ancient station built in 2020. It has been refurbished and sold several times since then. The proprietor Mr. Ashdool, is a somewhat shifty businessman currently residing on Mars (he can nonetheless be contacted through telepresence, although due to the distance between Earth and Mars, there is a delay of several minutes between messages). The station (a wheel providing spin gravity) has been divided into 16 quarters that are rented to whomever wants them. The 13 current tenants have been thoroughly examined, and 9 are definitely unrelated to the disappearance of the antimatter bombs (with a 99.83% certitude). The 4 others seem to be also unrelated, but nonetheless look slightly dubious. The infomorph agents were unfortunately discovered and erased by three idiots before they could spy inside the station. Having such a level of electronic defense for a second rate place like this, is a bit strange however. It probably means that some of the activities performed here may be of an illegal nature. In any case, the 4 suspicious tenants are:1) Talens Industries: The headquarter of a mosaic of small companies scattered in several third-world countries, many of which are ruled by oppressive dictatorial regimes. Talens Industries is involved mainly in nanotechnology used to spy on, control, and monitor people; it has associations with various dictators, including Grand General Fudambassa, a power hungry tyrant suspected to fund some terrorist groups. 2) Shabu-Avindranath Corp.: A cloning company. They clone dead persons to bring them back to life, uploading a copy of their personality when possible, and allegedly bringing back the soul as well (through an "original technology that is kept secret"). However, there have been (in India) several judicial affairs concerning the legal rights of those clones, especially when they appeared to be puppets used to take over the wealth and position of the person they were supposed to replace. 3) Shemezgan & Balmers: The two are dubious entrepreneurs who promise (for a hefty price) to provide anything their customers might request, and to do it in secrecy. Shemezgan is a logistics expert, while Balmers is a lawyer. The former knows many people and has access to a large network of informants and intermediaries; his part consists in getting and delivering what was requested. The latter sees to the legal aspect of the transaction, and how to turn around the law to make it become licit. They do have a spaceship who has been known to travel to Mercury (where antimatter is produced...), Mars, and Jupiter.4) The Church of the Scientific Revelation: Apparently this is the "spatial temple" of a small cult. Their credo is to have bent the biblical revelations to pseudo-scientific explanations: angels and demons are aliens, Heaven exists in another stellar system, etc. The most faithful do pilgrimages to the small temple located in Ashira_29, while the saints are expected to partake in deep space pilgrimages. In this case the "saints" are followers who have got some revelation from these alien-angels.</blockquote>

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