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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 3817900" data-attributes="member: 8221">Gwydion/Saanath:         Ruzz'koff stands and drinks his koffee and says nothing; but his tail twitches from side to side rythmically like a pointer with a scent who is trying to work out what it is, "This place is filling up with your disreputable associates Gwydion," he gives a brief predatory grin at Tuan, "Still I am sure our Silent Partner has her reasons for not being silent."In the file:       [sblock]Tess is from Gashuki, about 6-7 parsecs Corewood of Glen Murdoch and Gergigi."Girl next door", remarks Ruzz'koff.     Her most recent assignment was a mission similarly to your own - if more overt. She was part of one of many teams aiming to shore up Imperial support amongst the Client States of Diamond Prince and ensure that outside, potentially hostile powers like the Hivers, K'kree and Khuur League did not gain influence. In this they were not successful, and failure was crowned when her own HomeWorld of Gashuki became a Hiver Client.       Just about every Scout involved in the project was dismissed in disgrace and a couple of frontier nobility - already out of favour to begin with - have fallen further from grace. Tess, having previously been a fairly successful Belter was able to afford to travel to Dukh to protest this decision where she met Tjoyia.     Tjoyia's accompanying notes indicate the following:That she believes (and reading between the lines so does the Emperor) that the fault lies with the complacent Domain administration and nobility and the Archduke's cronies rather than the Scout Teams who were used as scapegoats.     However, it is too politically sensitive to act on this at this time and they is a marked lack of evidence so Tess has been sent to you unofficially to assist and redeem her reputation.[/sblock]    On your way to the terminal you are able to keep your appointment with the Missarge Development Corporation. Without going into detail they are more than happy that you are heading there and assure you that a cargo will be waiting for you when you arrive. This of course reliant upon you taking a consignment of mail and about 10 dt of spare parts with you and arriving within 21 days from now.Tess:      It will be another 4 hours before the fast shuttle arrives at Shirgegge, not long after 172 hours in jump, but long enough. Local news indicates not a lot, and a cursory search of the local news tickers reveals that the Vykris had a "mysterious death" during her jump in and was detained by the Navy on arrival.     Apart from that most talk is about the harvest - more than anyone really needs to hear about unless it directly affects them; and at least two of the local channels are showing badly sub-titled K'kree soap operas - each of which has a cast of about 100 and trying to work out who is who makes your brain hurt.</blockquote>

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