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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 2068366" data-attributes="member: 515">Chapter IXXXDate: 174-993Location: Nupoc Diner, Fonnein Orbital Ian splits his time between keeping an eye on the patrons — who are all watching the video display — and the video display itself. There is a collective gasp as the crowd sees the much smaller far trader dive underneath the long liner and then crash into the long liner, belly to belly. Then the crowd cheers as it realizes that the maneuver was intentional and the far trader is now thrusting hard, trying to alter the long liner's course enough that it will no longer hit the upper atmosphere. Ian slowly shakes his head in disbelief when he sees the Bray Keaven muscle the big liner away from the planet. The far trader continues thrusting for a minute or two and then breaks away. -----Meanwhile, Swann tries to identify the ships involved in the original accident. He manages to identify the Marellia Landing, a Tukera Lines long liner arriving from Weston; the Markov’s Daughter, the far trader that caused the original collision; FS-37, a freight shuttle that Markov’s Daughter clipped before colliding with the Marellia Landing; and the Bray Keaven, the far trader which appears to have just redirected the long liner's course. The Marellia Landing is registered out of Weston to Tukera Lines. Captain is listed as Shara Zaruuks. The Marellia Landing is also listed as due to dock at outside berth OB-123 in 30 minutes. That information is obviously out of date. The Markov’s Daughter is registered out of Liar’s Oath to a Niles Markov, who is also the captain. The Markov’s Daughter was docked at outside berth OB-115. The berth is reserved for another three days. The FS-37 is registered to Boris Cargo Transfer. Swann attempts to track crew or passenger information from the Starport Authority Customs system. Swann makes it into the system, but is not able to find the information before he loses access. -----Aidan tries to find out more information about Sare No. 2. Aidan first creates an anonymous user account to help mask his tracks. He then manages to access the Starport Authority system. From there, he goes for the law enforcement system. Once in, he runs Sare No. 2’s picture against any watch lists. A hit comes up on the lists of suspected Solomani agents. There isn’t much information available in the entry other than the usual "considered armed and dangerous" and the aliases of "Francis Mott" and "Cyrus Feigen." -----"Swann? How are you doing with your research?" Aidan asks. Swann replies, "I was doing fine until the frellin' custom’s system kicked me out." Swann leans back from the terminal and rubs a hand across his face. "I was trying to get a passenger and crew list for the runaway far trader, the Markov’s Daughter. I’ve got the registry info. There probably won’t be a passenger list filed since they left in such a hurry with three days left on their docking berth. You might check to see if they filed a flight plan. Probably not, but maybe there’s something on file regarding where they came from, and who and what they were carrying. And see if you can find anything on the owner, Niles Markov." Aidan says "Alright, I’ll take a shot at that. Be interesting to check the police lists, too. Hmm, wonder if there’s any smuggling or such that’s prevalent around here, might as well take a look in a couple of places." Aidan trails off into muttering to himself about databases and dives back into the computer. He looks for the items as suggested by Swann and also checks into recent police and other activity to see if there’s anything active in the way of crime rings and such. -----Swann tries to get back into the Starport Authority Custom's system to find the crew list for the Markov’s Daughter, and any services billed to the ship or its berth during its stay. He also looks for any records of cargo offloaded, loaded, or declared during inspection. -----Ian sees the Bray Keaven break away from the long liner and then line up on the starboard side of the crippled ship in order to dock. Most of the diner crowd appears to still be intently watching the live feed and the breathless commentary. Ian does see one tall, dark–haired man in gray spacer coveralls who seems to be spending most of his time watching the vid panel, but occasionally glancing over to where the Bray Keaven trio is sitting. Ian steps closer to Swann, points at the vid screen and nods. Speaking discreetly he says, "The dark–haired man in the gray spacer coveralls seems to have an interest in us. He keeps looking in our direction. Could be nothing, just an FYI." He goes back to his watch. -----Eventually, the vid panel splits into a live–feed portion showing the rescue in progress and a portion showing an interview with Niles Markov who says that some unknown person or persons departed with his ship. Niles says that his two transit passengers and Ielishev and N’Shelairsh were the only ones on board when he, Barbara, and Huji left for a breakfast meeting. -----Swann makes a second attempt to get back into the Starport Authority system. He succeeds and then starts hunting for information on the Markov’s Daughter. He finds a crew declaration that indicates four crew besides Niles Markov: Ielishev Rigolson: EngineerHuiji Ge: AstrogatorBarbara Stannis: Steward and MedicN'Shelairsh ap Dhorich: Gunner Swann finds a relatively normal looking list of services billed to the ship (berth fees for a week, refueling, and minor maintenance). Swann attempts to access the customs declaration for a list of cargo offloaded or loaded, but is not successful in finding the information. -----Aidan first goes after any crew and passenger list information. He finds the same crew list that Swann finds. He doesn’t find a list of passengers inbound, but he does find a list of outbound passengers. Two passengers are listed: J’nesh Fulip and Natalie Shu. Aidan then attempts to find any information that he can about the Markov’s Daughter’s movements. He finds that Markov’s Daughter arrived from Sentry four days ago. Aidan then looks for a cargo customs declaration. He finds that almost the entire cargo load (60 dTons) was shipped for Worel Industries. The remainder of the cargo is listed as sealed transit cargo owned by Natalie Shu. -----Swann watches the news broadcast for awhile, and calls up any news information available online regarding the crash and the rescue. He starts looking for photos of any of the participants — the Markov’s Daughter’s crew and passengers.</blockquote>

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