Session 3: Against Protocol Report

General Summary

// Prologue - 5016U : 05 : 24 Intro Rainier Station (Closest ring station to our outpost)

Most ring stations are huge

Union Admin desk is unoccupied

Sleep schedule is essentially middle of the night for the commander

Flashing alert on the administrator's desk:

++ALERT++ALERT++ TIME: 5016u : 05 : 24 - LOCAL TIME: Cycle A 00:13:24

SOURCE NAME: RESTRICTED

COMMAND ACCESS LEVEL...

ACCEPTED -- UNREDACTED SOURCE NAME: NEW LIGHT -- LONG FLIGHT GENERATION COLONY VESSEL -- ENCUMEN // URGENT RETURN SOURCE -- UNPACKING DATA PACKET... -- ENCRIPTION CODE: SANCTUARY GARDEN GATES // SUCCESSFUL -- =====DISTRESS SIGNAL===== -- LOCATION: SUISO SYSTEM -- INFO: SYSTEM GRANTED TO SSC -- LICENSED TO UNITED MINING TRI -- REQUESTING FLIGHT PATH... -- ...NO RECENT FLIGHT PATH // CHECK ARCHIVE -- SEARCHING ARCHIVE... -- ...NO REGISTERED FLIGHT PLAN // ADVISE -- ..... -- SEND UNION REP TO INVESTIGATE -- URGENT RETURN SUGGESTION: LANCER SQUAD ADVISED -- MESSAGE END // Prologue Over // Player downtime 5016U : 05 : 23 - 21:18:47 - Jithra - Jithra asking questions out loud while locked in her room, trying to figure out what the voice in her head is and what it wants Asked what the purpose of the communication was - View of ceiling disappears to be replaced of a ship floating through space :

couldn't tell if there was a battle or what exactly was happening to the ship - Transfers to image of an old and familiar man holding a clipboard and looking down - Jithra was seeing him from waist height (smaller/lower) - As the person writes on the data pad, Jithra is in a glass tube filled with a strange liquid that she could breathe - Transfers to image of same ship from before smashed into pieces, crashing into a moon/planet. Focuses on one of the pieces slammed into the planet and formed some sort of cavern. Inside the wreak age is a glowing orb - Jithra wakes up, face down on the floor with blood running from her nose // Player downtime 5016U : 05 : 23 - 21:25:12 - Owen & Kyre - Kyre and Owen take an awkward walk to the kitchen after saying goodnight to each other - Kyre learns to cook crepes from an eager Lin - Owen tries to dig up dirt on Goncharov and Lin gives him two names: Aquib and Solena as people who might know more on Goncharov - Kyre passes email detail to Owen and they agree to keep in contact about digging up dirt. Kyre finds out that Solena got hired from the same place and around the same time as Goncharov 5016U : 05 : 24 - Early morning Owen and Kyre travel to engineering bay to get ready to head out and find that Jithra isn't there yet.----------------------------------------

// Jithra's room

Jithra checks nose and find bloods flowing from both nostrils
Jithra is greeted by knock on the door by station security and is being taken in for questioning
Security calls in station sanitation for blood stains
Called in for security to find out why unsanctioned transmissions were coming out of Jithra's room
Jithra is scheduled to go to medical
Jithra notices that hours have passed and that she should be at the hanger
Security sends message to Jithra's supervisor, Goncharov

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Owen and Kyre are left to wonder and get a message from Goncharov freaking out
Kyre scours the network to find any details and comes up empty handed

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Jithra sees a familiar face from the the vision (the doctor)
Introduces themselves as Dr. (FILL IN) and offer their hand to shake
Jithra shakes their hand and they sit down to talk
Jithra asks "Do I know you?"
Dr responds with "You might. I know you though."
The doctor acts like a bigshot and sets himself as he is running the meeting now
Doctor says Jithra is able to send communications into his research facility and how she is achieving it
Doctor wants to borrow Jithra for some time to see how she is able to do this
Doctor wants to scan Jithra and see how she is able to send these messages
Jithra doesn't trust the doctor and the security officer is getting uncomfortable
Doctor flicks badge over to security officer and security officer changes his tune and wants Jithra to go with him
Jithra’s conditions are to stay in contact with her team and get any info on findings from Doctor

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Party has conversation with Jithra and she goes off with the doctor
Owen and Kyre head out to go mine off radar
Created a nice lower shelf through the material to dig out the lead
Owen broke through bottom of lead and found caverns
Scanners reveal that we just broke through the cave mouth and proceeds all the way down and opens up to a larger cavern
Kyre keeps scanners open for lifeforms and heat signatures

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Jithra is taken down from the 1st floor vs up towards the research section, towards the restricted sections protected by keycard. Elevator moves down about 3 floors and starts moving sideways
Doctor: “This is why it took me so long to get to the meeting.”
Jithra: “Where are we exactly?”
Doctor: “The elevator goes to the normal floors, of course, but also to my research lab.”
Doctor does not work directly for UMT, but instead works directly for SSC
Jithra: “What exactly has your program entailed? From what you can speak of at least.”
Doctor says his lab is built for genetic research and that the early stages of the his focused on cloning and that Jithra is an early “product” of his research
Jithra: “How so? Were you the head of Project Medusa?”
Doctor is not the head of the project, but his superior was. It was directly his cloning research here that resulted in Jithra being “born”
Doctor looks too young for how old he should be when Jithra compares him to the vision she had
Elevator slows to a stop and opens to a hallway
Lab holds array of computers, screens, cloning tanks, examination table, simulation chairs, and an airlock in the corner
Doctor says that for sometime, this was Jithra’s home
Jithra: “This specific lab? Underneath UMT?”
The doctor nods
Jithra: “I thought the project had been cancelled? Was it really here this whole time”
The doctor says the only reason there is a UMT facility here is to cover and protect this cloning facility
Then the doctor invites her over to the examination table
Jithra: “What’s the second needle for?”
Doctor says he will need to take a small tissue sample from the bottom of the brain stem/top of spine

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Kyre drags crate down into the lead hole
Kyre leaves it up there and jumps in the cavern to join Owen
There is something create slight vibrations far down the cavern and stops after 5 minutes
Owen and Kyre decide to follow it and find out what it is

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Samples get taken from Jithra
Doctor pulls out a glowing sphere with a fractal pattern and Jithra begins to lose focus into it
Jithra hears the mantra again, this time coming from the orb

~~~ In dark times take this mantra and repeat it twice: You are not your body You are not bound to a corpse You travel along The Path always. You are not alone You will not be forgotten You carry in your left hand the harvest of history You carry in your right hand the seed of destiny. You are born of the stars You are the water You are the earth You are the air You are the blood. You bear the mantle You were chosen You are the light in heaven You are Ecumene You are all there is. You will feel soft ground beneath your feet ~~~

Doctor says that Jithra is communicating with the orb
Jithra: “What is this thing?”
Doctor says the orb is called a spirit by the Ecumene, but he believes it to be a NHP
Jithra (to orb): “What are you?”
The orb flickers and grows much brighter. It now has a darker orange in the center of it
Orb: “I am a spirit. I am an Aunic warrior. I was known as Bijan.”

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Owen and Kyre are walking towards the origin of the sound
They encounter a Mole (Gravedigger) that the farmers brought here to break up the surface
Owen turned the mole into red paste
Continued to source on the scanner to the open part of the cave to find a large steel wall and the wreckage of the a ship labeled SCC
Kyre hacked the turret and Owen approached the metal to drill through it possibly

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Alarm goes off on doctor’s computer
He starts to call security and Jithra stops him by mentioning that she knows the two Lancer pilots and he calls off security and says they must seal the cave and may have to permanently re-position those pilots.
The doctor sends them new orders to seal the cave and to report to research for security debrief
Jithra apologizes and Kyre just keeps repeating yea….because he saw SSC written on the side of the ship.
Owen is disappointed he didn’t get to drill through the wall or fight
Kyre and Owen drag down the lead container when sealing the hole to prevent Goncharov from getting his hands on it
Kyre sets it up to say that the data manipulation that occurred was linked to Goncharov’s terminal being infected by malware attached to an email
Doctor seals the spirit away and the voice silences to Jithra
Doctor and Jithra take the elevator to the research room
30 minutes pass and Kyre and Owen walk through the door

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