voice/text | 2/24 evening | un: aximili

[canadese]

<I have discovered another body in a corridor near the general commerce area. I have sent the remains to the medical bay for examination. I will update once they have been identified.>

[A pause.]

<And if anyone has information regarding Marco's whereabouts, I would appreciate hearing it.>

[TEXT UPDATE, forward dated to 24 hours later, 2/25 evening]

according to the lab data the remains are those of ukoku sanzo. my condolences to anyone who knew him

[He's skeptical, though. Who says the data is true?]

Comments

[estrayer]

i'd appreciate it, yeah. thanks.

[thisisourfuture]

I don't know. [They're running in circles. He has to remind himself at least there isn't a looming trial to worry about. Small victories.]

...Whatever purpose is behind it. I think we can agree that it was during or after the power outage that this all started.

[hellshot]

[Real testy. Not as if Reaper would judge him for it--he's testy, too.]

Just the same as the rest of the murders, then.

Makes you wonder how the hell they're hiding all these bodies, even on a ship as large as the Eluvio.

[It'd start to smell, he knows that much for sure.]

[canadese]

such a meeting would be ideal however there is no need for technological assistance as i will be able to interpret for us

[canadese]

i will inform you when i have the results

[WHOOP WHOOP TIME WARP, followup message approximately 24 hours later:]

i have received the identity of the victim and have updated my original post accordingly

[canadese]

<The deaths certainly seemed to have occurred after the power outage. However, I believe that people had gone missing before. I am not sure what the implications of that are.>

[canadese]

<That... is a good question.>

[It almost sounds like it hadn't occurred to him before now.]

<Some of these people had been missing for a significant amount of time before their remains were discovered, but their body parts hadn't significantly decomposed. They must be kept somewhere. Possibly they are frozen.>

[hellshot]

[Of course it's a good question. He asked it.]

Hard to mask the smell of rot on a ship. Doesn't matter how big it is. Being frozen is a possibility. But that would also mean that the culprit has access to something like a freezer, or cold storage.

Which would suggest that they're integrated into our little society here.

Isn't that a scary thought.

[Ha...]

[thisisourfuture]

...so what we need to find out is what changed after that power outage.

[Or had something happened on the planet. That reminds him.]

Were you here when the Fleet had everyone go down to that planet? I got here after that. But it's come up twice when I've been talking with people about these murders.

[canadese]

<I was, but I didn't go down to the planet. I can say that all these strange phenomena happened afterward.>

[genice]

You're sure your thought processes will be compatible?