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[19:00 hours] - No sign of Chao on the plane. Our Taalumah agent searched high and low in the cabin and aisle, among the sleeping passengers except for the lavatory room which was occupied. There's no sign of Chao anywhere on the plane. We were wrong to assume he'd be on board.
[HALE] "He's a Taalumah. He'll always be thinking one step ahead to try and evade our notice. We'll just have to keep looking... and praying he isn't already in Shengesia. We logically deduce there's no way he could be at this time yet, however. We'll just leave it up to our search in Leitstein's streets to see if he's still within the city limit."
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[Ground teams are conducting search operations. Assistance gauged via hacking of monitor and CCTV systems in local province.]
[No sign of Chao found in the streets.]
[We cannot find any bookings for local establishments under his name nor fake aliases. Every Taalumah is ordered to create at least two fake aliases to operate under and register them with our databanks. So far, no signs of it. It's possible he may have quickly attempted to forge a new identity, but that would require access to professional forgery specialists in Leitstein, such criminal activities are cut down by the heavy Heer presence...]
[We're still looking for him.]
[We can confirm that there are multiple smuggling rings in Leitstein now, after checking with our [PROHIBITED] source in the streets. We haven't had the time to personally investigate either of the two new ones that cropped up on our list.]
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[23:00 hours] - We just received sign that a new plane has departed Leitstein, en route to the Temple's Ramparts of August Stars sector in Shengesia. No good. Additionally, a boat traversing a safe route through the sea is heading to Shengesia, to a dock held under Temple regulation.
[HALE] "None of this is good news..."
1. Rounding Chao Up, Action 3.
>Attempt to see if he still possesses any Espionage Team issue communication equipment. With any luck, we may be able to contact him yet and try to reel him in by convincing him.
>We're low on options here. He's definitely on one of those two, either the boat or the new plane. Hell, it's still possible he's on the plane we already searched. Send agents to them now.
>We may require psychic assistance with this. Time to call up the Haham and Psychic-Church and see if we can find his wavelengths out in the field remotely.