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You suddenly stop in the middle of the sidewalk you're walking on. You quickly put on your nightvision googles to make sure what you're seeing is correct. Nope, you're not hallucinating. Yet.
A massive satellite has crashed right in the middle of the road, blocking any traffic passing through the street your apartment building is located at. It's a damn big satellite as well, probably around the size of a small school bus if it wasn't half crumpled due to the impact it had with the ground.
There's no way you can move this thing without some FOCUSED Telekinesis but frankly, the hell would you do with tons of metal and weird electronics? No, the thing that's confusing you about this satellite is the fact it's still broadcasting something. There's a faint, almost imperceptible chattering coming out of the satellite that's thickly laced in static.
You kneel down in front of it to try figuring out what the fuck it's saying.
"...SIGNAL 4 TO SIGNAL 5...RECENT PROJECT FAILED...SHOT DOWN BY..."
"...YEAR OF FIRST OPERATION: 1957...SHOULD'VE BEEN UNDETECTABLE BY...HEAD'S SYSTEMS...TOO OLD FOR...THEM"
"...<span class="mu-b">PROJECT: THORN</span> NEEDS MORE TIME TO DEVELOP...REROUTING LOST SIGNAL 3 FROM THIS SATELLITE TO ANOTHER...SATELLITE"
"...DAMN <span class="mu-b">SPOOKS</span>..."
It then starts repeating those same messages again. 1957? That's nearly 300 years ago. How the fuck is a piece of tech that old still working? Who the hell could've been operating it? It doesn't take a genius to realize that something named 'Thorn' is probably a weapon of some kind but who could even be operating something like this?
Surely, it has to be an alphabet company, right? But none of them should've existed that long ago...It doesn't make any sense. There's not much you can do here aside from grabbing onto some scattered electronic chips and metal tiling from the satellite.
>MYSTERY: Space Age Satellite. (Who owns it? What purpose is it for? Why was it only shot down now? Why do they know about the spooks? REWARD FOR COMPLETING: +1 COGNIZANCE, +1 RESTRAINT)
>+3 SPACE AGE COMPUTER CHIPS (A tech savvy ally like Benjamin, Adam, Maruyama, or Kiara might be able to figure out more about them. Though some part of you tells you Alexis knows as well?), +3 SPACE AGE SATELLITE TILES (Very sturdy. Can be sold for a massive profit, though it might be wise to keep them?)
You whistle over at the X-Corp guards by your apartment to secure it for you. Maybe they can figure out something about it you can't, after all, if it is a weapon...the military Alphabet Company should know more about it. Right?
While they're busy taking that to somewhere more secure, you keep walking.
You find yourself standing by a really sketchy looking alleyway that any normal person would have no reason to go down but something about it calls to you. You know something has to be here and, well, you can defend yourself from some thugs.
What catches your eye is a neon sign hanging by a doorway, luring you closer.
