>>6164096I've done some preliminary data operations, but I'm still chewing through the rest and following up on some leads.
Based on TS Devonshire's suggestions and with a prelimary genetic sequencing from samples (though incomplete, still waiting on large factor modelling), I can conclusively suggest that Subject FETCH needs novel amino-acid compounds. And that she had several traces of dog fur on her skin, along with a choice selection of other adorable critters. So on a whim I ran through some informatics queries, and I think I've got a lead on a local night market that traffics in animal specimens. If Subject FETCH has traces of bits from there, might be it's where Dr. Despango either had a workshop, knew some people or acquired samples.
We go, we ask around, we get as much information as we can *and* we get Subject FETC some materials we can use to work up something she can actually eat before she gets, uh, catty.
Luckily, Hong8 locals are pretty immersed in that environment so they'll be providing us a LOT of ground-side intel.
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I've traced back the flightpattern of the two IRON TALON Vtols the Red Cranes deployed, along with some low level data operations on the agents remaining at Apex Rise. Their public media campaign is slowly working and it seems Dr. Despango's demise is being written off as a Hong8 influenced debt-related liquidation. They're coming out looking kinda like heroes, especially since the 'foul attackers' then caused a 'significant traffic event' to 'cover their dark clutches'. Media words, not mine. They pulled a forensics team out of Dr. Despango's apartment and moved to a secure holding facility in the sprawl. Very, very out of the way, minimal external footprint, shell company of a shell company of a shell company.
So, you know what that means: PMC blacksite. I bet you it's an archival and processing facility that Mr. Nakamura is using for his Red Crane related operations, tying into all this Frontier Genetics business. Obviously, it'll be guarded.
But it's the last thing they'll expect us to do, right?
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Finally, I've put a few feelers out for Mox. Her intel on Dr. Despango's quite private residence, lucky arrival and follow-up reporting on the event is actually running a little counter to the official media campaign. I don't have any hard data to suggest it, but I've got a definitve feeling that's going to be a thorn in the side of Mr. Nakamura, Singularity Cloud and the Red Cranes. Murdering her on camera is probably out of the picture, but there's a lot of ways to threaten, silence or intimidate a witness if you're a creative, morally bankrupt sort. So I figure we bust two birds with one throw: We'll setup an overwatch cordon around Mox, keep her relatively safe *and* use this as a chance to lean on her in relation to her sources, her information and what else she knows about this whole thing. Can't be too sure anything bad'll happen. But. . .
