Sadish considered the information she had received and later, the information she would receive from Audrey...
The damage on the information meant that the clasp on Pandorum's Chestpiece was straining a bit-but, it might hold a little while longer. Or, maybe more likely the left hand of Al-Loy was keeping it's right hand unaware of what it was doing. Of course, given her previous discovery, it could have all been the random whim of fate.
Would that Hacker have sold her such precious information if they really had any idea what it was? It had cost her a mere §3 to find something that people would literally go to war over-whole worlds would be burned to keep such information from becoming widespread. All the Mercies heading down to arrest (?) Mr. Varkonius could literally stop their ships, turn around, and come to arrest Sadish instead for the information she had. They'd likely be paid much better to do so! Either the Brokers had been criminally negligent (She thought might be a pun if you were an actual criminal), or they had considered it worthless-compared to whatever else they already had. Still, she doubted they would have sold it if they knew what it was. An opportunistic Hacker who merely saw some intelligible chemical formula, and decided it had a little potential profit. That was one possibility.
She had to laugh, and did so out loud. Was all of history, in it's grandest swoops and dives decided by such random, ridiculous coincidences?
Sadish was not quite ready to believe that.
...
Somewhere in time, she responded to Keresh.
"If I come into direct contact with this man, by then it will likely be too late, but thank you for the warning all the same.
For my own warning-I've considered, once this information becomes widespread...if we learn how to unlock Vera's secrets (I've decided that's a fitting name for the Universal Cell, by the way)...everything will change. This is one of those things that causes an era of great change...Change is never without pain.
I hope your travails stay calm, Keresh the Shark-and, Sara the Sparkly as well...but, I think all of us are heading deeper waters, if we like it or not."...
Back in the present time, she figured a decision was going to have to be made.
"Huh." She frowned for a moment. A universal cell was quite the find indeed - lots of potential uses for something like that, though Scarlet was rather concerned with more pressing issues that it presented. "I mean, I don't think they went through the effort of making something this complicated just to kill people. Not when there are so many easier ways to do it, so it - her, whatever- probably wasn't originally supposed to be a weapon. Probably. But it's one now, so now it's our problem. . ." She mumbled something under her breath, a phrase somewhat defying translation but coarse nonetheless. "So if you can't synth up a vaccine we're going to have to avoid exposure at all, aren't we?"
Sadish decided to simplify things for Scarlet.
It's not like she had actually attended medical school..."Right, to put in terms you are more comfortable with-it's a magic gun. Wherever the magic bullet from the magic gun hits, you die. You can't dodge the bullet. Once it's fired, if you're in range, you're dead. Instantly.
The wielder of this gun can make his bullet go through any defense you have, on a mere whim. The only potential flaw is that he must make the bullet in a certain way, to account for those defenses he perceives as you having. He has to carve certain grooves into the rifling of the bullet, before firing it. For example, to counter an energy shield, or a chemical protection suit, or a bio-chemical defense. Furthermore, once that single bullet has left the gun, it can't be recalled and re-made. No matter how wonderful and terrible this bullet it is, it's still a thing-a projectile that has to obey certain laws of reality. Unless it actually doesn't, but let's not go there...
And yes, let's assume the owner of the gun is not also omniscient, and cannot read your thoughts, though that is certainly possible. We must assume he has accounted for simple biological defenses, such as your own immune system, even one enhanced by nanobots, or any of our relatively primitive chemical countermeasures we have available to our current science.
Your only realistic counter measure against this weapon, is to have a defense prepared that he did not previously anticipate preparing the specific bullet for. In this way, you may nullify that single bullet. The second bullet could, of course, be adjusted to counter your counter measure. Unless, you have yet another counter measure to counter his counter measure that counters your counter measure. Of course.
At some point, you will inevitably lose the game, since he can make and remake his bullet in a nearly infinite amount of ways-and, you have only so many defenses ready. Amusingly, If he even understands you are playing the game with him, you instantly lose the game-since, after understanding you are capable of actually making defenses in reaction to his moves, his next bullet will likely be so overpoweringly horrible that nothing in our known reality, will stop it for a moment.
So yes, avoiding him is the best option.
I have an idea however! Have of you heard the Black Fountains of Fyrin? No? Good..."Action: Sadish considers if she is capable of making one of these 'metafields', and in a way it might be difficult to detect-such as making it subtly different from a personal defense shield this malicious being would expect mercies to have, which would obviously be expected, at protecting against energy and kinetic weaponry. Essentially, a 'bio-shield'?
She also had made sure to collect her payment before leaving the station
Edit: ALSO, she searches her tablet history to see if she still has Grenacs last voice recording to her, to use in identifying his voice on the video.