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[Egan_BW]

B

[brewer bob]

B

[King Zultan]

B

[FiveBalesOfHay]

B

[Haspen]

"Sure, I will check it out. Thanks." You put it in your work suit, and Francis smiles.

"You're welcome." James turns to you quickly.

"There was a ship, yeah! It hang out in the system for a while, then hid behind the gas giant for a long while, before speeding off towards Eta Coridani." Francis grimaces.

"Did it run an active scan? Any jamming?"

"No, nothing of the sort." Francis sighs, and James looks at him with a smile. "Not a pirate then."

"Probably not." James looks calmer but Francis seems uneasy.

A) "Can you tell me more about the ship? I cannot scan ships that don't approach my outpost, company policy..."
B) "I won't be keeping you longer then. Have a safe trip, and please come again."
C) "Is such strange behaviour enough to file a report with Poseidonis? You never know these days."

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

A

[brewer bob]

A

[Haspen]

"Can you tell me more about the ship? I cannot scan ships that don't approach my outpost, company policy..." James shrugs.

"Sure thing Arnie. Well, it was a Balthasar, a freighter, but I bet it was modified because those speed values are way above a normal freighter can do. Well, it had two blaster turrets, like any other, aaaand a civilian IFF transponder code."

"Not a pirate then." Francis adds to that. "Maybe a prospector, or a salvager. You said it was going for the gas giant?"

"Yep."

"No idea what it would be doing there. Hydrogen and helium doesn't make for a good thruster fuel compared to things we have now, so gas giants aren't much value nowadays." Suddenly, you realize what's so valuable about Beta Carotenii I.

"They stole the satellite." The two half-brothers look at you.

"What?" "What?"

"There's a science satellite orbiting Beta Carotenii I, maintained by Tanzanian Astrophysics and its sending regular data packages every day I believe." Even before you finish talking James is already tapping away at his datapad, and Francis leans to the side to peek at it.

"Uh, well, either you are correct or you been imagining things Arnie, there's no satellite in orbit of Beta Carotenii, I've checked the usual comms frequencies and ran a remote active scan with my ship's sensors." James explains, and suddenly Francis sighs in frustration.

"Hey, can you report it after we leave?"

"Wait--" Francis turns to his half-brother. "You're the cop here!"

"Yes! On my off-time!"

"Come on, I already woke up Arnie, don't make him do the work this late at night."

"And I will have to either stay or go back to Poseidonis and there goes my off-time! At least two days of it!"

A) "Please be a good cop Francis, and report this to your guys, thanks."
B) "It's alright, I will contact Federal Police after you leave."

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

I think we should give Francis all relevant information we have, whether or not he's the one who reports it; even if we report it, having a cop to back us up is a good thing.
Also, we actually spoke to some people who did work on that satellite - do we know how to get in touch with Tanzanian Astrophysics? If so, we may want to notify them about the theft at a reasonable time.
(If we've already given Francis all relevant information we have, please let me know. I can't recall if we learned more about the satellite than what we already told James and Francis just now.)

[crazyabe]

B.

[brewer bob]

B

[King Zultan]

B