Garrus Vakarian (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
forgivetheinsubordination) wrote2037-04-27 09:49 pm
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IC Contact - Consignment
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Late Day 124
FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
do you know anything about the IPS?
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There's the file on the cuffs. And then there's one other thing.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Before your time, last time we were on the Neheda, there was a shipping container that got on board the ship just before a bunch of people started dying mysteriously and getting sick.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
Parts of it were missing initially, found later. One set of tags had IPS on it. Think it's a frame job, though.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We patrolled the halls the pieces were found in. We were working hard to keep the area more secure. And then they just show up later? And who got the container onboard in the first place?
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
But I might as well give you all I've got, even when I think that part's a red fish.
[Herring, he means.]
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FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
You think it's a frame?
FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
an inside betrayal with someone trying to blame the obvious enemy?
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Yeah. Getting something on a ship isn't easy. I've been at both ends, on the ship, and on the station. There's paperwork. Customs. Regulations. Taxes. And the crate was large.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
That takes knowing the system, that takes being known to people working on cargo either planetside or shipside. You've gotta have some sweet connections for that.
[Sweet is deliberate. He's felt as Crichton did regarding Honey all along, and it's no surprise she killed to work her way up. It would have been a great chance to destabilize the crew and find weaker spots.]
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FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
riiight.
[Ratchet's not positive, but he thinks he's got a pretty good idea what (or better yet, who) Garrus is referring to. A someone who's been a hot topic amongst the crew today.]
FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
what about the officers? did they think the same? far as you know, i mean.
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The answer is a long time in coming.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
When all you have is suspicion of what happened, would you go to the officers? You'd want a name, first, before you approach one.
[And since there's the suggestion that Garrus has a name, he hopes Ratchet can follow that. Yes. One as far as Garrus knows.]
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FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
any idea why though? what would be that advantage of someone on the inside killing a CDC crew?
[How much he's willing to theorise in such an easily monitored space is up in the air, but Ratchet doesn't think there's any harm in asking.]
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Don't think the intention was exactly to kill everyone. Think it was to probe for weaknesses. But I can't be sure of that.
[It would be easier to take over the ship if everyone on it was dead, wouldn't it? No difficulty with replacing the old guard? Garrus wonders if maybe they had all been supposed to die. Honey hadn't exactly tried to make friends.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
What else have you gotten on the IPS?
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FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
eh, honestly? not much.
FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
most of the people i trust enough to ask are too new for that whole incident and other than that there's just the file on the network.
FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
there's not much info, but it's weird that they left even that little bit laying around. woulda been easy to remove completely.
[It's not like the CDC has any qualms about keeping them completely in the dark. If the information was need-to-know, it followed that there would probably be more than a name...but if they didn't want them to know at all than why even leave that crumb? It's hard to say if it's sloppy, or cunning.]
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It would be. They decided not to.
[The IPS could be a scapegoat. Or it could be something to pin recruit's hopes on, to see as a sign that not all struggle is futile, and keep them distracted.]
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
If you do get anything else I'd love to hear it. But I really don't think there's a lot out there.
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FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
you're probably right about that. CDC keeps things pretty well locked down. but if I do learn anything, I'll let you know.
FROM: ratchet@cdc.org
and thanks for the info about the nanobugs...that's more than anyone else was able to put together. or, at least anyone I talked to.
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Just happened to have a piece of the puzzle that wasn't common knowledge. Tried to make it common knowledge, but that didn't exactly catch on.
FROM: vakarian.garrus@cdc.org
We need more people talking around here. Though nanobugs. I like that name for them.