Temporis XXIX - The Epicenter

The betrayal is called Viper

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- Where did you connect yourself?

- In a safe place, don't worry!

- Great!

- What about your investigations, old man? Did you find what you were looking for?

- Yes. I found what I was looking for and some interesting information. I confess it wasn't cheap, but it was worth it in the end.

- Don't keep me in suspense. You know I get anxious easily, especially in the state I'm in. Tell me what you've found. Of course, money is not a problem.

- I went after that symbol you gave me, found the original owner of that ship and could contact the old pilot and flight controller.

- It belonged to a transportation and mining company. It went bankrupt a long time ago, but I could find old maps and alternative routes where they used to operate.

- What about the military codes I found?

- This caught my attention, too. I investigated deeply and found that the company also did secret operations for the army.

- Army? But it doesn't make any sense, right?

- It makes a lot of sense. It's very likely that this cargo was used for military purposes and you found something that must have been kept hidden.

- Why do you think this is, old man?

- Instinct! Maybe because all the information related to this ship specifically, disappeared as if it never had existed. Luckily, an old friend hacked all the information about routes and with it I could track its last movements until its total disappearance. On its last journey, on the way to Pluto 8, there was an abrupt change of route very near its destination. After that all information was totally suppressed.

- Goddamned! Are we back to square one? I think this information seems strange. How could the spaceship get here? She had never heard of Pluto 8. She thought.

- Not exactly.

- What do you mean by that?

- My guess is that it was acquired by the army, had a military approach near Pluto 8 and went to its detitanation from there. The procedure in those days was the automatic interruption of commercial data for the collect of military data. In other words, the information about the objectives and the destination of this mission must be stored in the department of intelligence of military history.

- Great! Can we hack this?

- Unfortunately, it's not easy. Remember this is historic information and it's probably censored. If it survived all the wars it should be in off-line computers somewhere in the primordial circles.

- Goddamned! We could never retrieve this information. Getting to the primordial circles is impossible for us.

- You're too young to understand that for us humans nothing is impossible. You only need some creativity in this kind of situation. Now listen to me because we don't have much time.

- What? I don't understand!

- I'm sending you a symbol. Use it to encrypt the additional content that is inside you.

- Got it!

- Now do this immediately!

- But this will interrupt our connection when I start the cryptography. This symbol will be lost.

- Alright, but we don't have time to discuss the reasons now. I've made all the arrangements for you to get a one-way ticket to the primordial circles.