ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Radio Transcript PERIOD: Pre-Expedition SPEAKERS: Transport Crew [ID: MSE], Transport Crew [ID: GHT] TOPIC: Arms Trading SUMMARY: Transcript of a radio conversation scraped from transport ship comms. Collected by an unknown archivist [possible MIDA affiliation] as part of a larger collection of documents related to corporate misconduct. Annotations were added ex post facto by the unknown archivist. =================================================================== [MSE]: Nah, don't take that job. Pulsar Supply[1]'s no good. [GHT]: Why not? They're paying more than enough. Supply runs to the UESC. [MSE]: Remember J? [GHT]: Yeah. Shame. [MSE]: The whole rig went up, right? Blew to pieces. [GHT]: Heard it was a cargo malfunction. Loading error, something. [MSE]: Remember what she was hauling? [GHT]: Hygiene, nutrition packages… Basic supply. [MSE]: Yeah. So what kind of loading error causes a transport rig full of that to blow up? [GHT]: Hm. [MSE]: Yeah. [GHT]: Fudged manifest? [MSE]: Think so. [GHT]: What for? [MSE]: Transporting weapons, but didn't want anybody to know they're transporting weapons. Best guess. [GHT]: Hm. [MSE]: Saad took a job with them, too. Didn't let him load with his own equipment. Did it all on their own, made him go caffeine up while they did. [GHT]: Huh. Weird. [MSE]: Yeah. [GHT]: Why write it as stable cargo? Could've said frack-welders or enriched fuel. Something that needs proper hazard procedure. [MSE]: Seems like a gift, doesn't it? [GHT]: What? [MSE]: Little under-the-table discount for the UESC[2]. [GHT]: Right… Soap's a lot cheaper than guns. =================================================================== [1] Shell company for Traxus OffWorld Industries. [2] One of many, in fact. Traxus and the UESC have several suspicious transport deals through a variety of shell companies like Pulsar. I wonder what the UESC did to get Traxus feeling so generous. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [ ]