ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Personal Log PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Reed, D. [ID: DREE] TOPIC: Security Commander's Personal Assessment SUMMARY: New Cascadia Security Commander Davic Reed reacts to an outbreak of an "unidentified illness." =================================================================== [DREE]: 1-1-6-2-2. General Reed. TCIV. [DREE]: Had a spike in self-reports for an unidentified illness the last few days. Not the first time. Med-Comm tracked it to one of the Ag-Hub research zones. They ran all site personnel through testing, and we locked down the zone. Any positives plus anyone connected via contact tracing were placed in iso. [DREE]: Job now is scale mitigation and pinpointing the source. Limit the sick. Find the cause. Med says it's new, but they're still mapping samples, so anything they say, for now, is inconclusive. Problem is, as soon as any contagion is marked "new," we have to treat it as a worst-case scenario till worst case is off the table. [DREE]: "New" means unknown—alien, until proven otherwise. "New" is a colony-wide threat. That's… Med-Comm and Gabriel are on it, but if iso doesn't hold… If we can't contain this with distancing and treat active cases with focused quarantines till a fix is synthesized… other… other protocols will trigger. [DREE]: I've already set all zone security units to high alert—strict enforcement of iso and curfew mandates effective immediately. Most'll play along. Despite everything, we're still strong as a whole—one colony, each community looking out for the others. [DREE]: We're keeping the scope of this thing under wraps. For now. Not hiding the issue, but scaling the messaging on public channels to maintain control. Luckily… or, it's not "luck" when you're prepared, but… Luckily, sickness is something every citizen's been educated and trained to address since pre-flight 2472. [DREE]: Annual emergency iso test runs and three prior live fire lockdowns should make this fairly easy to navigate. As long as Med-Comm can find what they need to translate "new" into a known. [DREE]: Till then, I'll have Security units prepped and ready to escalate safety measures as directed by Contagion Counter Planning and hope it doesn't come to that. =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]