ANALYZING… FILE TYPE: Letter Dictation PERIOD: Colony Era SPEAKERS: Reed, D. [ID: DREE], AI subroutine [ID: AI34], Unidentified Speaker [ID: NULL] TOPIC: Anomaly SUMMARY: Dictation of an unsent message from General Davic Reed to deceased Mars resident Orla Reed. =================================================================== [DREE]: Begin mail dictation. Letter to Orla. [AI34]: Starting recording. Encryption enabled. Recipient: Orla Reed. This recipient is invalid. Mail will remain unsent. [DREE]: Acknowledged. Proceed. [AI34]: Please begin dictation. [DREE]: All right. You were right about a lot of things, Orla. This expedition is doomed. Maybe it has been from the start. Now I've got Caruso trying to call off the Anomaly task force, right as we're about to make progress. He's declaring a state of emergency to override me. [DREE]: It was a mistake, giving civilian leadership here so much power. If the UESC had exclusive authority from the start, we wouldn't have lost so many people aboard the Marathon. And we could've locked down the contagion sooner. [DREE]: I wish I could talk to you. Really talk to you. Not like this… The real you. I'm going to overrule Caruso, send Cole back in. He wants to go anyway, and— [NULL]: [unintelligible] [DREE]: Orla? [NULL]: [unintelligible] [DREE]: That's not really you. [footsteps] [DREE]: Orla… =================================================================== TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]