Selection Pressures 4/4

ANALYZING…
FILE TYPE: Administrative Recording
PERIOD: Colony Era
SPEAKERS: Administrator [ID: KYMN], Song, C. [ID: CSNG]
TOPIC: Contagion Fieldwork Request
SUMMARY: A recording of Dr. Clarissa Song negotiating with an administrator for permission to leave the lab and conduct fieldwork. Employment records corroborate Dr. Song's statements about critical research staff shortages.
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[KYMN]: Clarissa, I can't approve this fieldwork request. Reed won't allow it. You're needed here.

[CSNG]: A third of my research staff are in quarantine; we're running out of options.

[KYMN]: I'm sorry about Molly. I am. The survey team is offering to help make up the difference.

[CSNG]: Drones have their limits. They aren't curious. They only search for what we tell them to find.

[KYMN]: You can't just wander off.

[CSNG]: I was one of the first boots down on Marsh. Front line, shoulder to shoulder with the UESC, we mapped this ecosystem. I'm not "wandering" anywhere.

[KYMN]: I know. That's my point. Just speaking for myself, for my family… I don't want you out there because I felt better knowing we had you in here.

[CSNG]: Then I've let you down.

[KYMN]: That's not what I meant—

[CSNG]: Please! Please… Let me do what I came here to do. Let me get my hands dirty.

[CSNG]: This sickness didn't start with Molly, and it won't end with her either: It's only going to continue its slow, creeping spread. Out there? That's where the answers are.

[KYMN]: If I flag you as "emergency medical shift," that's 48 hours of fieldwork, off the books. As the principal agronomist, you're considered "mission critical." It's the best I can do.

[CSNG]: Thank you.

[KYMN]: I hope you find the answers you're looking for.

[CSNG]: Me too.

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