The entire day has been inundated with reports of disappearances across all of Planet Aerodonia. Carli Sigma approached the imperial throne; her mind fixated on the loss of her daughter Emily to a research accident early that same morning and the suspicion that its provisions were to blame.
“We have no choice, Your Highness.” Carli’s unwavering report said it all. “The device must be retrieved and analyzed by a neutral party in order to determine what went wrong.”
“I was beginning to suspect as much.” Empress Cleopari Tutenso’s expression concurred with the report to a full and unquestionable extent. “Consequently, I will be assigning this job to the understudies of both you and your belated husband, or in terms of speaking based on the official record.”
Within five hours of the meeting, a response team from the 105th Tail Force – led by Capt. Nefersila Rogers “Neffie” Takumis and supervised by Gen. Sandra Jasmine Mettaton – were in position at the site of the initial incidence. Deputy knights Julia Sanderson and Nathan Daniels were positioned on standby to ascribe scene backup and recon as the first details of the incident came through Nefersila’s receiver.
“According to the lab records,” Gen. Mettaton reported, “there was a rather untimely networking intrusion into the data systems at about the time of the incident. The council is still at a loss as to whether it’s connected or not.” Nefersila surmised from the first ascribed evidence from their response that a hack into the data network could not be ruled out – just as Emily suddenly and inexplicably reestablished her telepathic connections to the rest of her society at approximately the same time that the response team began to consider the matter of a team member who had been taken off the project.
“He was ultimately removed from the Sigmatech organization as a whole,” Emily stated in response to the matter, “although we still don’t have enough evidence to support a direct implication.”
But little did any of them know as to the full extent of what had been started off of the research project, or that the response team would soon have to deal with related incidence on an entirely different world before the whole thing could devolve even further into chaos.