GalacticCorp
Office of the CEO: 2402.7
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Obotron is now fully franchised, as we struggle to keep our warehousing sufficient to store our production. Our research into Storage Engineering, better known as Cargo technology, is progressing, and they expect an increase in cargo capacity at our warehouses within half a year.
Our scouts have found a nearby system, which we have begun colonizing, and also found two more lucrative systems, as well as several systems with no planets but plenty of Asteroids. Our test cases with Satellites indicate that we would need almost 40 times larger satellites to put remote mining components on them. That should be our next research priority after the warehousing reorginization. Our scouts should be heading back to resupply soon, as they have travelled a long ways, through about 5 systems.
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Mason heard his secretary through the intercom say, "Sir, we have urgent reports from our ship Scout #1. They report a brief contact with unknown foreign agents. I have a dispatch, it has been sent through to your mailbox."
"Thanks," he said, and turned to his computer, to open the report, which was screened to prevent anyone from hacking into the CEO's computer.
The dispatch read:
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Amon'krie Continuum
Lord Amon'Kurath
Agents of one known only as Lord Amon'Kurath, were spotted while we were in transit to return for refuelling. We learned virtually nothing about them, only that they are clearly very alien, look like snakes or some sort of monster, and were in general quite elusive. They vanished as soon as we noticed them. We await your instructions at Obotron 8, if we can reach that target before we run low on fuel. If we do not reach Obotron, we will await refuelling on Lundra 4.
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Mason contemplated the message. He had repeated to many that aliens were just a silly myth people felt some reason to believe in. Also, he knew Lundra 4 did not have a resupply depot yet. He shrugged, contemplating how little they knew about the "Amon-krie"