Carlie's Chapter 8 - Dear Tiger: Don't Look Back
LAST WEEK, Tiger revealed he had barely escaped another alien incursion with his life. This week, Simone lets him know how much trouble he's in with FedExplore, and says she is very worried for her parents.Chapter 8 – Catastrophes
Dear Tiger,
Glad you are okay—and safe. So glad you are safe.
Odyssey made it onto Deskeden with GalPol. Said they had an anonymous tip-off that there’d been a catastrophic event on the colony there, and had the FedExplore indictment overturned.
And a catastrophic event would have been the only way they could have overturned it. They passed on the tip, and GalPol insisted on an investigation, and what they found there put FedExplore in a lot of hot water.
There was no sign of a portal, or that there had ever been one, but they had the evidence from Tarvesh, so it helped a lot in proving there had been one. Actually, they proved there’d been two: one in the caverns like you said, and one that opened up in the middle of the settlement at the comms centre, also like you said.
You’re earning yourself a reputation as a ‘credible source’, in all kinds of places.
Oh, and you are definitely persona non-grata with FedExplore, because GalPol removed the world from their ownership, and have them marked for ‘lack of due care’. They found records about keeping people on the world against their will, and a lot of the scientists and their families had written about not being allowed to leave.
GalPol found the emails trapped in the server, where FedExplore were sorting through them so they could make notes of people’s records and dock their pay for ‘disloyalty to the company’. Apparently it’s a thing with them. GalPol weren’t impressed and charged them with tampering with personal communications, as well ‘unlawful detainment’.
Yeah, FedExplore are in a world of hurt. There are compensation claims up the wazoo from off-world relatives, so FedExplore have taken a really big hit. Unfortunately, my economics teacher says it’s a hit they’ll be able to survive, unless they mess up again.
Also, GalPol indicted Deskeden, again. This time, it’s been listed as a complete ‘no-go’ zone, until they can be sure there won’t be another portal opening up—and you know how long that could take. So, be careful, Tiger, because there are some really powerful people who are really unhappy with you, right now.
You might be right about staying in space, but not just from the alien perspective. It might be a good idea from the FedExplore perspective, too.
And, speaking of FedExplore, I can’t reach my parents any more. FedExplore have cut off all communications to the planet, except for a couple people in the orbital above—and I haven’t managed to work out who they are.
All I know is that Odyssey can detect transmissions between the orbital and the planetary surface, but they can’t intercept them. It’s how I know there’s communication goin on. I need to know there’s communication going on, because that’s the only way I can tell if my parents might be okay.
I’m really worried about them, Tiger. Really worried.
Anyway, Odyssey are opening up an investigation into Sharvin. They asked GalPol, but GalPol said there was nothing they could do, because there’s been no complaints. They can’t investigate every world FedExplore control, without a tip-off relating to a catastrophic event or similar… and we don’t have that, yet.
I don’t want to wait for a catastrophic event to happen, Tiges.
I mean, if what happened on Deskeden is a catastrophic event, it might be too late to save my parents if we wait until one happens on Sharvin.
So, Odyssey are investigating, and I just have to wait.
And keep up with my classes.
And hope you are okay.
Please be okay.
Love
Simone.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Dear Tiger,Glad you are okay—and safe. So glad you are safe.
Odyssey made it onto Deskeden with GalPol. Said they had an anonymous tip-off that there’d been a catastrophic event on the colony there, and had the FedExplore indictment overturned.
And a catastrophic event would have been the only way they could have overturned it. They passed on the tip, and GalPol insisted on an investigation, and what they found there put FedExplore in a lot of hot water.
There was no sign of a portal, or that there had ever been one, but they had the evidence from Tarvesh, so it helped a lot in proving there had been one. Actually, they proved there’d been two: one in the caverns like you said, and one that opened up in the middle of the settlement at the comms centre, also like you said.
You’re earning yourself a reputation as a ‘credible source’, in all kinds of places.
Oh, and you are definitely persona non-grata with FedExplore, because GalPol removed the world from their ownership, and have them marked for ‘lack of due care’. They found records about keeping people on the world against their will, and a lot of the scientists and their families had written about not being allowed to leave.
GalPol found the emails trapped in the server, where FedExplore were sorting through them so they could make notes of people’s records and dock their pay for ‘disloyalty to the company’. Apparently it’s a thing with them. GalPol weren’t impressed and charged them with tampering with personal communications, as well ‘unlawful detainment’.
Yeah, FedExplore are in a world of hurt. There are compensation claims up the wazoo from off-world relatives, so FedExplore have taken a really big hit. Unfortunately, my economics teacher says it’s a hit they’ll be able to survive, unless they mess up again.
Also, GalPol indicted Deskeden, again. This time, it’s been listed as a complete ‘no-go’ zone, until they can be sure there won’t be another portal opening up—and you know how long that could take. So, be careful, Tiger, because there are some really powerful people who are really unhappy with you, right now.
You might be right about staying in space, but not just from the alien perspective. It might be a good idea from the FedExplore perspective, too.
And, speaking of FedExplore, I can’t reach my parents any more. FedExplore have cut off all communications to the planet, except for a couple people in the orbital above—and I haven’t managed to work out who they are.
All I know is that Odyssey can detect transmissions between the orbital and the planetary surface, but they can’t intercept them. It’s how I know there’s communication goin on. I need to know there’s communication going on, because that’s the only way I can tell if my parents might be okay.
I’m really worried about them, Tiger. Really worried.
Anyway, Odyssey are opening up an investigation into Sharvin. They asked GalPol, but GalPol said there was nothing they could do, because there’s been no complaints. They can’t investigate every world FedExplore control, without a tip-off relating to a catastrophic event or similar… and we don’t have that, yet.
I don’t want to wait for a catastrophic event to happen, Tiges.
I mean, if what happened on Deskeden is a catastrophic event, it might be too late to save my parents if we wait until one happens on Sharvin.
So, Odyssey are investigating, and I just have to wait.
And keep up with my classes.
And hope you are okay.
Please be okay.
Love
Simone.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The complete series is available as short, individual ebooks, and will become available as an omnibus, later this year. In the meantime, you can find them on this blog, until one week after the last chapter in the last book of the series has been posted, at which point this series will be taken down, and a new series serialised on site.
books2read.com/u/4Awrze 
books2read.com/u/mgrxdR 
books2read.com/u/4DoG8D
books2read.com/u/b5Mng1
books2read.com/u/3GYBla
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