It's actually evening time by now, and the lab would be closed.  You think that it would be best to go back in the morning.  (You have already visited the lab during Day 4.  See here: link to a message in this game )

You sleep for the night, and see the following announcement broadcast the next morning:

"Today the Commercial Council has expelled Vist'Lat from its ranks. The Council feels that much of the recent unrest can be attributed to VL's policies. Its latest move to sack its Human workers and evict them from their homes is untenable. The Council cannot condone or accept this behaviour."


(You remember that two days ago (on day 3), Vist'Lat had sacked all its human workers and forcibly evicted all human workers.)

(You also remember the people who killed LeGrange shouting out before the assassination: "This murder will not go unavenged!", "Vist'Lat murderers will all die!", and "The KLC cannot be crushed!"

Reports had also stated that many Vrusk had held Vist'Lat accountable for the murder (which may have been why Vist'Lat expelled the humans to appear like it was fixing the problem).

You remember that Vist'Lat is also the group that runs the starport.

You also remember that RIK Zzik'Ti (your contact at the Starport) did not want Vist'Lat to know about the deal he struck up with you related to the investigation.

Vist'Lat is also holding all your unauthorized weapons and equipment while you are on the planet.)


You review the video and remember the following tidbits coming out related to LeGrange's claims:

- Vrusk are enslaving Humans; the Humans have no choice but to work for the Vrusk in their factories or indirectly on the farms.

- Humans are treated as second class citizens; no Human holds a managerial post, all have low jobs in the hierarchy.

- Vist'Lat, described as "by far the most rapacious trade house on Kraatar", has been carrying out vigilante raids against Humans.

- When asked about his connections with the Fulbourn-McCoy board of trustees, Legrange was very offended and terminated the interview. This behaviour aroused Charletta's suspicions.


It is now the morning of day 5, mid-morning by the time you make it to the laboratory, but you eventually make it back to the "good" side of town and to the lab.  Your IDs allow you entrance, and you go back up to where you usually meet Nuna.

Dr. Nuna meets you.  She is with a colleague, whom she introduces as Dr. Yoshiko Matsuhara.  The two women update you.

In the last day, there have been power fluctuations which they believe to have emanated from the Sphere, even though it is encased and should not be able to bring anyone across dimensions.  But the power in nearby offices and with tools and computers has occasionally flashed on and off, which has never occurred before.

They believe they have isolated the communication conduit that will allow communication between the two dimensions.  However, whatever "friendly" alien was helping has not yet responded.  It may be away from its communication device or something worse might have happened.

Otherwise, not much has happened.

But they inform you that a delegation of 5 people have arrived on planet and are being rushed through the Starport (forgetting all quarantine protocols so they can come look at the device).  They will arrive at the lab in little more than an hour, and Dr. Nuna and Dr. Matsuhara invite you to stay if you want.
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"Apparently, our Dral friend wants the tape because he saw something that Charletta saw as well.  What is off about it though?  She asked a question about the award and the interview ended abruptly."  (Trans/LeGrange?)

"I think our contact at RIK wants to keep our arrangement secret or he stands to lose a lot.  That's why I didn't want to contact him after the merchant and the Sathar incident but, it is what it is.  WE're his secret weapon to get this solved for him and he gets the credit and we get the credits.  I'm good with that. They also have our heavy ordnance I don't want us to lose either.  I'm a little surprised though that he was that resistant when we told him Sathar were on the planet.  I guess that would blow his job out of the water if that got out too?"

"We might as well stick around and see how these people are getting through quarantine since our people are still in it!  Our people might be able to help you in your research Nuna."

"I'm beginning to wonder about that award, myself. If LeGrange was capable of performing the ground-breaking work attributed to him, why did he have no ideas as to the artifact he was shown? Perhaps he was attached to the work as a figure-head in order to make his speech about human oppression. If that's the case, there would be another eminent scientist responsible for the work."
"Assuming this person is in the laboratory where the artifact is being studied suggests that at least one of the researchers has a second agenda. Could this become a problem?"

Hammer says, "I say we wait for this delegation and see if they have anything else to offer.  I'm also wondering why we had to come here and see Nuna if LeGrange supposedly was so smart."

"What are you saying?  He doesn't know what he was doing or he was a fraud?"

Hammer says, "Good question.  I'd go with some kind of fraud.  Maybe someone else is pulling the strings.  Maybe someone else is the smart one.  Maybe it's even the Sathar."

As you stand around debating the issues of your investigation and waiting for the visitors from the Starport, an armored man steps in and introduces himself as Zeb Draxxon.  He appears to be some sort of security at the lab, well trained and not your typical security guard.  He says he is there as security when the visitors arrive from the Starport, since they bypassed all security and quarantine protocols to get here in time.

You think you might have seen his face somewhere before, in a newspaper or vid from long ago, but you can't quite place it.

Nuna and Matsuhara seem a little uncomfortable when he enters, as if he has walked in on them in the locker room, but they nod at his presence to acknowledge he is supposed to be there and return to their work.

"May I see your idents and can you state the nature of your business here?" the security man asks the group. He looks them over with a very trained eye, sizing up each of them.

"Now that, makes sense," Desiraye says at Hammer's comment about the Sathar being involved in this.  "Let's not forget our alien friends threatening to destroy the galaxy too but, a Sathar plan to control someone with some power on a planet ready to go wild with civil war, not beyond them at all!"


Desi looks at the security man to see if he is wearing a security uniform from the lab itself before handing over her identification they had gotten from Nuna.  She looks him over, "New here?"
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The man smiles slightly as she checks out his ill fitting lab security uniform.
"Relatively, yes. Just helping out an old friend and earnings some creds. This checks out," he says handing her back her identification after scanning it.

Hammer also hands over his ID--the one they got on the black market.

Desiraye takes the ID back and puts it into one of her pockets.  "You in between jobs or something?  I guess it's tough to get work as a human around here huh?"

Hammer says to Zeb's question, "The nature of our business is that we acquired this Sphere that allows communication to another universe or dimension, and we have uncovered a potential plot of an alien invasion.  We are helping the research team with any questions about its nature and uncovering more of the plot.  We were on a research platform space station called Pegasus [? as i recall] that blew up, but not before we escaped with the Sphere and some clues.  So that's pretty important business, I think."

The Mechanon is not sarcastic, merely stating the truth in logical terms.