Dark Side of the Moon - Day 10-3
It takes awhile, but you begin untangling the dazed Vrusk pilot.
Meanwhile, the others begin scouring the room for information and valuable data.
You find the following:
JACK LEGRANGE IS ALIVE!: You saw him murdered in front of your eyes as you exited quarantine, but these records show you that he was not killed, but a decoy. The unwitting double was named Troy Trans; this is who you saw killed at the starport. Even worse, you find that he was killed at the direction of LeGrange. LeGrange has convinced all of Kraatar that he was actually killed, when he in fact had previously fled to Artemis Base on the moon. That was part of the strange sightings of spacecraft leaving this area. LeGrange had hoped that his "murder" will tip the balance of Vrusk-Human relations from antipathy to civil war.
LeGrange is currently at his secret base on the moon Setarz, making the final preparations for the release of the deadly Fumiga Virus, genetically engineered to affect only Vrusk, into the atmosphere of Kraatar. This will kill off ALL the Vrusk inhabitants, and in the ensuing chaos Legrange will "return from the dead" to take up the leadership of "his people".
Dever's calculations and experiments unearthed a fact which (had you not killed him) Dever was about to transmit to LeGrange: Unknown to Legrange, the virus will react with Kraatar's atmosphere to threaten all life forms on the planet. One week after being released into the atmosphere, the virus will have killed all Humans as well. LeGrange doesn't realize this and still plans to release the virus.
The Fumiga Virus: Legrange discovered a deadly virus which appears to affect only Vrusk, killing all who come into contact with it within 6 hours. He intends to release this into Kraatar's upper atmosphere, but, unknown to LeGrange, the virus will mutate into an even more deadly strain. This new strain will kill not only Humans, but most other life forms on the planet, turning Kraatar into a world devoid of life in a week.</b>
You also learn the following:
As an expert in bioengineering Legrange has supervised extensive alterations to his form. His skeleton is enhanced with the equivalent of an internal exoskeleton . Legrange also has a tight-beam computer link implanted in his brain, which allows him to communicate with all computers on Artemis Base.
Jack Legrange was born at his parents' farm in the Quazzt's Depression on Kraatar 60 years ago. His early life was spent working on the farm, but at the age of 18 he entered the hospital in Gozzorf as a medical student. It was here that he first became involved in antiVrusk activities and, along with David Dever, founded the Kraatar Liberation Corps. For 8 years he studied at the hospital, and secretly organized attacks on Vrusk installations and trade houses. He was forced to flee Kraatar after the RIK raided a KLC meeting at the hospital. Legrange escaped to the starport and boarded a starship but most of his fellow conspirators were caught and imprisoned.
After fleeing Kraatar, Legrange wandered around the Frontier taking any work he could find. A successful prospecting expedition provided him with enough money to establish Trojan Enterprises. Since its foundation, Trojan Enterprises has expanded rapidly, with LeGrange's work on bio-engineering and cybernetics being in great demand. His recent advances in the technique of limb and organ regeneration have earned him science's highest award, the Fulbourn-McCoy prize.
No-one had suspected that Legrange is involved with the KLC. In fact, he is supplying weapons to them and financing their activities. Eight years ago, he established the High Peaks Sanatorium (where you are now) on Kraatar as a front for the KLC. The clinic provides psychiatric and physical therapy to over-worked Vrusk. All Vrusk who enter the clinic for treatment, undergo a "minor" operation, under the cover of stress-alleviation therapy. During the operation a control device is implanted in their brains. The device affects neural impulses and enables a creature's brain to be pre-programmed to carry out certain tasks
The Fumiga Virus: Legrange discovered a deadly virus which appears to affect only Vrusk, killing all who come into contact with it within 6 hours. He intends to release this into Kraatar's upper atmosphere, but, unknown to Leg range, the virus will mutate into an even more deadly strain. This new strain will kill not only Humans, but most other life forms on the planet, turning Kraatar into a world devoid of life in a week.
NOTES ON DESK
On the desk is Dever's half-finished investigation regarding the likely effects of the missile on Kraatar's ecology. Reams of scientific data describe the nature of the missile's payload, its development at the mining base and the plan to release it into Kraatar's atmosphere. It then goes on to consider the effects of the virus on Kraatar's ecosystem, but this section is inconclusive. Using your party's environmentalist skills and studying this for 2 hours (yes, it takes this long to free It'Rezz from the tangler), you realize the enormity of the devastation that the missile will wreak on Kraatar's ecology, including the destruction of all life.
You also remember that Dr. Tariel Nuna told you that LeGrange could be very helpful in helping solve the Datasphere sent by the "Shadows of Rakon" regarding the imminent multidimensional attack on the galaxy being orchestrated by the Qantariate, through coordination with the evil race of Sathar. Tariel had been very saddened to learn of LeGrange's assassination.
After hearing all of this Rezz offers to fly you to the moon. She heard there was a ship somewhere at the Sanitarium, as well as a lot of weapons and artillery, if you need it. But being a hostage, she doesn't know where.