Messaging, Part 2
ANALYZING…
FILE TYPE: Internal UESC Recording
PERIOD: Present Day
SPEAKERS: Captain Orion [ID: ORION], Officer Keleti [ID: TKEL]
TOPIC: UESC Marathon
SUMMARY: A recording of UESC Captain Orion and Officer Keleti discussing the state of the UESC Marathon ship.
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TKEL: The Marathon… [sighs] The Marathon is…
TKEL: What can we say? We can’t spin this.
ORION: We have to. We need to justify the budget. All those reinforcements don’t come free.
TKEL: Oh, I can justify the budget. Let’s tell them about the alien music box that fried Rossi. And you, Cap.
TKEL: What are the Cerberus hallucinations costing us? Or the constant shell reprints?
TKEL: I’ll even throw in some good news: The Runners are getting chewed up every time they set foot on the Marathon. Almost as bad as we are.
TKEL: They sent us out here to do a job! We’re doing it! Now we have to beg them to fund it?
TKEL: It’s sure as hell not the job I signed up for. I’m not here to put on a show for Sulera or the civs.
TKEL: They told me when I joined: The UESC doesn’t back down. We don’t cave.
TKEL: And we sure as hell don’t dance for our dinner, no matter who asks.
ORION: The job is doing whatever it takes for the mission to succeed. That is what we signed up for.
ORION: And now, the job is to tell a story that sounds good enough to keep our people supplied. I don’t like it either.
ORION: But we chose this.
TKEL: Yeah. Fine.
TKEL: Eh, how about, uh… The Marathon ship remains in orbit. Our people have been working… tirelessly… to secure it.
TKEL: Soon, with more time and more resources, we’ll understand what happened here.
TKEL: And the rest of the world will too.
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TYPE: TEXT [X]; AUDIO [X]
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