@leo.fitz

[retravel]

Hi everyone,

It's time again for the irregularly scheduled update on the shadowy conspiracies surrounding our spacetime displacement.

If you don't already know me, I'm Leo Fitz, one of the arrivals from the first transport. Prior to being here, I was an engineering and technology operative at SHIELD, an American extra-governmental military counter-terrorism and intelligence agency. Myself and several others have been investigating the circumstances of the fire and the nurse's death, with the generous aid of Gaby, El, and Morningstar's contacts.

Debris samples from the apartment site collected by Kylo (@kylo.ren) and I contained the expected signs of fire damage as well as a significant oddity: Residue left by an organic material. While the residue was too insubstantial and damaged for a full chemical analysis, it showed matching markers to the samples of the smaller creatures of unknown origin (designated 084s), previously tested by Kylo through Morningstar.

At great personal risk, Katelin (@katelin.philips) and Marcos (@marcos.diaz) also questioned the morgue attendants. In doing so, we learned the following information:

1. Our nurse suffered blunt force head trauma, noted as his cause of death prior to the fire reaching his body. Such an injury occurs most often by accident, as in the case of a car crash, or when an object is used to bludgeon the skull, as in the event of a homicide.

2. I'm inclined to classify this cause of death as suspicious, and it seems the local authorities agree, with a group of individuals in possession of NAFD Forensics identification having carted off the corpse before we arrived. Additionally, records of the nurse's collection and autopsy have been scrubbed, much to our morgue attendants' surprise and alarm.

Further investigation shows that all of the nurse's data has been wiped, as if he never existed in the first place.

Maybe this only confirms our suspicions of foul play and establishes a concrete link between the fire and the creatures. To me, it guarantees that we are dealing with an organization capable of using, coercing, and erasing individuals, even those who have proven useful to them in the past. Everything we do in pursuit of answers is a risk, so please be careful as we work together to solve this.

— Fitz

Comments

[batricide]

It's worth looking into, but I wouldn't hold my breath. They clearly have no issue with killing bystanders in their effort to keep this is under wraps.

[ You work in a shadowy organization you sign on to see everyone you know and love die if you fall short. ]

The message that went out mentioned he saluted a camera and facial recognition was run. Surely they must have gotten a name and saved something. Surely Morningstar can't be that inept.

[retravel]

Oi, slow down there. El does fine work for Morningstar and got us this data even as it was being deleted. Ze then sent it straight out to us, even those who haven't expressed any interest in joining up to the cause. That's not nothing, Hafid.

[ this is a post for TEAMWORK ]

[batricide]

I didn't say it wasn't.

[ casually insulting people is praise didn't u know that ]

[retravel]

[ in this house, we stan tech monkeys ]

Then we're sorted.

[saviorexe]

You're right, but I don't like leaving potential leads hanging, even if they're just dead ends. That being said, this is a line of questioning that we need to be very careful pursuing if we choose to do so. I don't want to turn the wrong heads.

[As for ineptitude. Well.]

All I was provided with was a physical description from this aforementioned salute. El managed to garner a location from a facial recognition scan, which led us to the apartments, but any information supplementing that was being wiped in real-time.

[batricide]

There's a very high chance that looking into this could get innocent people killed. No matter how careful we are. I have nothing against pursuing it if that is all we have, but if there are surviving family members then they're likely to be monitored.

[ He has opinions about that potentially being all they have on the enemy - but then again, he has opinions about everything. Most of them negative. ]

If they didn't save it then they had better have a damn good memory.

[saviorexe]

So you'd suggest we leave it?

[This is a legitimate question. Markus is absolutely the last android who wants innocent blood on his hands; always maintaining balance between risk versus reward is tricky business, and he'd not make a move without the consideration of others. Untended to leads notwithstanding.]

I'm sure if there was more information Morningstar possessed, they would've shared it with us well before now.

[batricide]

No.

[ But maybe they should. For the sake of those people. But he's been playing the numbers game for a while now. ]

I just suggest being prepared to bring them into protective custody the second we make contact.

[saviorexe]

Officially?

Or making that more of a personal venture?

[Markus' purview in New Amsterdam certainly doesn't extend so far, where official routes are concerned.]

[batricide]

Depends on how willing Morningstar is to run the risk of exposure.
And how many of us have the resources to protect potential witnesses.

[saviorexe]

All a matter of practicality versus idealism. They’ve gone to lengths to give us safe harbor, after all. Morningstar may be willing to budge on this.

I, personally, don’t have the means to.