@leo.fitz

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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

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Then I won't worry about it.

[ he said, lying, but it won't be his top priority, at least. he trusts dick to be watching out for trouble. and connor's a terminator, anyway, so he wouldn't go down easy, in the worst case scenario (fitz always considers the worst case scenario). ]

What do you think about our findings?

[ moving on. ]

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thank you.

[He figures. In his position, he'd do something similar. But it's enough to be allowed the space to wrangle his brothers himself first, and let him tap in extra hands if he needs it. It's the courtesy he'd expected at home, but no one owes it to him here. So, it's also, genuinely appreciated.

And sorry Fitz- but he doesn't give genuine opinions on unsecured networks, no matter how 'private' this looks. Meet you at your pad later]

i'm mostly curious about the lack of recall that seems genuine.
these chips we all have- the regular populace has them too, right? even if they don't get the free power up that seems to have come along with them.
and the brain is just one big super computer.
how easy do you think it would be to corrupt the data, so to speak, without turning a person into a vegetable?

as my resident tech expert.

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You mean to change our memories and perceptions?
So easy it's happened before. And not here, but in my universe, with hundreds of years between the tech I know and what's available now in 2511.
It's nothing to corrupt the data in someone's head, especially if you're hardwired in.

[ so easy it happened to Fitz, using his own technology. And as charmed as he is by Dick, he chooses to keep it general. No need to be more of a downer than he is already is, naturally. With his status as an agent known to his friend and to the public, he can call it knowledge from a prior classified mission and leave it at that. ]

[preceded]

that.
or to create something like a firewall?
stop anyone else from getting in, but from any information getting out too.

[The sort of thing where someone could want to tell you, have every information necessary to do so- and simply not be able to get the words out. He's known stranger things to happen, after all.

He's keeping everything just as blandly worded as before, for the same reason he's unwilling to share his opinion]

[retravel]

Same idea.
Easily accomplished, if you have the skills. Brain's just another supercomputer, in the end.

[ ok cool it mr conniving robot man ]

[preceded]

how easily?

[He's looking for a vague time frame. Something hopefully, that extends past a few key clicks and an enter button. Something they'd have enough time to stop, if they knew it was happening, and who it was happening to]

this is definitely something to chew on.

[And for further conversation when he sees you later tonight. You've been real helpful, honey. He'll return the favour and actually give you a theory]