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@leo.fitz

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

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That's the problem with everything being digital.
Do we know any information about the deceased whatsoever?

[ sure, there's important information here... but priority #1: ]

leo, huh?

This isn't the first occurrence of data wiped from the broad inclusion of the term "systems."

[ that was a bad joke, but he's running with it. ]

But it certainly displays the wider extent of it.

Hey Leo, I'm Noctis

[ Pleasantries first and foremost, amazing. ]

Think there's any chance of backup records? With everything this connected you'd think they'd have extra data stored somewhere, or at least a satellite trail. Maybe that'd be useful, but I'm not a computer expert so I can't track it. I wish.

Anyway if you need any more people looking into anything lmk, just not the super tech stuff, like I said.

Excellent work, Agent Fitz.

(yeah, the full title drop. we're going ham. and because no one praised them all yet.)

You and your team have been working tirelessly; it's showing.

Did anyone question the nurse's neighbours or any of the businesses surrounding the building itself? The CCTVs may have been wiped, but the memories of those crossing his path wouldn't be. We could cross-reference the location of El's video footage and work backwards.

I want to know where - exactly - he was coming from.

[ after browsing the rest of this hot mess, ]

Looks like you made this announcement at great personal risk.

[Hi honey, you've been busy. He's gonna start small and work his way up]

first off.
i feel like i need to apologize.
on behalf of my brother.

So we're back to square one, for the moment.

Did our people cover their tracks?

If someone murdered him, they probably saw him before that night at the apartment.

How hard would it be to erase data like this? I'm not familiar with any systems like this. Everything in my galaxy is hard disks.

While I've yet to track down everyone, the vast majority of the people I have spoken to recall little of the evening in question much less of the nurse.

So, either the nurse was incredibly discreet or they're lying.

Looks like you've been busy.

[ I mean? She's super proud. ]

It's clear this loose end had some kind of risk. Even if it was a small one, it was something worth the hassle of scrubbing. Yet... knowing our luck, this person may have been chosen because they have no ties. Lonely line of work, you know. Instead of family, perhaps friends may be key?

Sorry I'm a little late to this. A woman at work was sick because of the heat, so I covered for her.

[Plus, work means money which means a lot of things, like the freedom to move about this city without worry. Clarke doesn't know that she'll ever get there, but she's trying. It would be easier if she and Bellamy had gotten that third roommate.]

I've read through some of this. If you don't mind me asking, what are your current theories?

[ oh this is a lot of words. it's coming in pretty directly without her having to process a lot of it, at least, but... well, taking it all in is still some effort. ]

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hi. i'm cass.
so what's next

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