#cellog

Olivier proceeds to hand you something. A data cassette, and it is from Cellog. How considerate. You'll have to give it a look in the MiniOM.

>[CHECK INVENTORY]

You'll just pop that over in here.

>[SUBMIT COMMANDS]

It's all agreed. The first operation you'll undertake with your team you at a team's side shall be:

"CC_01.28| Toast Reservoir"

Briefing will be underway, information and supplies will be gathered, and as soon as we're ready, we'll be off! Hang in there fellow troopers! You won't wait long Oyani delegation! And watch out Szere!

OPERATION COMMENCES MAY 14, 2022

Yes. Yes it was one of those. Where was she keeping it?

You, Olivier, and Cellog gather around the round table, as scintillating vectors whizz to life to generate an approximate map of the surrounding area, highlighting three locations with readouts. Revealing what appears to be biomes separated into long bands.

There is a choice of three missions.

CC_01.28|Operation: Toast Reservoir

Secure Supplyline for Tactical Resource

Utilizing D.A. Device and combining Midsommer and Colony Corps mission data shows that on an area located towards a zone labeled “Daylight” is a point of interest with bountiful stores of the Tactical Resource codenamed [TOAST]. The colony has been experimenting with it and compiling research, with hopes to set up harvesting procedures. Further information is proprietary, unfortunately, but illumination is pending once you accept this mission. Suffice to say it doesn’t seem to be of much interest to Oyani inhabitants. According to Cellog, they steer clear of the area, so we can expect minimal to no conflict in its procurement.

CC_02.22: Operation: Boys Town

Reconnect with Troopers

With short range communications back online, the colony has managed to receive S.O.S. and short range chatter (SRC) from other surviving troopers. Due to the “Containment Field” (or whatever we’re calling this thing that’s frying tech and crashing dropships ships) messages are mostly garbled but thanks to the computing power of 900MB do have a heading and a location. Environmental survey readouts point to a tundral area labeled "Nightside". So expect it to be chilly. Olivier hopes if we can collect as many troopers as we can perhaps try and get a message out to fleet command, or coordinate something to fix this mess.

T5:Mid_3.26: Stars Had Shouted As They Did Fall

A Parley With Oyani Leadership

The D.A.Device has finished analyzing the message from the courier [Dividi], and it seems the Oyani populace are wanting a meeting of sorts. No doubt it'd be about all the warships that have had a delightful terrible time smashing into the ground. The message had come marked with locations of crash sites and no-go zones. The meeting should be handled by a small team, likely escorted by Dividi. Cellog insists she is needed here, as she is the sole administrator. According to Cellog, they should have a human ambassador, but a metaphor/sentence that hasn't translated well refers to an ambiguous "them" as needing something called “eyes on to form a kennel”.

Olivier and Slim's opinions matter, naturally, but there is an entire quorum of thoughts in your head you gotta collate.

You can [Ask for information] or [Submit your preferences] the same way you usually take actions. It could perhaps be helpful to have something of a [Conversation], with yourself... Or with other people. The other people here. Totally.

[SUBMIT COMMANDS]

Good on you! Yourself that is. You've picked up on a lot right there. Dividi seems impressed as well, or maybe just enthusiastic. This does help however with the issue at hand then. In fact it even settles it.

Fret not voice in your head! For through the power of "having a conversation" and "calming down and having a think" you have come to a decision (that will be appropriately ratified by parties present.)

Yes, that one!

Okay now, counting those votes, awarding 3 points for first place, 2 points for second, 1 for third; carry the 5, you don't know where you'll put it stop. Oh and your own choices in your head counting as well. Pretty solidly leans you towards two out of the three options. Specifically Mission 1 (Toast Reservoir) and Mission 3 (Oyani Parley).

Oh but we're missing someone-

Hmn... Not exactly straight answers there. Dividi probably wants to do the Oyani thing, but you can't take it for granted. Plus that was what sounded like a nuanced sentence. Slim is Slim. Fella is probably up for anything. And Pringles is a dog(?). So you might count them as abstaining? But what about Pringles. No. You think you know where this is leading you.

Good question, you might phrase it a little more diplomatically, especially once you've stepped out of the elevator.

She seems proper pleased by that question. And she is more than happy to provide an answer.

Seems like a sweet old lady to you. Perhaps say something encouraging.

Yes, indeed. There were at least a couple more things on your mind. You'll bring them up in short order.

There's often times more than just audio on a Data Cassette. The higher end ones often can contain an upwards of a 128 Terrabytes. Granted they need higher end computers to read them efficiently. Your weirdly technical encyclopedic knowledge is showing again.

You excuse yourself and hang out by the door while Cellog moves people ahead into the Datacentre around a round tabletop screen.

Yes you think you will. You turn the MiniOM on-

And you pop the cassette in, fingers crossed it's not corrupted (and if it is corrupted hopefully not very).

Looking good(?) so far...

Just got to maneuver over to [LOAD] and...

The Cassettes Contents are free to explore. It's quite the comprehensive list of options.

Some kind of audio file is front and center, followed by a folder overflowing with content. File Integrity is about 76%, so some of this is bound to be corrupted, but still that's a lot less corruption than you expected. You probably cannot look through it all right now, but you can peak at a few things.