via The Galaxy Weekly
A diplomatic aide belonging to the Citadel mission to Parnack has been reported missing. Mannovai Tokor Demlak Schno Kemon Crellaw, a personal secretary at the Salarian Union diplomatic ministry, failed to meet a preliminary roll call for a surface team’s departure flight. Local authorities have been contacted, and a search is now underway to locate the missing salarian.
“We’re assuming that this is simply a matter of a clumsy mistake” said a spokesman for the Union diplomatic team over Parnack. “Mr. Kemon was likely distracted or otherwise delayed, and missed the flight. Our efforts to win friends here on Parnack are running smoothly, but yahg culture is difficult to function in effectively unless you have something to back you up. A lone aide is vulnerable -- and knowing that, Mr. Kemon has likely, and wisely, gone to ground. We expect to have confirmation of his whereabouts soon enough.”
These assurances are not enough for some people, who are demanding greater clarity.
“If he missed the flight, why didn’t he immediately call in and ask for extraction?” asked M.T.D.S Kemon Gom, a brother of Kemon Crellaw. “Is there no footage of him, no obvious lead on where he is or where he’s going? Parnack isn’t primitive, you can’t just walk off the grid and no-one knows where you are. The yahg should be able to say, “he’s here”, even if somehow the ministry can’t. So I’m asking, is “missing” simply the cover story?”
Asked to expand on that, Mr. Kemon voiced what he insisted were commonplace fears within the family:
“Either they’ve roped him into something, or something happened to him and they don’t want to say.”
Responding to these accusations, ministry personnel were firmly insistent that neither scenario is the case:
“There’s an unfortunate and frustrating tendency to assume that anything salarian government involves itself with is an excuse for spywork. It’s especially irksome when the implications are made by our own citizens. I doubt drawing galactic attention to their operatives is how the intelligence agencies work. As for the idea that we’re covering up tragedy, that seems rooted in ignorance. The situation here is monitored by Council agencies; do you think we could get away with sweeping something like that under the carpet, even if somehow we wanted to? The man is missing, and will no doubt be found soon.”
Still, much remains unclear as to what might have happened to Mr. Kemon Crellaw.
“Missing is too vague a word” criticized asari diplomatic representative Estheel M’Naggas. “Do they mean to imply a listed legal status there, or do they simply not know where he is?”