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[ Annie manages to sound fairly calm through all of this, only allowing her irritation and amalgamation of unhappy emotions show through in the words she chooses to emphasize, smattered throughout her report-like announcement. ]

Loki, you can considering this a love letter for the information age, following up on when you were asking people here to deal in sharing and caring. United States Military, you're welcome to listen in, but all this information is on file with you already, so you may find it lackluster.

Any helpful technologically capable people out there might help me out and work on encrypting conversations below here for the sake of freedom of discussion.

I don't like talking on these, and I'm not good at it, so pay attention. I've included two attachments to this broadcast, and none of the dramatic bullshit we've seen on national television lately. This is all information I've been given by Lieutenant Ananke. Any questions in specific to those contents within should be directed to her, through her contact line programmed onto your device. Or stop by in person. I don't care.

The first is a list of imPorts and native heroes who went missing following events in 2008. Some are reported dead, others only as missing. These names should be familiar to anyone who attended the swearing in last month, where we were witnessing the opening of the memorial graveyard. Not all of these names are there. Not all families wanted a memorial. Not everyone thinks these people are truly gone, or truly dead.

The second is a series of video recordings of a handful of these people. I'm hoping that you can help me identify everyone in attendance - some recordings are labeled with names. They match up to descriptions on file. It also means we have a few more faces to put with names. I've guessed that the young blond man we see in the last two videos is Liam Lawson, a younger native hero. I believe the woman he isn't with, the one sitting down, may be Eleni Wang, who hasn't been heard from since going underground in 2008. I'm not positive, so here's the floor, open for discussion.

Further, myself and several others have been pursuing investigations into the Hornets, localized to the city of Nonah. It's not all swift moving, but I hope that each person will be sharing information on what they learn as they learn anything. I'm presently investigating one of the former students at Phillip North's gym, but if that provides information, I won't know for a while yet. Liam Lawson is also being investigated by another of those who expressed interest, and I'd recommend he share that information, even if it's a dead end, with the imPorts when he has a chance.

[ If there's anything to report, Wally. ]

I don't care how much or little you trust the government. I don't care how often you want to piss into the wind. There's too much shit going on for me to care about bickering over those details, between Russia sitting on ships staring down Alaska up North, to puzzles pointing toward concerns further South and outside this nation, to the fact that Lunatic, one of our own, has been murdering people, and tried to incinerate a seventeen year old civilian earlier today for having been involved in a drunk driving incident that ended another's life.

Cut to the chase. What else is happening that we should know about? Enlighten me.

[ Attachment A: HFILE1.PDF ]
[ Attachment B: Video Files ]

[ OOC Note: Any references within this post to Kara Strydottir should read as Kara Lindholm instead, as that is how her name appears on network. My apologies for any confusion! Please use Kara Lindholm for any references in this post and related comment threads. ]

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I'd never turn down an extra pair of hands. [ Or eyes, or ears, but he figure that much goes implied. ]

There's a lot to do, but I'd rather not waste time retreading old ground if someone's already done it. If you can bring me up to speed on what you've been doing or what you're interested in, we can go from there.

[ A pause. ]

If you'd rather do that off the Network, too, that's fine with me.

Edited 2014-10-18 04:46 (UTC)

When it comes to all of this, I only know what I've looked into from the swearing in event. A lot of these people are off book, which means that the only way to find information is to talk to people who knew them. There are likely other means, but that isn't where I want to apply myself. I'd like to do the sympathetic calling side of things, if possible—I think I'm a pretty good judge of character, and I can definitely pick up where Hans left off there. [She doesn't know how else to put "and I'm not a manipulative ass," so she leaves that much off about Hans' character.]

I was at the memorial, but I didn't spend all that much time looking into the details. [ It's a candid admission of shortcomings, but then again, Shepard hadn't thought missing people would have much relevance to the present state of affairs until now. ]

You want someone to shake some people down? [ The question is fairly blunt. ] I can do that, if you point me in the right direction. People don't disappear completely overnight, so someone else had to be involved.

[ The question, though, is whether they should be found. After a pause, Shepard continues: ]

Might be a dead end, but I could see if I can touch with the criminals these heroes put away, or see what happened to them, if that hasn't been tried already. [ Nothing quite makes for extraordinary memory like a grudge, after all. ]

That's a good idea, actually. [She pauses.] The criminal angle. My experience with criminals has recently told me that I'm not very intimidating. [At least, unless she has the upper hand and an arrow pointed at their face, and even then ...]

I can handle the family angle.

In my experience, all it usually takes is having a bigger gun.

[ He shrugs, matter of fact, even if she can't see it. He can see her age being a factor into why some criminals wouldn't put much stock into her abilities -- ones he's not sure of himself, at this point -- but it's an oversight easily enough rectified by the appropriate show of superior firepower. ]

Then it's settled. We'll both try to follow up on our leads and keep in touch about what we find. What's the best way to get in touch with you?

Texts or a phone call, definitely. I'll see if Annie has any information so I'm not retracing steps, and then I'll go from there.

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