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RECV EDC: 10DEC2018
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COMM MODE: QEC OP SREF
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CODED ABST: D/M/C
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CRC: 3998495586 2208
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Wells isn't going to like what I've done with his rig. The
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propulsion systems had to go; that bit he'll understand. The
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main cargo hold was dropped too, and that's going to really
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fry his dzungalis. Still, the ship doesn't look half bad
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with the solar sails deployed, though it's not quite as
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menacing as it was when we were piloting it together once
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upon a time.
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I've renamed the beast too. It's the Xero Carbon Wells now,
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named after him, more or less. He won't get it right away,
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and he won't laugh when he does. But it's poetic in a way, I
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suppose.
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The mods were requisite. There's no way I could parade
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around the segment in Wells' old setup without bringing down
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a firestorm of Corporation bots. Plus, they money I got
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selling parts helped me pay off the heavy costs that the
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scrubbers wanted to extract from me for cleansing his
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bio-signature. It had to be done. We can spruce the ship up
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again sometime, make it into whatever we need it to be.
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Hopefully Wells has the credits stashed away somewhere.
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This transmission is being reflected off the QEC[1]. They're
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generously taking the huge risk of offending every corrupt
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corporation-goverment in the tri-system by providing open
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communication channels to folks like me. Wells doesn't know
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about the QEC, otherwise he'd be using them too. Maybe he
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doesn't trust them, I don't know. He's using the old terrian
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DSN reflectors[2], which are unwittingly open to all
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transmission without source tagging. It's his style to use
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the old channels, and it makes him easy enough to hear from
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if you know where to point your dish.
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My hope is that he'll at least be monitoring the QEC,
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otherwise I don't know if he'll realize I'm attempting to
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trace him. When he doesn't want to be traced, he isn't, so
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my only chance is that he'll find me.
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I'll keep transmitting here, Wells. Find a way to signal me,
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or just mysteriously show up on your old ship like you used
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to do. I've got something critical to share with you.
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[1] gopher://cosmic.voyage:70/1
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[2] gopher://167.88.113.62:70/1/~wells
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