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From: Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt <kgertodtenhaupt@ross128-ventures.com>
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To: Soloviev, Nikolaos <nikolaos.soloviev@voortrekker.com>
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Delivered-To: Soloviev, Nikolaos <nikolaos.soloviev@voortrekker.com>
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Date: 14 Sep 2421 06:31:42 +0000
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Date-Local: 31 Mar 2419 09:55:42 +0000
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Subject: Re: Weekly report: 27 March 2419
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Kolya - I've read your report of the 10th. I'm glad to hear that
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you're getting things back on track out there!
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It's especially good to hear that the last of your crew has
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recovered from whatever bug you all caught after the crash. I won't
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lie: you had us all worried, Kolya. To lose so many people right
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off, and then to have everyone who was left fall sick...I was
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afraid we might lose the whole colony.
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On that note, it's great news that the interim hab is completed,
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and your hydroponics are coming up cleanly. By the sound of it,
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you'll be able to keep yourselves fed and housed until the second
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expedition arrives. It's grim to say, but given the reduced
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carrying capacity of what's left of your startup equipment and
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supplies, the loss of so much of your crew in the crash might prove
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the saving grace of the colony as a whole. In any case, whatever
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you and your remaining people are doing, you're all really pulling
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through for us, and I want you to know we know it.
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By now you'll have heard of the new treaty between the Moon and the
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Titan colony. It's pretty tense here at home these days. Nobody's
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talking out loud yet about a war, but it's in the air; nobody wants
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to come out and say it, but everyone knows it's coming. And it's
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going to be bad, when it finally does get here. You know, I heard a
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couple of days ago that the silo ships have started shifing
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orbits. That hasn't happened since the Titan crisis. They didn't
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launch then, and neither did Luna, but now...
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That's why it's more important than ever you stay alive and healthy
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out there, Kolya. All of you. It's not just about money and status
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any more, not for me. I think it's going to be very bad here before
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long. Worse than it's ever been. I'm not sure how many of us will
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make it through, and as delicate as Earth still is...You and yours
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out there, at Ross and Gliese and the other colony systems, you
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might be the best hope our species has left. You need to protect
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that hope above all else.
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And that's why I'm not sure what to think about your crew members
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who've been mutated as a result of the disease. Are you sure you're
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safe? Those of you who are still human, I mean. Twenty-seven of
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them...That's almost ten percent of your entire remaining crew. Are
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they still the same people they used to be? Do we really know what
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they might do? What they have, what's happened to them. Can we be
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sure it's not still contagious, or that they might not try to
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infect everyone else with it somehow? They're not human any
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more. Can we really assume they still have the best interests of
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humanity at heart?
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Kolya. You're a compassionate man, and I know that. It's one of the
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reasons we've had such an effective working relationship for so
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long. But you know as well as I do that, in times of terrible
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crisis, sometimes compassion has to be put aside for the greater
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good. You and the others who are still human carry a share of what
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may be the only hope left for humanity, once the war is over. I
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know you'll all do whatever you have to do to protect that hope.
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Let me hear from you again soon, Kolya. Everyone back home is
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counting on you.
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Koenraad Gertodtenhaupt
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Senior Vice President, Business Development
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Ross 128 Ventures, LLC
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"Developing new worlds"
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kgertodtenhaupt@ross128-ventures.com
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