Back topside in the base, we continued debating the proper course of action. I was advocating a lawful stance of informing the authorities, and Mitsiro leaned towards giving Rife a safe passage out. Probably he was swayed by Rife's promise to give information on the location of other tombs in exchange.
Then, all of a sudden, everything changed.
The station's long range sensors detected a Beluga class blockade runner, the Obsidian Crown, from the United Neopian Federation on an approach vector to the base.
Was Rife with Challenges able to contact them? No, if it could use the base's communications systems it would have done so before. I ran a security check of the communications array during the last 48 hours and detected a outgoing message to the UNF from yesterday, as well as an incoming response. The content of these messages was deleted as the sender had tried to cover their tracks. We have a traitor amongst us: someone in the station informed the UNF of our discovery.
At this moment, we are trying to keep the Obsidian Crown at bay, denying it landing clearance. I am not sure it will obey. It may have marines or worse on board, so we may be facing a rescue mission using force.
[to be continued]
((ooc thanks to Lauralite Anne Brezia for discord-RP'ing the UNF side of this unfolding story))
