Guilded Lilly 3 - Into the Darkness
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Another set of mysteries resolved and another pair opened¸ Captain William 'Kastle' Costello thought¸ hunched over the main holo-display in the Riggins-Victrix's congested bridge¸ listening to the RCES Moonshadow team members debrief. The Ebekhar system was now confirmed as not the home of the Vampire Shipyard they sought since leaving Berens¸ but its Viral minion named 'Lillian' was 'dead¸' and the survivors on the main world's moon of Hope were at last free from Its oppression.
"So where was the real Viral mastermind behind this? The discovery of the log entries left by the dead Coalition Cutter pilot¸ Ed 'Flammer' Harris¸ once a crewman of the lost ship RCS Mississinewa¸ revealed that it too had passed this way over a year ago in search of the missing Dawn League Traders only deepened the mystery.
"'So from 'Flammers' log entries¸ we know that the RCES Mississinewa made an emergency jump to escape the Vampire forces in the Ebekhar system¸' Kastle summarized to the assembled Moonshadow team and his XO. 'Obviously they never made it back to the Coalition. The Mississinewa's sensor logs may be the only lead with have to the virus shipyard that built the vampire you discovered on Berens'
"'Kastle' looked back at the Holo display of the Ebekhar system¸ expanded it outward. There were five systems she could have jumped out to from Ebekhar. Looking soberly at the RCES Team¸ 'Kastle' spoke again. 'So where do you want us to start looking?'