Shore Leave: The Village

Day 1, 2350 hours

Except for the sounds of distant shouts and music, the night has been very quiet so far but that changes suddenly.
Alira is in her cottage when she starts hearing shouts from outside, not far away. It's hard to make out what the voices are saying for the most part but she does make out that some of them sound angry or at least annoyed while others sound more worried. They are moving around the neighborhood, coming closer and moving farther away again, At one point, Alira can hear someone walk up right to her house and then knock loudly at her front door.

In front of your door is a woman in her late teens wearing a cadet's uniform. "I apologize, ma'am, but..." She looks around nervously, as if she's scared someone might overhear the conversation. With her voice lowered, she explains: "A group of cadets has gone missing and we're trying to find them. Have you noticed anything?"

The cadet looks a bit unsure but enters Alira's cottage. As Alira is getting dressed, the cadet explains: "So, one of my classmates heard that there might be a drill exercise or something going on tonight so some of us went around and informed everyone so they would be ready for it. While we made that round, we noticed that four cadets were missing. Most cadets think they just snuck into town to get drunk but that's not really like them, at least not like all of them. And if it gets discovered that they're not in their cottages, they'll get in big trouble. We were just asking around if anyone has seen them"

The cadet still seems unsure about the situation and whether involving you was a mistake or not but there's nothing to do about it now.
"Cadet Lisa Wilde, ma'am. Thank you for your help. And for your discretion."
She follows Alira out of the cottage and towards the town. Once you get there, she seems uncertain about where to start looking. There are many people out and about, many of them drunk, although few are as hammered as Cass and Alex are.

OK Lisa, here's how we will do this. We will start at this end. We will go to each bar. You will stand by the door and watch outside for your friends. I will do a quick search inside. If I see any cadets, I will get you to identify them. Then we repeat the process until we check them all.

When checking the bars Alira will make her way through the bars quickly. She can move people out of the way, but she isn't going to hurt anyone. If she can do so quickly she will ask a server if a group of cadets were in.

OK. Don't go running off I will be quick.

Lisa follows your plan and keeps an eye out outside while you ask around in the bars, working your way through them. The first few that you check don't yield any results.
You walk up to the fisherman themed pub that you were talking to Nic in earlier, which looks much much fuller now than it was in the afternoon.

You walk up to the door but before you can enter, a flashing light from the edge of the town catches your attention a few hundred meters away. You think you can hear a siren from there, too, but it's almost impossible to make out over the sounds of the partying people.
Some turn around in that direction, you hear people questioning what's going on but everybody goes back to what they were doing before once they lose interest a few seconds later. The people inside the pub probably don't even notice it at all.

Lisa...we are here now. We will check this bar and then we can take a quick side trip to check on the lights. Don't leave until I come 9ut. That's an order cadet.

Alira takes a deep breath and heads into the crowd.

Lisa nods and together you move to the lights and sirens. As you get closer, you realize that the source of the alarm is the parking lot where the hover transports that bring you to other parts of the island are kept. You see two men, both older than you, one human, one a kind of humanoid alien you don't recognize, walking between the cars, obviously looking for someone or something and a human woman frantically working on a computer console. All three are wearing a uniform that is based on the regular spacefleet design but altered to look more casual and blend in better with casual clothes.
You also see a couple of people drawn here by the alarm who are watching the security team work from some distance.

As she is approaching the scene with Lisa, Alira looks around. There are about a dozen people standing by and checking out what's going on. They all look pretty drunk with one or two exceptions.
Looking at the scene, she quickly realizes that while one security officer is walking around and searching for something or someone, the other is focused on one of the hover transports in particular. She spots something under the vehicle he's inspecting but can't make out what it is from this distance.

As she is still checking out the scene, she suddenly hears the familiar voice of her mother, Professor Drenala Vitan, behind her: "What do we have here? Alira, I had heard you would be coming to the planet but I was certain you hadn't arrived yet. After all, you wouldn't just ignore your own parents, would you?"
Lisa immediately freezes and stares at Alira with a panicked expression.

"Oh, my dear, just a short visit to say hello to your father and mother wouldn't have taken up too much time now, would it? Ah, how do we deserve such an insensitive daughter? Where did we go wrong, I wonder?" Alira knows that her mother will bring up this topic again but for now she drops it and looks over the hover transports and the security people working there. "I have hear that someone tried to hack and steal one of the hover transports. I'm surprised you didn't know that already, though. You are a policewoman after all."

Drenala was so focused on Alira that she had not paid attention to Lisa before Alira pointed her out to her. Alira can see amusement in her mother's eyes as she says: "Oh, you don't have to introduce me to one of my own cadets, dear." Her eyes flash between Lisa, who still looks at Alira like a deer in the headlights, and Alira. "What you can tell me on the other hand is why you are wandering around in town with a cadet after her curfew?"