May 6, 2020 8:51 am
OOC:
Since this is an investigation, it may be worth keeping the clues where we can find themWhat we found out so far:
Szymon von Eltik was meeting an unnamed mercenary about some fairly standard affair. She has worked for Eltik before it is assumed she is trustworthy, but her involvement can't be excluded. Szymon went to Iris Station in his own ship which is still docked according to Iris' port records.
❌ We did not track down the trustworthy mercenary Szymon was meeting with. Did they actually meet?
❌ We did not confirm or check Szymon's ship, which should be on Iris station
He checked into the Sapphire Hotel with two bodyguards, Felicia Traynor and Andreas Wolter, which is also where the meeting was supposed to take place. Szymon liked frequenting the 'professionals' so he had an agreement with his bodyguards so they let him slip out for a few hours to do his thing in private. Last time, he didn't return. The hotel barman recognised him and confirmed that Szymon came down a couple of days ago to get wasted and and left with one of the professionals. These girls usually come in around lightdown. It is unclear if Szymon keeps a list of his "professional meetings", but likely not.
❌ We did not check with the "professional" at the Sapphire Hotel
❌ We did search Szymon's possessions for clues.
The bodyguards agreed with having Szymon out of sight because he had a locator implant but he (or someone else) managed to disable it using a second input scrambler device. Szymon isn't supposed to know how to do that, but his sister, Katarzyna, knows how to. The implant was traced and shut down. This was not a counter hack as it was later found at a clinic without battery in one of the station's worse districts.
❌ It looks like Szymon was not the one to attached the second device, though he may have been. If so, why what what was Katarzyna role?
The clinic is both close to the spaceport, where Szymon's ship should be docked and Paz Forster's hotel, the Bullseye. Paz, nicknamed Smoke Fragrance, has a record on Eltik's internal database and is a known leader of a small, five man squad of mercs, specialising in combat over infiltration or sabotage. Her current employment status is listed as 'Unknown'. There is no home address listed but the contact information points to a colony world. Interestingly, she has been coming to the Sapphire Hotel bar every day for the last week or so, asking about Szymon and warned us not to look into Szymon's disappearance.
❌ ANDREW doesn't know about the colony world, but maybe someone else know.
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