Investigation

The Inquititor shakes her head. "Nothing else Sister. May the Emperor’s light guide you." She fades from the hologram.

The Reliquant Superior nods and says, "If you need the order call. We will be ready to arrest any who needs to be. For The Emperor!"

Knowing that is when you should take your leave you exit and find a place to plan your next action. Who will go where and ask what questions. Bigby knows people in low places and can visit them for information. Krondo has contacts with Cogs working for the aristocracy. The Sisters can easily get a meeting with the same aristocrats and ask pertinent questions.

Getting meetings with the Governor's inner circle is very easy once you tell them who you are and who you. The first person you're able to get to meet you is the Minister of Agriculture. She is Lady Isobel Rhinance and her office is absolutely gorgeous. It overlooks miles of farms with machines chugging along various plots.

Isobel has long black hair and blue eyes, she wears a gown worth a fortune, and she is clearly not happy with her governor. "Production has been down some percentage the last few quarters due to continuing lost workers. I've spoken numerous times with the Minister of Labor and he continues to evade my calls. When I bring it up in council it is as if the Governor does not care. If we slip another percent the next grain shipment will be below our taxation rate!"

Once in the main city Bigby departs to speak with some of his own contacts. His friend Paul Sealrat is a rattling in charge of the sewer swimmers. Paul speaks with Bigby saying, "You look look for Xeno? We have have pieces of equipment found in sewers. Come come, preists say this just junk but Paul knows it important important."

Isobel smiles and says, "Thank you kindly sister. You humble me with your words and the deeds of your order are well known and appreciated as well. As for the missing we’ve had a number of workers who had to be brought up to speed on the harvesters. There’s always some every year but, the last five to ten has been worse. I’ll have my tech priest speak with yours about it. Perhaps in the meantime you might like some tea?"

She tries to escort the sisters to a tea setting where she focuses on her interest in the Sisterhood. Apparently she is the second daughter and had briefly been in training when her brother perished in an air car accident. She was pulled from scholia and brought here. Even so she’s a very devoted follower of the Emperor and has a high opinion of the Sisterhood.

A tech priest comes in to speak with Krondo. She introduces herself as Sarah-813 and the binaric speech is fast and the information he provides shows a distinct increase year over year in new workers needed for the fields. The statistics don’t lie, something is decreasing to total number of workers in the fields and drawing population from the cities with a slowly increasing lack of full harvests. Krondo can see very well that within a year the world won’t be able to make tithe and feed everyone in the system.

Bigby finds himself swimming through sewage. It’s not pleasant but, after the swim he’s in a small storage space filled with black market goods. Paul shows him some broken weapons that are clearly Drukhari.