Erik Gunnarson and Francesca Wolfe, two detectives from the Wallglass Investigations Agency, examine the background of the Adamastor megaship.
Gunnarson: âWhen Wolfe and I started this project, we knew this case would come first. Weâre both protĂ©gĂ©s of Benjamin Chester, creator of the Wallglass Archive. He retired years ago, but that old spark kicked in when a âghost shipâ turned up on his doorstep!â
âThe Adamastor is a 200 year old derelict that drifted into the Chukchan system on autopilot. Itâs still there, with the Alliance Salvage Guild poking through its guts. Chester investigated its owners, a super-secretive company called Azimuth Biochemicals. We donât know what they were searching for, but what they found was possibly the first recorded Thargoid encounter.â
âIâve since tracked down evidence that the Adamastor had a sister ship â the Hesperus â which in 3113 was sent to⊠somewhere! Neither ship returned, but we only know what happened on the Adamastor mission. Of course, Wolfe had to go see that with her own eyes.â
Wolfe: âMusca Dark Region PJ-P b6-1 is a busy system nowadays, but was unexplored when Professor Carverâs survey team were there. Listening to their logs from two centuries ago while examining the research base was chilling⊠ghost voices from a ghost ship.â
âThere was evidence of blast scars, but Iâve seen enough battlefields to know what exchanged gunfire looks like. Azimuthâs mercenaries werenât just firing at Thargoids, but at someone who shot back with laser rifles.â
âGunnarson tells me Azimuth was swallowed up by a rival called Pharmasapien. Did they infiltrate the Adamastor and try to take over? Or did the thing that Carver captured drive everyone insane?â
âThis is a seriously cold case, even for us. But maybe one day, more tantalising clues will emerge. And thatâs what we live for.â
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