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Sun 12th Jun 2022 08:17

Dhaab 2 inqury

by Armand Serrano

Towards Dhaab2. This would be a difficult road. Ice, Snow and zero visibility. The exterme cold would make this a difficult journey. Shamus took the wheel and started the long road through the canyon. Along the way there was nothing we could do but trust on the driving skills of Shamus. From now and then we had to help if we were still on the correct path. There were a lot of twists an turns during our journey. After an hour we did get stuck in the snow. We were unable to break free from the snow. The only solution was to dig the crawler out of the snow. This meant going into the cold. The visibility was minimal and despite we had the HEV suits on the cold made it difficult the move. After an hour the crawler was free of the snow and we could move on. The blizzard was getting worse. Along the way we also saw an abandoned crawler. No stopping now. We had to move on.
 
After two hours we suddenly arrived at Dhaab 2. Visibility was poor. But we were glad we could enter the garage and disembark. It was here we found that Jussuf Farrah was not with us. He stayed behind on Dhaab1. No time to lose. We had to find the mainframe. Luckily i received a copy of Dhaab2 station. When we entered the main platform there was nobody around. Only the signs of panic. A lot of garbage, boxes, suitcases. It looks like everybody was in a rush to leave the station. Notably a shuttle which looked like it failed to launch. Anjil and i checked the shuttle. The passengers were still in the shuttle. But they had been dead for a while. When we looked around we found scriblings on the shuttle and some of the containers. According to my tablet this had something to do with DNA sequences on atomic level.
 
During my investigation. Shamus and Khadyr were talking to Moses about what happened on Dhaab2. Moses told us the station was in the same state as they found it. If we wanted more information we could ask Anjil. Because Anjil was a member of the Red Hyenas and worked for Moses. Strange. But no time to lose. I found the route to the control room. Here was the mainframe which was without power. After starting up the reactor the base we were able to start the Mainframe and all of the systems on the base.
Shamus started to check the logs of the base. Apparently the base was flooded with radiation: the Shanzidar Sequence. Which killes all oraganic matter. This is probably the cause why everyone rushed to get off base. Which they did not succeed in. And apparently we could not leave either. The temperature outside dropped to -100 Celsius. To risky for us to go outside. So we agreed to check the laboratory and see if everything of value was to be found. When we went through the airlock we entered an empty Laboratory. Everything of value was missing. The Airlock to the outside deck was unaccessible according to Shamus.
 
During our search Khadyr did find something. An object which contained a hologram of one of the scientists: Timon Gemet. He told us about the history of the laboratory. They worked for Borna Jalet to create medicine to cure diseases. The ultimate goal was to find a cure for all diseases. And here everything went wrong. Borna Jalet demanded more results and the project took more risks. This culminated in a set of nanites which would be injected in the body. The results were not positive and Timon told the results could not leave the planet.
He guided me to the project information and i started to download the files. To make sure we had everything we checked the files. Here we also found a photo of Borna. This was Jussuf...