The man who killed the Emperor died a prisoner on The Rock
Ezra Cole confessed to the assassination of Emperor Strephon, and only this group heard him say it. That's either worthless or worth everything, depending on who's listening.
Raised at the table and never answered.
Ezra Cole confessed to the assassination of Emperor Strephon, and only this group heard him say it. That's either worthless or worth everything, depending on who's listening.
Somewhere in what
Oot rattled off, each of you quietly decided one was true — and didn't say which.
The pirates in the Architect's office were pulling subject manifests off a server under that name and transmitting them back to their fleet.
ND-E caught a fragment before the encryption closed over it again. Whatever Sable is, somebody paid to have the list of who was in it.
A half-melted nameplate on a containment door in
The Proving Grounds. The three men who came out of those cells do not speak and will not stop tearing at themselves, and the doors were opened from the inside. One in that block is still shut, still lit with blue runes, and entirely intact.
Dr. Voss was erasing it when the crew walked in on her, and by her own assistant's account she was the project lead.
Kael Vass and
ND-E pulled what survived onto an interface rig. It is encrypted, and the one person aboard who could have read it went into the fire.
What the Rust Tide were actually sent for —
Rayna said as much on the docks while they loaded them. The vault under
Research and Development held shelf on shelf of the things, and something was cut out of the floor between them with torches.
Velveteen ate the one nobody found.
Korlok wants to know what
Rayna promised to get mercenaries to join the raid, and she would not answer him in front of his own crew. Two of those mercenaries are lying in
The Proving Grounds dressed as Rust Tide, burned to the bone by something that came out of a cell.
Mistarion waited until the shuttle was clear of the blast to say it out loud.
Kael Vass had the angle and the grip and closed on nothing at all. Either the best hands on the crew failed at fifteen feet, or the woman who fell was not entirely where she appeared to be.
Well-armed, well-drilled, methodical enough to wipe their own tracks mid-assault. Not a riot — an operation. Nobody's said whose.
The Rust Tide, hired, for the memory crystals in the R&D vault — with disguised mercenaries working alongside them. Who did the hiring is still open.
Engines dead, docks gone, the only route up ends in a corridor where every sign points at a fight — Docks, R&D,
Administration, and whatever "Improving Grounds" is supposed to mean.
Out through R&D, across a catwalk over burning fuel, and off the docks in a stolen prison shuttle. It cost them
Corporal Wexel and
Dr. Voss.
One of those is a debt. The other is a kid.
Oot took the button on one condition, and
Jax is it.
He hit the gas button, not the lift, and flooded the block behind them on purpose.
Korlok found out, and beat him to death for it on the loading docks. Oot said he would do it again.
In
Administration:
ND-E's confiscated grimoire, whatever
Now won't talk about,
Velvet's robe. The route happens to run right past it.
It was the Architect's vault rather than the warden's, and the Rust Tide had already emptied it — but the crew's own effects had fallen into the cracks and been passed over.