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Vienna boards her [[D-class fighter]] and the [[computer]] plays a recording of her saying the key phrase for her [[memory box]]. She remembers how she shot Silver, melted the weapon in the [[shower]] and cleared away her DNA traces before locking her memories of the previous twenty-four hours away inside the memory box, which she has play back its contents to her [[assignment crystal]]. The assignment crystal confirms Silver's death and gives her the coordinates for where she can collect her payment, but she is unable to leave as a [[J-class star yacht]] is blocking her from leaving. She erases all of her ship's data and threatens [[Norvelle Spraggott]] into giving her access to the star yacht, keeping him aboard upon learning that the ship's controls will only respond to him. McGinnis and Mead attempt to have the star yacht's navicomputer overridden, but Vienna and Norvelle manage to get away and enter warp before McGinnis and Mead can hit them with [[missile]]s. | Vienna boards her [[D-class fighter]] and the [[computer]] plays a recording of her saying the key phrase for her [[memory box]]. She remembers how she shot Silver, melted the weapon in the [[shower]] and cleared away her DNA traces before locking her memories of the previous twenty-four hours away inside the memory box, which she has play back its contents to her [[assignment crystal]]. The assignment crystal confirms Silver's death and gives her the coordinates for where she can collect her payment, but she is unable to leave as a [[J-class star yacht]] is blocking her from leaving. She erases all of her ship's data and threatens [[Norvelle Spraggott]] into giving her access to the star yacht, keeping him aboard upon learning that the ship's controls will only respond to him. McGinnis and Mead attempt to have the star yacht's navicomputer overridden, but Vienna and Norvelle manage to get away and enter warp before McGinnis and Mead can hit them with [[missile]]s. | ||
Following the assignment crystal's coordinates, Vienna and Norvelle arrive at the [[planet (The Memory Planet)|fourth planet]] in an uncharted [[star system]] in [[Angelo's Spiral]] and head towards an energy trace near the [[equator]] whilst McGinnis and Mead track them through [[anti-matter]] analysis. Vienna gives Norvelle an [[internal thermal heater]] to deal with the cold and they enter the apparently abandoned [[Research Base Algor]] where a [[croco]] pays her in cut [[diamond]]s she recognises as fakes. Discovering that the croco is [[revenant|a corpse reanimated by an implant]], she realises that she has been lured into a trap and fights off the attacking corpses of the base's crew. She sends Norvelle back to the star yacht, threatening to remotely burn him to death with the thermal heater if he leaves without her | Following the assignment crystal's coordinates, Vienna and Norvelle arrive at the [[planet (The Memory Planet)|fourth planet]] in an uncharted [[star system]] in [[Angelo's Spiral]] and head towards an energy trace near the [[equator]] whilst McGinnis and Mead track them through [[anti-matter]] analysis. Vienna gives Norvelle an [[internal thermal heater]] to deal with the cold and they enter the apparently abandoned [[Research Base Algor]] where a [[croco]] pays her in cut [[diamond]]s she recognises as fakes. Discovering that the croco is [[revenant|a corpse reanimated by an implant]], she realises that she has been lured into a trap and fights off the attacking corpses of the base's crew. She sends Norvelle back to the star yacht, threatening to remotely burn him to death with the thermal heater if he leaves without her, and he runs into McGinnis and Mead whilst she escapes the revenants through a [[ventilation shaft]]. | ||
Mead is separated from Norvelle and McGinnis and Vienna orders her to take her off of the planet in the enforcers' ship, forcing McGinnis and an uncomplaining Norvelle to leave in the star yacht. Making Mead access the ship's computer, Vienna learns that the planet was recently purchased by [[Flaming Sword]] and remembers how Silver told her that the Flaming Sword [[terrorism|terrorists]] on [[Volcana]] were likely the ones who put out the hit on him. She had accepted his offer to double her bounty in return for her keeping him alive and killing whoever put out the hit and then put her memories in a memory box triggered by the name of the group, after which he shot himself with her gun. Now aware of her true mission, she has Mead set the course for Volcana. | |||
On the space yacht, Spraggott and McGillis are soon hot on the tail of the other ship. Mead and Vienna arrive at Volcana, a planet covered in volcanos. Despite this, Mead tells Vienna the place is inhabited by settlers. As part of Vienna's plan, Mead calls Volcana command station, telling them she has caught the murderer of Berkley Silver, in an attempt to gain permission to land and also to flush out Flaming Sword. | On the space yacht, Spraggott and McGillis are soon hot on the tail of the other ship. Mead and Vienna arrive at Volcana, a planet covered in volcanos. Despite this, Mead tells Vienna the place is inhabited by settlers. As part of Vienna's plan, Mead calls Volcana command station, telling them she has caught the murderer of Berkley Silver, in an attempt to gain permission to land and also to flush out Flaming Sword. | ||