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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. She warns that the same will happen if her bracelet is removed or if she dies.
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]].


Now on the planet, McGinnis and Mead deduct from the tracks that the two of them are inside the base. Meanwhile, Vienna is analysing her surroundings and finds that by following the ventilation shafts, she could reach the surface, so she breaks her way into the ventilation and escapes. The revenant climb up after her. Within the building, McGinnis notes that the building was one of many from the [[Gadoral Empire]]. At that moment, Spraggott runs in, informing them of the situation, which is soon confirmed by the rucus caused by the revenant behind him.
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.
 
The three of them run back to the officer's ship before McGinnis and Spraggott are cut off. Mead makes her way outside and the other two get trapped inside. Mead notes that she is surrounded by the revenant and can't return to the ship. At that moment her coms shut off, leaving deadly silence. Spraggott uses his technical knowhow to hotwire the hatch and they both enter a debate about which ship to take when McGinnis' ship takes off. They head for the star yacht.
 
On the other ship, Mead is being forced at gunpoint to pilot away by Vienna. Using this opportunity, Vienna forces Mead to look into the computer for the owner(s) of this planet, so that she can work out who set up the trap. Much to their surprise, the desolate world is owned by a group called [[Flaming Sword]]. This sparks a memory in Vienna's mind.
 
Vienna recalls that during her stay in the Spotel Galileo, just before she murdered Silver, he doubled the bounty to fourteen million poldaks to not only keep him alive, but also to kill those who have placed the bounty upon his head. She asks Silver who would want him the dead the most. As far as he is concerned, at the top of the list is Flaming Sword, a terrorist cabal based on the planet [[Volcana]]. He warns her that if they suspect she's failed in her mission to kill him then they'll no doubt kill her. Cryptically informing her that he has contingencies for being murdered, he instructs her to place her memories into a memory box using the thought code 'Flaming Sword'. That way she can go about thinking she has completed her original assignment. He then orders her to murder him. When she politely refuses, he takes the gun and does it himself.
 
Back in the present, Vienna recalls to Mead that she has a memory box, which enables her to lock away compromising memories within subfolders inside her brain. With her new memories of her new assignment firmly in back in place, she tells Mead that their new destination is Volcana, where she intends to hunt down and assassinate all members of 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.
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.
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