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Protostar Production Analysis

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Mine 17J-24 Production Analysis

Shipment 122: PASSED with 99.92% purity rating.

Shipment 123: PASSED with 99.6% purity rating.

Shipment 124: PASSED with exceptions:
Minor variations in quality found. Estimated 92.6% purity rating.

Shipment 125: PASSED with exceptions: Increased variation and reduced quality. Minebot recalibration recommended. Estimated 85.33% purity rating. Approaching minimum acceptable levels.

Shipment REJECTED with
74.95% purity rating. Minebot recalibration ineffective. Direct inspection of Mine 17J-24 requested.
ADDITIONAL: Multiple minebots are missing entirely from their assigned drill sites. Suspect corporate espionage, industrial sabotage, or corporate industrial sabotage via espionage in the form of a bot virus. These disappearances appear to be contagious.
RECOMMENDATION: If quality continues to decline and minebots continue
to disappear, recommend sealing Mine 17J-24 with Protostar-brand Demolition Explosives without evacuating minebots. The additional benefit of destroying potentially infected minebots would reduce expected losses on Mine 17J-24 by a considerable amount.

If this report is found, please return to the nearest Protostar Corporation representative.

Thanks… from Protostar!

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A Marauder’s Stash O’ Salty Verse, Vol. XXX

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Now hear of an Eeklu from Bleez,
Whose ship now speaks pure augment-ese.
The spindrive, he said,
Had grown a new head,
Complete with new neuroses.

There once were an oghra from Stortz,
With flubberjits made o’ pure quartz.
When ‘e bangs ’em together,
They make crazy weather,
And there’s a blizzard whenever he glorts.

A randy ol’ spacehand named Ditter,
Kept all the space ladies a-twitter.
He’d load up
their cargo,
But romance embargo,
Because Ditter was still getting out of a really complicated relationship.

[The remaining pages are missing, but you’ve read enough to learn that the title is not entirely accurate.]

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Find and enter DREDplex: Skyhammer.

Dredplex Skyhammer mine entrance map location.

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DREDplex: Skyhammer Official Progress Report to the Emperor

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Projekto Skyhammer alproksimigas finajon! Kaj la Exile suspektas nenion, kvankam ilia sorto estas proksima! Sed kvankam mi estas nura gloating pri tiu fakto kiel estas guste kaj tauga, mi lasos ci peze cifrita dosiero en la tuneloj en grava aspekto loko por konfuzi ajna malsaga interlopers kiuj provas lerni la sekretojn de ci DREDplex.

Ili kredas ke tiu estas kodita mesago por la imperiestro – kvazau li estus koncernis – kaj uzas tiun specialan
sub-dialekto de antikvaj Bezgelorian konfuzi tiujn interlopers kaj Mi faros ilin malspari tempon tradukante ci relative sensignifa teksto dum la horlogo daure tik, tik, tak for! Jes, faru vian bona, malsaga Exile. Se vi legas ci tion, estas bona por vi. Vi figured it out! Sed vi faris gin gustatempe? Mi suspektas ke ne. Kaj nun estas momento por morti morti die!

Via amiko, Mondo Zax

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Protostar Emergency Procedures Manual

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Vol. 7: So You’ve Crashed Your Ship

Congratulations! If you’re reading this, you’ve survived a no-doubt traumatizing starship crash of some kind. And if you’ve survived, that means other Protostar employees or passengers might also have survived. Remember: your first priority is to ensure these survivors meet their obligations to the Protostar Corporation, so make sure to collect all pertinent tickets and/or employee identification tags before proceeding.

Have all the
remaining survivors within your immediate vicinity paid up or expired? Good! Now to explore your current situation. If your ship is still spaceworthy, press 1. If your ship is not spaceworthy, but still repairable, press 2. If your ship is neither spaceworthy nor repairable, please trigger all intact emergency beacons, mark all remaining cargo or other Protostar assets, and then see the recommended self-termination procedures in Vol. 8: So You’ve
Outlived Your Usefulness.

Congratulations! You’ve selected option 1: Spaceworthy! Please trigger all available emergency beacons. You are now authorized to transmit petty cash payments to any independent contractors required to return your vessel to space, up to and including the value of your cargo. Note that these payments will be deducted from your hazard pay. If you have no hazard pay, they will be deducted from your regular pay. If you are not a paid Protostar employee, please see Vol. 8.