The archive vestibule doors iris open. Vivienne enters beneath the platform’s cold lights, a corporate access badge gleaming at her collar and a compact legal-security drone hovering beside her shoulder.
Vivienne
I see the decryption succeeded. Those files include proprietary excavation material, and their custody is now a corporate matter.
The drone projects a verification seal across the archive console. Its legal interface identifies Vivienne’s claim, while the decrypted logs remain mirrored through Max’s cybernetic link.
Anna
Proprietary? Your contractors concealed the first awakening and left people to die. This evidence belongs to the survivors and the federation.
Vivienne
Then let me keep it safe. I offer transport, security, medical support, and access to experts no evacuation team can provide.
Winona
Protection with a contract attached. Once you control the archive, you control which version of Necropolis reaches the public.
Kaelo keeps one hand near the override pad while the drone’s legal seal expands over the doorway. Rent remains behind on Necropolis, and the platform falls silent around the contested evidence.
✓ Quest Accepted
Preserve survivor-controlled custody of the evidence
✓ Quest Accepted
Secure federation acknowledgment of the evidence
“Can the archive transmit the evidence directly to the federation?”
YES (Likely, rolled 26)
The archive console rejects Vivienne’s legal seal and opens a federation emergency channel. A transmission lattice forms above the console, authenticated through the platform’s evacuation protocols.
Anna
It can transmit directly. The archive was built with a federation disclosure route, independent of corporate custody.
Recovered logs, excavation records, and the first-awakening chronology populate the channel manifest. The system confirms receipt authority across federation oversight nodes.
Vivienne
That channel is restricted. If you release unverified material, you could destabilize every surviving settlement.
Winona
The material is verified by the archive itself, and your contractors authenticated the concealment. The federation should see all of it.
Kaelo
The transmission is ready. Once opened, corporate legal control cannot retract the evidence.
A final status field turns green: direct federation transmission available, archive integrity preserved, and recipient acknowledgment awaiting authorization. The truth now has a path beyond Vivienne’s claim.
− Scene Quest Removed
Preserve survivor-controlled custody of the evidence
“I authorize the direct federation transmission and monitor its acknowledgment.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Cybernetics, rolled +2)
Max places his augmented hand against the authorization field and confirms the federation emergency transmission. The archive accepts his identity without delay.
Encrypted logs stream through the disclosure lattice, carrying excavation records, casualty reports, and the first-awakening chronology toward the federation oversight nodes.
Anna
The transmission is live. Every authenticated record is moving beyond corporate custody.
Max monitors the acknowledgment layer as confirmation packets return from multiple federation nodes. His interface verifies intact signatures, timestamps, and archive integrity.
Vivienne
You have made the evidence public before its consequences can be contained. The settlements will demand answers.
Winona
They should. The excavation teams concealed the awakening, and now the federation can judge the record for itself.
A federation seal resolves across the console: transmission received, evidence authenticated, and emergency review opened. The truth has left the platform, preserved beyond any single claimant's control.
Quest Complete
Secure federation acknowledgment of the evidence