Database 12511: Mantis are know to capture Engies as slaves build and repair their ships and stations.

Database 110<Corrupted>: Engies are not known for lying.

We are still interested in a towel boy for laundry duty.

Sincerely,
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((The Engi Conspiracy died, and this is not part of it)) Mission: acquire towel boy Status: incomplete We are a different group of Engies looking for a towel boy (in the background "that meatsack will surely fall to this plan" is heard faintly) we pay well and have good living conditions. ...

The Engi Brigade calculates a 1.5% chance that the Mantis are behind any of the transmittions. To put you at ease, I would like to assure you we are not being placed in any danger by said Mantis and we are helping you purely out of free will. Out calculation was 100% accurate. Sincerely 100110111101...

"I'm going to go sleep now. Between the fighting and the pointless arguing, I am very tired." Slava prepares a bed in the shields room and falls asleep quickly.

"It was three. And it was in self defence." Slava retorted

"I didn't bash someone's face open with a rifle, or crush someone's skull in a door."

Maybe I should give up on trying to reason with Romero, this arguing is getting old, fast.

"I'm not a serial killer!" Cried Slava

"Here, see what you can do." Slava says as he plugs one of the datapads into the cable.

Towel boys not required.

Sincerely,
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"Chyort, these are tough to crack. Translator, maybe you should melt these and just tell us what is on them." Slava said. "I don't think even an Engi can crack these codes."

"Lets see what you three have..." A few minutes later, Slava counts what he found. "3 encrypted datapads, 2 rings, 3 pairs of dog tags, 3 plasma rifles, 3 laser pistols, 6 power packs for each, 3 broken IFF trackers, a good luck necklace, and 4 gold fillings. Quite a catch." Slav...