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Line 11: ==Plot Summary== ==Plot Summary== − [[Wade Laurence Beauregard]], who holds five doctoral degrees, leads an [[Interstellar Expeditions]] dig team complete with the usual train of security personnel, volunteers and Dig Gypsies. As of June [[3095]] they have found a large abandoned facility on an otherwise uninhabited and unnamed planet 22.7 lightyears coreward of [[McEvedy's Folly]] that turns out to hold a treasure of information and equipment pertaining to the mysterious [[Minnesota Tribe]]. Beauregard is overjoyed upon finding what he regards as the "[[w:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]]" of the tribe's history. + [[Wade Laurence Beauregard]], who holds five doctoral degrees, leads an [[Interstellar Expeditions]] dig team complete with the usual train of security personnel, volunteers and [[Dig Gypsies]]. As of June [[3095]] they have found a large abandoned facility on an otherwise uninhabited and unnamed planet 22.7 lightyears coreward of [[McEvedy's Folly]] that turns out to hold a treasure of information and equipment pertaining to the mysterious [[Minnesota Tribe]]. Beauregard is overjoyed upon finding what he regards as the "[[w:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]]" of the tribe's history. However, the Rosetta Stone datapad is stolen from his tent. As he discusses the situation with his security chief, mercenary [[Oleg Spector]], the team's [[DropShip]]s ''[[Howard Carter]]'' and ''[[Grave Robber]]'' suddenly come under surprise attack and are destroyed in short order; before being destroyed the ''Grave Robber'' reports a ''[[Thera]]''-class [[WarShip]] and being attacked by [[Spectral]] type [[aerospace fighter]]s. Spector then openly admits to Beauregard that the attackers are the [[Word of Blake]], who paid good money for the secret to stay buried and only needed to authenticate the Rosetta Stone noteputer that Spector had stolen. Beauregard manages to kill Spector and retrieve the noteputer, but then has to watch helplessly as the camp is destroyed by carpet bombing or even a nuclear strike (that implicitly kills Beauregard). However, the Rosetta Stone datapad is stolen from his tent. As he discusses the situation with his security chief, mercenary [[Oleg Spector]], the team's [[DropShip]]s ''[[Howard Carter]]'' and ''[[Grave Robber]]'' suddenly come under surprise attack and are destroyed in short order; before being destroyed the ''Grave Robber'' reports a ''[[Thera]]''-class [[WarShip]] and being attacked by [[Spectral]] type [[aerospace fighter]]s. Spector then openly admits to Beauregard that the attackers are the [[Word of Blake]], who paid good money for the secret to stay buried and only needed to authenticate the Rosetta Stone noteputer that Spector had stolen. Beauregard manages to kill Spector and retrieve the noteputer, but then has to watch helplessly as the camp is destroyed by carpet bombing or even a nuclear strike (that implicitly kills Beauregard).
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| − | [[Wade Laurence Beauregard]], who holds five doctoral degrees, leads an [[Interstellar Expeditions]] dig team complete with the usual train of security personnel, volunteers and Dig Gypsies. As of June [[3095]] they have found a large abandoned facility on an otherwise uninhabited and unnamed planet 22.7 lightyears coreward of [[McEvedy's Folly]] that turns out to hold a treasure of information and equipment pertaining to the mysterious [[Minnesota Tribe]]. Beauregard is overjoyed upon finding what he regards as the "[[w:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]]" of the tribe's history. | + | [[Wade Laurence Beauregard]], who holds five doctoral degrees, leads an [[Interstellar Expeditions]] dig team complete with the usual train of security personnel, volunteers and [[Dig Gypsies]]. As of June [[3095]] they have found a large abandoned facility on an otherwise uninhabited and unnamed planet 22.7 lightyears coreward of [[McEvedy's Folly]] that turns out to hold a treasure of information and equipment pertaining to the mysterious [[Minnesota Tribe]]. Beauregard is overjoyed upon finding what he regards as the "[[w:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]]" of the tribe's history. |
However, the Rosetta Stone datapad is stolen from his tent. As he discusses the situation with his security chief, mercenary [[Oleg Spector]], the team's [[DropShip]]s ''[[Howard Carter]]'' and ''[[Grave Robber]]'' suddenly come under surprise attack and are destroyed in short order; before being destroyed the ''Grave Robber'' reports a ''[[Thera]]''-class [[WarShip]] and being attacked by [[Spectral]] type [[aerospace fighter]]s. Spector then openly admits to Beauregard that the attackers are the [[Word of Blake]], who paid good money for the secret to stay buried and only needed to authenticate the Rosetta Stone noteputer that Spector had stolen. Beauregard manages to kill Spector and retrieve the noteputer, but then has to watch helplessly as the camp is destroyed by carpet bombing or even a nuclear strike (that implicitly kills Beauregard). | However, the Rosetta Stone datapad is stolen from his tent. As he discusses the situation with his security chief, mercenary [[Oleg Spector]], the team's [[DropShip]]s ''[[Howard Carter]]'' and ''[[Grave Robber]]'' suddenly come under surprise attack and are destroyed in short order; before being destroyed the ''Grave Robber'' reports a ''[[Thera]]''-class [[WarShip]] and being attacked by [[Spectral]] type [[aerospace fighter]]s. Spector then openly admits to Beauregard that the attackers are the [[Word of Blake]], who paid good money for the secret to stay buried and only needed to authenticate the Rosetta Stone noteputer that Spector had stolen. Beauregard manages to kill Spector and retrieve the noteputer, but then has to watch helplessly as the camp is destroyed by carpet bombing or even a nuclear strike (that implicitly kills Beauregard). | ||