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The Truth About Jericho V
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Static invades your device for a few seconds, afterwards, a low quality image of a tilted take is seen. A person appears on frame trying to talk, she seems to be gesturing a lot, but no sound is heard. The person gets out of frame, as if trying to mess with something, low quality but audible sound can now be heard.
| "-An you hear me? Hello? Is anyone out there?" |
Some more cracking noise can be heard, the sound finally normalizes, although it sounds like it still is low quality, the woman returns to frame.
| "We transmitting now? People of the Sol System! I don't know how long will it take for Arc Systems to shut us down this time, my name is Sarahi Conrad, I live and work in Jericho V, we don't have a lot of time, people of the Sol System, you're being deceived!" |
The image experiences a temporary interruption and returns a few seconds later.
| "There is something going on, and you're not being told the truth! This is sabotage, but not from Mars, not from any of their Clans either! All the corporations posing as the good guys are deceiving you, and I have proof! About two days ago, several people started to show up to the MedCenters in Jericho V, they were stuck, it looked like they were dead but they were still breathing! It was some kind of infection, highly contagious too! In just a matter of days, almost the entirety of Jericho V was infected! And then they came! Wearing combat armor and guns, they shutdown the spaceport and knocked out all communications, they killed all the personnel at the MedCenters and let the infection spread! I understand that this infection does something to your neural implant and your cyberbrain, I don't know what it is, but it takes over your body and uses it! I had never seen anything like it in my life! As soon as the entirety of Jericho V was infected, these people made their way out and blew up the spaceport too! Arc Systems is now here to keep an eye on us, Arc Systems is here to make sure word of this doesn't get out!" |
The woman appears to be experiencing an acute headache, a thread of blood starts to flow from her nose, she does her best to pull herself together and continue.
| "There's, there's a cabal out there, a group of powerful megacorporations that found something on Earth, information, weapons, something like that. And since then, they have been plotting, they have been pulling the strings! They call themselves Section One, I don't know what they want, but I know they have infiltrated every organization and every corporation out there too! Gah!" |
The woman is now breathing heavily, the blood from her nose flowing more freely, she sits on the floor, trying to compose herself.
| "I don't have a lot of time. All the corporations you have come to trust, all of them. They KNEW about Section One! And what's worse, they let everything happen! Do you recall Genetectic and their presence in Novo Rio? There are traces of a viral attack on Novo Rio and many other Floating Cities where Trauma Team was conveniently already working on, it wasn't like anything that had been seen before! Do you really think that Genetectic has your best interests at hand? if they did, they would have revealed their findings and shared what they knew with colleagues to prevent another attack from happening, but they remained silent! They let infected people die so they would watch!
What about Morpheus Group Management? You think all they do is put up shows and have a bunch of hotels? Think again! Cervantes Rexen, do you even know who or what he was before he brought MGM on board? No one knows, but he pays a ton of credits so people don't ask questions! What if I told you that there is a megacorporation that used to operate on Mars that Cervantes Rexen led? Look it up, Tokuma Heavy Industries, or THi, what if I told you that this THi is also part of the cabal of Section One? Do you really think a man like Cervantes Rexen will just play the role of magnanimous entertainment mogul and nothing more? He is playing you all! And Free Company? The Free Company was warned that there were threats on Earth! A vicious cult moving under the Labyrinth? Remember that place? There's a cult that worships the Dreaming God, and has apparently taken over one of the Earth Sites already, not to mention that Earth is where Section One was born, and there is a huge mobilization taking place there, right under Free Company's nose, do you think a corporation like Free Company wouldn't have seen, or taken control of any situation taking place on Earth? They allowed it to happen! These are the people who are supposed to be protecting you! These are the people who organized the donation drive as a smoke screen!" |
The woman appears to suffer another round of pain, as she breathes heavily, the blood pooling on the floor around her.
| "The Demons. Mars. They may be many things, but they warned everyone, they told everyone. And they were ignored, and now we're paying the price. My time is out. Please, anyone out there listening to this, please, don't let them deceive you. Don't let them use you. Don't-" |
The woman finally goes silent, her breathing reduced to a rattle, her head falls down to her chest, the blood stops. And after a few minutes, with a growl, the woman lashes out against the recorder and the image fades to black.