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She sat back, her face lit only by the holographic screen of the Alliance terminal. It was late at night, the office dark, sterile and unmoving around her. As she waited, stretching out lazily in the chair she found herself out of thougths, staring blankly at the data running down the computer screen. It was less than they had expected. Doesn't matter, she thought, initiating the monthly backup protocol, that would copy everything to the heavily encrypted shadow drive on her omnitool. It's still hundreds of pages of speculations, hypotheses and reports on catastrophic missions. This has to change. At least I won't get to complain about nothing keeping me awake at night.
'Target born on Luna to the famous russian oligarch Dmitri Witte and his mistress blahblahblah...' she muttered while reading. Bad habit, one of many. 'Studied at Moscow State University, master's degree in robotics and VI programming... Alliance scholarship ofc, maybe dispute between father and the illegitimate son? Boooooooring' she scrolled down fiercely. 'Got basic military training, then worked on Noveria, alliance-corporation joint research project... Yeah, that's it!' she exclaimed. 'Six months passed and he went rogue with top secret military property, then disappeared in the Terminus systems.'
It had happened years ago, the target was twenty four back then. She pressed the home button and the screen jumped back to the top of the file. From there, a picture of a young Adam Witte glared smiling at her. The last one ever taken, some time before his daring escape from Noveria. Cute, but a bit neurotic. Like a fragile lil' baby bird that's fallen out of the nest.
She tried to imagine what he'd look like now, after 7 years in that lawless hell. Skimming through the dossier, she raised her eyebrows and grinned in excitement. You've gotten yourself into a serious mess, pal. It's a wonder you've survived.
There have been various failed capture attempts over the years, funded by the family, the alliance, by the aliens and so on. Most of them didn't find anything. He'd been too silent, the higher-ups even began considering closing his case. But she felt that he was still out there, that he's still alive. Even though that everybody else's given up finding him. After all, I only have to succeed, where everybody else has failed. I already like the challenge, Adam. Ready or not, here I come.