Tau Ceti News Feed

Article by Kina Howard

Terra-Sol date 3813.015

In a shocking display of departmental cooperation and efficiency, teams from local constabularies, interstate investigation squads, and various station security teams coordinated multiple raids on estates owned by the infamous Kidokonoe family. Over forty-seven members of the family have been arrested and charged with crimes ranging from conspiracy to commit tax fraud to multiple counts of premeditated murder.

What has baffled many who weren’t directly involved in recent events is how, exactly, so much evidence has suddenly appeared when the family has been all but untouchable for generations. Evidence has been filed, though, and it’s both concrete and plentiful. Bank records, video footage, and enough recorded ID swipes from various events to disprove—or at least call into question—fifteen different alibis. It’s a windfall. Not even the best investigation teams have been able to gather even a tenth of this detail, and this has led many to believe that the evidence to allow for this rush of arrests could only have come from inside the family itself.

Their daughter, nine-cycle-old Mika Kidokonoe, sometimes called Tinker, is considered by many to be a prodigy in the field and one who had been expected to one day take over the family’s empire, but she has been missing since Terra-Sol date 3812.318. More than a few have speculated—and hoped—that her disappearance is somehow related to the swift takedown of the syndicate as only five weeks separated the events. Child genius turned whistle-blower? It’s one hypothesis that has been floating through the feeds since news of the arrests broke a few weeks ago, and it’s the one people have been clinging to the hardest despite the lack of evidence. Few of the other options end well for a little girl born into a syndicate as notoriously infamous as the Kidokonoes’.