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Article out of the Primis System

Terra-Sol date 3814.256

An investigation has been launched into the death of an unidentified man whose body was found inside a hidden second chamber of a modified cryopod. Official representatives from the cryopod’s manufacturer insist the illegal modifications were made well after the stasis chamber left their facilities and are disclaiming all responsibility for the product’s failure. For once, their preemptory disassociations from their own product are unnecessary—authorities are far too focused on attempting to figure out who the deceased is. The ID encoded into their chip was false. Additionally, neither their facial scan nor their DNA profile has given investigators any solid leads to follow. According to one sergeant who wished to remain anonymous, “No one should be able to erase themselves quadrant-wide so completely. It’s weird. It’s almost like no one has died here because this person hasn’t even been born yet.”

And the sergeant has a fair point. Without a personal history to dig into, the case’s lead detective has been reduced to tracking the life of the cryopod itself down to the minute, a task that might not yield much success if the pod’s history has been erased or tampered with to the same extent as its one-time cargo. Unless new information comes to light, this case may already be destined to linger in the system for decades or longer as unsolved.