Guide

`Access requested by Ánthos Daskydox 101-00-011-01110-1-98-4482.2 0800GT`

`Granted 101-00-011-01110-1-98-4482.3 5600GT`

`The following are excerpts from the CMC report on the decommissioning of Station L4.`

`Patient Record #337016056721`

`Alias: Guide`

`Status: Deceased`

`Diagnosis: Paranoid personality disorder, psychosis (Now recognized to be the result of a form of Drip.)`

**`Patient Timeline`**

* `Patient is institutionalized at Station L4 following a high-profile psychotic break.`
* `Symptoms are determined and a treatment plan formulated (See Appendix 5b).`
* `Treatment begins.`
* `Quarterly efficacy review shows treatment to be ineffective. Microfilament imaging of patient's brain reveals small cavities in the prefrontal cortex. Development begins on alternative treatment plans.`
* `Security systems overhauled following a breach initiated by patient.`
* `Following several more such breaches and overhauls, patient is moved to deep containment and all previously assigned personnel rotated out.`
* `Morus contacts Station L4 unprompted and offers aid developing a treatment plan.`
* `Treatment begins.`
* `Patient displays marked improvement for several months followed by a rapid deterioration. Microfilament imaging reveals that approximately 50% of all neural tissue is absent.`
* `Monthly psychological evaluation of staff indicates that 78% of personnel currently assigned to patient and 56% of previously assigned personnel have exhibited an increase in paranoia and erratic behavior. All personnel displaying these symptoms quarantined according to standard procedure.`
* `Patient paints several symbols on wall of containment cell using bodily fluids. Following standard security footage review by the Station Brain, ██████████ ███████ ████ █████ ██████████. ██ ███ ██████ ██████████ ███ successfully purged.`
* `98% of aforementioned personnel ███ ██████████ ██████ ████. ████ █████ ████ ██ ██ █████ ██ ██████████ ███████.`
* `All personnel which had previously come into contact with patient quarantined.`
* `███████ ██ █████ █████ ███████████, ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ █████████████ ████████.`
* `Affected personnel moved to patient's deep containment sector. Sector decoupled from Station L4 and moved 10 kilometers out for remote administration.`
* `Patient is pronounced deceased following massive self-induced trauma of the temporal lobes.`

**`CMC HIGH COMMAND`**

**`INCIDENT REPORT #100007886`**

**`PRIORITY CLASS ASTATINE`**

`Submitted for urgent review to CMC High Command.`

`At approximately 3490 Galactic Time this standard day, all communications from Station L4 abruptly ceased, including automated transmissions. Though a visual inspection of the station's exterior with high-powered telescopes revealed no visible damage, attempts to reestablish contact failed and an exploratory team was rapidly assembled. Real-time communication was effected through a series of FTL relay points established en route.`

``Upon arriving at Station L4, the transport was able to dock successfully and did not have to undergo the authentication process which would normally have been required if the station had been put into lockdown following an emergency. Initial entry into the facility revealed that it was still receiving power. Attempts to raise personnel on the intercom failed, despite the area clearly having been recently abandoned, and a scan of the surroundings revealed no living organisms. The exploration remained relatively uneventful from then on until the team reached the central atrium. Video feed from team members' suits showed that all inhabitants of Station L4 (including patients) had gathered at the center of the space and simultaneously suffered massive trauma to the cranium. The corpses were arranged in a radially symmetric pattern, the central layout of which is reproduced below:``Team members were ordered to produce forensic analyses on a representative sample of the deceased using the ample medical technology available on the station. The cause of death was universally established to be buildup of severe intracranial pressure culminating in explosive decompression of the skull. It is as of yet unclear how the pain which this pressure would have caused went unnoticed or unreported, or indeed why station inhabitants exhibited the behavior they did prior to their deaths. The exploratory team has been ordered to remain on the station and await further instruction.`

**`CMC HIGH COMMAND`**

**`EXECUTIVE ORDER #100007886`**

**`PRIORITY CLASS PANTOKRATOR`**

`STATION L4 IS TO BE IMMEDIATELY DECOMMISSIONED THROUGH MATTER-ANTIMATTER ANNIHILATION. ANY PERSONNEL LOCATED ON THE STATION ARE **NOT** TO BE INFORMED OF THIS DECISION.`

`FOLLOWING THE DECOMMISSION OF STATION L4, MAXIMUM PRIORITY IS TO BE PUT ON LOCATING ALL PERSONNEL WHICH VISITED THE STATION SINCE THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF PATIENT #337016056721, ALIAS "GUIDE". ANY PERSONNEL FITTING THIS CLASSIFICATION, AND ANY INDIVIDUALS REGULARLY IN CONTACT WITH SAID PERSONNEL, ARE TO BE TERMINATED AND THEIR REMAINS JETTISONED INTO THE SUN. THIS PROTOCOL ALSO APPLIES TO ANY INDIVIDUALS SHOWING SYMPTOMS SIMILAR TO THOSE EXHIBITED BY "GUIDE" AND ASSOCIATED PATIENTS. **THIS ORDER IS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.**``