Registered Contract: FS-RR-02-03

PLANETARY DETAILS:
Arcadia was one of the earliest member planets in the Federated Suns, joining in the second wave of new membership. Populated by mostly Scandinavian settlers, the planet's most famous citizen was Marge Svensdottar, wife of Federated Suns President Paul Davion. Arcadia was a "garden world", with bountiful water, extensive agriculture, abundant raw materials, and booming industry. That it lost out to New Avalon, a strife-ridden world at the time, for the choice of capitol of the Federated Suns, was a surprise, and laid the seeds for resentment that showed itself during the conspiracies against Edward Davion, but never had a chance to fully ripen.

Then came the 1st Succession War, and Arcadia was taken from the universe. Like many other rich worlds in the realm and outside, it was quickly targeted by the enemies of House Davion, and without the defensive capabilities of a garrison like the capitol world's, Arcadia succumbed to non-conventional weapons, with those who could fleeing the system. Quarantined, and then removed from current starmaps, the system was forgotten...or so everyone thought.

EMPLOYER SITUATION REPORT:
When Word of Blake warships arrived over New Avalon shortly after the conclusion of the FedCom Civil War without having been seen in any inhabited Davion systems, it raised a few eyebrows.  When the Blakists showed up with resurrected ghosts from the past of the FedSuns Navy as gifts, seemingly having pulled the same trick twice, and this time not tripping new automated sensors in a plethora of uninhabited systems surrounding New Avalon, people lost their jobs.

When a rogue Word of Blake faction, commanded by someone whom the Word had claimed years earlier was a Comstar spy, suddenly appeared in the Tsamma Combat Region and began invading planets, those replacement people lost their jobs as well.

Now, after piecing together information gathered from the Word's defeats on Tsamma, Palmyra, and elsewhere, the newest generation of intelligence analysts thinks they may have stumbled upon the key to the Blakists' seeming ability to move within the heart of the Federated Suns' realm with impugnity. Arcadia.

Lengthy record searches through the Davion archives have revealed a troubling pattern: it appears someone went to a lot of trouble to remove references to Arcadia in almost all types of sources.   Judging from the alterations to the records, these changes were made centuries ago, and hint at something much bigger than simply a remote base. We have discovered some older jumpship route maps which confirm the jump coordinates, as well as a rotating pirate point on the sun-side of one of Arcadia's two moons which should allow for a stealthy insertion.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
1) Determine the extent and intent of the Word of Blake's activities on Arcadia.
2) Avoid detection for as long as possible. If the Blakists discover your presence, they will hunt you down mercilessly, making extraction extremely difficult. 

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
1) Arcadia's industries and infrastructure were top of the line before the 1st Succession War, and due to the types of weapons used at that time, may actually be intact. Determine if this is the case.
2) Should extraction become impossible, find a way to get word offworld, and a multi-regiment AFFS task force will invade the system.

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