Peacekeepers of the Vast/Codename Music Box

Template:TOCrightMusic Box is the codename assigned to the synthetic individual encountered first during the Terhav VI Incident, believed to be an agent of the United Empire.

From the mission reports:

Shakh is being handled by an individual, heavily cosmetically modified, posing as a SignetWorks employee. This person is decidedly from offworld, and is not SignetWorks, Peacekeepers, ISL, or Solaran Union. They last left the planet 6 days prior to the Horkos' arrival.

Known Activities

Terhav VI

Music Box was active for some time prior to the Fabulists' discovery of their activities, as the plan that they had devised involving Shakh et. al. (see Incident reports) was quite close to coming to fruition when it was thwarted. Their goal was clearly the sort of Black Swan incidents that the UE seems to use to absorb entire worlds into their polity; this would represent a major offensive into ISL Space and a covert act of war between two galactic powers, so all assumptions here must be hedged and fully developed before action can be taken.

Empire of Varris

The IVV Mindful Watcher Moves Well is captained by a compromised individual whose ties go back to the Varris Prince of Agriculture. This Imperial connection is retransmitting coded messages from Music Box to the UE listening post dish in hyperspace as discovered during Operation Crow and Pitcher.

Current Status

The continued transmissions from Khanate space suggest that the Music Box is still wound up and playing. Perhaps that will be its downfall... after all, the Peacekeepers know they're there.

PRIORITY
RECOGNITION: ALPHA ECHO ONE
AUTHORIZATION: vW`,:/r*Z.yAFbgIf;@ohm+LluTS;BDZU;pPoYKJGA|NtWJ|Ea:ujPck~VtKC*^[truncated]

SUBJECT: Find the cats pretending to be bags, know them by their teeth [Search results: Perry index 79]

BODY: 
Phonoi crew. Analysts at Olympus, concur with Throne's assessment. The loose thread from the Terhav Incident, now codenamed music box, is a threat. End it. Given your latest reports and unusual commodities price fluctuations along Orknos-Varris trade routes Olympus projects with 43.2697...% confidence that music box is setting up a disruption near the core of Varris space and and 38.8874...% confidence that music box is targeting an Orknos trader. Pick one, establish your legends, and get ready for a hunt. We'll send you more if we get it.

Good hunting.

Aesop

To be continued...