Milenya was not surprised by either the admission of already having the comm logs, or by the mention of piracy. She was completely unfazed by Cantenelli ordering the ship into stealth, though she cocked her head to listen.<br/><br/><span style="color: #6495ED">"There have been tales of expeditions hitting something... odd. And later, the entire team was either found dead of no known causes, or... strangely affected. I checked the records of some of these supposed doomed digs back when I was still a student. Only a few of them were real, but there was very little information other than 'they went crazy,' or 'no sign of bodies, no sign of combat, equipment abandoned and still running.' If it weren't for the historical record, I'd have dismissed the tales as being juvenile attempts to frighten off students. Ghost stories, or simply warnings to treat each find with caution. And you can't discount the simple possibility of non-sapient alien life, a plague, or a runaway VI."</span><br/><br/>She looked at the landing site.<span style="color: #6495ED">"Can you plot the pattern of those subsurface cavities? Can you tell if they're connected?"</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>